Gera – Jena – Saale-Holzland-Kreis was one of the 299
single member constituencies
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used for the German parliament, the
Bundestag
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. One of nine districts covering the state of
Thuringia
Thuringia (; officially the Free State of Thuringia, ) is one of Germany, Germany's 16 States of Germany, states. With 2.1 million people, it is 12th-largest by population, and with 16,171 square kilometers, it is 11th-largest in area.
Er ...
, it covered the cities of
Gera
Gera () is a city in the German state of Thuringia. With around 93,000 inhabitants, it is the third-largest city in Thuringia after Erfurt and Jena as well as the easternmost city of the ''Thüringer Städtekette'', an almost straight string of ...
and
Jena
Jena (; ) is a List of cities and towns in Germany, city in Germany and the second largest city in Thuringia. Together with the nearby cities of Erfurt and Weimar, it forms the central metropolitan area of Thuringia with approximately 500,000 in ...
and the
Saale-Holzland
Saale-Holzland (official German language, German name: Saale-Holzland-Kreis) is a ''Kreis'' (Districts of Germany, district) in the east of Thuringia, Germany. Neighboring districts are (from the north clockwise) the district Burgenlandkreis in Sa ...
district.
The constituency was created for the
2005 election
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Social Democratic Party of Germany
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(SPD), and they won the new constituency in the 2005 election. However at the 2009 election the constituency was one of two in Thuringia gained by The Left and in
2013
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it was one of all nine in the state won by the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). The last representative was
Albert Weiler
Albert Helmut Weiler (born October 15, 1965 in Mayen) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (Germany), Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as a member of the German Bundestag from 2013 until 2021.2017 election, the constituency was dissolved and not replaced. The area was assigned to neighboring constituencies. Gera went to Gera – Greiz – Altenburger Land, Jena to Jena – Sömmerda – Weimarer Land I and the Saale-Holzland district to
Saalfeld-Rudolstadt – Saale-Holzland-Kreis – Saale-Orla-Kreis
Saalfeld-Rudolstadt – Saale-Holzland-Kreis – Saale-Orla-Kreis 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 syst ...