Fürth (electoral district)

242 Fürth
242 Fürth
Electoral district; for the Bundestag
	Fürth in 2025
State	Bavaria
Population	340,100 (2019)
Electorate	250,730 (2021)
Major settlements	Fürth; Zirndorf; Oberasbach
Area	1,638.5 km2
Current electoral district
Created	1965
Party	CSU
Member	Tobias Winkler
Elected	2021

Fürth 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 242. It is located in northwestern Bavaria, comprising the city of Fürth and the districts of Landkreis Fürth and Neustadt (Aisch)-Bad Windsheim.^[1]

Fürth was created for the 1965 federal election. Since 2021, it has been represented by Tobias Winkler of the Christian Social Union (CSU).^[2]

Geography

Fürth is located in northwestern Bavaria. As of the 2021 federal election, it comprises the independent city of Fürth, the district of Landkreis Fürth, and the Neustadt (Aisch)-Bad Windsheim district excluding the Verwaltungsgemeinschaft of Uehlfeld.^[1]

History

Fürth was created in 1965. In the 1965 through 1998 elections, it was constituency 229 in the numbering system. In the 2002 and 2005 elections, it was number 244. In the 2009 through 2021 elections, it was number 243. From the 2025 election, it has been number 242.

Originally, the constituency comprised the independent city of Fürth and the districts of Landkreis Fürth, Neustadt an der Aisch, and Scheinfeld. In the 1976 through 1987 elections, it comprised the city of Fürth and the districts of Landkreis Fürth and Neustadt (Aisch)-Bad Windsheim, as well as the municipalities of Aurachtal and Herzogenaurach from the district of Erlangen-Höchstadt. In the 1990 election, it lost the municipalities from the Erlangen-Höchstadt district. In the 2021 election, it lost the Verwaltungsgemeinschaft of Uehlfeld from the Neustadt (Aisch)-Bad Windsheim district.

Election	No.	Name	Borders
1965	229	Fürth	Fürth city Landkreis Fürth district Neustadt an der Aisch district Scheinfeld district
1969
1972
1976			Fürth city Landkreis Fürth district Neustadt (Aisch)-Bad Windsheim district Erlangen-Höchstadt (only Aurachtal and Herzogenaurach municipalities)
1980
1983
1987
1990			Fürth city Landkreis Fürth district Neustadt (Aisch)-Bad Windsheim district
1994
1998
2002	244
2005	244
2009	243
2013
2017
2021			Fürth city Landkreis Fürth district Neustadt (Aisch)-Bad Windsheim district (excluding Uehlfeld Verwaltungsgemeinschaft)
2025	242

Members

The constituency has been held by the Christian Social Union (CSU) during all but one Bundestag term since its creation. It was first represented by Werner Dollinger of the CSU from 1965 to 1972, when it was won by Horst Haase [de] of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) for one term. Dollinger regained it in 1976 and served until 1990. Christian Schmidt was representative from 1990 to 2021, a total of eight consecutive terms. He was succeeded by Tobias Winkler in 2021.

	Member	Party	%
1965	Werner Dollinger	CSU	52.5
1969	Werner Dollinger	CSU	48.6
1972	Horst Haase [de]	SPD	47.4
1976	Werner Dollinger	CSU	52.1
1980			51.6
1983			58.0
1987			51.5
1990	Christian Schmidt	CSU	47.9
1994			49.7
1998			46.9
2002			53.5
2005			49.0
2009			43.3
2013			49.2
2017			39.9
2021	Tobias Winkler	CSU	33.5

Election results

2021 election

Federal election (2021): Fürth^[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	%	±%
	CSU	Tobias Winkler		65,876	33.5	6.2	58,976	29.9	5.1
	SPD	Carsten Träger		47,153	24.0	1.0	42,329	21.5	2.6
	Greens	Uwe Kekeritz		27,111	13.8	4.1	29,778	15.1	4.7
	AfD	Thomas Klaukien		16,858	8.6	2.0	17,692	9.0	2.7
	FDP	Daniel Bayer		12,883	6.6	1.2	18,765	9.5	0.6
	FW	Stefan Mielchen		10,340	5.3	0.9	9,669	4.9	2.3
	Left	Hermann Ruttmann		6,221	3.2	3.6	6,946	3.5	4.3
	dieBasis	Katrin Reber		3,750	1.9		3,369	1.7
	Human Environment Animal Protection						2,463	1.3	0.2
	PARTEI	Catalina Walther		3,090	1.6		1,661	0.8	0.0
	ÖDP	Klaus John		1,685	0.9		1,002	0.5	0.1
	Pirates						826	0.4	0.0
	Team Todenhöfer						711	0.4
	Volt	Andreas S. Schmidtell		611	0.3		464	0.2
	BP	Fatimah Brendecke		507	0.3	0.2	443	0.2	0.1
	Unabhängige						356	0.2
	Humanists	Stephan Wiedenmann		416	0.2		291	0.1
	Gesundheitsforschung						238	0.1	0.0
	V-Partei3						215	0.1	0.1
	Bündnis C						208	0.1
	NPD						180	0.1	0.2
	The III. Path						129	0.1
	du.						100	0.1
	DKP						62	0.0	0.0
	MLPD						43	0.0	0.0
	LKR						27	0.0
Informal votes				1,438			996
Total valid votes				196,501			196,943
Turnout				197,939	78.9	1.2
	CSU hold		Majority	18,723	9.5	7.2

2017 election

Federal election (2017): Fürth^[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	%	±%
	CSU	Y Christian Schmidt		78,559	39.9	9.3	69,472	35.2	7.6
	SPD	Carsten Träger^[a]		45,055	22.9	4.2	37,089	18.8	6.4
	AfD	Arno Treiber		20,968	10.6	7.5	23,033	11.7	7.2
	Greens	Uwe Kekeritz		19,088	9.7	1.4	20,540	10.4	1.3
	Left	Niklas Haupt		13,311	6.8	2.5	15,442	7.8	2.8
	FDP	Franz Martin Fleischer		10,618	5.4	3.6	17,545	8.9	4.2
	FW	Elke Eder		8,619	4.4	2.2	5,169	2.6	0.2
	Human Environment Animal Protection						2,110	1.1	0.3
	PARTEI						1,750	0.9
	ÖDP						1,258	0.6	0.1
	Pirates						861	0.4	1.9
	NPD						676	0.3	0.6
	BP	Fatimah Brendecke		809	0.4		630	0.3	0.1
	DiB						369	0.2
	V-Partei³						363	0.2
	DM						334	0.2
	Gesundheitsforschung						324	0.2
	BGE						262	0.1
	MLPD						50	0.0	0.0
	DKP						46	0.0
	BüSo						21	0.0	0.0
Informal votes				1,715			1,398
Total valid votes				197,027			197,344
Turnout				198,742	77.8	7.5
	CSU hold		Majority	33,504	17.0	5.1

2013 election

Federal election (2013): Fürth^[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	%	±%
	CSU	Y Christian Schmidt		86,997	49.2	5.9	75,595	42.8	7.1
	SPD	Carsten Träger		47,936	27.1	2.0	44,485	25.2	3.9
	Greens	Uwe Kekeritz		14,595	8.3	1.4	16,126	9.1	2.3
	Left	Anny Heike		7,524	4.3	3.5	8,816	5.0	3.3
	AfD	Werner Wolfgang Thiele		5,588	3.2		7,824	4.4
	Pirates	Hilmar Vogel		4,792	2.7	0.4	4,148	2.3	0.5
	FW	Joachim Fulde		3,924	2.2		4,335	2.5
	FDP	Franz Martin Fleischer		3,239	1.8	6.8	8,251	4.7	9.4
	NPD	Richard Vahlber		2,246	1.3	0.7	1,739	1.0	0.5
	ÖDP						1,374	0.8	0.1
	Human Environment Animal Protection						1,338	0.8	0.0
	REP						887	0.5	0.2
	BP						772	0.4	0.2
	DIE FRAUEN						305	0.2
	Party of Reason						217	0.1
	DIE VIOLETTEN						185	0.1	0.1
	PRO						132	0.1
	RRP						78	0.0	0.9
	MLPD						70	0.0	0.0
	BüSo						30	0.0	0.0
Informal votes				1,370			1,504
Total valid votes				176,841			176,707
Turnout				178,211	70.3	1.8
	CSU hold		Majority	39,061	22.1	3.9

2009 election

Federal election (2009): Fürth^[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	%	±%
	CSU	Y Christian Schmidt		76,897	43.3	5.7	63,392	35.6	6.6
	SPD	Marlene Rupprecht		44,505	25.1	9.5	37,820	21.3	10.9
	Greens	Uwe Kekeritz		17,109	9.6	4.1	20,314	11.4	3.4
	FDP	Agnes Meier		15,361	8.7	4.5	24,978	14.0	5.4
	Left	Anny Heike		13,798	7.8	3.6	14,667	8.2	4.1
	Pirates	Alexander Wunschik		4,166	2.3		5,035	2.8
	NPD	Richard Vahlberg		3,551	2.0	0.4	2,714	1.5	0.3
	Freie Union	Bastian Saffer		2,042	1.2
	ÖDP						1,610	0.9
	RRP						1,604	0.9
	FAMILIE						1,512	0.8	0.1
	Human Environment Animal Protection						1,355	0.8
	REP						1,251	0.7	0.2
	BP						492	0.3	0.1
	PBC						393	0.2	0.2
	DIE VIOLETTEN						364	0.2
	CM						142	0.1
	DVU						136	0.1
	BüSo						66	0.0	0.0
	MLPD						66	0.0	0.0
Informal votes				2,512			2,030
Total valid votes				177,429			177,911
Turnout				179,941	72.1	5.5
	CSU hold		Majority	32,392	18.2	3.8

Notes

^ Träger entered the Bundestag on the SPD list after the death of Ewald Schurer in December 2017.

References

^ ^a ^b "Constituency Fürth". Federal Returning Officer.
^ "Results for Fürth". Federal Returning Officer.
^ Results for Fürth
^ Results for Fürth
^ Results for Fürth
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[5] Träger entered the Bundestag on the SPD list after the death of Ewald Schurer in December 2017.

[Area-1] "Constituency Fürth". Federal Returning Officer.

[2] "Results for Fürth". Federal Returning Officer.

[3] Results for Fürth

[4] Results for Fürth

[6] Results for Fürth

[7] Results for Fürth

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242 Fürth
Electoral district for the Bundestag
Fürth in 2025
State	Bavaria
Population	340,100 (2019)
Electorate	250,730 (2021)
Major settlements	Fürth Zirndorf Oberasbach
Area	1,638.5 km²
Current electoral district
Created	1965
Party	CSU
Member	Tobias Winkler
Elected	2021