252 Augsburg-Land
Electoral district for the Bundestag
Augsburg-Land in 2025
State	Bavaria
Population	331,300 (2019)
Electorate	249,372 (2021)
Major settlements	Friedberg Königsbrunn Gersthofen
Area	1,269.7 km2
Current electoral district
Created	1949
Party	CSU
Member	Hansjörg Durz
Elected	2013, 2017, 2021

Augsburg-Land is an electoral constituency (German: Wahlkreis) represented in the Bundestag. It elects one member via first-past-the-post voting. Under the current constituency numbering system, it is designated as constituency 252. It is located in southwestern Bavaria, comprising most of the Landkreis Augsburg and Aichach-Friedberg districts.^[1]

Augsburg-Land was created for the inaugural 1949 federal election. Since 2013, it has been represented by Hansjörg Durz of the Christian Social Union (CSU).^[2]

Augsburg-Land is located in southwestern Bavaria. As of the 2025 federal election, it comprises most of the Landkreis Augsburg district excluding the municipalities of Fischach, Graben, and Schwabmünchen and the Verwaltungsgemeinschaften of Großaitingen, Langerringen, Lechfeld, and Stauden; as well as the municipalities of Affing, Aichach, Friedberg, Hollenbach, Kissing, Merching, Rehling, and Ried and the Verwaltungsgemeinschaften of Dasing and Mering from the Aichach-Friedberg district.^[1]

Augsburg-Land was created in 1949. In the 1949 election, it was Bavaria constituency 42 in the numbering system. In the 1953 through 1961 elections, it was number 237. In the 1965 through 1998 elections, it was number 239. In the 2002 and 2005 elections, it was number 254. Since the 2009 election, it has been number 253.

Originally, the constituency comprised the districts of Landkreis Augsburg, Friedberg, Krumbach, and Wertingen. In the 1965 through 1972 elections, it lost the Krumbach district while gaining the Schwabmünchen district. In the 1976 through 1994 elections, it comprised the districts of Landkreis Augsburg and Aichach-Friedberg. In the 1998 election, it lost the municipality of Königsbrunn from Landkreis Augsburg as well as the municipality of Inchenhofen and the Verwaltungsgemeinschaften of Kühbach and Pöttmes from the Aichach-Friedberg district. In the 2005 election, it further lost the Verwaltungsgemeinschaft of Aindling. In the 2021 election, it lost the municipality of Altenmünster from Landkreis Augsburg. Ahead of the 2025 election, the constituency was reconfigured to its current boundaries.

The constituency has been held continuously by the Christian Social Union (CSU) since its creation. It was first represented by Josef Oesterle [de] from 1949 to 1961, followed by Walter Althammer from 1961 to 1987. Eduard Oswald was representative from 1987 to 2013. Hansjörg Durz was elected in 2013, and re-elected in 2017 and 2021.

Federal election (2021): Augsburg-Land[3]
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	%	±%
	CSU	Y Hansjörg Durz		82,423	40.6	7.1	67,883	33.3	8.0
	SPD	Heike Heubach		29,435	14.5	0.3	33,405	16.4	3.6
	Greens	Stefan Lindauer		24,806	12.2	4.7	26,207	12.9	4.0
	AfD	Rainer Kraft		19,660	9.7	2.7	19,481	9.6	4.1
	FW	Marina Jakob		19,230	9.5	2.9	16,595	8.1	4.9
	FDP	Matthias Krause		16,032	7.9	1.8	22,301	10.9	0.5
	dieBasis	Alexander Denner		4,693	2.3		4,239	2.1
	Left	Cengiz Tuncer		3,573	1.8	1.9	4,176	2.1	2.9
	Tierschutzpartei						2,250	1.1	0.1
	ÖDP	Thomas Lidl		3,100	1.5	0.4	1,387	0.7	0.3
	PARTEI						1,318	0.6	0.1
	BP						949	0.5	0.3
	Pirates						600	0.3	0.1
	Team Todenhöfer						540	0.3
	Unabhängige						482	0.2
	Volt						432	0.2
	V-Partei3						384	0.2	0.1
	Gesundheitsforschung						245	0.1	0.0
	Bündnis C						181	0.1
	Humanists						160	0.1
	NPD						143	0.1	0.2
	Independent	Sami Baydar		135	0.1
	du.						98	0.0
	The III. Path						81	0.0
	MLPD						46	0.0	0.0
	DKP						43	0.0	0.0
	LKR						41	0.0
Informal votes				1,650			1,070
Total valid votes				203,087			203,667
Turnout				204,737	82.1	2.1
	CSU hold		Majority	52,988	26.1	7.4

Federal election (2017): Augsburg-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	%	±%
	CSU	Y Hansjörg Durz		94,252	47.8	12.8	81,831	41.4	12.3
	SPD	Herbert Woerlein		27,813	14.1	3.6	25,240	12.8	4.5
	AfD	Rainer Kraft		24,279	12.3	7.8	27,045	13.7	8.5
	Greens	Franz Bossek		14,809	7.5	0.6	17,447	8.8	1.6
	FW	Markus Brem		13,080	6.6		6,579	3.3	1.1
	FDP	Karlheinz Faller		11,976	6.1	3.8	20,565	10.4	5.7
	Left	Cengiz Tuncer		7,231	3.7	0.7	9,737	4.9	1.7
	ÖDP	Constanze von Simmelsdorf		3,823	1.9	0.4	1,941	1.0	0.0
	BP						1,494	0.8	0.1
	PARTEI						1,092	0.6
	Pirates						722	0.4	1.4
	NPD						533	0.3	0.5
	V-Partei³						483	0.2
	DM						363	0.2
	Gesundheitsforschung						262	0.1
	DiB						261	0.1
	BGE						239	0.1
	MLPD						46	0.0	0.0
	BüSo						31	0.0	0.0
	DKP						28	0.0
Informal votes				1,814			1,231
Total valid votes				197,263			197,846
Turnout				199,077	80.0	7.8
	CSU hold		Majority	66,439	33.7	9.2

Federal election (2013): Augsburg-Land[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	%	±%
	CSU	Hansjörg Durz		105,841	60.6	7.6	93,973	53.7	7.9
	SPD	Bernd Bante		30,879	17.7	2.0	30,126	17.2	2.7
	Greens	Claudia Eser-Schuberth		12,067	6.9	1.7	12,670	7.2	2.1
	AfD	Hermann Mayer		7,912	4.5		9,040	5.2
	Left	Daniel Böck		5,177	3.0	1.8	5,631	3.2	2.2
	FDP	Johannes Pabst		3,974	2.3	9.3	8,134	4.6	11.1
	FW						3,929	2.2
	Pirates	Hans-Jürgen Rigl		3,550	2.0		3,089	1.8	0.2
	ÖDP	Dieter Nießner		2,665	1.5	0.1	1,784	1.0	0.0
	BP						1,580	0.9	0.0
	Tierschutzpartei						1,384	0.8	0.1
	NPD	Karl-Heinz Kügle		1,840	1.1	0.6	1,279	0.7	0.5
	REP						1,023	0.6	0.4
	DIE FRAUEN						390	0.2
	RRP			734	0.4	1.0	367	0.2	0.9
	DIE VIOLETTEN						221	0.1	0.1
	Party of Reason						168	0.1
	PRO						151	0.1
	MLPD						42	0.0	0.0
	BüSo						29	0.0	0.1
Informal votes				1,600			1,229
Total valid votes				174,639			175,010
Turnout				176,239	72.2	1.4
	CSU hold		Majority	74,962	42.9	5.6

Federal election (2009): Augsburg-Land[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	%	±%
	CSU	Y Eduard Oswald		92,508	53.0	6.9	80,335	45.8	7.1
	SPD	Maria Hackl		27,427	15.7	6.5	25,356	14.5	7.6
	FDP	Erwin Lotter		20,137	11.5	5.8	27,522	15.7	5.6
	Greens	Heidi Rohrlack		15,031	8.6	1.6	16,430	9.4	1.9
	Left	Silvio Heidbüchel		8,264	4.7	2.1	9,425	5.4	2.5
	Pirates						3,399	1.9
	NPD	Karin Hartwig		2,834	1.6	0.2	2,168	1.2	0.0
	ÖDP	Ulrich Hoffmann		2,804	1.6		1,790	1.0
	BP	Karl Schedlbauer		2,552	1.5		1,609	0.9	0.4
	RRP	Manfred Link		2,539	1.5		1,990	1.1
	REP						1,777	1.0	0.2
	Tierschutzpartei						1,208	0.7
	FAMILIE						1,187	0.7	0.0
	DIE VIOLETTEN						405	0.2
	PBC						200	0.1	0.1
	CM						191	0.1
	BüSo	Ralf Heinrich		444	0.3		122	0.1	0.0
	DVU						110	0.1
	MLPD						46	0.0	0.0
Informal votes				2,484			1,754
Total valid votes				174,540			175,270
Turnout				177,024	73.6	7.4
	CSU hold		Majority	65,081	37.3	0.4

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