Mittelsachsen 3

19: Mittelsachsen 3
Electoral district for the Landtag of Saxony
Mittelsachsen 3 in 2024
District	Mittelsachsen
Electorate	60,971 (2024)
Major settlements	Burgstädt, Lunzenau, Mittweida, Penig, and Rochlitz
Current electoral district
Party	CDU
Member	Thomas Schmidt [1]

Mittelsachsen 3 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 19. It is within the district of Mittelsachsen. ^[2]

Geography

The constituency comprises the towns of Burgstädt, Lunzenau, Mittweida, Penig, and Rochlitz, and the districts of Altmittweida, Claußnitz, Erlau, Hartmannsdorf, Königsfeld, Königshain-Wiederau, Lichtenau, Mühlau, Rossau, Seelitz, Taura, Wechselburg, and Zettlitz within Mittelsachsen.

There were 60,971 eligible voters in 2024. ^[3]

Members

Election		Member	Party	%
	2014	Iris Firmenich	CDU	51.3
	2019			37.1
	2024	Thomas Schmidt		40.2

Election results

2024 election

State election (2024): Mittelsachsen 3 [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	Thomas Schmidt		18,289	40.2	3.4	15,487	33.8	2.7
	AfD	Holger Zielinski		17,355	38.2	8.4	14,627	31.9	3.1
	BSW						6,404	14.0
	FW	Nico Geisler		2,897	6.4	0.7	1,263	2.8	1.6
	Left	Katja Reichel		2,657	5.8	4.0	1,265	2.8	6.4
	SPD	Mario Rolf Lorenz		12,238	4.9	1.9	2,746	6.0	1.4
	Greens	Wolfram Günther		1,061	2.3	3.2	1,050	2.3	2.5
	Freie Sachsen	Orest Meyer		478	1.1		1,325	2.9
	APT						415	0.9
	FDP	Nikita Soldatov		468	1.0	3.1	329	0.7	3.2
	PARTEI						256	0.6	0.6
	BD						164	0.4
	Values						109	0.2
	Bündnis C						107	0.2
	Pirates						73	0.2
	V-Partei3						57	0.1
	dieBasis						51	0.1
	BüSo						45	0.1
	ÖDP						31	0.1
Informal votes				744			383
Total valid votes				45,443			45,804
Turnout				46,187	75.8	7.3
	CDU hold		Majority	934	2.0

References

1. "Elected Member for Mittelsachsen 3". Landtag of Saxony. Retrieved 8 January 2026.
2. "Saxony Electoral Districts" . Retrieved 8 January 2026.
3. "Saxony Electoral Districts" . Retrieved 8 January 2026.
4. https://www.tagesschau.de/wahl/archiv/2024-09-01-LT-DE-SN/charts/wahlkreis-detail/WK019-40.shtml

See also

• Politics of Saxony
• Landtag of Saxony