Leipzig 5

29: Leipzig 5
29: Leipzig 5
Electoral district; for the Landtag of Saxony
	Leipzig 5 in 2024
District	Leipzig
Electorate	60,331 (2024)
Major settlements	City-district West, and city-district Südwest excluding the sub-districts of Schleußig and Plagwitz
Current electoral district
Party	CDU
Member	Andreas Nowak

Last updated February 04, 2026

Leipzig 5 is an electoral constituency (German: Wahlkreis) represented in the Landtag of Saxony. It elects one member via first-past-the-post voting. Under the constituency numbering system, it is designated as constituency 29. It is within the city of Leipzig. ^[2]

Geography

The constituency comprises the district of West, and district Südwest excluding the sub-districts of Schleußig and Plagwitz within the City of Leipzig.

There were 60,331 eligible voters in 2024. ^[3]

Members

	Member	Party	%
2014	Christine Clauß	CDU	25.2
2019	Christin Melcher	Grüne	29.0
2024	Andreas Nowak	CDU	32.9

Election results

2024 election

State election (2024): Leipzig 5^[4]
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	Andreas Nowak		13,321	32.9	5.1	12,048	29.6	1.2
	AfD	Petra Böhme		11,895	29.4	3.2	11,054	27.2	2.3
	Left	Adam Bednarsky		4,332	10.7	10.7	3,120	7.7	8.0
	BSW	Brunhild Fischer		4,294	10.6		5,287	13.0
	SPD	Sascha Kodytek		2,747	6.8	1.2	3,743	9.2	0.4
	Greens	Rainer Müller		1,951	4.8	3.6	2,314	5.7	3.3
	FW	Matthias Binner		1,233	3.0	0.7	794	2.0	0.7
	APT						531	1.3
	Freie Sachsen						502	1.2
	PARTEI						476	1.2	0.6
	FDP	Ralf-Peter Wirth		749	1.8	2.0	342	0.8	2.4
	Pirates						124	0.3
	BD						102	0.3
	V-Partei3						88	0.2
	dieBasis						68	0.2
	Values						37	0.1
	Bündnis C						36	0.1
	BüSo						21	0.1
	ÖDP						18	0.0
Informal votes				564			381
Total valid votes				40,522			40,705
Turnout				41,086	68.1	16.0
	CDU win new seat		Majority	1,426	3.5

References

↑ "Elected Member for Leipzig 5". Landtag of Saxony. Retrieved 8 January 2026.
↑ "Saxony Electoral Districts" . Retrieved 8 January 2026.
↑ "Saxony Electoral Districts" . Retrieved 8 January 2026.
↑ https://www.tagesschau.de/wahl/archiv/2024-09-01-LT-DE-SN/charts/wahlkreis-detail/WK029-40.shtml