Bruchsal – Schwetzingen

Location of constituency in Baden-Württemberg

Bruchsal – Schwetzingen is one of the 299 single member constituencies used for the German parliament, the Bundestag. One of thirty eight districts covering the state of Baden-Württemberg, it contains the collective municipalities of Bad Schönborn, Bruchsal, Forst, Hambrücken, Karlsdorf-Neuthard, Kronau, Oberhausen-Rheinhausen, Östringen, Philippsburg, Ubstadt-Weiher and Waghäusel from the county of Karlsruhe. It also includes the Rhein-Neckar county collective municipalities of Altlußheim, Brühl, Hockenheim, Ketsch, Neulußheim, Oftersheim, Plankstadt, Reilingen and Schwetzingen. The constituency elects one representative under the mixed member proportional representation (MMP) system. Under the current constituency numbering system, it is designated as constituency 278.

The constituency was created for the 2002 election, drawing its electorate from the Heidelberg and Karlsruhe-Land constituencies. All four elections have been won by the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) candidate Olaf Gutting.

Election results

2013 election

German federal election, 2013: Bruchsal – 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	Olav Gutting		73,944	51.8%	5.0%	66,656	46.6%	10.6%
	SPD	Daniel Born		35,252	24.7%	1.1%	30,861	21.6%	1.4%
	Greens	Alexander Geiger		9,678	6.8%	2.0%	11,696	8.2%	2.0%
	AfD	Klaus Voigtmann		6,277	4.4%	4.4%	8,700	6.1%	6.1%
	Left	Heinrich Stürtz		5,345	3.7%	3.5%	6,357	4.4%	3.3%
	FDP	Lucia Biedermann		3,966	2.8%	8.7%	8,133	5.7%	13.5%
	Pirates	Harry Botzenhardt		3,396	2.4%	2.4%	3,556	2.5%	0.3%
	FW	Sven Nitsche		1,804	1.3%	1.3%	1,364	1.0%	1.0%
	NPD	Jörg Scheibler		1,716	1.2%	0.9%	1,628	1.1%	0.2%
	REP	Timo Weih		1,261	0.9%	0.9%	1,042	0.7%	0.5%
	Tierschutzpartei						1,416	1.0%	0.1%
	Pensioners’ Party						418	0.3%	0.3%
	ÖDP						278	0.2%	0.1%
	Volksabstimmung						272	0.2%	0.1%
	PDV						173	0.1%	0.1%
	Pro Germany Citizens’ Movement						168	0.1%	0.1%
	PBC						164	0.1%	0.2%
	BIG						89	0.1%	0.1%
	MLPD						42	0.0%
	BüSo						22	0.0%
Informal votes				2,468			2,072
Total valid votes				142,639			143,035
	CDU hold		Majority	38,692	27.1%