Leipzig 5

29: Leipzig 5
29: Leipzig 5
Electoral district; for the Landtag of Saxony
	Leipzig 5 in 2024
District	Leipzig
Electorate	60,331 (2024)
Major settlements	City-district West, and city-district Südwest excluding the sub-districts of Schleußig and Plagwitz
Current electoral district
Party	CDU
Member	Andreas Nowak

Leipzig 5 is an electoral constituency (German: Wahlkreis) represented in the Landtag of Saxony. It elects one member via first-past-the-post voting. Under the constituency numbering system, it is designated as constituency 29. It is within the city of Leipzig.^[2]

Geography

The constituency comprises the district of West, and district Südwest excluding the sub-districts of Schleußig and Plagwitz within the City of Leipzig.

There were 60,331 eligible voters in 2024.^[3]

Members

	Member	Party	%
2014	Christine Clauß	CDU	25.2
2019	Christin Melcher	Grüne	29.0
2024	Andreas Nowak	CDU	32.9

Election results

2024 election

State election (2024): Leipzig 5^[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	Andreas Nowak		13,321	32.9	5.1	12,048	29.6	1.2
	AfD	Petra Böhme		11,895	29.4	3.2	11,054	27.2	2.3
	Left	Adam Bednarsky		4,332	10.7	10.7	3,120	7.7	8.0
	BSW	Brunhild Fischer		4,294	10.6		5,287	13.0
	SPD	Sascha Kodytek		2,747	6.8	1.2	3,743	9.2	0.4
	Greens	Rainer Müller		1,951	4.8	3.6	2,314	5.7	3.3
	FW	Matthias Binner		1,233	3.0	0.7	794	2.0	0.7
	APT						531	1.3
	Freie Sachsen						502	1.2
	PARTEI						476	1.2	0.6
	FDP	Ralf-Peter Wirth		749	1.8	2.0	342	0.8	2.4
	Pirates						124	0.3
	BD						102	0.3
	V-Partei3						88	0.2
	dieBasis						68	0.2
	Values						37	0.1
	Bündnis C						36	0.1
	BüSo						21	0.1
	ÖDP						18	0.0
Informal votes				564			381
Total valid votes				40,522			40,705
Turnout				41,086	68.1	16.0
	CDU win new seat		Majority	1,426	3.5

2019 election

State election (2019): Leipzig 5^[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	%	±%
	Greens	Christin Melcher		12,893	29.0	10.3	11,880	26.7	10.6
	CDU	Robert Clemen		9,160	20.6	4.6	10,052	22.6	3.0
	Left	Beate Ehms		8,162	18.4	5.1	7,273	16.4	5.2
	SPD	Dirk Panter		4,749	10.7	6.8	4,822	10.8	7.0
	AfD	Jörg Kühne		4,557	10.3	5.2	4,525	10.2	4.6
	FDP	Michael Pfüller		2,029	4.6	0.8	2,163	4.9	0.9
	PARTEI	Michael Nagy		1,655	3.7		1,331	3.0	1.3
	FW	André Soudah		1,183	2.7	1.1	742	1.7	0.7
	APT						653	1.5	0.2
	ÖDP						230	0.5
	Humanists						206	0.5
	Pirates						184	0.4	2.2
	Verjüngungsforschung						159	0.4
	The Blue Party						70	0.2
	NPD						56	0.1	1.7
	DKP						42	0.1
	PDV						32	0.1
	Awakening of German Patriots - Central Germany						31	0.1
	BüSo						23	0.1	0.1
Informal votes				287			201
Total valid votes				44,388			44,474
Turnout				44,675	70.4	21.1
	Greens gain from CDU		Majority	3,733	8.4

2014 election

State election (2014): Leipzig 5^[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	Christine Clauß		7,151	25.2		7,300	25.6
	Left			6,685	23.5		6,160	21.6
	Greens			5,322	18.7		4,577	16.1
	SPD			4,973	17.5		5,082	17.8
	AfD			1,446	5.1		1,602	5.6
	FDP			1,078	3.8		1,147	4.0
	Pirates			715	2.5		745	2.6
	FW			458	1.6		294	1.0
	NPD			447	1.6		516	1.8
	PARTEI						479	1.7
	APT						471	1.7
	BüSo			149	0.5		66	0.2
	Pro Germany Citizens' Movement						36	0.1
	DSU						21	0.1
Informal votes				315			243
Total valid votes				28,424			28,496
Turnout				28,739	49.3	4.0
	CDU win new seat		Majority	466	1.7

References

↑ "Elected Member for Leipzig 5". Landtag of Saxony. Retrieved 8 January 2026.
↑ "Saxony Electoral Districts". Retrieved 8 January 2026.
↑ "Saxony Electoral Districts". Retrieved 8 January 2026.
↑ https://www.tagesschau.de/wahl/archiv/2024-09-01-LT-DE-SN/charts/wahlkreis-detail/WK029-40.shtml
↑ https://www.wahlen.sachsen.de/landtagswahl-2019-wahlergebnisse.php?_ptabs=%7B%22%23tab-stimmenverteilung%22%3A1%7D&wahlkreis=31
↑ https://wahlen.sachsen.de/landtagswahl-2014-wahlergebnisse.php?_ptabs=%7B%22%23tab-stimmenverteilung%22%3A1%7D&_cp=&wahlkreis=31

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