Emsland constituency
The Bundestag constituency Emsland was a constituency in the German state of Lower Saxony . It comprised the area of the districts of Aschendorf-Hümmling and Grafschaft Bentheim as well as the district of Meppen without the communities of Geeste , Haselünne and Meppen , which were most recently part of the Lingen district .
history
The constituency was number 4 in the Lower Saxony constituencies in the 1949 federal election. For the Bundestag elections from 1953 to 1976, it finally had constituency number 26. The constituency was a stronghold of the CDU and the direct mandate has always been won by the CDU candidates since 1953 with over 60% of the first votes cast.
Originally the constituency comprised the area of the districts of Aschendorf-Hümmling and Grafschaft Bentheim and a large part of the area of the district of Meppen. Exceptions were the area of the communities Geeste, Haselünne and Meppen, which belonged to the constituency of Bersenbrück - Lingen . Slight changes in the area occurred due to the incorporation over the years. For the 1969 federal election, the area of the former municipality of Bakerde, which had already been incorporated into the new municipality of Herzlake in 1964 , became a constituency. It was not until the 1976 general election that the municipalities of Bookhof, Felsen and Neuenlande, which were incorporated into the municipality of Herzlake, and the municipality of Dohren, which was part of the Herzlake municipality, were added to the constituency. In return, the constituency lost the area of the former municipality of Dalum, which now belonged to the municipality of Geeste, before the federal election in 1976.
In the course of the reorganization of the constituencies before the federal election in 1980, the constituency was dissolved and the constituency area was divided between the newly created constituencies Unterems and Mittelems .
MPs
Directly elected members of the Emsland constituency were:
| year | Surname | Political party | Share of first votes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | Rudolf Seiters | CDU | 62.2% |
| 1972 | Rudolf Seiters | CDU | 62.1% |
| 1969 | Rudolf Seiters | CDU | 66.5% |
| 1965 | Josef connector | CDU | 71.0% |
| 1961 | Josef connector | CDU | 67.0% |
| 1957 | Josef connector | CDU | 67.0% |
| 1953 | Heinrich Barlage | CDU | 67.1% |
| 1949 | Bernard Povel | CDU | 50.5% |