| 180 Main-Taunus | |
|---|---|
| Electoral district for theBundestag | |
Main-Taunus in 2025 | |
| State | Hesse |
| Population | 284,200 (2019) |
| Electorate | 195,514 (2021) |
| Major settlements | Hofheim Kelkheim Hattersheim am Main |
| Area | 270.6 km2 |
| Current electoral district | |
| Created | 2002 |
| Party | CDU |
| Member | Norbert Altenkamp |
| Elected | 2017,2021,2025 |
Main-Taunus 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 180. It is located in southernHesse, comprising theMain-Taunus-Kreis district and small parts of theHochtaunuskreis district.[1]
Main-Taunus was created for the2002 federal election. Since 2017, it has been represented byNorbert Altenkamp of theChristian Democratic Union (CDU).[2]
Main-Taunus is located in southernHesse. As of the 2021 federal election, it comprises the entirety of the Main-Taunus-Kreis district as well as the municipalities ofKönigstein im Taunus,Kronberg im Taunus, andSteinbach (Taunus) from the Hochtaunuskreis district.[1]
Main-Taunus was created in 2002. In the 2002 and 2005 elections, it was constituency 182 in the numbering system. In the 2009 through 2021 elections, it was number 181. From the 2025 election, it has been number 180. Its borders have not changed since its creation.
The constituency was first represented byHeinz Riesenhuber of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) from 2002 to 2005 to 2017. Norbert Altenkamp of the CDU was elected in 2017.
| Election | Member | Party | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Heinz Riesenhuber | CDU | 49.8 | |
| 2005 | 51.1 | |||
| 2009 | 47.5 | |||
| 2013 | 52.2 | |||
| 2017 | Norbert Altenkamp | CDU | 41.9 | |
| 2021 | 33.3 | |||
| 2025 | 39.8 | |||
| Federal election (2025): Main-Taunus[3] | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Notes: | Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. | ||||||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
| CDU | 65,485 | 39.8 | 57,903 | 35.1 | |||||
| SPD | Nancy Faeser | 29,237 | 17.8 | 25,838 | 15.7 | ||||
| Greens | Anna Lührmann | 23,001 | 14.0 | 23,886 | 14.5 | ||||
| AfD | Christian Douglas | 21,541 | 13.1 | 21,890 | 13.3 | ||||
| Left | Thomas Völker | 9,861 | 6.0 | 10,899 | 6.6 | ||||
| FDP | Bettina Stark-Watzinger | 8,846 | 5.4 | 12,190 | 7.4 | ||||
| BSW | 6,033 | 3.7 | New | ||||||
| FW | Frank Bergmann | 2,962 | 1.8 | 1,661 | 1.0 | ||||
| Tierschutzpartei | 1,655 | 1.0 | |||||||
| Volt | Fiona Byrne | 2,691 | 1.6 | New | 1,598 | 1.0 | |||
| PARTEI | 698 | 0.4 | |||||||
| BD | Andreas Steba | 929 | 0.6 | New | 418 | 0.3 | New | ||
| Humanists | 132 | 0.1 | |||||||
| MLPD | 52 | <0.1 | |||||||
| Informal votes | 1,344 | 1,044 | |||||||
| Total valid votes | 164,553 | 164,853 | |||||||
| Turnout | 165,897 | 85.8 | |||||||
| CDUhold | Majority | 36,248 | 22.0 | ||||||
| Federal election (2021): Main-Taunus[4] | |||||||||
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| Notes: | Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. | ||||||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
| CDU | 51,985 | 33.3 | 42,260 | 27.0 | |||||
| SPD | Ilja-Kristin Seewald | 35,493 | 22.8 | 34,468 | 22.1 | ||||
| Greens | Kordula Schulz-Asche | 26,373 | 16.9 | 26,771 | 17.1 | ||||
| FDP | Bettina Stark-Watzinger | 20,295 | 13.0 | 26,335 | 16.9 | ||||
| AfD | Gerhard Bergmann | 10,588 | 6.8 | 10,427 | 6.7 | ||||
| Left | Paul Laslop | 4,272 | 2.7 | 4,708 | 3.0 | ||||
| FW | Frank Bergmann | 4,179 | 2.7 | 2,471 | 1.6 | ||||
| Tierschutzpartei | 2,042 | 1.3 | |||||||
| dieBasis | 1,871 | 1.2 | |||||||
| PARTEI | Florian Sauer | 2,751 | 1.8 | 1,253 | 0.8 | ||||
| Team Todenhöfer | 1,143 | 0.7 | |||||||
| Volt | 1,012 | 0.6 | |||||||
| Pirates | 510 | 0.3 | |||||||
| Gesundheitsforschung | 209 | 0.1 | |||||||
| ÖDP | 163 | 0.1 | |||||||
| Humanists | 154 | 0.1 | |||||||
| V-Partei3 | 135 | 0.1 | |||||||
| NPD | 116 | 0.1 | |||||||
| Bündnis C | 93 | 0.1 | |||||||
| Bündnis 21 | 56 | 0.0 | |||||||
| LKR | 34 | 0.0 | |||||||
| MLPD | 31 | 0.0 | |||||||
| DKP | 19 | 0.0 | |||||||
| Informal votes | 1,782 | 1,437 | |||||||
| Total valid votes | 155,936 | 156,281 | |||||||
| Turnout | 157,718 | 80.7 | |||||||
| CDUhold | Majority | 16,492 | 10.5 | ||||||
| Federal election (2017): Main-Taunus[5] | |||||||||
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| Notes: | Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. | ||||||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
| CDU | Norbert Altenkamp | 66,490 | 41.9 | 54,902 | 34.6 | ||||
| SPD | Ilja-Kristin Seewald | 34,527 | 21.8 | 28,786 | 18.1 | ||||
| FDP | Bettina Stark-Watzinger | 17,224 | 10.9 | 26,571 | 16.7 | ||||
| AfD | Gernot Laude | 15,319 | 9.7 | 16,395 | 10.3 | ||||
| Greens | Kordula Schulz-Asche | 14,458 | 9.1 | 16,752 | 10.5 | ||||
| Left | Ingo von Seemen | 7,887 | 5.0 | 9,504 | 6.0 | ||||
| Tierschutzpartei | 1,500 | 0.9 | |||||||
| FW | Josef Voege | 2,620 | 1.7 | 1,293 | 0.8 | ||||
| PARTEI | 1,173 | 0.7 | |||||||
| Pirates | 561 | 0.4 | |||||||
| ÖDP | 340 | 0.2 | |||||||
| NPD | 337 | 0.2 | |||||||
| V-Partei³ | 224 | 0.1 | |||||||
| DM | 222 | 0.1 | |||||||
| BGE | 216 | 0.1 | |||||||
| MLPD | 33 | 0.0 | |||||||
| BüSo | 26 | 0.0 | |||||||
| DKP | 24 | 0.0 | |||||||
| Informal votes | 2,122 | 1,788 | |||||||
| Total valid votes | 158,525 | 158,859 | |||||||
| Turnout | 160,647 | 81.4 | |||||||
| CDUhold | Majority | 21,963 | 20.1 | ||||||
| Federal election (2013): Main-Taunus[6] | |||||||||
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| Notes: | Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. | ||||||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
| CDU | 79,353 | 52.5 | 66,598 | 43.8 | |||||
| SPD | Dieter Falk | 40,927 | 27.1 | 34,156 | 22.5 | ||||
| Greens | Kordula Schulz-Asche | 12,453 | 8.2 | 15,057 | 9.9 | ||||
| FDP | Bettina Stark-Watzinger | 6,472 | 4.3 | 13,100 | 8.6 | ||||
| AfD | 10,470 | 6.9 | |||||||
| Left | Fritz-Walter Hornung | 6,355 | 4.2 | 6,406 | 4.2 | ||||
| Pirates | Frank Hubertus Schäfer | 3,729 | 2.5 | 2,773 | 1.8 | ||||
| FW | 1,212 | 0.8 | |||||||
| NPD | Nikolaus Bexha | 1,778 | 1.2 | 1,003 | 0.8 | ||||
| PARTEI | 549 | 0.4 | |||||||
| REP | 285 | 0.2 | |||||||
| PRO | 159 | 0.1 | |||||||
| SGP | 63 | 0.0 | |||||||
| BüSo | 53 | 0.0 | |||||||
| MLPD | 35 | 0.0 | |||||||
| Informal votes | 4,078 | 3,226 | |||||||
| Total valid votes | 151,067 | 151,919 | |||||||
| Turnout | 155,145 | 78.9 | |||||||
| CDUhold | Majority | 38,426 | 25.4 | ||||||
| Federal election (2009): Main-Taunus[7] | |||||||||
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| Notes: | Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. | ||||||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
| CDU | 72,680 | 47.5 | 56,989 | 37.1 | |||||
| SPD | Nicole Ritter | 36,629 | 24.0 | 29,515 | 19.2 | ||||
| FDP | Bettina Stark-Watzinger | 18,588 | 12.2 | 33,225 | 21.7 | ||||
| Greens | Wolfgang Strengmann-Kuhn | 15,618 | 10.2 | 18,258 | 11.9 | ||||
| Left | Fritz-Walter Hornung | 7,718 | 5.0 | 8,699 | 5.7 | ||||
| Pirates | 3,157 | 2.1 | |||||||
| Tierschutzpartei | 1,437 | 0.9 | |||||||
| NPD | Thomas Gorr | 1,694 | 1.1 | 1,140 | 0.7 | ||||
| REP | 701 | 0.5 | |||||||
| BüSo | 165 | 0.1 | |||||||
| DVU | 110 | 0.1 | |||||||
| MLPD | 30 | 0.0 | |||||||
| Informal votes | 2,821 | 2,322 | |||||||
| Total valid votes | 152,927 | 153,426 | |||||||
| Turnout | 155,748 | 79.7 | |||||||
| CDUhold | Majority | 36,051 | 23.5 | ||||||
| Federal election (2005):Main-Taunus[8] | |||||||||
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| Notes: | Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. | ||||||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
| CDU | 80,848 | 51.1 | 63,644 | 40.1 | |||||
| SPD | Gerrit Richter | 50,418 | 31.8 | 43,337 | 27.3 | ||||
| Greens | Anna Lührmann | 11,988 | 7.6 | 15,828 | 10.0 | ||||
| FDP | Fritz-Wilhelm Krüger | 8,411 | 5.3 | 26,019 | 16.4 | ||||
| Left | Beate Ullrich-Graf | 4,806 | 3.0 | 5,736 | 3.6 | ||||
| NPD | Günter Seiffert | 1,894 | 1.2 | 1,198 | 0.8 | ||||
| Tierschutzpartei | 1,061 | 0.7 | |||||||
| REP | 958 | 0.7 | |||||||
| GRAUEN | 710 | 0.4 | |||||||
| BüSo | 114 | 0.1 | |||||||
| SGP | 111 | 0.1 | |||||||
| MLPD | 35 | 0.0 | |||||||
| Informal votes | 2,967 | 2,581 | |||||||
| Total valid votes | 158,365 | 158,751 | |||||||
| Turnout | 161,332 | 83.3 | |||||||
| CDUhold | Majority | 30,430 | 19.3 | ||||||