Schwetzingen (electoral district)

40: Schwetzingen
Electoral district for the Landtag of Baden-Württemberg
Schwetzingen in 2026
District	Rhein-Neckar-Kreis
Electorate	94,388 (2026)
Major settlements	Altlußheim, Brühl, Eppelheim, Hockenheim, Ketsch, Neulußheim, Oftersheim, Plankstadt, Reilingen, and Schwetzingen
Current electoral district
Party	CDU
Member	Andreas Sturm

Schwetzingen is an electoral constituency (German: Wahlkreis) represented in the Landtag of Baden-Württemberg.

Since 2026, it has elected one member via first-past-the-post voting. Voters cast a second vote under which additional seats are allocated proportionally state-wide. Under the constituency numbering system, it is designated as constituency 40.

It is wholly within the district of Rhein-Neckar-Kreis.

Geography

The constituency includes the municipalities of Altlußheim, Brühl, Eppelheim, Hockenheim, Ketsch, Neulußheim, Oftersheim, Plankstadt, Reilingen, and Schwetzingen, within the district of Rhein-Neckar-Kreis.

There were 94,388 eligible voters in 2026.

Members

First mandate

Both prior to and since the electoral reforms for the 2026 election, the winner of the plurality of the vote (first-past-the-post) in every constituency won the first mandate.

Election		Member	Party	%
	1976	Lothar Gaa	CDU
	1980
	1984	Michael Sieber
	1988
	1992	Gerhard Stratthaus
	1996
	2001			43.6
	2006			43.9
	2011			34.4
	2016	Manfred Kern	Grüne	26.6
	2021	Andre Baumann		31.3
	2026	Andreas Sturm	CDU	34.1

Second mandate

Prior to the electoral reforms for the 2026 election, the seats in the state parliament were allocated proportionately amongst parties which received more than 5% of valid votes across the state. The seats that were won proportionally for parties that did not win as many first mandates as seats they were entitled to, were allocated to their candidates which received the highest proportion of the vote in their respective constituencies. This meant that following some elections, a constituency would have one or more members elected under a second mandate.

Prior to 2011, these second mandates were allocated to the party candidates who got the greatest number of votes, whilst from 2011-2021, these were allocated according to percentage share of the vote.

Election		Member	Party		Member	Party
1976		Karl-Peter Wettstein	SPD
1980
1984
1988
1992
1996
Jan 2000		Rosa Grünstein
2001
2006
2011					Manfred Kern	Grüne
2016		Daniel Born			Klaus-Günther Voigtmann	AfD
2021					Andreas Sturm	CDU
Jul 2025			IND

Election results

2026 election

State election (2026): Schwetzingen
Notes:		Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list. Yellow background denotes an electorate win by a list member, or other incumbent. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	CDU	Andreas Sturm		21,027	34.1	10.5	17,152	27.7	4.1
	Greens	N Andre Baumann		15,672	25.4	5.9	17,762	28.7	2.6
	AfD	Karlheinz Kolb		11,926	19.3	8.9	11,991	19.4	8.9
	SPD	Vincent Kilian		5,722	9.3	5.5	4,718	7.6	7.2
	Left	Mara Zeltmann		3,024	4.9	1.8	2,573	4.2	1.0
	FDP	Holger Höfs		2,455	4.0	4.2	2,481	4.0	4.1
	FW						1,451	2.3	1.3
	BSW						880	1.4
	APT						872	1.4
	Volt	Yannick Hild		1,296	2.1		739	1.2
	PARTEI						326	0.5	1.4
	Values	Alexander Mitsch		528	0.9		319	0.5
	Pensioners						129	0.2
	dieBasis						121	0.2	0.6
	Bündnis C						83	0.1
	Team Todenhöfer						67	0.1
	ÖDP						50	0.1	0.5
	Humanists						34	0.1
	Verjüngungsforschung						34	0.1
	KlimalisteBW						31	0.1	0.7
	PdF						26	0.0
Informal votes				610			421
Total valid votes				61,650			61,839
Turnout				62,260	66.9	4.9
	CDU gain from Greens		Majority	5,355	8.7

See also

• Politics of Baden-Württemberg
• Landtag of Baden-Württemberg