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| 18: Potsdam-Mittelmark II | |
|---|---|
| Electoral district for the Landtag of Brandenburg | |
|   Potsdam-Mittelmark II in 2024 | |
| District | Potsdam-Mittelmark | 
| Electorate | 57,301 (2024) | 
| Major settlements | Beelitz, Bad Belzig, and Wiesenburg | 
| Current electoral district | |
| Created | 1994 | 
| Party | SPD | 
| Member | Melanie Balzer [1] | 
Potsdam-Mittelmark II is an electoral constituency (German: Wahlkreis) represented in the Landtag of Brandenburg. It elects one member via first-past-the-post voting. Under the constituency numbering system, it is designated as constituency 18. It is located in the district of Potsdam-Mittelmark. [2] 
The constituency includes the towns of Beelitz, Bad Belzig, as well as the communities of Seddiner See , Michendorf and Wiesenburg, and the districts of Brück and Niemegk.
There were 57,301 eligible voters in 2024. [3]
| Election | Member | Party | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Günter Baaske | SPD | 38.2 | |
| 2009 | 41.8 | |||
| 2014 | 44.9 | |||
| 2019 | 36.3 | |||
| 2024 | Melanie Balzer | 38.3 | ||
| State election (2024): Potsdam-Mittelmark II [4] | |||||||||
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| Notes: | Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.  | ||||||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
| SPD | Melanie Balzer | 16,809 | 38.3 |  4.2 | 15,092 | 34.2 |  4.8 | ||
| AfD | Peer Dorow | 11,068 | 25.2 |  7.7 | 10,127 | 22.9 |  4.2 | ||
| BSW | 6,073 | 13.8 | |||||||
| CDU | Schreinicke | 8,060 | 18.4 |  2.8 | 5,775 | 13.1 |  2.3 | ||
| BVB/FW | Simmes | 3,297 | 7.5 |  1.6 | 1,062 | 2.4 |  3.1 | ||
| Left | Frey | 2,266 | 5.2 |  3.7 | 1,242 | 2.8 |  6.8 | ||
| Greens | Wessel | 1,790 | 4.1 |  7.4 | 2,652 | 6.0 |  7.2 | ||
| Tierschutzpartei | 934 | 2.1 |  0.2 | ||||||
| FDP | Krohn | 593 | 1.4 |  2.0 | 454 | 1.0 |  3.5 | ||
| Plus | 392 | 0.9 |  0.3 | ||||||
| DLW | 156 | 0.4 | |||||||
| Values | 102 | 0.2 | |||||||
| Third Way | 42 | 0.1 | |||||||
| DKP | 31 | 0.1 | |||||||
| Informal votes | 585 | 334 | |||||||
| Total valid votes | 43,883 | 44,134 | |||||||
| Turnout | 44,468 | 77.6 |  10.1 | ||||||
| SPD hold | Majority | 5,741 | 13.1 | ||||||
| State election (2019): Potsdam-Mittelmark II [5] | |||||||||
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| Notes: | Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.  | ||||||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
| SPD |  Günter Baaske | 13,509 | 36.3 |  8.6 | 11,261 | 30.2 |  7.0 | ||
| AfD | Kai Kristian Laubach | 6,865 | 18.4 |  8.5 | 7,320 | 19.7 |  9.1 | ||
| CDU | Anja Schmollack | 5,692 | 15.3 |  5.7 | 5,719 | 15.4 |  6.6 | ||
| Greens | Andreas Koska | 3,986 | 10.7 |  4.5 | 4,437 | 11.9 |  5.4 | ||
| Left | Claudia Sprengel | 3,127 | 8.4 |  5.7 | 3,452 | 9.3 |  6.7 | ||
| BVB/FW | Dr. Winfried Ludwig | 2,833 | 7.6 |  5.1 | 2,023 | 5.4 |  3.1 | ||
| FDP | Tim Kehrwieder | 1,205 | 3.2 | 1,572 | 4.2 |  2.6 | |||
| Tierschutzpartei | 901 | 2.4 | |||||||
| Pirates | 260 | 0.7 |  1.0 | ||||||
| ÖDP | 200 | 0.5 | |||||||
| V-Partei3 | 90 | 0.2 | |||||||
| Informal votes | 483 | 465 | |||||||
| Total valid votes | 37,217 | 37,235 | |||||||
| Turnout | 37,700 | 66.9 |  14.2 | ||||||
| SPD hold | Majority | 6,644 | 17.9 |  6.0 | |||||
| State election (2014): Potsdam-Mittelmark II [6] | |||||||||
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| Notes: | Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.  | ||||||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
| SPD |  Günter Baaske | 13,073 | 44.9 |  4.9 | 10,855 | 37.2 |  0.3 | ||
| CDU | Ludwig Burkardt | 6,098 | 21.0 |  1.7 | 6,428 | 22.0 |  3.7 | ||
| Left | Astrit Rabinowitsch | 4,091 | 14.1 |  9.5 | 4,673 | 16.0 |  7.8 | ||
| AfD | Sven Schröder | 2,887 | 9.9 | 3,088 | 10.6 | ||||
| Greens | Dr. Elke Seidel | 1,814 | 6.2 |  0.2 | 1,885 | 6.5 |  0.3 | ||
| BVB/FW | Bärbel Schüler | 738 | 2.5 |  0.9 | 659 | 2.3 |  0.8 | ||
| NPD | 519 | 1.8 |  0.2 | ||||||
| Pirates | Gerhard Luhmer | 401 | 1.4 | 484 | 1.7 | ||||
| FDP | 460 | 1.6 |  6.0 | ||||||
| DKP | 61 | 0.2 |  | ||||||
| REP | 51 | 0.2 |  | ||||||
| Informal votes | 522 | 461 | |||||||
| Total valid votes | 29,102 | 29,163 | |||||||
| Turnout | 29,624 | 52.7 |  17.2 | ||||||
| SPD hold | Majority | 6,975 | 23.9 |  7.5 | |||||
| State election (2009): Potsdam-Mittelmark II [7] | |||||||||
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| Notes: | Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.  | ||||||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
| SPD |  Günter Baaske | 13,156 | 41.8 |  3.6 | 12,173 | 38.5 |  3.1 | ||
| Left | Astrit Rabinowitsch | 7,628 | 24.2 |  0.7 | 7,754 | 24.5 |  1.2 | ||
| CDU | Ludwig Burkardt | 5,583 | 17.7 |  0.9 | 5,624 | 17.8 |  1.3 | ||
| FDP | Dietmar Hummel | 1,818 | 5.8 |  1.0 | 2,273 | 7.2 |  3.7 | ||
| Greens | Elke Siedel | 1,729 | 5.5 |  1.4 | 1,687 | 5.3 |  1.3 | ||
| NPD | Jens Kramp | 763 | 2.4 | 664 | 2.1 | ||||
| BVB/FW | Tino Schwäbisch | 508 | 1.6 | 486 | 1.5 | ||||
| DVU | 328 | 1.0 |  4.1 | ||||||
| Independent | Amrei Wolf | 283 | 0.9 | ||||||
| RRP | 194 | 0.6 | |||||||
| Die-Volksinitiative | 151 | 0.5 | |||||||
| 50Plus | 144 | 0.5 |  | ||||||
| DKP | 55 | 0.2 |  | ||||||
| REP | 54 | 0.2 | |||||||
| Informal votes | 1,167 | 1,048 | |||||||
| Total valid votes | 31,468 | 31,587 | |||||||
| Turnout | 32,635 | 68.5 |  9.7 | ||||||
| SPD hold | Majority | 5,528 | 17.6 |  4.3 | |||||