Constituency - On Sunday, September 26th, Germany will elect its new government, the 20th Bundestag, and thus the people's representation of the Federal Republic. For the first time, no incumbent Chancellor is applying for re-election. After 16 years in office, Chancellor Angela Merkel will no longer run. Not only because of this, the whole world should look at the result of the election on Sunday. After all, three candidates for chancellor and 47 parties are fighting for the favor of the voters. In the constituency of Ostallgäu (257), which includes Kaufbeuren, Memmingen and parts of Unterallgäu in addition to the district of the same name, eleven direct candidates are running for the Bundestag. The Kreisbote continues his presentation of the candidates on this page and provides information about everything important about the federal election.
The constituency of Ostallgäu is the largest constituency in our region in the 2021 federal election.
A total of around 250,000 eligible voters were asked to cast their votes on Sunday, September 26th.
The constituency of Ostallgäu geographically comprises the district of Ostallgäu, the independent cities of Kaufbeuren and Memmingen and 33 communities in Unterallgäu.
The candidates for the Ostallgäu
26 parties and eleven direct candidates are running in the constituency of Ostallgäu for the 2021 election. The eleven Bundestag candidates are in the order in which they appear on the ballot paper: Stephan Stracke (CSU), member of the Bundestag, Irsee, born 1974 in Marktoberdorf; Regina Leenders (SPD), graduate actress, Memmingen, born 1990 in Recklinghausen; Christian Anton Sedlmeir (AfD), mechanical engineer, Mindelheim, born in Buchloe in 1964; Kai Fabian Fackler (FDP), student, Memmingen, born 2002 in Memmingen; Daniel Josef Pflügl (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Chief Detective Inspector, Bad Wörishofen, born in Mindelheim in 1975; Susanne Ferschl (Die Linke), member of the Bundestag, Kaufbeuren, born 1973 in Schwaz / Tyrol; Mariana Braunmiller (Free Voters), Project Manager, Wolfertschwenden, born 1982 in Zittau; Alexander Abt (ÖDP), police officer,Memmingen born 1971 in Memmingen; Christian Friedrich Armster (The Party), innkeeper Oberhaching, born in Weimar in 1969; Christiana Hofer (V party), cleaning worker, Oy-Mittelberg, born 1978 in Günzburg and Florian Mayr (dieBasis), entrepreneur, Füssen, born 1979 in Füssen.
In the last federal election in 2017, Stephan Stracke (CSU) moved into the Bundestag as a direct candidate for the constituency with 49 percent of the first votes.
By far the strongest party in the federal election four years ago was the CSU with 42 percent of the second votes.
At that time, the AfD followed with 13.3 percent.
More and more for a mandate
More and more people in the Free State want to get involved in politics. This comes from a message from the state returning officer Dr. Thomas Gößl. "A total of 967 women and men are applying for a mandate in the Bundestag in Bavaria," said the regional returning officer. "This corresponds to an increase of almost 42 percent compared to the 2017 federal election, when 662 people ran." Gößl also stated that a little less than a third of the candidates are women (29 percent). Probably also worth knowing: "The average age of the candidates is 45 years."