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Stadt Osnabrück

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39 Stadt Osnabrück
Electoral district
for the Bundestag
Stadt Osnabrück in 2025
StateLower Saxony
Population258,300 (2019)
Electorate195,467 (2021)
Major settlementsOsnabrück
Area325.3 km2
Current electoral district
Created1949
PartySPD
MemberManuel Gava
Elected2021

Stadt Osnabrück (English: Osnabrück City) 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 39. It is located in western Lower Saxony, comprising the independent city of Osnabrück.[1]

Stadt Osnabrück was created for the inaugural 1949 federal election. Since 2021, it has been represented by Manuel Gava of the Social Democratic Party (SPD).[2]

Geography

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Stadt Osnabrück is located in western Lower Saxony. As of the 2021 federal election, it comprises the independent city of Osnabrück and the municipalities of Belm, Georgsmarienhütte, Hagen am Teutoburger Wald, Hasbergen, and Wallenhorst from the district of Osnabrück.[1]

History

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Stadt Osnabrück was created in 1949, then known as Osnabrück-Stadt und -Land. In the 1965 through 1983 elections, it was simply named Osnabrück. It acquired its current name in the 1987 election. In the inaugural Bundestag election, it was Lower Saxony constituency 6 in the numbering system. From 1953 through 1961, it was number 28. From 1965 through 1998, it was number 33. In the 2002 and 2005 elections, it was number 39. In the 2009 election, it was number 40. Since the 2013 election, it has been number 39.

Originally, the constituency comprised the independent city of Osnabrück and the entirety of the district of Osnabrück, which at the time was significantly smaller than its present area. In the 1980 election, it acquired its current borders.

Election No. Name Borders
1949 6 Osnabrück-Stadt und -Land
1953 28
1957
1961
1965 33 Osnabrück
1969
1972
1976
1980
1983
1987 Stadt Osnabrück
1990
1994
1998
2002 39
2005
2009 40
2013 39
2017
2021
2025

Members

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The constituency was first held by Anton Storch of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), who served from 1949 until 1965. He was succeeded by fellow CDU member Ferdinand Erpenbeck. In 1972, Alfred Emmerlich of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) won the constituency. In 1976, Karl-Heinz Hornhues of the CDU was elected representative, but Emmerlich won again in 1980. Hornhues was against elected in 1983, and served until 1998. In 1998, Ernst Schwanhold of the SPD won the constituency. He was succeeded by fellow SPD member Martin Schwanholz in 2002. Mathias Middelberg of the CDU was elected in 2009, and re-elected in 2013 and 2017. Manuel Gava regained it for the SPD in 2021.

Election Member Party %
1949 Anton Storch CDU 35.4
1953 52.1
1957 52.3
1961 47.1
1965 Ferdinand Erpenbeck CDU 50.0
1969 49.0
1972 Alfred Emmerlich SPD 48.7
1976 Karl-Heinz Hornhues CDU 48.8
1980 Alfred Emmerlich SPD 49.4
1983 Karl-Heinz Hornhues CDU 51.0
1987 45.8
1990 47.4
1994 46.8
1998 Ernst Schwanhold SPD 47.8
2002 Martin Schwanholz SPD 45.7
2005 44.1
2009 Mathias Middelberg CDU 38.4
2013 45.7
2017 40.3
2021 Manuel Gava SPD 30.3

Election results

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2021 election

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Federal election (2021): Stadt Osnabrück[3]
Notes:

Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.
Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list.
Yellow background denotes an electorate win by a list member, or other incumbent.
A Green tickY or Red XN denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.

Party Candidate Votes % ±% Party votes % ±%
SPD Manuel Gava 44,876 30.3 Decrease 1.4 44,919 30.2 Increase 5.5
CDU Red XN Mathias Middelberg 43,316 29.2 Decrease 11.1 34,462 23.2 Decrease 12.5
Greens Thomas Klein 34,140 23.0 Increase 12.9 34,546 23.3 Increase 11.1
FDP Nemir Ali 10,090 6.8 Decrease 2.1 14,627 9.8 Increase 0.4
Left Heidi Reichinnek 6,977 4.7 Decrease 3.7 6,224 4.2 Decrease 4.2
AfD Florian Meyer 6,695 4.5 6,903 4.6 Decrease 1.6
dieBasis Maria Anita Haunhorst 1,918 1.3 1,482 1.0
PARTEI   1,341 0.9 Steady 0.0
Human Environment Animal Protection   1,284 0.9 Increase 0.2
Team Todenhöfer   598 0.4
FW   543 0.4 Increase 0.1
Volt   543 0.4
Pirates   437 0.3 Decrease 0.2
Humanists   153 0.1
ÖDP   125 0.1 Steady 0.0
NPD   80 0.1 Decrease 0.1
du.   79 0.1
V-Partei3   76 0.1 Decrease 0.1
DKP Joachim Bigus 194 0.1 Decrease 0.5 52 0.0 Steady 0.0
LKR   25 0.0
MLPD   11 0.0 Steady 0.0
Informal votes 1,335 1,031
Total valid votes 148,206 148,510
Turnout 149,541 76.5 Decrease 0.8
SPD gain from CDU Majority 1,560 1.1

2017 election

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Federal election (2017): Stadt Osnabrück[4]
Notes:

Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.
Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list.
Yellow background denotes an electorate win by a list member, or other incumbent.
A Green tickY or Red XN denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.

Party Candidate Votes % ±% Party votes % ±%
CDU Green tickY Mathias Middelberg 60,185 40.3 Decrease 5.4 53,977 35.7 Decrease 7.3
SPD Antje Schulte-Schoh 47,279 31.6 Decrease 3.2 37,336 24.7 Decrease 5.8
Greens Günther Westermann 15,108 10.1 Increase 1.2 18,353 12.1 Increase 1.2
FDP Thomas Thiele 13,353 8.9 Increase 6.1 14,309 9.5 Increase 5.3
Left Giesela Brandes-Steggewentz 12,521 8.4 Increase 4.2 12,759 8.4 Increase 3.3
AfD   9,499 6.3 Increase 3.6
PARTEI   1,361 0.9
DKP Joachim Bigus 962 0.6 77 0.1
Human Environment Animal Protection   933 0.6 Steady 0.0
Pirates   702 0.5 Decrease 1.5
BGE   402 0.3
FW   344 0.2 Decrease 0.1
DiB 264 0.2
DM 232 0.2
NPD   211 0.1 Decrease 0.3
V-Partei³ 209 0.1
ÖDP   173 0.1
MLPD   28 0.0 Steady 0.0
Informal votes 2,699 938
Total valid votes 149,408 151,169
Turnout 152,107 77.3 Increase 3.8
CDU hold Majority 12,906 8.7 Decrease 2.2

2013 election

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Federal election (2013): Stadt Osnabrück[5]
Notes:

Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.
Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list.
Yellow background denotes an electorate win by a list member, or other incumbent.
A Green tickY or Red XN denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.

Party Candidate Votes % ±% Party votes % ±%
CDU Green tickY Mathias Middelberg 64,416 45.7 Increase 7.3 60,754 43.0 Increase 9.0
SPD Martin Schwanholz 49,059 34.8 Increase 1.8 43,099 30.5 Increase 3.8
Greens Dorothea Steiner 12,568 8.9 Decrease 1.1 15,390 10.9 Decrease 2.1
Left Derk-Olaf Steggewentz 5,840 4.1 Decrease 2.8 7,188 5.1 Decrease 3.3
FDP Thomas Thiele 3,934 2.8 Decrease 7.6 5,874 4.2 Decrease 9.8
AfD   3,765 2.7
Pirates Kerstin Demuth 3,102 2.2 2,794 2.0 Decrease 0.2
NPD Helmut Walter 884 0.6 Steady 0.0 652 0.5 Decrease 0.1
FW Robert Kiauka 828 0.6 472 0.3
Human Environment Animal Protection   815 0.6 Steady 0.0
PBC Ralf Gervelmeyer 290 0.2 226 0.2
PRO 88 0.1
REP   49 0.0
MLPD   33 0.0 Steady 0.0
Informal votes 1,919 1,641
Total valid votes 140,921 141,199
Turnout 142,840 73.5 Decrease 1.1
CDU hold Majority 15,357 10.9 Increase 5.5

2009 election

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Federal election (2009): Stadt Osnabrück[6]
Notes:

Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.
Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list.
Yellow background denotes an electorate win by a list member, or other incumbent.
A Green tickY or Red XN denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.

Party Candidate Votes % ±% Party votes % ±%
CDU Mathias Middelberg 54,522 38.4 Decrease 2.1 48,398 34.0 Decrease 1.7
SPD Red XN Martin Schwanholz 46,979 33.1 Decrease 11.1 38,000 26.7 Decrease 13.3
FDP Carl-Ludwig Thiele 14,823 10.4 Increase 5.1 19,941 14.0 Increase 4.8
Greens Dorothea Steiner 14,282 10.0 Increase 3.8 18,463 13.0 Increase 3.3
Left Maren Kaminski 9,918 7.0 Increase 3.8 11,878 8.3 Increase 4.7
Pirates   3,168 2.2
NPD Jochim Schnell 945 0.7 Decrease 0.1 848 0.6 Decrease 0.1
Human Environment Animal Protection   880 0.6 Increase 0.2
Independent Volker Stöckel 658 0.5
RRP 443 0.3
ÖDP   216 0.2
DVU   88 0.1
MLPD   18 0.0 Steady 0.0
Informal votes 1,584 1,370
Total valid votes 142,127 142,341
Turnout 143,711 74.7 Decrease 5.6
CDU gain from SPD Majority 7,543 5.3

References

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  1. ^ a b "Constituency Stadt Osnabrück". Federal Returning Officer.
  2. ^ "Results for Stadt Osnabrück". Federal Returning Officer.
  3. ^ Results for Stadt Osnabrück
  4. ^ Results for Stadt Osnabrück
  5. ^ Results for Stadt Osnabrück
  6. ^ Results for Stadt Osnabrück