Plön – Neumünster is an electoral constituency (

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: ''Wahlkreis'') represented in the

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. It elects one member via

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. Under the current constituency numbering system, it is designated as constituency 6. It is located in central eastern

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, comprising the

Plön Plön (; ) is the district seat of the Plön district in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, and has about 8,700 inhabitants. It lies right on the shores of Schleswig-Holstein's biggest lake, the Great Plön Lake, as well as on several smaller lakes, ...

district, the urban district of

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and part of the

Segeberg Segeberg (; ) is a district in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is bounded by (from the southwest and clockwise) the districts of Pinneberg, Steinburg and Rendsburg-Eckernförde, the city of Neumünster, the districts of Plön, Ostholstein and St ...

district. Plön – Neumünster was created for the 1976 federal election. From 2021 to 2025, it has been represented by

Kristian Klinck Kristian Klinck (born 19 April 1979) is a German teacher and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who was the member of the Bundestag for Plön – Neumünster since the 2021 German federal election. Political career Klinck became a ...

of the

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(SPD). Since 2025 it is represented by

Sandra Carstensen Sandra Carstensen (née Thomsen; born 1971) is a German politician from the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). In the 2025 federal election, she ran in the Plön – Neumünster federal constituency and won with 32.7% of the first vote and entere ...

of the CDU.

Geography

Plön – Neumünster is located in central eastern

. As of the 2021 federal election, it comprises the entirety of the district of Plön and the urban district of Neumünster, as well as the

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Boostedt-Rickling Boostedt-Rickling is an '' Amt'' ("collective municipality") in the district of Segeberg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. The seat of the ''Amt'' is in Boostedt. Before 1 January 2008, when Boostedt joined, the ''Amt'' was named Rickling, and the mu ...

from the Segeberg district.

History

Plön – Neumünster was created in 1976 and contained parts of the abolished constituencies of ''Rendsburg – Neumünster'' and ''Plön''. Originally, it comprised only the district of Plön and the urban district of Neumünster. In the 2002 election, the Amt of Boostedt-Rickling was transferred to Plön – Neumünster from the ''Segeberg – Stormarn-Nord'' constituency.

Members

The constituency has frequently changed hands since its creation in 1976. It was first held by the Social Democratic Party (SPD) from 1976 until 1983, during which time it was represented by Horst Jungmann. It was then won by the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), and represented by

Karl Eigen Karl Eigen (3 November 1927 – 13 May 2016) was a German farmer and politician for the Christian Democratic Union. From 1962 until 1969, he served as a member of the municipal council of Stockelsdorf. He went on to serve as a member of the Bund ...

for a single term. Former SPD member Jungmann regained it for a single term in 1987. The CDU's

Helmut Lamp Helmut Lamp (born 3 July 1946) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and former member of the German Bundestag The Bundestag (, "Federal Diet (assembly), Diet") is the lower house of the Germany, German Federalism ...

won in 1990, but it again returned to the SPD in 1998. From then until 2009, it was represented by

Michael Bürsch Michael Peter Karsten Bürsch (3 June 1942 – 9 December 2012) was a German politician and member of the SPD The Social Democratic Party of Germany ( , SPD ) is a social democratic political party in Germany. It is one of the major part ...

Philipp Murmann Philipp Murmann (born 15 May 1964, in Kiel) is a German businessman and politician. He is a member of the CDU party. Murmann is also federal treasurer of the CDU and thus a federal board member of the party. Between 2009 and 2017, he was an MP of ...

of the CDU won the constituency in 2009, and was re-elected in 2013. He was succeeded by party fellow Melanie Bernstein in 2017, who was defeated by the SPD's Kristian Klinck in 2021.

Election results

2025 election

2021 election

2017 election

2013 election

2009 election

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Plön-Neumünster Federal electoral districts in Schleswig-Holstein 1976 establishments in West Germany Constituencies established in 1976