| 43: Cottbus I | |
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| Electoral district for the Landtag of Brandenburg | |
Cottbus I in 2024 | |
| District | Cottbus |
| Electorate | 39,327 (2024) |
| Major settlements | Cottbus (partial) |
| Current electoral district | |
| Created | 1994 |
| Party | AfD |
| Member | Jean-Pascal Hohm |
Cottbus I is an electoral constituency (German: Wahlkreis) represented in the Landtag of Brandenburg. It elects one member via first-past-the-post voting. Under the constituency numbering system, it is designated as constituency 43. It is located in within the city of Cottbus.
The constituency includes the districts of Branitz, Dissenchen, Döbbrick, Merzdorf, Mitte, Sandow, Saspow, Schmellwitz, Sielow, Skadow, and Willmersdorf within the city of Cottbus.
There were 39,327 eligible voters in 2024.
| Election | Member | Party | % | |
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| 2004 | Martina Münch | SPD | 31.3 | |
| 2009 | 31.6 | |||
| 2014 | Michael Schierack | CDU | 37.6 | |
| 2019 | Marianne Spring-Räumschüssel | AfD | 25.9 | |
| 2024 | Jean-Pascal Hohm | 34.6 | ||
| State election (2024): Cottbus I | |||||||||
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| Notes: |
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
| AfD | Jean-Pascal Hohm | 9,653 | 34.6 | 8,921 | 31.8 | ||||
| SPD | Gunnar Kurth | 9,362 | 33.6 | 9,075 | 32.3 | ||||
| BSW | 3,851 | 13.7 | |||||||
| CDU | Michael Schierack | 4,509 | 16.2 | 2,858 | 10.2 | ||||
| Left | Christopher Neumann | 1,121 | 4.0 | 756 | 2.7 | ||||
| Tierschutzpartei | 457 | 1.6 | |||||||
| BVB/FW | Torsten Kaps | 1,118 | 4.0 | 442 | 1.6 | ||||
| Demokraten BB | Peter-Alexander Mai | 800 | 2.9 | ||||||
| Plus | Martin Franke | 417 | 1.5 | 275 | 1.0 | ||||
| Greens | Doris Tuchan | 413 | 1.5 | 910 | 3.2 | ||||
| FDP | Oliver Grund | 369 | 1.3 | 201 | 0.7 | ||||
| Values | 143 | 0.5 | |||||||
| DLW | 76 | 0.3 | |||||||
| Third Way | 47 | 0.2 | |||||||
| DKP | Fabian Große | 138 | 0.5 | 41 | 0.1 | ||||
| Informal votes | 338 | 185 | |||||||
| Total valid votes | 27,900 | 28,053 | |||||||
| Turnout | 28,238 | 71.8 | |||||||
| AfD hold | Majority | 291 | 1.0 | ||||||
| State election (2019): Cottbus I | |||||||||
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| Notes: |
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
| AfD | Marianne Spring-Räumschüssel | 6,481 | 25.9 | 6,753 | 26.9 | ||||
| SPD | Martina Münch | 5,499 | 21.9 | 6,029 | 24.0 | ||||
| CDU | 5,275 | 21.1 | 3,955 | 15.7 | |||||
| Left | Matthias Loehr | 3,040 | 12.1 | 2,723 | 10.8 | ||||
| Greens | Heide Schinowsky | 1,850 | 7.4 | 2,156 | 8.6 | ||||
| BVB/FW | Heiko Selka | 1,545 | 6.2 | 1,012 | 4.0 | ||||
| FDP | Bastian Garnitz | 1,227 | 4.9 | 1,432 | 5.7 | ||||
| Tierschutzpartei | 603 | 2.4 | |||||||
| Pirates | 234 | 0.9 | |||||||
| ÖDP | 143 | 0.6 | |||||||
| German Communist Party | Gisela Vierrath | 136 | 0.5 | ||||||
| V-Partei3 | 75 | 0.3 | |||||||
| Informal votes | 353 | 291 | |||||||
| Total valid votes | 25,053 | 25,115 | |||||||
| Turnout | 25,406 | 62.0 | |||||||
| AfD gain from CDU | Majority | 982 | 4.0 | ||||||
| State election (2014): Cottbus I | |||||||||
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| Notes: |
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
| CDU | Michael Schierack | 7,697 | 37.6 | 6,065 | 29.4 | ||||
| SPD | 5,957 | 29.1 | 6,328 | 30.7 | |||||
| Left | Christopher Neumann | 3,988 | 19.5 | 3,586 | 17.4 | ||||
| AfD | 2,214 | 10.7 | |||||||
| BVB/FW | Frank Pilzecker | 920 | 4.5 | 325 | 1.6 | ||||
| Greens | Heide Schinowsky | 834 | 4.1 | 985 | 4.8 | ||||
| Die PARTEI | Lutz Häschel | 753 | 3.7 | ||||||
| Pirates | 389 | 1.9 | |||||||
| NPD | 382 | 1.9 | |||||||
| FDP | Bastian Garnitz | 321 | 1.6 | 251 | 1.2 | ||||
| DKP | 85 | 0.4 | |||||||
| REP | 26 | 0.1 | |||||||
| Informal votes | 661 | 495 | |||||||
| Total valid votes | 20,470 | 20,636 | |||||||
| Turnout | 21,131 | 49.6 | |||||||
| CDU gain from SPD | Majority | 1,740 | 8.5 | ||||||
| State election (2009): Cottbus I | |||||||||
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| Notes: |
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
| SPD | 8,310 | 31.6 | 8,705 | 32.9 | |||||
| Left | Matthias Loehr | 7,624 | 29.0 | 7,589 | 28.7 | ||||
| CDU | Michael Schierack | 6,205 | 23.6 | 5,089 | 19.3 | ||||
| FDP | Jens Lipsdorf | 1,358 | 5.2 | 1,731 | 6.5 | ||||
| Greens | Heide Schinowsky | 1,148 | 4.4 | 1,484 | 5.6 | ||||
| NPD | Frank Maik Hübner | 735 | 2.8 | 707 | 2.7 | ||||
| BVB/FW | Torsten Kaps | 675 | 2.6 | 562 | 2.1 | ||||
| Independent | Lutz Häschel | 234 | 0.9 | ||||||
| DVU | 191 | 0.7 | |||||||
| RRP | 116 | 0.4 | |||||||
| 50Plus | 109 | 0.4 | |||||||
| DKP | 58 | 0.2 | |||||||
| Die-Volksinitiative | 48 | 0.2 | |||||||
| REP | 44 | 0.2 | |||||||
| Informal votes | 772 | 628 | |||||||
| Total valid votes | 26,289 | 26,433 | |||||||
| Turnout | 27,061 | 63.2 | |||||||
| SPD hold | Majority | 686 | 2.6 | ||||||
| State election (2004): Cottbus I | |||||||||
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| Notes: |
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
| SPD | Martina Münch | 7,233 | 31.29 | 7,848 | 33.78 | ||||
| PDS | Matthias Loehr | 7,162 | 30.98 | 6,674 | 28.72 | ||||
| CDU | Wolfgang Bialas | 4,935 | 21.35 | 4,131 | 17.78 | ||||
| DVU | 1,208 | 5.20 | |||||||
| AUB-Brandenburg | Torsten Kaps | 1,171 | 5.07 | 612 | 2.63 | ||||
| FDP | Martin Neumann | 1,038 | 4.49 | 741 | 3.19 | ||||
| Greens | Vivien Speck | 761 | 3.29 | 841 | 3.62 | ||||
| Familie | 441 | 1.90 | |||||||
| AfW (Free Voters) | Marianne Spring | 552 | 2.39 | 263 | 1.13 | ||||
| 50Plus | 162 | 0.70 | |||||||
| Gray Panthers | 145 | 0.62 | |||||||
| Schill | Josef Lenden | 266 | 1.15 | 45 | 0.19 | ||||
| Yes Brandenburg | 45 | 0.19 | |||||||
| DKP | 41 | 0.18 | |||||||
| BRB | 38 | 0.16 | |||||||
| Informal votes | 408 | 291 | |||||||
| Total valid votes | 23,118 | 23,235 | |||||||
| Turnout | 23,526 | 52.93 | |||||||
| SPD win new seat | Majority | 71 | 0.31 | ||||||