In 299 German constituencies, the general election was about direct mandates.
There were some interesting duels - including Scholz against Baerbock in Potsdam.
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 election in the north: Habeck wins direct mandate
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.
The CDU member of the Bundestag Philip Amthor lost in his constituency in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania to the SPD politician Erik von Malottki.
Amthor ended up only in third place - still behind the AfD politician Enrico Komning (24.3 percent).
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Co-party leader of the Greens: Robert Habeck.
He got a direct mandate in Schleswig-Holstein.
© Kay Nietfeld / dpa
Bundestag election in the southwest: Özdemir wins - Esken remains without a direct mandate
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.
Johannes Kretschmann, the son of the Green Prime Minister, has clearly lost in the fight for the direct mandate in the Zollernalb-Sigmaringen constituency.
The 43-year-old Green politician landed clearly behind the CDU candidate Thomas Bareiß, as the Sigmaringen district office announced on Sunday evening.
The SPD chairwoman Saskia Esken is also moving to the Bundestag without a direct mandate. The CDU politician Klaus Mack (48) received most of the first votes in her constituency of Calw. According to the district of Calw, the mayor of Bad Wildbad achieved 33.8 percent in the traditional CDU stronghold after all votes were counted. Esken came second with 17.23 percent; it was thus able to slightly improve its result compared to the previous federal election (2017: 16.9 percent). As the top candidate of the SPD in Baden-Württemberg, she nevertheless entered the Bundestag via the state list.
The previous President of the Bundestag, Wolfgang Schäuble of the CDU, has defended his direct mandate in the Offenburg constituency despite significant losses. According to the preliminary final result, Schäuble received 34.9 percent of the first votes. In the 2017 federal election, he had 48.1 percent of the first votes, in 2013 even 56 percent. 79-year-old Schäuble has been a member of the Bundestag since the end of 1972. This makes him the longest-serving member of the German parliament. According to the rules of procedure of the Bundestag, he is allowed to open the constituent session as age president. In 2017, when Schäuble was also the longest-serving member, he waived this right in favor of the FDP politician Hermann-Otto Solms. Schäuble was elected President of the Bundestag at the constituent session.
Bundestag election in the Erzgebirgskreis: Eastern Commissioner loses against AfD candidate
The Federal Government's Eastern Commissioner, Marco Wanderwitz (CDU), was defeated by his challenger from the AfD in the federal election in the race for the direct mandate of his Saxon constituency. According to the Federal Returning Officer, the AfD candidate Mike Moncsek received 28.9 percent of the first votes in the constituency of Chemnitzer Umland - Erzgebirgskreis II on Sunday evening. Wanderwitz took second place behind him with 23.7 percent of the first votes. Since Wanderwitz is number one on the CDU's state list, he is still moving into the new Bundestag. The 45-year-old has been the Federal Government’s Eastern Commissioner since the beginning of last year. Before that he was Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of the Interior.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 has meanwhile missed entry into the Bundestag: In his constituency 196, Suhl, Schmalkalden, Hildburghausen, Sonneberg (Thuringia), the former constitutional protection chief missed the election by direct mandate, as became clear after counting all electoral districts .
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 misses 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 lies behind the SPD candidate Josefine Ortleb. Ortleb will probably be re-elected directly to the Bundestag. However, Kramp-Karrenbauer (25.1 percent) took first place on the state list and can move into the Bundestag.
Federal Foreign Minister Heiko Maas (SPD) won the duel against Federal Economics Minister Peter Altmaier (CDU) for the direct mandate in the Saarlouis constituency. Maas came to 36.7 percent of the vote according to the preliminary result, Altmaier to 28.0, as the state election officer announced on Sunday evening. It was the only nationwide duel between two federal ministers for a direct mandate for the Bundestag. In the 2017 federal election it was the other way around: At that time, Altmaier left the field as the winner. Maas (55) had moved into the Bundestag via the SPD state list. Both Maas and Altmaier are native to the district. Altmaier won the direct mandate in the constituency in 2009, 2013 and 2017 for the CDU. 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 NRW: Lindner misses direct mandate - Lauterbach wins - Merz returns
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 politician Karl Lauterbach sees his newly won direct mandate in the federal election as “a vote for our corona policy”. The voters have honored this work, wrote Lauterbach on Twitter. The health expert, who became known nationwide as a result of the pandemic, had won his constituency of Leverkusen - Cologne IV for the fifth time with 45.6 percent of the first votes, he remains in the Bundestag. Lauterbach had expressed interest in the post of Federal Minister of Health before the election. The CDU candidate Serap Güler came to 20.4 percent. The State Secretary for Integration is considered a confidante of Union Chancellor candidate Armin Laschet. She was elected to eighth place on the state list of the North Rhine-Westphalian CDU. According to the NRW state returning officer, she was elected to the Bundestag on Monday.
Friedrich Merz managed to return to the Bundestag after twelve years. The CDU politician won the direct mandate in the Hochsauerlandkreis with 40.4 percent and was able to clearly outperform his SPD competitor Dirk Wiese with 30.2 percent. "I accept this mandate with pleasure," said the 65-year-old, who is part of the CDU boss Armin Laschet's future team, in a video published on Twitter on Sunday evening. Merz sat in the Bundestag from 1994 to 2009. The financial politician was Union parliamentary group leader from 2000 to 2002.
Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) again defends his direct mandate for the constituency of Steinfurt I - Borken I in North Rhine-Westphalia. According to the preliminary election result, Spahn received 40.0 percent of the valid first votes. The Federal Minister of Health came in fourth on the CDU state list. Spahn won the constituency in 2002, 2005, 2009, 2013 and 2017. In the federal election four years ago, he received 51.3 percent of the vote.
Union Chancellor candidate and NRW Prime Minister Armin Laschet moves into the new Bundestag via the state list of the NRW CDU.
As the state returning officer announced on Monday in Düsseldorf, eleven members of the CDU's state list have been elected in the most populous state.
Laschet was ranked number one on the list.
In his hometown of Aachen, he had decided not to run as a direct candidate.
Federal elections in Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse: Klöckner and Braun without direct mandates
Agriculture Minister Julia Klöckner achieved only 29.1 percent in the Kreuznach constituency in Rhineland-Palatinate, according to the state election officer - and thus lost to the competitor from the SPD.
Chancellery chief Helge Braun, who received 29.6 percent of the first votes in his constituency in Hesse, has no chance of a mandate.
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Karl Lauterbach has won a direct mandate in North Rhine-Westphalia.
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Bundestag election: Left takes three direct mandates - Gisy, Lötzsch and Pellmann move into the Bundestag
The Left won at least three direct seats in the federal elections.
It will therefore be represented in the new Bundestag again with parliamentary groups if it should fail at the five percent hurdle.
The MPs Gregor Gysi and Gesine Lötzsch in Berlin and Sören Pellmann in Leipzig defended their direct mandates, as the counting of all votes in their constituencies showed.
In contrast, the Berlin MP Petra Pau lost her direct mandate;
and after counting almost all first votes, this also applied to the previous fifth direct mandate of the Left, also in Berlin.
It is now irrelevant whether the left takes the five percent hurdle with its second vote result.
In the last projections by ARD and ZDF, it was 4.9 percent.
The background to this is the so-called basic mandate clause: If a party achieves three or more direct mandates, mandates are awarded according to the second vote result, even if this is less than five percent.
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