In 299 German constituencies, the general election was about direct mandates.
There were some interesting duels - including Olaf Scholz against Annalena Baerbock.
Potsdam - There are few places in Germany where the election campaign for the federal election * was as tangible as in Brandenburg.
Because in the capital Potsdam both Olaf Scholz * (SPD) and Annalena Baerbock * (Greens) ran as candidates for the Bundestag.
The direct mandate clearly went to the SPD politician.
Other of the 299 constituencies are also interesting.
An overview.
Bundestag election in Potsdam: Scholz clearly wins “Chancellor duel” with Baerbock
Olaf Scholz clearly won constituency 61.
The current Vice Chancellor secured a direct mandate clearly on course with 34.0 percent.
Annalena Baerbock got the second most votes in the constituency, but with 18.8 percent she got significantly fewer votes than Scholz.
Scholz clearly wins the direct duel with Baerbock.
Former CDU head of state Saskia Ludwig, who is a member of the Bundestag and the Landtag, came third with 13.8 percent.
Bundestag elections in the north and south-west: Habeck wins direct mandate - Greens in BaWü historically
Things went better for Baerbock's co-party leader Robert Habeck.
After counting the most votes, the 52-year-old won a direct mandate for his party for the first time in Schleswig-Holstein.
In the Flensburg-Schleswig constituency, Habeck was in the evening with 27.7 percent of the first votes, clearly ahead of Petra Nicolaisen, member of the Bundestag, with 23.9 percent.
Habeck was pleased with the election victory in the north;
"I am overwhelmed by the trust placed in me," said the Greens boss.
“It is a privilege to represent constituency 1, my homeland, as a directly elected member of parliament.
I will do everything I can for the region in Berlin. ”From 2012 to 2018, Habeck was Schleswig-Holstein's Environment Minister.
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Co-party leader of the Greens: Robert Habeck
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The Greens also achieved success in Stuttgart.
Ex-Greens boss Cem Özdemir has taken the direct mandate for the Greens in Stuttgart.
In the constituency of Stuttgart I, Özdemir prevailed against the CDU MP Stefan Kaufmann.
Up until this general election, only the CDU and SPD had won direct seats in Baden-Württemberg.
In Freiburg and Heidelberg, too, the Greens won a direct mandate for the Bundestag through Chantal Kopf and Franziska Brantner.
Bundestag election in the Erzgebirge district: Eastern Commissioner loses against AfD candidate
In Saxony, the Federal Government's Eastern Commissioner, Marco Wanderwitz, has lost his direct mandate in Saxony.
In his constituency of Chemnitzer Umland - Erzgebirgskreis II, the CDU politician was overtaken by AfD candidate Mike Moncsek, who got 28.9 percent of the first votes.
Wanderwitz got 23.7 percent.
He had represented his constituency in the Bundestag since 2002.
Before the state elections in Saxony-Anhalt in the summer, Wanderwitz caused little enthusiasm among the population with critical statements about the East Germans.
Was he punished for it now?
Bundestag election in Thuringia: Olympic champion defeated Hans-Georg Maaßen
The controversial CDU politician Hans-Georg Maaßen is likely to miss the entry into the Bundestag: In his constituency 196, Suhl, Schmalkalden, Hildburghausen, Sonneberg (Thuringia), the former head of the constitutional protection missed the election by direct mandate, as after counting almost all electoral districts on Sunday evening became clear.
Accordingly, the SPD candidate Frank Ullrich had the most votes with 33.6 percent, while Maassen got 22.3 percent.
Ulrich is an ex-biathlete and won a gold medal at the 1980 Olympic Games in Lake Placid.
Maaßen was not listed on the CDU Thuringian state list, so he has no further chance of a mandate.
Bundestag election in Saarland: AKK apparently missed direct mandate - Maas beats Altmaier
The current Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer had a bitter evening. The CDU politician has apparently missed the direct mandate of her constituency of Saarbrücken. The 59-year-old was behind the SPD candidate Josefine Ortleb on Sunday evening after five out of six municipalities were counted, as the state election control announced. Ortleb will therefore be re-elected directly to the Bundestag; after counting almost all of the results, it reached 36.5 percent. However, Kramp-Karrenbauer took first place on the state list and can therefore move into the Bundestag.
In the constituency of Saarlouis, there was a duel between Federal Foreign Minister Heiko Maas (SPD) and Economics Minister Peter Altmaier (CDU).
After counting 17 of 18 parishes on Sunday evening, Maas was in the lead with 36.8 percent.
Most recently, Altmaier had triumphed in Saarlouis.
The 63-year-old can still move into the Bundestag via the state list of his party.
There he is in second place after Kramp-Karrenbauer.
Bundestag election in North Rhine-Westphalia: Lindner misses direct mandate - Lauterbach wins
The FDP chairman Christian Lindner again clearly missed a direct mandate in the federal election. The 42-year-old came to 16.8 percent on Sunday in the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis (North Rhine-Westphalia) after counting 308 out of 309 voting districts - and ended up in fourth place. As the top candidate of his party, he nevertheless entered the Bundestag via the state list. The direct mandate in the constituency near Cologne was won again by the CDU politician Hermann-Josef Tebroke with 30.0 percent. SPD candidate Kastriot Krasniqi came to 22.7 percent, Green candidate Maik Außenendorf gained 18.0 percent.
The SPD health politician Karl Lauterbach, on the other hand, will probably move into the next Bundestag with a direct mandate.
In his constituency Leverkusen - Cologne IV, Lauterbach was able to unite 43.8 percent of the votes after counting 69 of the 123 electoral districts.
This would clearly assert himself against the CDU integration state secretary Serap Güler, who, according to the partial results, voted 16.7 percent of those eligible to vote in the constituency with their first vote.
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Karl Lauterbach will in all probability move into the Bundestag.
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Bundestag election: is the left tearing the five percent hurdle?
Three direct mandates required
The left was traded at a constant 5.0 percent in the projections on election day.
Accordingly, the party had to tremble in the evening before entering the Bundestag.
If a party receives less than five percent of the vote, it takes three direct mandates to move into the Bundestag.
As of 11 p.m., the left has at least a chance to defend at least three of its last five direct mandates.
On Sunday evening in the Berlin constituency of Treptow-Köpenick, the former parliamentary group leader Gregor Gysi was far ahead of the SPD candidate (15 percent) with 33 percent of the first votes.
In Berlin-Lichtenberg, Gesine Lötzsch led with 24 percent ahead of the SPD candidate (19 percent).
In Leipzig, Sören Pellmann had good prospects of defending his direct mandate.
Bundestag election: Schäuble, Spahn and Merz move into the Bundestag
In addition, other prominent politicians have moved into the Bundestag.
Bundestag President Wolfgang Schäuble has again won the direct mandate for his constituency of Offenburg as the top candidate for the CDU in Baden-Württemberg.
Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) has also defended his direct mandate for the constituency of Steinfurt I - Borken I in North Rhine-Westphalia.
The two CDU politicians are also sitting in the Bundestag, as is the former Union parliamentary group leader Friedrich Merz.
He won the direct mandate in the Hochsauerlandkreis (North Rhine-Westphalia).
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