274 Heidelberg | |
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Electoral district for the Bundestag | |
![]() Heidelberg in 2025 | |
State | Baden-Württemberg |
Population | 324,700 (2019) |
Electorate | 218,431 (2021) |
Major settlements | Heidelberg Weinheim Eppelheim |
Area | 305.6 km2 |
Current electoral district | |
Created | 1949 |
Party | GRÜNE |
Member | Franziska Brantner |
Elected | 2021 |
Heidelberg is an electoral constituency (German: Wahlkreis) represented in the Bundestag. It elects one member via first-past-the-post voting. Under the current constituency numbering system, it is designated as constituency 274. It is located in northwestern Baden-Württemberg, comprising the city of Heidelberg and the northern part of the Rhein-Neckar-Kreis district.[1]
Heidelberg was created for the inaugural 1949 federal election. Since 2021, it has been represented by Franziska Brantner of the Alliance 90/The Greens.[2]
Geography
[edit]Heidelberg is located in northwestern Baden-Württemberg. As of the 2021 federal election, it comprises the independent city of Heidelberg and the municipalities of Dossenheim, Edingen-Neckarhausen, Eppelheim, Heddesheim, Hemsbach, Hirschberg an der Bergstraße, Ilvesheim, Ladenburg, Laudenbach, Schriesheim, and Weinheim from the Rhein-Neckar-Kreis district.[1]
History
[edit]Heidelberg was created in 1949. In the 1965 through 1976 elections, it was named Heidelberg-Stadt. In the 1949 election, it was Württemberg-Baden Landesbezirk Baden constituency 3 in the number system. In the 1953 through 1961 elections, it was number 177. In the 1965 through 1976 elections, it was number 181. In the 1980 through 1998 elections, it was number 178. In the 2002 and 2005 elections, it was number 275. Since the 2009 election, it has been number 274.
Originally, the constituency comprised the independent city of Heidelberg and the Landkreis Heidelberg district. In the 1965 through 1972 elections, it comprised the city of Heidelberg, the Eppelheim municipality from the Landkreis Heidelberg district, and the municipalities of Altlußheim, Brühl, Hockenheim, Ketsch, Neulußheim, Oftersheim, Plankstadt, Reilingen, and Schwetzingen from the Landkreis Mannheim district. In the 1976 through 1998 elections, its borders did not change, but its area from the Landkreis Mannheim and Landkreis Heidelberg districts became part of the Rhein-Neckar-Kreis district. It acquired its current borders in the 2002 election.
Election | No. | Name | Borders |
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1949 | 3 | Heidelberg |
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1953 | 177 | ||
1957 | |||
1961 | |||
1965 | 181 | Heidelberg-Stadt |
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1969 | |||
1972 | |||
1976 |
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1980 | 178 | Heidelberg | |
1983 | |||
1987 | |||
1990 | |||
1994 | |||
1998 | |||
2002 | 275 |
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2005 | |||
2009 | 274 | ||
2013 | |||
2017 | |||
2021 | |||
2025 |
Members
[edit]The constituency was first represented by Eduard Wahl of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) from 1949 to 1969. It was won by Alex Möller of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) in 1969, who served until 1976. Karl Weber of the CDU was elected in 1976, and served one term. Hartmut Soell regained it for the SPD in 1980. Udo Ehrbar of the CDU was representative from 1983 to 1994. Karl A. Lamers of the CDU was elected in 1994 and served one term. Lothar Binding of the SPD was elected in 1998 and re-elected in 2002. Former member Lamers regained the constituency in 2005 and served as representative until 2021. Franziska Brantner won it for the Greens in 2021.
Election | Member | Party | % | |
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1949 | Eduard Wahl | CDU | 36.7 | |
1953 | 48.3 | |||
1957 | 52.6 | |||
1961 | 45.4 | |||
1965 | 47.3 | |||
1969 | Alex Möller | SPD | 45.8 | |
1972 | 49.6 | |||
1976 | Karl Weber | CDU | 48.4 | |
1980 | Hartmut Soell | SPD | 44.9 | |
1983 | Udo Ehrbar | CDU | 48.9 | |
1987 | 43.9 | |||
1990 | 42.8 | |||
1994 | Karl A. Lamers | CDU | 43.2 | |
1998 | Lothar Binding | SPD | 44.5 | |
2002 | 42.9 | |||
2005 | Karl A. Lamers | CDU | 38.7 | |
2009 | 36.1 | |||
2013 | 40.9 | |||
2017 | 32.7 | |||
2021 | Franziska Brantner | GRÜNE | 30.2 |
Election results
[edit]2021 election
[edit]Federal election (2021): Heidelberg[3] | |||||||||
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Notes: |
Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
Greens | Franziska Brantner | 53,288 | 30.2 | ![]() |
45,314 | 25.6 | ![]() | ||
CDU | Alexander Föhr | 42,582 | 24.1 | ![]() |
36,783 | 20.8 | ![]() | ||
SPD | Elisabeth Krämer | 35,602 | 20.2 | ![]() |
40,275 | 22.8 | ![]() | ||
FDP | Dennis Nusser | 15,906 | 9.0 | ![]() |
23,240 | 13.1 | ![]() | ||
AfD | Malte Kaufmann | 10,823 | 6.1 | ![]() |
10,821 | 6.1 | ![]() | ||
Left | Zara Kızıltaş | 6,987 | 4.0 | ![]() |
8,624 | 4.9 | ![]() | ||
dieBasis | Ulrich Becker | 2,976 | 1.7 | 2,466 | 1.4 | ||||
FW | Daniel Brenzel | 2,839 | 1.6 | ![]() |
2,011 | 1.1 | ![]() | ||
Human Environment Animal Protection | 1,761 | 1.0 | ![]() | ||||||
PARTEI | Franziskus Schmitz | 2,151 | 1.2 | ![]() |
1,470 | 0.8 | ![]() | ||
Volt | Verena Willaredt | 1,680 | 1.0 | 1,256 | 0.7 | ||||
KlimalisteBW | Friederike Benjes | 1,070 | 0.6 | ||||||
Team Todenhöfer | 624 | 0.4 | |||||||
Pirates | 486 | 0.3 | ![]() | ||||||
Humanists | Wasilios Vlachopoulos | 592 | 0.3 | 379 | 0.2 | ||||
ÖDP | 367 | 0.2 | ![]() | ||||||
Gesundheitsforschung | 186 | 0.1 | |||||||
Bündnis C | 184 | 0.1 | |||||||
DiB | 161 | 0.1 | ![]() | ||||||
NPD | 114 | 0.1 | ![]() | ||||||
Bürgerbewegung | 97 | 0.1 | |||||||
MLPD | Bernhard Schweigert | 141 | 0.1 | ![]() |
65 | 0.0 | ![]() | ||
Bündnis 21 | 44 | 0.0 | |||||||
DKP | 43 | 0.0 | ![]() | ||||||
LKR | 33 | 0.0 | |||||||
Informal votes | 1,231 | 1,064 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 176,637 | 176,804 | |||||||
Turnout | 177,868 | 81.4 | ![]() |
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Greens gain from CDU | Majority | 10,706 | 6.1 |
2017 election
[edit]Federal election (2017): Heidelberg[4] | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
CDU | ![]() |
58,019 | 32.7 | ![]() |
53,138 | 29.9 | ![]() | ||
SPD | Lothar Binding | 46,219 | 26.0 | ![]() |
32,806 | 18.4 | ![]() | ||
Greens | Franziska Brantner | 29,664 | 16.7 | ![]() |
30,491 | 17.1 | ![]() | ||
AfD | Malte Kaufmann | 15,803 | 8.9 | ![]() |
16,850 | 9.5 | ![]() | ||
FDP | Dennis Nusser | 11,769 | 6.6 | ![]() |
22,556 | 12.7 | ![]() | ||
Left | Sahra Mirow | 10,751 | 6.1 | ![]() |
14,812 | 8.3 | ![]() | ||
PARTEI | Björn Leuzinger | 2,183 | 1.2 | ![]() |
1,780 | 1.0 | |||
Human Environment Animal Protection | 1,151 | 0.6 | ![]() | ||||||
FW | Bernhard Barutta | 1,792 | 1.0 | ![]() |
990 | 0.6 | ![]() | ||
Pirates | Alexander Schestag | 1,174 | 0.7 | ![]() |
734 | 0.4 | ![]() | ||
Tierschutzallianz | 389 | 0.2 | |||||||
DiB | 388 | 0.2 | |||||||
ÖDP | 386 | 0.2 | ![]() | ||||||
NPD | 303 | 0.2 | ![]() | ||||||
BGE | 297 | 0.2 | |||||||
V-Partei³ | 248 | 0.1 | |||||||
DM | 199 | 0.1 | |||||||
Menschliche Welt | 167 | 0.1 | |||||||
MLPD | Bernhard Schweigert | 196 | 0.1 | 83 | 0.0 | ![]() | |||
DKP | 40 | 0.0 | |||||||
DIE RECHTE | 24 | 0.0 | |||||||
Informal votes | 1,568 | 1,306 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 177,570 | 177,832 | |||||||
Turnout | 179,138 | 82.2 | ![]() |
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CDU hold | Majority | 11,800 | 6.7 | ![]() |
2013 election
[edit]Federal election (2013): Heidelberg[5] | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
CDU | ![]() |
68,061 | 40.9 | ![]() |
62,331 | 37.5 | ![]() | ||
SPD | Lothar Binding | 50,850 | 30.6 | ![]() |
38,915 | 23.4 | ![]() | ||
Greens | Franziska Brantner | 20,392 | 12.3 | ![]() |
24,601 | 14.8 | ![]() | ||
AfD | Jens Zeller | 8,143 | 4.9 | 10,219 | 6.1 | ||||
Left | Sahra Mirow | 6,892 | 4.1 | ![]() |
9,413 | 5.7 | ![]() | ||
FDP | Dirk Niebel | 5,180 | 3.1 | ![]() |
11,626 | 7.0 | ![]() | ||
Pirates | Stevan Cirkovic | 3,430 | 2.1 | 4,581 | 2.8 | ![]() | |||
Human Environment Animal Protection | 1,187 | 0.7 | ![]() | ||||||
NPD | Jan Jaeschke | 1,210 | 0.7 | ![]() |
1,136 | 0.7 | ![]() | ||
FW | Kay-Olaf Ballerstädt | 776 | 0.5 | 766 | 0.5 | ||||
PARTEI | Andrej Kilian | 722 | 0.4 | ||||||
ÖDP | Martin Weinmann | 663 | 0.4 | 405 | 0.2 | ![]() | |||
RENTNER | 289 | 0.2 | |||||||
REP | 268 | 0.2 | ![]() | ||||||
Volksabstimmung | 188 | 0.1 | ![]() | ||||||
PBC | 145 | 0.1 | ![]() | ||||||
Party of Reason | 121 | 0.1 | |||||||
BIG | 85 | 0.1 | |||||||
PRO | 76 | 0.0 | |||||||
MLPD | 44 | 0.0 | ![]() | ||||||
BüSo | 10 | 0.0 | ![]() | ||||||
Informal votes | 1,858 | 1,771 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 166,319 | 166,406 | |||||||
Turnout | 168,177 | 77.9 | ![]() |
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CDU hold | Majority | 17,211 | 10.3 | ![]() |
2009 election
[edit]Federal election (2009): Heidelberg[6] | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
CDU | ![]() |
57,963 | 36.1 | ![]() |
49,296 | 30.6 | ![]() | ||
SPD | Lothar Binding | 47,683 | 29.7 | ![]() |
35,337 | 22.0 | ![]() | ||
Greens | Fritz Kuhn | 24,985 | 15.6 | ![]() |
28,349 | 17.6 | ![]() | ||
FDP | Dirk Niebel | 19,314 | 12.0 | ![]() |
28,419 | 17.7 | ![]() | ||
Left | Carsten Labudda | 8,985 | 5.6 | ![]() |
11,823 | 7.3 | ![]() | ||
Pirates | 3,396 | 2.1 | |||||||
NPD | Jan Jaeschke | 1,652 | 1.0 | ![]() |
1,318 | 0.8 | ![]() | ||
Human Environment Animal Protection | 958 | 0.6 | |||||||
REP | 686 | 0.4 | ![]() | ||||||
ÖDP | 364 | 0.2 | |||||||
PBC | 288 | 0.2 | ![]() | ||||||
DIE VIOLETTEN | 285 | 0.2 | |||||||
Volksabstimmung | 239 | 0.1 | |||||||
DVU | 71 | 0.0 | |||||||
BüSo | 62 | 0.0 | ![]() | ||||||
MLPD | 57 | 0.0 | ![]() | ||||||
ADM | 40 | 0.0 | |||||||
Informal votes | 2,338 | 1,932 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 160,582 | 160,988 | |||||||
Turnout | 162,920 | 76.9 | ![]() |
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CDU hold | Majority | 10,280 | 6.4 | ![]() |
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Constituency Heidelberg". Federal Returning Officer.
- ^ "Results for Heidelberg". Federal Returning Officer.
- ^ Results for Heidelberg
- ^ Results for Heidelberg
- ^ Results for Heidelberg
- ^ Results for Heidelberg