Michael Kießling from Landsberg defends his direct mandate in the constituency of Starnberg, Landsberg, Germering and remains a member of the CSU Bundestag in Berlin for another legislative period. The Greens achieve a result in the Starnberg district that is well above the national average, while the SPD candidate Carmen Wegge remains far below – and could still move into parliament. And the AfD would have to fear moving into the Bundestag if it were only up to the voters in the Starnberg district.
In his constituency, Kießling received 38.2 percent of the first votes and the CSU received 32.1 percent of the votes cast in the second. The Greens came second in terms of numbers. Direct candidate Martina Neubauer from Starnberg got 19.9 percent, with the second votes it was 18.1 percent.
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Despite her poor personal results, the SPD candidate Wegge from Munich, who started in 20th place on the list, expects a mandate in the Bundestag. The nationwide good performance of your party could be enough. But that wasn’t certain late in the evening. Other direct candidates such as Britta Hundesrügge from Gauting from the FDP, who was in 18th place on the state list, and Martina Neubauer had to come to terms on Sunday with the fact that it would probably not be enough for them to enter the Bundestag.
Michael Kießling (CSU), 38.2%: “I am very satisfied with my election result and I am happy about the confidence of the voters. For the CSU I would have wished for a slightly better result overall, but my personal result shows that I have been actively involved in the constituency over the past four years . The election campaign in pandemic mode was challenging because you didn’t come into direct contact with the people. In the end, it will be up to the Red and Green to form a government with whom they want to form a coalition. I can only agree with what Söder once said: “I don’t feel like opposition” https://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/starnberg/. “
Image: Franz Xaver Fuchs
Martina Neubauer (Greens), 19.9%: “I think the result is great. My candidacy wasn’t about me as a person, but about getting a strong green result. And as long as I’m not below the Green federal result, I am not disappointed that I have the direct mandate here didn’t win in the constituency, I wouldn’t have expected that either. The Greens have almost doubled their approval ratings nationwide and are now clearly formulating a government claim. In April things looked different for us, of course, but if we succeed in the government being involved, I’ve achieved my goal. “
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Carmen Wegge (SPD), 13.4%: “A year ago I would not have thought that I could possibly move into the Bundestag in 20th place on the list. But the SPD federal result is so positive that it could work. But I don’t want to be happy too soon. That also depends on them Election results in Munich and Nuremberg: If the SPD gets direct mandates there, it will be tight for me. An alliance of red-red-green does not seem possible at the moment, if necessary I could also live with a traffic light coalition. The election evening was one Shivering game for me, but I would find it fatal if Armin Laschet becomes Chancellor. “
Image: Nila Thiel
Britta Hundesrügge (FDP), 9.2%: “With 18th place on the list, I didn’t have a promising starting position to move into the Bundestag from the start, but I just really enjoy campaigning. When we were at around 13 percent nationwide in the past few weeks, I might have had a chance. After all, I’m probably above the FDP federal result. That is better than four years ago, but it’s a shame I would have liked a stronger FDP. In the Starnberg area, we Liberals are always three to four percentage points above the federal result, because the people here appreciate liberal values. “
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Rainer Gross (AfD), 6.0%: “It could have been worse. The result was to be expected. In the Starnberg district we simply don’t have any more potential. In addition, the FDP campaign cost us votes. They have permanently sold themselves as the Freedom Party, and that has obviously been bought from them.” We first have to get to the middle class with our standpoints. But: We have arrived in the political spectrum, we are not a flash in the pan. In addition, especially in the district, it can be clearly seen that the AfD is weak where the Greens are particularly strong. In Weßling for example or in Tutzing. “
Image: Carmen Voxbrunner
On the evening of the election, a good 20 representatives from the CSU, the Greens, Free Voters and AfD came to the Starnberg district office to follow the results from the polling stations in the communities in the districts of Starnberg and Landsberg as well as in the city of Germering on a large screen. The SPD met in a bar in Germering. A total of almost 226,000 eligible voters were called to cast their votes in constituency 224.
Less than half an hour after the polling stations closed, the first results could be seen on the screen in the meeting room of the Starnberg District Office. The first results were reported from communities in the Landsberg district. A tendency became clear early on. With his first vote result, direct candidate Kießling is way ahead of the result that his party achieved with the second votes. In a district of Finning in the Landsberg district, for example, it reached more than 50 percent. Another effect becomes clear: where the Greens are strong in the Starnberg district, the AfD is weak. The party comes to 6.1 percent in the constituency.
The picture shows election workers in the Schlossberghalle counting the postal vote.
(Photo: Nila Thiel)
He could be very satisfied with his election result, says CSU candidate Kießling, although this time it was worse than four years earlier, when he still came to 42 percent. And District Administrator Stefan Frey (CSU) also explains: “I’m very satisfied with the result in the district.” He attributes the result primarily to the level of awareness of the candidate Kießling and the fact that Starnberg is a “bourgeois district”.
According to the preliminary result, Kießling achieved a particularly good result in the municipality of Berg, where it came to 44.3 percent. For the Greens, the municipality of Weßling again proved to be a stronghold, where they came to 24.9 percent, the direct candidate even to 29.1 percent. The SPD performed best in Gilching with 17.3 percent, worst in Berg with 11.5 percent. The 47-year-old MP Kießling has already passed a legislative period in Berlin. The graduate civil engineer and former mayor of Denklingen wants to continue to deal with the subject of construction as a member of parliament, he announced.