List of the Bundestag constituencies

Constituency allocation for the 2017 federal election

The list of the Bundestag constituencies gives an overview of the distribution and numbering of the constituencies of the Bundestag elections since 1949 and refers to the individual annual lists. The constituencies were determined in the federal electoral law.

Constituency numbering by state since 1949

country	1949	1953	1957-1961	1965-1976	1980-1986	1990-1998	2002	2005	2009	2013	2017
Schleswig-Holstein	1-14	1-14	1-14	1-11	1-11	1-11	1-11	1-11	1-11	1-11	1-11
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania	-					262-270	12-18	12-18	12-18	12-17	12-17
Hamburg	1-8	15-22	15-22	12-19	12-18	12-18	19-24	19-24	19-24	18-23	18-23
Lower Saxony	1-34	23-56	23-56	20-49	19-49	19-49	25-53	25-53	25-54	24-53	24-53
Bremen	1-3	57-59	57-59	50-52	50-52	50-52	54-55	54-55	55-56	54-55	54-55
Brandenburg	-					271-282	56-65	56-65	57-66	56-65	56-65
Saxony-Anhalt	-					283-295	66-75	66-75	67-75	66-74	66-74
Berlin	-					249-261	76-87	76-87	76-87	75-86	75-86
North Rhine-Westphalia	1-66	60-125	60-125	53-125	53-123	53-123	88-151	88-151	88-151	87-150	87-150
Saxony	-					308-328	152-168	152-168	152-167	151-166	151-166
Hesse	1-22	126-147	126-147	126-147	124-145	124-145	169-189	169-189	168-188	167-188	167-188
Thuringia	-					296-307	190-199	190-198	189-197	189-197	189-196
Rhineland-Palatinate	1-15	148-162	148-162	148-163	146-161	146-161	200-214	199-213	198-212	198-212	197-211
Bavaria	1-47	196-242	196-242	200-243	199-243	199-243	215-258	214-258	213-257	213-257	212-257
Baden-Württemberg		163-195	163-195	164-199	162-198	162-198	259-295	259-295	258-295	258-295	258-295
Saarland	-		243-247	244-248	244-248	244-248	296-299	296-299	296-299	296-299	296-299
to bathe	1-7	-
Württemberg-Baden	1-20	-
Württemberg-Hohenzollern	1-6	-

Number of federal electoral districts by federal state since 1949

country	1949	1953	1957 & 1961	1965-1976	1980-1987	1990-1998	2002	2005	2009	2013	2017
Schleswig-Holstein	14th	14th	14th	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania	-					9	7th	7th	7th	6th	6th
Hamburg	8th	8th	8th	8th	7th	7th	6th	6th	6th	6th	6th
Lower Saxony	34	34	34	30th	31	31	29	29	30th	30th	30th
Bremen	3	3	3	3	3	3	2	2	2	2	2
Brandenburg	-					12	10	10	10	10	10
Saxony-Anhalt	-					13	10	10	9	9	9
Berlin	-					13	12	12	12	12	12
North Rhine-Westphalia	66	66	66	73	71	71	64	64	64	64	64
Saxony	-					21st	17th	17th	16	16	16
Hesse	22nd	22nd	22nd	22nd	22nd	22nd	21st	21st	21st	22nd	22nd
Thuringia	-					12	10	9	9	9	8th
Rhineland-Palatinate	15th	15th	15th	16	16	16	15th	15th	15th	15th	15th
Bavaria	47	47	47	44	45	45	44	45	45	45	46
Baden-Württemberg	33 ¹	33	33	36	37	37	37	37	38	38	38
Saarland	-		5	5	5	5	4th	4th	4th	4th	4th
total	242	242	247	248	248	328	299	299	299	299	299