Leipzig Land 4

24: Leipzig Land 4
Electoral district for the Landtag of Saxony
Leipzig Land 4 in 2024
District	Leipzig (district)
Electorate	48,205 (2024)
Major settlements	Brandis, Trebsen/Mulde, and Wurzen
Current electoral district
Party	CDU
Member	Kay Ritter

Leipzig Land 4 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 24. It is within the district of Leipzig.

Geography

The constituency comprises the towns of Brandis, Trebsen/Mulde, and Wurzen, and the municipalities of Bennewitz, Borsdorf, Lossatal, Machern, and Thallwitz within the district of Leipzig.

There were 48,205 eligible voters in 2024.

Members

Election		Member	Party	%
	2014	Hannelore Dietzschold	CDU	45.9
	2019	Kay Ritter		32.2
	2024			38.2

Election results

2024 election

State election (2024): Leipzig Land 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	Y Kay Ritter		13,370	38.2	6.0	11,343	32.2	2.8
	AfD	Mike René Opolka		12,304	35.2	6.1	11,268	32.0	3.2
	BSW						3,986	11.3
	FW	Thomas Schumann		3,612	10.3	1.0	2,268	6.4	1.6
	Left	Jens Kretzschmar		2,032	5.8	5.5	899	2.6	6.0
	SPD	Thomas Glaser		2,012	5.8	2.3	2,472	7.0	1.1
	Greens	Thomas Keller		852	2.4	2.5	927	2.6	3.0
	Freie Sachsen	Eric Sallie		427	1.2		847	2.4
	APT						372	1.1
	FDP	Markus Piontek		377	1.1	2.1	260	0.7	2.8
	PARTEI						170	0.5	0.4
	BD						100	0.3
	dieBasis						65	0.2
	Values						63	0.2
	Bündnis C						59	0.2
	Pirates						53	0.2
	V-Partei3						37	0.1
	BüSo						13	0.0
	ÖDP						11	0.0
Informal votes				571			344
Total valid votes				34,986			35,213
Turnout				35,557	73.8	10.4
	CDU hold		Majority	1,066	3.0

2019 election

State election (2019): Leipzig Land 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	Kay Ritter		10,241	32.2	13.7	11,141	35.0	9.7
	AfD	Jens Zaunick		9,226	29.0	19.9	9,180	28.8
	Left	Jens Kretzschmar		3,610	11.4	7.0	2,732	8.6	9.1
	FW	Dieter Dietze		3,585	11.3		1,539	4.8	3.4
	SPD	Birgit Killian		2,547	8.0	4.3	2,581	8.1	3.6
	Greens	Annett Schmidt		1,572	4.9	0.7	1,795	5.6	1.0
	FDP	Sebastian Drews		1,005	3.2	0.5	1,126	3.5	0.2
	APT						558	1.8	0.4
	PARTEI						283	0.9	0.5
	NPD						222	0.7	4.3
	Verjüngungsforschung						206	0.6
	The Blue Party						146	0.5
	Awakening of German Patriots - Central Germany						99	0.3
	Pirates						72	0.2	0.7
	ÖDP						63	0.2
	DKP						33	0.1
	Humanists						32	0.1
	PDV						30	0.1
	BüSo						20	0.1
Informal votes				419			347
Total valid votes				31,786			31,858
Turnout				32,205	65.8	17.5
	CDU hold		Majority	1,015	3.2	24.3

2014 election

State election (2014): Leipzig Land 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	Hannelore Dietzschold		10,874	45.9		10,607	44.7
	Left			4,354	18.4		4,199	17.7
	SPD			2,914	12.3		2,769	11.7
	AfD			2,150	9.1		2,051	8.6
	Greens			1,332	5.6		1,084	4.6
	NPD			1,137	4.8		1,182	5.0
	FDP			650	2.7		794	3.3
	FW						333	1.4
	APT						329	1.4
	Pirates			282	1.2		207	0.9
	PARTEI						90	0.4
	Pro Germany Citizens' Movement						44	0.2
	DSU						36	0.2
	BüSo						27	0.1
Informal votes				460			401
Total valid votes				23,693			23,752
Turnout				24,153	48.3
	CDU win new seat		Majority	6,520	27.5

See also

• Politics of Saxony
• Landtag of Saxony