Bundestag constituency of Göttingen

Constituency 53: Göttingen
Country	Germany
state	Lower Saxony
Constituency number	53
Residents	289,700
Eligible voters	220.420
voter turnout	77.4%
Election date	September 24, 2017
Constituency representative
Surname	Thomas Oppermann
Political party	SPD
Voting share	34.9%

The Bundestag constituency of Göttingen (constituency 53) is an electoral district in Lower Saxony. It includes the district of Göttingen except for the municipalities of Osterode am Harz , Bad Grund (Harz) and Walkenried, as well as the joint municipality of Hattorf am Harz . In the 2013 federal election, 222,103 residents were eligible to vote.

Bundestag election 2017

Eighteen state lists were approved for election on September 24, 2017.

Direct candidate	Political party	First votes in%	Second votes in%
Fritz Güntzler	CDU	33.26	30.22
Thomas Oppermann	SPD	34.91	28.27
Jürgen Trittin	GREEN	11.31	11.62
Konrad Kelm	THE LEFT	5.86	8.71
Pierre Hillebrecht	AfD	7.02	7.94
Konstantin Kuhle	FDP	4.57	9.11
Dana Maria Rotter	PIRATES	-	0.46
-	NPD	-	0.25
Rainer Nowak	FREE VOTERS	0.86	0.63
Christian Prachar	The party	1.27	1.05
-	Animal welfare party	-	0.85
-	ödp	-	0.10
-	Alliance C	-	-
-	DKP	-	0.04
Kay Langemeier	MLPD	-	0.04
-	UBI	-	0.24
-	DiB	-	0.19
-	DM	-	0.15
-	V party³	-	0.13

Bundestag election 2013

14 state lists were admitted to the election on September 22nd.

Direct candidate	Political party	First votes in%	Second votes in%
Thomas Oppermann	SPD	40.4	33.1
Fritz Güntzler	CDU	38.2	35.9
Jürgen Trittin	GREEN	10.2	12.2
Gerhard Nier	THE LEFT.	5.2	6.3
Lutz Knopek	FDP	1.6	4.1
-	AfD	-	3.7
Niels-Arne Münch	PIRATES	2.0	1.9
Theodor Sommer	FREE VOTERS	1.3	0.9
Marco Borrmann	NPD	1.1	0.8
-	Animal welfare party	-	0.7
-	per Germany	-	0.1
-	REP	-	0.1
-	PBC	-	0.1
-	MLPD	-	0.0

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%
Thomas Oppermann	SPD	36.8	29.6	42.1
Hartwig Fischer	CDU	34.4	28.8	30.5
Jürgen Trittin	Alliance 90 / The Greens	13.0	14.4	10.7
Lutz Knopek	FDP	6.6	13.4	9.0
Gerd Nier	The left	7.6	8.9	5.2
-	The animal welfare party	-	0.7	0.5
Michael Hahn	NPD	1.4	1.3	1.3
-	PIRATES	-	2.2	-
-	RRP	-	0.4	-
Bayram Kurnaz	independently	0.2	-	-

Former constituency winners

choice	Surname	Political party	First votes
2017	Thomas Oppermann	SPD	34.9%
2013			40.4%
2009			36.8%
2005			46.8%
2002	Inge Wettig-Danielmeier	SPD	47.4%
1998			48.2%
1994	Rita Süssmuth	CDU	46.9%
1990			48.5%
1987			44.9%
1983	Hans Hugo Klein	CDU	46.9%
1980	Lothar Curdt	SPD	47.9%
1976			46.3%
1972	Günter Wichert	SPD	52.5%
1969			47.8%
1965	Willy Steinmetz	CDU	47.0%
1961	Günter Frede	SPD	43.0%
1957	Franz Blücher 1	DP	39.5%
1953	Walter Drechsel 2	FDP	54.3%
1949	Arno Hennig	SPD	31.6%

¹In 1957, Blücher was the joint candidate of the CDU and the DP. The CDU did not put up its own candidate and called for the election of Blücher.

²In 1953 Drechsel was the joint candidate of the CDU, FDP and DP . The CDU and the DP did not put up their own candidates and called for the election of Drechsel.

Constituency history

choice	Constituency name	area
1949	34 Göttingen - Münden	City of Göttingen , District of Göttingen , District of Münden
1953-1961	56 Göttingen - Münden
1965-1972	49 Göttingen	District of Göttingen, District of Münden, District of Duderstadt , from the District of Northeim the municipality of Fürstenhagen
1976	49 Göttingen	District of Göttingen, from the district of Northeim the municipality of Fürstenhagen
1980-1998	49 Göttingen	District of Göttingen
2002-2005	53 Göttingen	District of Göttingen, from the district of Osterode am Harz, the cities of Bad Lauterberg in the Harz , Bad Sachsa and Herzberg am Harz .
2009	54 Göttingen
2013	53 Göttingen

The formerly independent city of Göttingen has been part of the Göttingen district since 1964. The former districts of Duderstadt and Münden have been part of the Göttingen district since 1973.

Web links

• Structural data constituency Göttingen. Federal Returning Officer, accessed on August 30, 2017 . 
• Results of the 2005 Bundestag elections. Federal Returning Officer, 2005, accessed on January 12, 2009 . 

Individual evidence

1. ^ Göttingen constituency division. (No longer available online.) Federal Returning Officer, 2008, archived from the original on September 9, 2009 ; Retrieved January 22, 2009 . 
2. ↑ 14 state lists approved by the state election committee. State Returning Officer, July 26, 2013, accessed on July 26, 2013 . 
3. ^ Constituency 054 - Göttingen, final result of the federal election 2009 ( memento of October 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive )

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