State elections in Saarland 2022: When will there be a result in the Saarbrücken constituency?
Created: 03/21/2022, 16:30
Tobias Hans (CDU), Prime Minister of Saarland © Oliver Dietze / dpa
Will there be a change at the top of the state government in Saarland on election day, March 27, 2022?
Interesting facts about the state elections, specifically in the Saarbrücken constituency.
Saarbrücken – On Sunday, March 27, 2022, a new state parliament will be elected in Saarland, as the legislative period of the CDU-led government under Prime Minister Tobias Hans is coming to an end.
The Saarbrücken constituency is one of three constituencies.
Specifically: Saarbrücken (Saarbrücken regional association), Neunkirchen (St. Wendel, Saar-Palatinate district, Neunkirchen) and Saarlouis (Merzig-Wadern, Saarlouis).
The state elections in Saarland are so-called proportional representation.
This means that citizens can vote for the members of the state parliament, and the sum of the votes cast determines the number of seats a party has.
Voters have exactly one vote.
They vote for a party's electoral lists: the state list and the constituency list.
The candidates of the parties in the respective constituencies are on these constituency lists.
The legislative period of the elected state parliament is set for five years, with the last election taking place in 2017.
State elections - which parties will compete in Saarland in 2022?
Incumbent Tobias Hans is fighting for his position in the 2022 election.
He competes against Anke Rehlinger from the SPD.
A total of 18 parties are running in the state elections:
CDU
SPD
The left
AfD
Green
FDP
The family party
pirates
Free voters
the base
colourful.saar
ÖDP
The humanists
The party
The Party for Health Research
Animal Welfare Party
SGV
volt
Saarbrücken constituency – when will there be a result on election night?
On election day, citizens can cast their votes at the polling stations from 8:00 a.m.
Postal voting is also possible.
The polling stations in Saarland will close at 6:00 p.m.
Then the counting starts immediately.
At the same time, the first forecasts based on voter surveys at the polling stations will be published.
Experience has shown that the first extrapolation will be available by 6:30 p.m., which is actually based on the first counts.
In the course of the evening, the extrapolations will become more and more accurate.
When will the election result of the 2022 election in Saarland come out?
Five years ago, the provisional official final result was available at a relatively early time: the results were published at 9 p.m. on the evening of the election.
This result then had to be checked and confirmed.
Saarbrücken constituency – who can vote?
The Saarbrücken constituency includes the cities of Püttlingen, Saarbrücken and Völklingen as well as the communities of Großrosseln, Kleinblittersdorf and Riegelsberg of the Saarbrücken regional association.
In principle, all Germans who have reached the age of eighteen on the day of the election, have been resident in Saarland for at least three months or otherwise usually reside there and are not otherwise excluded from the right to vote are entitled to vote.
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Wahl-O-Mat for the state elections in Saarland is online: You can take the test here
In the state elections in Saarland, a new state government will be elected for the next five years.
The Wahl-O-Mat can be a help for those who are undecided.
You can take the test here.
Wahl-O-Mat for the state elections in Saarland is online: You can take the test here
Oskar Lafontaine does not support his party's list of candidates
Former Left Party co-founder and leader Oskar Lafontaine will not support his party's list of candidates in the Saar state election on March 27.
Oskar Lafontaine does not support his party's list of candidates
Saarbrücken constituency – the result of the last state election
The Saarland state parliament, which is still in office, was elected in 2017.
The CDU won with top candidate Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer with 40.7 percent.
The SPD received 29.6 percent, Die Linke won 12.8 percent of the votes, and the AfD was elected by 6.2 percent.
The Greens, on the other hand, failed with 4.0 percent of the vote at the five percent hurdle and did not move into the state parliament.
The pirates, who were previously represented in the Saarland state parliament, also lost a significant number of votes and only came to 0.7 percent.
In 2017, there were 295,597 eligible voters in the Saarbrücken constituency, of which 164,854 cast valid ballot papers.
The election result with a turnout of 67.12 percent:
CDU: 59,522 votes, share of the vote 36.5%, profit 3.8%
SPD: 46,751 votes, share of the vote 28.7%, loss -0.9%
DIE LINKE: 25,351 votes, share of votes 15.6%, loss -2.6%
GREENS: 8,455 votes, share of the vote 5.2%, loss -1.0%
FAMILY: 1,256 votes, share of the vote 0.8%, loss -0.7%
FDP: 6,582 votes, share of the vote 4.0%, profit 2.6%
NPD: 1,299 votes, share of the vote 0.8%, loss -0.4%
FREE VOTERS: 613 votes, share of the vote 0.4%, loss -0.6%
AfD: 10,327 votes, share of the vote 6.3%, profit 6.3%
BGE: 286 votes, share of votes 0.2%, profit 0.2%
DBD: 163 votes, vote share 0.1%, profit 0.1%
THE UNIT: 232 votes, voting share 0.1%, profit 0.1%
REFORMER: 310 votes, share of the vote 0.2%, profit 0.2%
LKR: 357 votes, share of votes 0.2%, profit 0.2%