Bundestag constituency Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis II

Constituency 139: Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis II
Country	Germany
state	North Rhine-Westphalia
Constituency number	139
Eligible voters	181.239
voter turnout	74.3%
Election date	22nd September 2013
Constituency representative
Surname	Ralf Kapschack
Political party	SPD
Voting share	42.3%

The Bundestag constituency Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis II (constituency 139) is located in North Rhine-Westphalia and includes the cities of Hattingen , Herdecke , Sprockhövel , Wetter and Witten from the Ennepe-Ruhr district . The constituency , the shape and name of which has changed several times in the past, has been won by the SPD in all federal elections since 1949 .

Bundestag election 2013

Bundestag election 2013 - WK Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis II

(in %)

%

40

30th

20th

10

0

38.3

33.1

9.1

6.4

4.5

3.9

2.2

1.5

0.9

Otherwise.

Gains and losses

compared to 2009

% p

8th

6th

4th

2

0

-2

-4

-6

-8th

+3.5

+6.4

-2.2

-3.0

-8.0

+3.9

+0.6

-0.9

-0.1

Otherwise.

This took place on September 22, 2013.

Direct candidate	Political party	First votes in%	Second votes in%
Ralf Brauksiepe	CDU	35.8	33.1
Ralf Kapschack	SPD	42.3	38.3
Rosemarie Steinhauer	FDP	2.0	4.5
Janosch Dahmen	Alliance 90 / The Greens	8.3	9.1
Helmut Kanand	The left .	5.1	6.4
Roland Löpke	PIRATES	2.3	2.2
Dieter Schulz	NPD	1.1	0.9
Christian Rombeck	AFD	3.0	3.9
-	Others	0.2	1.5

Result of the 2009 Bundestag election

Direct candidate	Political party	First votes	Second votes
Christel Humme	SPD	40.9%	34.8%
Ralf Brauksiepe	CDU	30.4%	26.7%
Konrad Schily	FDP	10.0%	12.5%
Janosch Dahmen	GREEN	8.7%	11.3%
Wolfgang Pauli	The left .	8.3%	9.4%
Dieter Schulz	NPD	1.3%	1.0%
-	PIRATES	-	1.6%
-	The animal welfare party	-	0.8%
Others	Others	0.4%	1.6%

Constituency winner

choice	Surname	Political party	First votes
2017	Ralf Kapschack	SPD	36.7%
2013	Ralf Kapschack	SPD	42.3%
2009	Christel Humme	SPD	40.9%
2005	Christel Humme	SPD	52.4%
2002	Christel Humme	SPD	55.7%
1998	Adolf Ostertag	SPD	57.1%
1994	Adolf Ostertag	SPD	52.1%
1990	Adolf Ostertag	SPD	48.5%
1987	Eugen von der Wiesche	SPD	50.8%
1983	Eugen von der Wiesche	SPD	50.4%
1980	Eugen von der Wiesche	SPD	54.0%
1976	Hans-Jürgen Augstein	SPD	54.7%
1972	Hans-Jürgen Augstein	SPD	59.8%
1969	Wilhelm Michels	SPD	56.0%
1965	Wilhelm Michels	SPD	53.2%
1961	Wilhelm Michels	SPD	49.4%
1957	Heinrich Strater	SPD	46.2%
1953	Heinrich Strater	SPD	43.1%
1949	Walter Friday	SPD	40.5%

Members of the Bundestag through a state list from the constituency

1953–1965: Richard Oetzel (CDU)
1965–1976: Gerd Springorum (CDU)
1969–1994: Friedrich Vogel (CDU)
1994–2009: Irmingard Schewe-Gerigk (GREEN)
1998-2018: Ralf Brauksiepe (CDU)
2005–2009: Konrad Schily (FDP)

Constituency history

Preliminary remark: On January 1, 1975, some communities were separated from the Ennepe-Ruhr district, but the enlarged city of Witten was added to the district.

choice	Constituency name	area
1949	54 Ennepe-Ruhr - Witten	Ennepe-Ruhr district , Witten
1953-1961	113 Ennepe-Ruhr - Witten	Ennepe-Ruhr district , Witten
1965-1976	112 Ennepe-Ruhr district	Ennepe-Ruhr district
1980-1998	109 Ennepe-Ruhr District I	From the Ennepe-Ruhr district the cities of Hattingen , Herdecke , Sprockhövel , Wetter , Breckerfeld , Gevelsberg , Schwelm and Ennepetal
2002-2009	140 Ennepe-Ruhr District II	From the Ennepe-Ruhr district the cities of Hattingen, Herdecke, Sprockhövel, Wetter and Witten
2013	139 Ennepe-Ruhr District II

Web links

Structural data for constituency Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis II. Federal Returning Officer, 2009, accessed on January 12, 2012 .
Results of the federal elections. Federal Returning Officer, 2005, accessed January 12, 2009 .

Individual evidence

^ Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis II constituency division. (No longer available online.) Federal Returning Officer, 2013, archived from the original on July 2, 2013 ; Retrieved January 22, 2013 .

[1] Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis II constituency division. (No longer available online.) Federal Returning Officer, 2013, archived from the original on July 2, 2013 ; Retrieved January 22, 2013 .