Rheingau-Taunus – Limburg


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 and Waldbrunn. The constituency elects one representative under the mixed member proportional representation 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. The current representative is Klaus-Peter Willsch, who was first elected at the 1998 general election.

2013 election

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List of district representatives