Hof (electoral district)

Location of constituency in Bavaria

Hof is one of the 299 single member constituencies used for the German parliament, the Bundestag. One of forty five districts in Bavaria, it covers the town of Hof, the district of Hof and the Wunsiedel district.

The constituency was created for the 1949 election, the first election in West Germany after World War II. After its creation, most of the early elections in the district were won by the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). However the Christian Social Union (CSU) won the constituency at the 1983 election and, apart from a loss to the SPD at the 1998 election, have held the district since then.

The current representative is Hans-Peter Friedrich of the CSU,[1] a former Federal Minister of the Interior and Federal Minister for food and agriculture.

Results

2013 election

Party Constituency results List results
Candidate Votes % share +/- Votes % share +/-
Christian Social Union Hans-Peter Friedrich 64,888 55.1 +8.6 55,219 46.9 +5.4
Social Democratic Party of Germany Petra Ernstberger 33,731 28.6 +1.4 31,406 26.7 +3.2
Alliance '90/The Greens Elisabeth Scharfenberg 6,449 5.5 -2.0 6,315 5.4 -1.6
The Left Ulrike Dierkes-Morsy 5,264 4.5 -3.6 5,619 4.8 -3.7
Alternative for Germany Hermann Klie 4,168 3.5 N/A 5,109 4.3 N/A
National Democratic Party of Germany Moroni Blankenburg 1,722 1.5 -1.0 1,461 1.2 -0.7
Free Democratic Party Stefan Quehl 1,527 1.3 -6.4 4,418 3.8 -7.5
Free Voters N/A N/A N/A N/A 2,598 2.2 N/A
Pirate Party N/A N/A N/A N/A 2,257 1.9 +0.1
Others N/A N/A N/A N/A 3,235 2.7 N/A

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List of district representatives

Election Name Party
1949 Arno Behrisch SPD
1953 Heinz Starke FDP
1957 Gerhard Wacher CSU
1961 Martin Hirsch SPD
1965 Martin Hirsch SPD
1969 Martin Hirsch SPD
1972 Hans Büchler SPD
1976 Hans Büchler SPD
1980 Hans Büchler SPD
1983 Jürgen Warnke CSU
1987 Jürgen Warnke CSU
1990 Jürgen Warnke CSU
1994 Jürgen Warnke CSU
1998 Petra Ernstberger SPD
2002 Hans-Peter Friedrich CSU
2005 Hans-Peter Friedrich CSU
2009 Hans-Peter Friedrich CSU
2013 Hans-Peter Friedrich CSU

References

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