Pirmasens

Pirmasens 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 210. It is located in southern Rhineland-Palatinate, comprising the cities of Pirmasens and Zweibrücken, the Südwestpfalz district, and the southwestern part of the Landkreis Kaiserslautern district. Pirmasens was created for the inaugural 1949 federal election. Since 2021, it has been represented by Angelika Glöckner of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). Geography Pirmasens is located in southern Rhineland-Palatinate. As of the 2021 federal election, it comprises the independent cities of Pirmasens and Zweibrücken, the district of Südwestpfalz, and the Verbandsgemeinden of Bruchmühlbach-Miesau, Landstuhl, and Ramstein-Miesenbach from the Landkreis Kaiserslautern district. History Pirmasens was created in 1949, then known as Zweibrücken. It acquired its current name in the 1965 election. In the 1949 election, it was Rhineland-Palatinate constituency 14 in the numbering system. In the 1953 through 1961 elections, it was number 161. In the 1965 through 1976 elections, it was number 162. In the 1980 through 1998 elections, it was number 160. In the 2002 election, it was number 213. In the 2005 election, it was number 212. In the 2009 and 2013 elections, it was number 211. Since the 2017 election, it has been number 210.