The Hessian CDU top candidate for the federal election, Helge Braun, has lost the fight for the direct mandate in the constituency of Giessen.

According to the preliminary final result, the head of the Chancellery received 29.6 percent of the first votes on Sunday and was thus narrowly defeated by his SPD opponent Felix Döring, who got 30.4 percent.

In the previous election in 2017, Braun had won the direct mandate in the constituency.

He coordinated the corona policy for Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Amthor without a direct mandate

The CDU MP Philipp Amthor in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania also lost his constituency.

20.7 percent of the voters gave Amthor their first vote.

He ended up only in third place behind Erik von Malottki (SPD, 24.8 percent) and Enrico Komning (AfD, 24.3 percent),

In 2017, the then 24-year-old Amthor won the direct mandate with 31.2 percent.

That year he was the top candidate of the CDU in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in the federal election.

Thus, Amthor will most likely still move into the Bundestag.

The SPD won the constituency Mecklenburgische Seenplatte 1 - Vorpommern-Greifswald II for the first time.

Economics Minister Peter Altmaier in Saarland has also lost his direct mandate.

Altmaier lost the election in the Saarlois constituency against Foreign Minister Heiko Maas.

According to the provisional final result of the constituency, Maas got 36.7 percent of the vote, Altmaier 28.0, as the state returning officer announced on Sunday evening.

It was the only nationwide duel between two federal ministers for a direct mandate for the Bundestag.

Klöckner loses in her constituency

In the 2017 federal election it was the other way around: At that time, Altmaier left the field as the winner.

Maas (55) had moved into the Bundestag via the SPD state list.

Both Maas and Altmaier are native to the district.

Altmaier won the direct mandate in the constituency in 2009, 2013 and 2017 for the CDU.

Defense Minister Kramp-Karrenbauer, in turn, lost her constituency in Saarbrücken.

With 25.1 percent of the vote, she had to admit defeat to Josephine Ortleb of the SPD (36.9 percent).

Kramp-Karrenbauer wanted to recapture the direct mandate in the Saarbrücken constituency for the CDU after it went to the SPD in 2017.

"AKK", as it is called not only in Saarland, does not currently have a mandate in the Bundestag.

Kramp-Karrenbauer can still move into the Bundestag via the state list.

She is number one.

A place behind it is Minister of Economic Affairs Altmaier, who can also hope for entry into the Bundestag.

Agriculture Minister Julia Klöckner is also a victim of the historically poor result of the Union.

In the constituency of Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate, Joe Weingarten had 33 percent of the vote, ahead of Klöckner with 29.1 percent.

Weingarten entered the Bundestag in 2019 as the successor to Andrea Nahles.

Klöckner won the constituency - to which her hometown Bad Kreuznach belongs - in 2005 and 2009.

In 2013 and 2017 Antje Lezius was able to get the direct mandate for the CDU.