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Homburg is one of the 299 single member constituencies used for the German parliament, the Bundestag. One of four districts covering the state of Saarland, it covers the county of Saarpfalz-Kreis, the town of Neunkirchen, the municipality of Friedrichsthal and the towns of Quierschied and Spiesen-Elversberg.
The constituency was created for the 1976 election, replacing the former St. Ingbert constituency. It was held by the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) until the 2009 election, when the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) candidate Alexander Funk gained it. He secured another narrow victory in the 2013 election.
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When first created, the Homburg constituency consisted of the county of Saarpfalz-Kreis and the towns of Neunkirchen and Spiesen-Elversberg. Saarland, like all German regions, had its representation in the Bundestag reduced for the 2002 election as part of an overall reduction of constituencies. As a result, Homburg expanded to include Friedrichsthal and Quierschied, which had been part of the abolished Saarbrücken II constituency.