Mannheim (electoral district)

Location of constituency in Baden-Württemberg

Mannheim is one of the 299 single member constituencies (German: Wahlkreis) used for the German parliament, the Bundestag. The constituency elects one representative under the mixed member proportional representation (MMP) system. Under the current constituency numbering system, it is designated as constituency 158.

One of thirty eight districts covering the state of Baden-Württemberg, it is coterminous with the city of Mannheim.[1] The constituency was created for the 1949 election, the first election in West Germany after World War II. It was held by the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) until the 1994 election, when it was gained by the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). The SPD regained the seat in 1998, but lost it again to the CDU at the 2009 election. The current representative is Egon Jüttner,[2] who had represented the constituency from 1994 to 1998.

Boundaries

The constituency was created as Mannheim-Stadt in 1949, covering the city of Mannheim. At the 1965 election it was reduced in size and renamed Mannheim I. This included most of the city of Mannheim: the city districts of Innenstadt/Jungbusch, Neckarstadt-West, Neckarstadt-Ost/Wohlgelegen, Sandhofen, Schönau, Waldhof, Käfertal, Vogelstang and Schwetzingerstadt/Oststadt, with the southern parts of the city linked with suburban and rural areas in the Mannheim II constituency. Mannheim I expanded for the 1976 election, gaining the city districts of Feudenheim and Wallstadt. It assumed its current name and boundaries for the 2002 election.

Results

2009 election

Party Constituency results List results
Candidate Votes % share +/- Votes % share +/-
Christian Democratic Union Egon Jüttner 48,137 36.5 -0.9 38,435 29.0 -2.0
Social Democratic Party of Germany Stefan Rebmann 39,845 30.2 -15.7 32,627 24.7 -12.5
Alliance '90/The Greens Gerhard Schick 16,648 12.6 +6.8 18,052 13.6 +2.8
The Left Michael Schlecht 12,520 9.5 +3.2 14,936 11.3 +4.7
Free Democratic Party Birgit Reinemund 11,782 8.9 +4.3 19,900 15.0 +5.1
National Democratic Party of Germany Silvio Waldheim 2,418 1.8 N/A 1,772 1.3 -0.0
Marxist–Leninist Party of Germany Josef Buck 333 0.3 N/A 121 0.1 N/A
Pirate Party N/A N/A N/A N/A 3,258 2.5 N/A
Others N/A 311 0.2 N/A 3,257 2.5 N/A

List of district representatives

Turnout and vote share at each election
Election Name Party
1949 Carlo Schmid SPD
1953 Carlo Schmid SPD
1957 Carlo Schmid SPD
1961 Carlo Schmid SPD
1965 Carlo Schmid SPD
1969 Carlo Schmid SPD
1972 Werner Nagel SPD
1976 Werner Nagel SPD
1980 Werner Nagel SPD
1983 Werner Nagel SPD
1987 Werner Nagel SPD
1990 Siegfried Vergin SPD
1994 Egon Jüttner CDU
1998 Lothar Mark SPD
2002 Lothar Mark SPD
2005 Lothar Mark SPD
2009 Egon Jüttner CDU

References

  1. Constituency boundaries, bundeswahlleiter.de, accessed 1 September 2013
  2. 2009 constituency results, bundeswahlleiter.de, accessed 1 September 2013

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