Pirmasens 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 210. It is located in southern
Rhineland-Palatinate, comprising the cities of
Pirmasens and
Zweibrücken, the
Südwestpfalz district, and the southwestern part of the
Landkreis Kaiserslautern
Kaiserslautern is a district (''Kreis'') in the south of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Neighboring districts are (from west clockwise) Kusel, Saarpfalz-Kreis, Donnersbergkreis, Bad Dürkheim and Südwestpfalz. The city of Kaiserslautern is almost ...
district.
Pirmasens was created for the inaugural
1949 federal election. Since 2021, it has been represented by
Angelika Glöckner of the
Social Democratic Party (SPD).
Geography
Pirmasens is located in southern
Rhineland-Palatinate. As of the 2021 federal election, it comprises the independent cities of Pirmasens and Zweibrücken, the district of Südwestpfalz, and the ''
Verbandsgemeinden'' of
Bruchmühlbach-Miesau
Bruchmühlbach-Miesau is a municipality in the district of Kaiserslautern in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated on the small river Glan, approx. 10 km north-east of Homburg, and 25 km west of Kaiserslautern. It has many fe ...
,
Landstuhl, and
Ramstein-Miesenbach from the Landkreis Kaiserslautern district.
History
Pirmasens was created in 1949, then known as ''Zweibrücken''. It acquired its current name in the 1965 election. In the 1949 election, it was Rhineland-Palatinate constituency 14 in the numbering system. In the 1953 through 1961 elections, it was number 161. In the 1965 through 1976 elections, it was number 162. In the 1980 through 1998 elections, it was number 160. In the 2002 election, it was number 213. In the 2005 election, it was number 212. In the 2009 and 2013 elections, it was number 211. Since the 2017 election, it has been number 210.
Originally, the constituency comprised the cities of Pirmasens and Zweibrücken and the districts of Landkreis Pirmasens, Landkreis Zweibrücken, and Bergzabern. In the 1965 and 1969 elections, it comprised the cities of Pirmasens and Zweibrücken and the districts of Landkreis Pirmasens and Landkreis Zweibrücken. In the 1972 through 1998 elections, it comprised the cities of Pirmasens and Zweibrücken and the Landkreis Pirmasens district. It acquired its current borders in the 2002 election.
Members
The constituency has been held by the
Christian Democratic Union (CDU) during all but one Bundestag term since its creation. It was first represented by
Josef Becker from 1949 to 1972. Werner Marx served from 1972 to 1987, followed by
Klaus-Dieter Uelhoff until 1998.
Lydia Westrich
Lydia ( Lydian: 𐤮𐤱𐤠𐤭𐤣𐤠, ''Śfarda''; Aramaic: ''Lydia''; el, Λυδία, ''Lȳdíā''; tr, Lidya) was an Iron Age kingdom of western Asia Minor located generally east of ancient Ionia in the modern western Turkish provin ...
of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) was elected in 1998 and served a single term.
Anita Schäfer
Anita Schäfer (born 9 July 1951) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Rhineland-Palatinate from 1998 until 2021. She represented the constituency of Pirmasens.
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was elected in 2002, and re-elected in 2005, 2009, 2013, and 2017. Angelika Glöckner won the constituency for the SPD in 2021.
Election results
2021 election
2017 election
2013 election
2009 election
Notes
References
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Federal electoral districts in Rhineland-Palatinate
1949 establishments in West Germany
Constituencies established in 1949
Pirmasens
Zweibrücken
Südwestpfalz
Kaiserslautern (district)