2019, and the results were as follows: ! colspan=2| Party ! Lead candidate ! Votes ! % ! +/- ! Seats ! +/- |- | bgcolor=| | align=left| Social Democratic Party (SPD) | align=left| Matthias Hey | 15,804 | 30.4 | 4.5 | 11 | 2 |- | bgcolor=| | align=left| Alternative for Germany (AfD) | align=left| Klaus-Dietrich von Bülow | 9,343 | 18.0 | New | 6 | New |- | bgcolor=| | align=left| Christian Democratic Union (CDU) | align=left| Maximilian Fliedner | 8,820 | 17.0 | 4.5 | 6 | 2 |- | bgcolor=| | align=left| The Left (Die Linke) | align=left| Bernd Fundheller | 6,722 | 12.9 | 5.3 | 5 | 2 |- | bgcolor=| | align=left| Free Voters / Pirate Party (FWG–Piraten) | align=left| Juliane Pürstinger | 5,874 | 11.3 | 3.0 | 4 | 1 |- | bgcolor=| | align=left| Alliance 90/The Greens (Grüne) | align=left| Felix Maximilian Kalbe | 3,589 | 6.9 | 2.7 | 3 | 2 |- | bgcolor=| | align=left| Free Democratic Party (FDP) | align=left| Martin Helmut Steinbrück | 1,802 | 3.5 | 0.7 | 1 | ±0 |- ! colspan=3| Valid votes ! 17,506 ! 97.5 ! ! ! |- ! colspan=3| Invalid votes ! 448 ! 2.5 ! ! ! |- ! colspan=3| Total ! 17,954 ! 100.0 ! ! 36 ! ±0 |- ! colspan=3| Electorate/voter turnout ! 37,313 ! 48.1 ! 5.0 ! ! |- | colspan=8| Source: Wahlen in Thüringen |} Twin towns – sister cities Gotha is twinned with: Adwa, Ethiopia Gastonia, United States Kielce, Poland Martin, Slovakia Romilly-sur-Seine, France Salzgitter, Germany Notable people See the List of people associated with the town (German Wikipedia) Notes References External links Official website Official website Gotha in pictures Tram in Gotha Gotha (district) Saxe-Coburg and Gotha