164 Zwickau | |
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Electoral district for the Bundestag | |
![]() Zwickau in 2025 | |
State | Saxony |
Population | 243,000 (2019) |
Electorate | 197,831 (2021) |
Major settlements | Zwickau Glauchau Werdau |
Area | 755.1 km2 |
Current electoral district | |
Created | 1990 |
Party | AfD |
Member | Matthias Moosdorf |
Elected | 2021 |
Zwickau is an electoral constituency (German: Wahlkreis) represented in the Bundestag. It elects one member via first-past-the-post voting. Under the current constituency numbering system, it is designated as constituency 164. It is located in southwestern Saxony, comprising most of the Zwickau district. [1]
Zwickau was created for the inaugural 1990 federal election after German reunification. Since 2021, it has been represented by Matthias Moosdorf of the Alternative for Germany (AfD). [2]
Zwickau is located in southwestern Saxony. As of the 2021 federal election, it comprises the entirety of the Zwickau district excluding the municipalities of Callenberg, Gersdorf, Hohenstein-Ernstthal, and Oberlungwitz and the Verwaltungsgemeinschaften of Limbach-Oberfrohna and Rund um den Auersberg. [1]
Zwickau was created after German reunification in 1990, then known as Zwickau – Werdau. In the 2002 and 2005 elections, it was named Zwickauer Land – Zwickau. It acquired its current name in the 2009 election. In the 1990 through 1998 elections, it was constituency 327 in the numbering system. In the 2002 and 2005 elections, it was number 167. In the 2009 election, it was number 166. In the 2013 through 2021 elections, it was number 165. From the 2025 election, it has been number 164.
Originally, the constituency comprised the independent city of Zwickau, the Landkreis Zwickau district, and the Werdau district. In the 2002 and 2005 elections, it comprised the independent city of Zwickau and the Zwickauer Land district. It acquired its current borders in the 2009 election.
Election | No. | Name | Borders |
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1990 | 327 | Zwickau – Werdau |
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1994 | |||
1998 | |||
2002 | 167 | Zwickauer Land – Zwickau |
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2005 | |||
2009 | 166 | Zwickau |
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2013 | 165 | ||
2017 | |||
2021 | |||
2025 | 164 |
The constituency was first represented by Michael Luther of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) from 1990 to 2013. He was succeeded by Carsten Körber in 2013. Michael Moosdorf won the constituency for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) in 2021.
Election | Member | Party | % | |
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1990 | Michael Luther | CDU | 52.2 | |
1994 | 49.5 | |||
1998 | 34.5 | |||
2002 | 39.4 | |||
2005 | 34.6 | |||
2009 | 38.8 | |||
2013 | Carsten Körber | CDU | 44.6 | |
2017 | 33.7 | |||
2021 | Matthias Moosdorf | AfD | 25.6 |
Federal election (2021): Zwickau [3] | |||||||||
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Notes: | Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. | ||||||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
AfD | Matthias Moosdorf | 37,135 | 25.6 | 36,601 | 25.1 | ![]() | |||
CDU | ![]() | 30,798 | 21.2 | ![]() | 27,024 | 18.6 | ![]() | ||
SPD | Gundula Schubert | 24,094 | 16.6 | ![]() | 30,718 | 21.1 | ![]() | ||
Left | Sabine Zimmermann | 22,583 | 15.5 | ![]() | 13,629 | 9.4 | ![]() | ||
FDP | Nico Tippelt | 13,991 | 9.6 | ![]() | 15,431 | 10.6 | ![]() | ||
FW | Christiane Drechsel | 6,105 | 4.2 | 4,004 | 2.8 | ![]() | |||
Greens | Wolfgang Wetzel | 5,988 | 4.1 | ![]() | 7,134 | 4.9 | ![]() | ||
Tierschutzpartei | 3,093 | 2.1 | ![]() | ||||||
dieBasis | Christoph Heinritz‑Bechtel | 3,975 | 2.7 | 2,720 | 1.9 | ||||
PARTEI | 1,483 | 1.0 | ![]() | ||||||
Bündnis C | 679 | 0.5 | |||||||
Gesundheitsforschung | 579 | 0.4 | |||||||
Pirates | 463 | 0.3 | ![]() | ||||||
The III. Path | 418 | 0.3 | |||||||
NPD | 400 | 0.3 | ![]() | ||||||
ÖDP | Daniel Micklisch | 474 | 0.3 | 310 | 0.2 | ![]() | |||
Team Todenhöfer | 244 | 0.2 | |||||||
Volt | 191 | 0.1 | |||||||
Independent | Thomas Krajak | 145 | 0.1 | ||||||
Humanists | 133 | 0.1 | |||||||
V-Partei3 | 104 | 0.1 | ![]() | ||||||
DKP | 96 | 0.1 | |||||||
MLPD | 92 | 0.1 | ![]() | ||||||
Informal votes | 1,854 | 1,596 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 145,288 | 145,546 | |||||||
Turnout | 147,142 | 74.4 | ![]() | ||||||
AfD gain from CDU | Majority | 6,337 | 4.4 |
Federal election (2017): Zwickau [4] | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
CDU | ![]() | 48,347 | 33.7 | ![]() | 45,106 | 30.3 | ![]() | ||
AfD | 38,964 | 26.2 | ![]() | ||||||
Left | Sabine Zimmermann | 36,881 | 25.7 | ![]() | 24,665 | 16.6 | ![]() | ||
FDP | Jürgen Martens | 19,181 | 13.4 | ![]() | 11,253 | 7.6 | ![]() | ||
SPD | Mario Pecher | 18,219 | 12.7 | ![]() | 16,131 | 10.8 | ![]() | ||
Independent | Heiko Richter | 12,622 | 8.8 | ||||||
Greens | Wolfgang Wetzel [lower-alpha 1] | 6,513 | 4.5 | ![]() | 4,327 | 2.9 | ![]() | ||
Tierschutzpartei | 2,162 | 1.5 | |||||||
FW | 1,674 | 1.1 | ![]() | ||||||
Independent | Helmut Zagermann | 1,617 | 1.1 | ||||||
PARTEI | 1,408 | 0.9 | |||||||
NPD | 1,302 | 0.9 | ![]() | ||||||
Pirates | 463 | 0.3 | ![]() | ||||||
BGE | 326 | 0.2 | |||||||
ÖDP | 299 | 0.2 | |||||||
DiB | 230 | 0.2 | |||||||
V-Partei³ | 212 | 0.1 | |||||||
MLPD | 202 | 0.1 | ![]() | ||||||
BüSo | 105 | 0.1 | ![]() | ||||||
Informal votes | 7,570 | 2,121 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 143,380 | 148,829 | |||||||
Turnout | 150,950 | 72.7 | ![]() | ||||||
CDU hold | Majority | 11,466 | 8.0 | ![]() |
Federal election (2013): Zwickau [5] | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
CDU | Carsten Körber | 64,857 | 44.6 | ![]() | 64,872 | 44.4 | ![]() | ||
Left | Sabine Zimmermann | 35,847 | 24.6 | ![]() | 31,061 | 21.3 | ![]() | ||
SPD | Andreas Weigel | 23,033 | 15.8 | ![]() | 21,686 | 14.8 | ![]() | ||
AfD | 8,878 | 6.1 | |||||||
NPD | Patrick Gentsch | 5,918 | 4.1 | ![]() | 4,664 | 3.2 | ![]() | ||
Greens | Lars Dörner | 4,334 | 3.0 | ![]() | 4,653 | 3.2 | ![]() | ||
FDP | Nico Tippelt | 3,996 | 2.7 | ![]() | 3,924 | 2.7 | ![]() | ||
FW | Ingo Göschel | 3,823 | 2.6 | 2,690 | 1.8 | ||||
Pirates | Edgar Tristan Drechsel | 2,744 | 1.9 | 2,589 | 1.8 | ||||
PRO | 478 | 0.3 | |||||||
BüSo | Kai-Uwe Ducke | 1,030 | 0.7 | ![]() | 384 | 0.3 | ![]() | ||
MLPD | 175 | 0.1 | ![]() | ||||||
Informal votes | 2,723 | 2,251 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 145,582 | 146,054 | |||||||
Turnout | 148,305 | 68.1 | ![]() | ||||||
CDU hold | Majority | 29,010 | 20.0 | ![]() |
Federal election (2009): Zwickau [6] | |||||||||
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Notes: | Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. | ||||||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
CDU | ![]() | 55,605 | 38.8 | ![]() | 51,459 | 35.9 | ![]() | ||
Left | Sabine Zimmermann | 40,265 | 28.1 | ![]() | 39,659 | 27.7 | ![]() | ||
SPD | Andreas Weigel | 20,864 | 14.6 | ![]() | 21,336 | 14.9 | ![]() | ||
FDP | André Hubatschek | 13,097 | 9.1 | ![]() | 17,402 | 12.1 | ![]() | ||
Greens | Martin Böttger | 6,491 | 4.5 | ![]() | 6,418 | 4.5 | ![]() | ||
NPD | Patrick Gentsch | 5,394 | 3.8 | ![]() | 5,268 | 3.7 | ![]() | ||
BüSo | Kai-Uwe Ducke | 995 | 0.7 | ![]() | 1,011 | 0.7 | ![]() | ||
Independent | Klaus-Dieter Kramer | 520 | 0.4 | ||||||
REP | 517 | 0.4 | ![]() | ||||||
MLPD | 316 | 0.2 | ![]() | ||||||
Informal votes | 2,383 | 2,228 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 143,231 | 143,386 | |||||||
Turnout | 145,614 | 63.4 | ![]() | ||||||
CDU hold | Majority | 15,340 | 10.7 | ![]() |
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