Jena – Sömmerda – Weimarer Land I

Jena – Sömmerda – Weimarer Land I 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 190. It is located in north-central Thuringia, comprising the city of Jena, the Sömmerda district, and most of the Weimarer Land district.^[1]

190 Jena – Sömmerda – Weimarer Land I
Electoral district for the Bundestag
Jena – Sömmerda – Weimarer Land I in 2025
State	Thuringia
Population	256,400 (2019)
Electorate	198,697 (2021)
Major settlements	Jena Apolda Sömmerda
Area	1,637.8 km2
Current electoral district
Created	1990
Party	SPD
Member	Holger Becker
Elected	2021

Jena – Sömmerda – Weimarer Land I was created for the inaugural 1990 federal election after German reunification. Since 2021, it has been represented by Holger Becker of the Social Democratic Party (SPD).^[2]

Geography

Jena – Sömmerda – Weimarer Land I is located in north-central Thuringia. As of the 2021 federal election, it comprises the independent city of Jena, the Sömmerda district, and the entirety of the Weimarer Land excluding the municipality of Grammetal.^[1]

History

Jena – Sömmerda – Weimarer Land I was created after German reunification in 1990, then known as Sömmerda – Artern – Sondershausen – Langensalza. In the 2002 election, it was named Kyffhäuserkreis – Sömmerda – Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis II. In the 2005 through 2013 elections, it was named Kyffhäuserkreis – Sömmerda – Weimarer Land I. It acquired its current name in the 2017 election. In the 1990 through 1998 elections, it was constituency 298 in the numbering system. In the 2002 and 2005 elections, it was number 192. In the 2009 through 2021 elections, it was number 191. From the 2025 election, it has been number 190.

Originally, the constituency comprised the districts of Sömmerda, Artern, Sondershausen, and Langensalza. In the 2002 election, it comprised the districts of Sömmerda and Kyffhäuserkreis as well as the municipalities of Mühlhausen, Anrode, Dünwald, Herbsleben, Menteroda, Weinbergen, and Unstruttal and the Verwaltungsgemeinschaften of Bad Tennstedt, Hildebrandshausen/Lengenfeld unterm Stein, and Schlotheim from the Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis district. In the 2005 through 2013 elections, it comprised districts of Sömmerda, Kyffhäuserkreis, and Weimarer Land excluding the municipality of Grammetal. It acquired its current borders in the 2017 election.

Election	No.	Name	Borders
1990	298	Sömmerda – Artern – Sondershausen – Langensalza	Sömmerda district Artern district Sondershausen district Langensalza district
1994
1998
2002	192	Kyffhäuserkreis – Sömmerda – Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis II	Sömmerda district Kyffhäuserkreis district Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis district (only Mühlhausen, Anrode, Dünwald, Herbsleben, Menteroda, Weinbergen, and Unstruttal municipalities and Bad Tennstedt, Hildebrandshausen/Lengenfeld unterm Stein, and Schlotheim Verwaltungsgemeinschaften)
2005		Kyffhäuserkreis – Sömmerda – Weimarer Land I	Sömmerda district Kyffhäuserkreis district Weimarer Land (excludin Grammetal municipality)
2009	191
2013
2017		Jena – Sömmerda – Weimarer Land I	Jena city Sömmerda district Weimarer Land (excludin Grammetal municipality)
2021
2025	190

Members

The constituency was first represented by Martin Göttsching of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) from 1990 to 1994, followed by fellow CDU member Johannes Selle from 1994 to 1998. Gisela Hilbrecht won it for the Social Democratic Party (SPD) in 1998 and served until 2005, when Peter Albach regained it for the CDU. Former member Selle of the CDU was elected again in 2009, and re-elected in 2013 and 2017. Holger Becker of the SPD won the constituency in 2021.

Election		Member	Party	%
	1990	Martin Göttsching	CDU	47.9
	1994	Johannes Selle	CDU	43.6
	1998	Gisela Hilbrecht	SPD	39.5
	2002			43.0
	2005	Peter Albach	CDU	30.9
	2009	Johannes Selle	CDU	33.9
	2013			43.3
	2017			29.2
	2021	Holger Becker	SPD	20.1

Election results

2021 election

Federal election (2021): Jena – Sömmerda – Weimarer Land I[3]
Notes:		Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list. Yellow background denotes an electorate win by a list member, or other incumbent. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	SPD	Holger Becker		30,673	20.1	6.0	34,195	22.4	9.9
	AfD	Torben Braga		29,578	19.4	0.2	30,263	19.8	0.0
	CDU	Mike Mohring		28,170	18.5	10.7	23,869	15.6	11.8
	Left	Ralph Lenkert		25,741	16.9	4.5	19,505	12.8	5.7
	Greens	Heiko Knopf		14,656	9.6	4.7	16,709	11.0	4.8
	FDP	Tim Wagner		10,686	7.0	1.2	14,070	9.2	0.5
	FW	Marion Schneider		6,018	4.0	0.3	3,712	2.4	0.6
	PARTEI	Simon Wagner		3,816	2.5		2,143	1.4	0.4
	dieBasis	Karsten Geschwandtner		2,364	1.6		2,349	1.5
	Human Environment Animal Protection						2,108	1.4
	Pirates						859	0.6	0.0
	Volt						723	0.5
	NPD						544	0.4	0.7
	Team Todenhöfer						342	0.2
	Menschliche Welt						318	0.2
	MLPD	Anatole Braungart		341	0.2		271	0.2	0.1
	Humanists						238	0.2
	ÖDP						217	0.1	0.3
	LKR	Frank Wycislok		208	0.1
	V-Partei3						140	0.1	0.2
Informal votes				1,912			1,588
Total valid votes				152,251			152,575
Turnout				154,163	77.6	1.2
	SPD gain from CDU		Majority	1,095	0.7

2017 election

Federal election (2017): Jena – Sömmerda – Weimarer Land I[4]
Notes:		Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list. Yellow background denotes an electorate win by a list member, or other incumbent. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	CDU	Y Johannes Selle		44,684	29.2	9.3	42,092	27.4	8.5
	Left	Ralph Lenkert		32,680	21.4	3.7	28,312	18.5	4.6
	AfD	Denny Jankowski		29,451	19.3	17.5	30,426	19.8	14.1
	SPD	Christoph Matschie		21,668	14.2	5.6	19,150	12.5	4.0
	FDP	Jan Siegemund		8,939	5.8	3.9	13,310	8.7	5.5
	Greens	Olaf Müller		7,544	4.9	0.4	9,497	6.2	1.1
	PARTEI						2,841	1.9
	FW	Andreas Weise		5,612	3.7	3.4	2,815	1.8	0.5
	NPD						1,660	1.1	1.6
	Independent	Marion Schneider		1,550	1.0
	Pirates						790	0.5	2.8
	ÖDP						653	0.4	0.3
	BGE						641	0.4
	Independent	Michael Gruner		556	0.4
	DM						531	0.3
	V-Partei³						474	0.3
	Independent	Ilka May		211	0.1
	MLPD						164	0.1	0.0
Informal votes				2,315			1,854
Total valid votes				152,895			153,356
Turnout				155,210	76.4	6.2
	CDU hold		Majority	12,004	7.8	9.0

2013 election

Federal election (2013): Kyffhäuserkreis – Sömmerda – Weimarer Land I[5]
Notes:		Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list. Yellow background denotes an electorate win by a list member, or other incumbent. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	CDU	Y Johannes Selle		54,350	43.3	9.5	49,099	39.1	7.6
	Left	Kersten Steinke		33,239	26.5	4.9	30,821	24.5	5.5
	SPD	Steffen-Claudio Lemme		21,469	17.1	1.0	19,365	15.4	1.8
	AfD						7,199	5.7
	NPD	Patrick Weber		5,609	4.5	0.6	4,645	3.7	0.2
	Pirates	Klaus Jürgen Sommerfeld		4,551	3.6		3,071	2.4	0.4
	Greens	Nicol Pfefferlein		3,948	3.1	1.4	4,734	3.8	1.0
	FDP	Patrick Kurth		2,253	1.8	6.0	3,672	2.9	7.1
	FW						1,914	1.5
	ÖDP						655	0.5	0.2
	REP						302	0.2	0.1
	MLPD						146	0.1	0.0
Informal votes				2,487			2,283
Total valid votes				125,419			125,623
Turnout				127,906	66.9	3.2
	CDU hold		Majority	21,111	16.8	14.3

2009 election

Federal election (2009): Kyffhäuserkreis – Sömmerda – Weimarer Land I[6]
Notes:		Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list. Yellow background denotes an electorate win by a list member, or other incumbent. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	CDU	Johannes Selle		42,674	33.9	3.0	39,696	31.5	4.9
	Left	Kersten Naumann		39,568	31.4	4.2	37,923	30.1	3.3
	SPD	Steffen-Claudio Lemme		22,819	18.1	11.4	21,692	17.2	11.3
	FDP	Patrick Kurth		9,800	7.8	2.8	12,661	10.0	2.1
	Greens	Janet Lutz		5,754	4.6	1.7	6,064	4.8	0.8
	NPD	Patrick Weber		4,855	3.9	0.7	4,383	3.5	0.6
	Pirates						2,581	2.0
	Independent	Bodo Rothe		595	0.5
	REP						491	0.4	0.4
	ÖDP						406	0.3
	MLPD						186	0.1	0.2
Informal votes				1,860			1,842
Total valid votes				126,065			126,083
Turnout				127,925	63.7	11.1
	CDU hold		Majority	16,749	2.5	1.1

References

1. "Constituency Jena – Sömmerda – Weimarer Land I". Federal Returning Officer.
2. "Results for Jena – Sömmerda – Weimarer Land I". Federal Returning Officer.
3. Results for Jena – Sömmerda – Weimarer Land I
4. Results for Jena – Sömmerda – Weimarer Land I
5. Results for Kyffhäuserkreis – Sömmerda – Weimarer Land I
6. Results for Kyffhäuserkreis – Sömmerda – Weimarer Land I