Rheingau-Taunus – Limburg

Location of constituency in Hesse

Rheingau-Taunus – Limburg is one of the 299 single member constituencies used for the German parliament, the Bundestag. One of twenty two districts covering the state of Hesse, it covers the whole of the county of Rheingau-Taunus. It also includes parts of Limburg-Weilburg county, namely, the cities and municipalities of Bad Camberg, Brechen, Dornburg, Elbtal, Elz, Hadamar, Hünfelden, Limburg, Selters (Taunus) and Waldbrunn (Westerwald).^[1] The constituency elects one representative under the mixed member proportional representation (MMP) system. Under the current constituency numbering system, it is designated as constituency 178.

The constituency was created for the 1949 election, the first election in West Germany after World War II. Originally called Limburg, it assumed its current name for the 1980 election. All elections in the district have been won by the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). The current representative is Klaus-Peter Willsch,^[2] who was first elected at the 1998 general election.

2013 election

Party		Constituency results				List results
Party		Candidate	Votes	% share	+/-	Votes	% share	+/-
	Christian Democratic Union	Klaus-Peter Willsch	84,489	52.1	+6.0	73,599	45.5	+8.2
	Social Democratic Party of Germany	Martin Rabanus	47,152	29.1	+1.4	40,718	25.1	+2.9
	Alliance '90/The Greens	Cornelius Dehm	9,119	5.6	-2.4	13,955	8.6	-1.9
	Alternative for Germany	Claus Manfred Winhard	6,913	4.3	N/A	9,469	5.8	N/A
	The Left	Benno Pörtner	6,300	3.9	-1.7	7,290	4.5	-2.1
	Free Democratic Party	Alexander Müller	3,726	2.3	-8.4	10,139	6.3	-12.4
	Pirate Party	Axel Schwenk	2,869	1.8	N/A	2,884	1.8	-0.2
	National Democratic Party of Germany	Lukas Keiner	1,464	0.9	-0.0	1,476	0.9	-0.0
	Free Voters	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	1,126	0.7	N/A
	Die PARTEI	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	611	0.4	N/A
	Republicans	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	302	0.2	-0.5
	Human Environment Animal Protection	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	1,618	1.1	+0.2
	Others	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	166	0.1	N/A

Source:^[3]

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