Not winning their own constituency, but still being represented in the new Bundestag: This applies to 28 applicants from the Hessian parties.

Probably the most prominent example is Chancellery Minister Helge Braun (CDU) from Gießen, who was unable to defend the direct mandate he had previously won three times and who lost it to a very inexperienced local SPD politician.

A look at the list of the Federal Returning Officer also shows that the Frankfurt CDU will no longer have a member of the Bundestag for the next four years.

Because the constituencies went to Armand Zorn from the SPD and Omid Nouripour from the Greens - a historic success for this party.

Thorsten Winter

Business editor and internet coordinator in the Rhein-Main-Zeitung.

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The Greens are also the ones in Hesse who can send most of the representatives to the future parliament in Berlin via the state list.

There are eight in number: Among them are the health politician Kordula Schulz-Asche from the Main-Taunus and Anna Lührmann from the constituency Rheingau-Taunus / Limburg;

she was previously the youngest member of the Bundestag.

Seven candidates from the FDP made the leap to Berlin via their state list.

This applies, for example, to the country's chief Bettina Stark-Watzinger and the Frankfurt party chairman Thorsten Lieb.

Jürgen Lenders, previously a member of the state parliament, will also sit in the Bundestag in the future.

The same applies to five representatives of the AfD Hessen.

In addition to top candidate Mariana Harder-Kühnel, the former Frankfurt treasurer Albrecht Glaser, once a CDU member, made it into parliament.

Joana Cotar from Central Hesse succeeds in moving back in.

The Union also has a quintet on the state list.

In addition to Braun, Katja Leikert is moving back into the Bundestag;

she has lost her direct mandate in Hanau against the SPD man Lennard Oehl.

The Left sends the previous member of the state parliament and parliamentary group leader Janine Wissler, who is now also co-chair at the federal level, and Ali Al-Dailami.

Only one candidate from the SPD made it indirectly into the new parliament.

This is Kaweh Mansoori from Frankfurt.

However, the party can certainly live with this finding.

Because she not only placed her two Frankfurt applicants in the Bundestag, but above all got 14 direct mandates.

Half as many belong to the CDU.