Bundestag constituency Donau-Ries

Constituency 254: Donau-Ries
Country	Germany
state	Bavaria
Constituency number	254
Residents	249,800
Eligible voters	190,781
voter turnout	77.5%
Election date	September 24, 2017
Constituency representative
Surname	Ulrich Lange
Political party	CSU
Voting share	47.0%

The Bundestag constituency Donau-Ries (constituency 254) is a constituency for the elections to the German Bundestag in Bavaria . It includes the districts of Donau-Ries and Dillingen adDonau as well as the communities of Aindling , Baar , Inchenhofen , Kühbach , Petersdorf , Pöttmes , Schiltberg and Todtenweis of the Aichach-Friedberg district . The predecessor constituency of the constituency Donau-Ries was from 1949 to 1976 the Bundestag constituency of Donauwörth . The constituencies of Donauwörth and Donau-Ries have always been won by the direct candidates of the CSU .

 Bundestag election 2017

For the general election in 2017 on September 24, 2017 8 direct candidates and 21 regional lists were approved.

Direct candidate	Political party	First votes in%	Second votes in%
Ulrich Lange	CSU	47.0	43.3
Christoph Schmid	SPD	18.1	13.8
Albert Riedelsheimer	GREEN	6.4	6.9
Walter Lohner	FDP	5.0	9.2
Rafael Hauptmann	AfD	12.8	14.7
Manfred Seel	LEFT	4.2	4.6
Stephan Stieglauer	FREE VOTERS	5.0	3.5
-	PIRATES	-	0.3
Johannes Thum	ÖDP	1.4	0.7
-	BP	-	0.7
-	NPD	-	0.4
-	Animal welfare party	-	0.8
-	MLPD	-	0.0
-	Busy	-	0.0
-	UBI	-	0.1
-	DiB	-	0.1
-	DKP	-	0.0
-	DM	-	0.1
-	The party	-	0.4
-	Health research	-	0.1
-	V party³	-	0.2

Bundestag election 2013

Direct candidate	Political party	First votes in%	Second votes in%
Ulrich Lange	CSU	60.6	55.5
Gabriele Fograscher	SPD	17.7	16.7
Heinz-Peter Liehr	FDP	2.4	4.5
Bettina Merkl-Zierer	GREEN	6.3	6.0
Manfred Seel	The left	4.5	3.3
	PIRATES	-	1.5
Alexander Feyen	NPD	1.8	1.2
Andreas Becker	ÖDP	2.2	1.0
	AfD	-	4.2
Florian Riehl	Free voters	4.1	3.1
	Others	-	3.4

Bundestag election 2009

The 2009 Bundestag election had the following result:

Direct candidate	Political party	First votes in%	Second votes in%	Bundestag election 2005 second votes in%
Ulrich Lange	CSU	52.6	48.9	56.9
Gabriele Fograscher	SPD	15.9	13.8	22.0
Albert Riedelsheimer	GREEN	7.6	7.7	5.1
Uwe Pranghofer	FDP	11.7	14.6	8.3
-	REP	-	1.3	1.5
Manfred Seel	LEFT	6.1	5.8	2.7
Alexander Feyen	NPD	1.9	1.5	1.4
-	PBC	-	0.1	0.2
Heinz Werner Link	BP	1.8	1.1	0.4
-	ödp	1.5	1.0	-
Liane Thorwart	THE VIOLETS	0.7	0.4	-
-	BüSo	-	0.0	0.1
-	FAMILY	-	0.8	0.7
-	MLPD	-	0.0	0.0
-	The animal welfare party	-	0.5	-
-	PIRATES	-	1.6	-
-	CM	-	0.1	0.0
-	RRP	-	0.6	-

Constituency winner since 1949

choice	Surname	Political party	First votes in%
2017	Ulrich Lange	CSU	47.0
2013	Ulrich Lange	CSU	60.6
2009	Ulrich Lange	CSU	52.6
2005	Hans Raidel	CSU	60.7
2002	Hans Raidel	CSU	64.7
1998	Hans Raidel	CSU	57.2
1994	Hans Raidel	CSU	60.6
1990	Hans Raidel	CSU	55.0
1987	Karl Heinz Lemmrich	CSU	61.2
1983	Karl Heinz Lemmrich	CSU	67.8
1980	Karl Heinz Lemmrich	CSU	65.7
1976	Karl Heinz Lemmrich	CSU	68.0
1972	Karl Heinz Lemmrich	CSU	65.4
1969	Karl Heinz Lemmrich	CSU	67.3
1965	Karl Heinz Lemmrich	CSU	68.3
1961	Philipp Meyer	CSU	64.8
1957	Philipp Meyer	CSU	69.2
1953	Philipp Meyer	CSU	59.1
1949	Martin Loibl	CSU	36.2

Constituency history

choice	Constituency name	area
1949	44 Donauwörth	District of Donauwörth , city of Neuburg an der Donau , district of Neuburg an der Donau , city of Nördlingen , district of Nördlingen
1953-1961	239 Donauwörth
1965-1972	240 Donauwörth	Donauwörth district, Nördlingen, Nördlingen district, Neuburg an der Donau, Neuburg district, Dillingen an der Donau , Dillingen an der Donau district
1976-1994	240 Donau-Ries	District of Donau-Ries, District of Dillingen on the Danube
1998	240 Donau-Ries	District of Donau-Ries, district of Dillingen an der Donau, from the district of Aichach-Friedberg the municipalities of Baar, Inchenhofen, Kühbach, Pöttmes and Schiltberg
2002	255 Donau-Ries
2005	255 Donau-Ries	Donau-Ries district, Dillingen an der Donau district, from Aichach-Friedberg district the communities Aindling, Baar, Inchenhofen, Kühbach, Petersdorf, Pöttmes, Schiltberg and Todtenweis
since 2009	254 Donau-Ries

Web links

• Structural data for the constituency of Donau-Ries from the Federal Returning Officer

Individual evidence

1. ^ Structural data 254: Donau-Ries. Federal Returning Officer , accessed on September 30, 2017 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Results 254: Donau-Ries. Federal Returning Officer , accessed on September 30, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Constituency division ( Memento of May 2, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
4. ^ The Federal Returning Officer : Direct candidate (inside) in Donau-Ries - The Federal Returning Officer. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 26, 2017 ; accessed on September 18, 2017 . 
5. ^ The Federal Returning Officer : State lists of the parties in Bavaria - The Federal Returning Officer. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 26, 2017 ; accessed on September 15, 2017 . 
6. ↑ ^{a b} Results by constituency. Federal Returning Officer , accessed on September 30, 2017 .