| 156 Görlitz | |
|---|---|
| Electoral district for theBundestag | |
Görlitz in 2025 | |
| State | Saxony |
| Population | 252,700 (2019) |
| Electorate | 204,105 (2021) |
| Major settlements | Görlitz Zittau Weißwasser |
| Area | 2,111.4 km2 |
| Current electoral district | |
| Created | 1990 |
| Party | AfD |
| Member | Tino Chrupalla |
| Elected | 2017,2021,2025 |
Görlitz is an electoral constituency (German:Wahlkreis) represented in theBundestag. It elects one member viafirst-past-the-post voting. Under the current constituency numbering system, it is designated as constituency 156. It is located in easternSaxony, comprising theGörlitz district.[1]
Görlitz was created for the inaugural1990 federal election afterGerman reunification. Since 2017, it has been represented byTino Chrupalla of theAlternative for Germany (AfD).[2]
Görlitz is located in easternSaxony. As of the2021 federal election, it is coterminous with theGörlitz district.[1]
Görlitz was created in 1990, then known asGörlitz – Zittau – Niesky. In the 2002 and 2005 elections, it was namedLöbau-Zittau – Görlitz – Niesky. It acquired its current name in the 2009 election. In the 1990 through 1998 elections, it was constituency 315 in the numbering system. In the 2002 and 2005 elections, it was number 157. In the 2009 election, it was number 158. In the 2013 through 2021 elections, it was number 157. From the 2025 election, it has been number 156.
Originally, the constituency comprised the independent city ofGörlitz and the districts of Landkreis Görlitz, Zittau, and Niesky. In the 2002 and 2005 elections, it comprised the independent city of Görlitz and the district ofLöbau-Zittau, as well as the municipalities ofMarkersdorf,Niesky,Reichenbach, andRothenburg, and theVerwaltungsverband of Weißer Schöps/Neiße from the district ofNiederschlesischer Oberlausitzkreis. It acquired its current borders in the 2009 election.
The constituency was first represented byGeorg Janovsky of theChristian Democratic Union (CDU) from 1990 to 2002. He was succeeded by fellow CDU memberMichael Kretschmer from 2002 to 2017. Tino Chrupalla of the AfD was elected in 2017 and re-elected in 2021.
| Election | Member | Party | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Georg Janovsky | CDU | 53.5 | |
| 1994 | 56.9 | |||
| 1998 | 41.8 | |||
| 2002 | Michael Kretschmer | CDU | 40.6 | |
| 2005 | 38.5 | |||
| 2009 | 42.4 | |||
| 2013 | 49.6 | |||
| 2017 | Tino Chrupalla | AfD | 32.4 | |
| 2021 | 35.8 | |||
| 2025 | 48.9 | |||
| Federal election (2025): Görlitz[3] | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Notes: | Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. | ||||||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
| AfD | 75,145 | 48.9 | 71,854 | 46.7 | |||||
| CDU | Florian Oest | 37,197 | 24.2 | 30,406 | 19.8 | ||||
| BSW | Carsten Berg | 9,832 | 6.4 | New | 13,822 | 9.0 | New | ||
| Left | Gerhard Fuchs-Kittowski | 9,795 | 6.4 | 11,900 | 7.7 | ||||
| SPD | Harald Prause-Kosubek | 9,626 | 6.3 | 9,814 | 6.4 | ||||
| Greens | Monique Hänel | 4,659 | 3.0 | 5,159 | 3.4 | ||||
| FW | Siegmund Hänchen | 3,587 | 2.3 | 2,354 | 1.5 | ||||
| FDP | Toralf Einsle | 2,951 | 1.9 | 4,484 | 2.9 | ||||
| Tierschutzpartei | 1,960 | 1.3 | |||||||
| PARTEI | 678 | 0.4 | |||||||
| BD | Klaus Reepen | 980 | 0.6 | New | 613 | 0.4 | New | ||
| Volt | 440 | 0.3 | |||||||
| Pirates | 249 | 0.2 | |||||||
| Humanists | 139 | 0.1 | |||||||
| MLPD | 62 | <0.1 | |||||||
| Informal votes | 1,280 | 1,118 | |||||||
| Total valid votes | 153,772 | 153,934 | |||||||
| Turnout | 155,052 | 79.0 | |||||||
| AfDhold | Majority | 37,948 | 24.7 | ||||||
| Federal election (2021): Görlitz[4] | |||||||||
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| Notes: | Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. | ||||||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
| AfD | 53,970 | 35.8 | 49,123 | 32.5 | |||||
| CDU | Florian Oest | 39,299 | 26.1 | 27,630 | 18.3 | ||||
| SPD | Harald Prause‑Kosubek | 18,928 | 12.5 | 25,441 | 16.8 | ||||
| Left | Marko Schmidt | 11,835 | 7.8 | 11,327 | 7.5 | ||||
| FDP | Rudolf Grüner | 11,222 | 7.4 | 15,039 | 10.0 | ||||
| Greens | Annett Jagiela | 6,182 | 4.1 | 7,358 | 4.9 | ||||
| FW | Siegmund Hänchen | 4,588 | 3.0 | 3,645 | 2.4 | ||||
| Tierschutzpartei | 3,259 | 2.2 | |||||||
| dieBasis | Stefan Heinke | 4,115 | 2.7 | 2,583 | 1.7 | ||||
| PARTEI | 1,428 | 0.9 | |||||||
| Gesundheitsforschung | 1,045 | 0.7 | |||||||
| Pirates | 540 | 0.4 | |||||||
| NPD | 488 | 0.3 | |||||||
| Bündnis C | 456 | 0.3 | |||||||
| LKR | Harald Twupack | 417 | 0.3 | ||||||
| Volt | 338 | 0.2 | |||||||
| Team Todenhöfer | 331 | 0.2 | |||||||
| The III. Path | 305 | 0.2 | |||||||
| Independent | Bernhard Blickle | 267 | 0.2 | ||||||
| Humanists | 185 | 0.1 | |||||||
| ÖDP | 177 | 0.1 | |||||||
| MLPD | 106 | 0.1 | |||||||
| V-Partei3 | 97 | 0.1 | |||||||
| DKP | 92 | 0.1 | |||||||
| Informal votes | 2,234 | 2,064 | |||||||
| Total valid votes | 150,823 | 150,993 | |||||||
| Turnout | 153,057 | 75.0 | |||||||
| AfDhold | Majority | 14,671 | 9.7 | ||||||
| Federal election (2017): Görlitz[5] | |||||||||
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| Notes: | Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. | ||||||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
| AfD | Tino Chrupalla | 49,834 | 32.4 | 50,551 | 32.9 | ||||
| CDU | 48,256 | 31.4 | 41,000 | 26.7 | |||||
| Left | Thorsten Ahrens | 20,853 | 13.6 | 21,534 | 14.0 | ||||
| SPD | Thomas Jurk | 16,801 | 10.9 | 14,249 | 9.3 | ||||
| FDP | Christine Schlagehan | 7,661 | 5.0 | 10,810 | 7.0 | ||||
| Greens | Joachim Schulze | 4,995 | 3.3 | 4,476 | 2.9 | ||||
| FW | Steffen Grosse | 3,521 | 2.3 | 2,464 | 1.6 | ||||
| NPD | 2,337 | 1.5 | |||||||
| Tierschutzpartei | 2,285 | 1.5 | |||||||
| PARTEI | 1,444 | 0.9 | |||||||
| BGE | 658 | 0.4 | |||||||
| Pirates | 516 | 0.3 | |||||||
| ÖDP | 368 | 0.2 | |||||||
| BüSo | Ilias Papadopulos | 1,722 | 1.1 | 362 | 0.2 | ||||
| DiB | 290 | 0.2 | |||||||
| V-Partei³ | 248 | 0.2 | |||||||
| MLPD | 128 | 0.1 | |||||||
| Informal votes | 2,446 | 2,369 | |||||||
| Total valid votes | 153,643 | 153,720 | |||||||
| Turnout | 156,089 | 73.3 | |||||||
| AfDgain fromCDU | Majority | 1,578 | 1.0 | ||||||
| Federal election (2013): Görlitz[6] | |||||||||
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| Notes: | Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. | ||||||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
| CDU | 74,204 | 49.6 | 66,106 | 44.1 | |||||
| Left | Ilja Seifert | 29,550 | 19.7 | 29,380 | 19.6 | ||||
| SPD | Thomas Jurk | 22,741 | 15.2 | 18,839 | 12.6 | ||||
| AfD | 12,331 | 8.2 | |||||||
| NPD | Per Lennart Aae | 8,323 | 5.6 | 6,360 | 4.2 | ||||
| Greens | Joachim Schulze | 5,045 | 3.4 | 5,044 | 3.4 | ||||
| Pirates | Manfred Stöckert | 3,878 | 2.6 | 3,259 | 2.2 | ||||
| FDP | Daniel Breutmann | 2,442 | 1.6 | 4,185 | 2.8 | ||||
| FW | 2,577 | 1.7 | |||||||
| BüSo | Siegmar John | 2,069 | 1.4 | 685 | 0.5 | ||||
| BGD | Eleonore Rau | 1,431 | 1.0 | ||||||
| PRO | 1,023 | 0.7 | |||||||
| MLPD | 172 | 0.1 | |||||||
| Informal votes | 3,261 | 2,983 | |||||||
| Total valid votes | 149,683 | 149,961 | |||||||
| Turnout | 152,944 | 68.4 | |||||||
| CDUhold | Majority | 44,654 | 29.9 | ||||||
| Federal election (2009): Görlitz[7] | |||||||||
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| Notes: | Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. | ||||||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
| CDU | 62,338 | 42.4 | 55,015 | 37.4 | |||||
| Left | Ilja Seifert | 35,786 | 24.3 | 36,231 | 24.6 | ||||
| SPD | Wolfgang Gunkel | 17,005 | 11.6 | 18,569 | 12.6 | ||||
| FDP | Toralf Einsle | 13,935 | 9.5 | 19,223 | 13.1 | ||||
| NPD | Per Lennart Aae | 7,842 | 5.3 | 8,035 | 5.5 | ||||
| Greens | Joachim Schulze | 7,381 | 5.0 | 7,004 | 4.8 | ||||
| BüSo | Siegmar John | 2,700 | 1.8 | 2,117 | 1.4 | ||||
| REP | 540 | 0.4 | |||||||
| MLPD | 413 | 0.3 | |||||||
| Informal votes | 2,750 | 2,590 | |||||||
| Total valid votes | 146,987 | 147,147 | |||||||
| Turnout | 149,737 | 62.7 | |||||||
| CDUhold | Majority | 26,552 | 18.1 | ||||||
| Federal election (2005):Görlitz[8] | |||||||||
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| Notes: | Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. | ||||||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
| CDU | 56,744 | 38.5 | 48,436 | 32.8 | |||||
| Left | Ilja Seifert | 34,704 | 23.5 | 35,392 | 24.0 | ||||
| SPD | Wolfgang Gunkel | 27,343 | 18.5 | 30,105 | 20.4 | ||||
| FDP | Harald Twupack | 9,905 | 6.7 | 13,784 | 9.3 | ||||
| NPD | Johannes Müller | 9,834 | 6.7 | 8,801 | 6.0 | ||||
| Greens | Joachim Schulze | 6,222 | 4.2 | 5,687 | 3.9 | ||||
| BüSo | Franz John | 2,715 | 1.8 | 1,467 | 1.0 | ||||
| Alliance for Health, Peace and Social Justice | 1,990 | 1.3 | |||||||
| PBC | 835 | 0.6 | |||||||
| REP | 540 | 0.4 | |||||||
| SGP | 453 | 0.3 | |||||||
| MLPD | 198 | 0.1 | |||||||
| Informal votes | 3,483 | 3,262 | |||||||
| Total valid votes | 147,467 | 147,688 | |||||||
| Turnout | 150,950 | 74.3 | |||||||
| CDUhold | Majority | 22,040 | 15 | ||||||