Gelsenkirchen Bundestag constituency

Constituency 123: Gelsenkirchen
Country	Germany
state	North Rhine-Westphalia
Constituency number	123
Eligible voters	175.210
voter turnout	68.2%
Election date	September 24, 2017
Constituency representative
Surname	Markus Töns
Political party	SPD
Voting share	38.3%

The Bundestag constituency of Gelsenkirchen (constituency 123) is located in North Rhine-Westphalia and includes the independent city of Gelsenkirchen . The constituency , the layout of which has changed several times in the past, has always been considered a safe stronghold of the SPD .

Results of the 2017 federal election

Direct candidate	Political party	First votes in%	Second votes in%
Oliver Wittke	CDU	25.4	22.4
Markus Töns	SPD	38.3	33.5
Jörg Schneider	AfD	16.9	17.0
Marco Buschmann	FDP	6.5	9.2
Ingrid Remmers	The left .	6.7	7.4
Irene Mihalic	Alliance 90 / The Greens	4.6	4.6
Iris Häger	Free voters	1.1	0.4
Lisa Ursula Gardener	MLPD	0.5	0.4
-	Others		5.2

Results of the 2013 federal election

Bundestag election 2017 - WK Gelsenkirchen

(in %)

 %

40

30th

20th

10

0

33.5

22.4

7.4

4.6

17.0

5.1

9.2

0.5

0.4

SPD

CDU

left

Green

AfD

Otherwise.

FDP

Pirates

NPD

Gains and losses

compared to 2013

 % p

 14th

 12

 10

   8th

   6th

   4th

   2

   0

  -2

  -4

  -6

  -8th

-10

-12

-10.5

-5.3

-0.2

-0.9

+12.3

+2.0

+6.2

-1.7

-1.8

SPD

CDU

left

Green

AfD

Otherwise.

FDP

Pirates

NPD

Official result of the federal election 2013 :

Direct candidate	Political party	First votes in%	Second votes in%
Oliver Wittke	CDU	28.6	27.7
Joachim Poss	SPD	50.5	44.0
Marco Buschmann	FDP	1.7	3.0
Irene Mihalic	Alliance 90 / The Greens	3.7	5.5
Ingrid Remmers	The left .	6.1	7.6
Axel Kerstan	PIRATES	2.3	2.2
Dennis Blömer	NPD	2.4	2.2
Hartmut Preuss	AfD	3.8	4.7
-	Others		3.1

Result of the 2009 Bundestag election

Direct candidate	Political party	First votes	Second votes
Joachim Poss	SPD	54.3%	42.0%
Wolfgang Meckelburg	CDU	26.1%	23.2%
Marco Buschmann	FDP	7.0%	9.0%
Robert Zion	GREEN	7.6%	6.9%
-	The left .	-	12.1%
Joseph Mertens	NPD	3.5%	1.7%
Stefan Klaus Engel	MLPD	1.5%	0.4%
-	PIRATES	-	1.8%
-	REP	-	0.9%
Others	Others	-	2.0%

Constituency winner

choice	Surname	Political party	First votes
2017	Markus Töns	SPD	38.3%
2013	Joachim Poss	SPD	50.5%
2009	Joachim Poss	SPD	54.3%
2005	Joachim Poss	SPD	59.7%
2002	Joachim Poss	SPD	60.3%
1998	Joachim Poss	SPD	65.4%
1994	Joachim Poss	SPD	59.3%
1990	Joachim Poss	SPD	55.9%
1987	Joachim Poss	SPD	59.4%
1983	Joachim Poss	SPD	60.2%
1980	Joachim Poss	SPD	59.9%
1976	Heinz Menzel	SPD	63.0%
1972	Josef Loebbert	SPD	66.2%
1969	Josef Loebbert	SPD	58.9%
1965	Josef Loebbert	SPD	56.2%
1961	Walter Arendt	SPD	48.6%
1957	Robert Geritzmann	SPD	47.5%
1953	Robert Geritzmann	SPD	43.5%
1949	Robert Geritzmann	SPD	36.5%

Results from 1965 to 1998 for the constituency Gelsenkirchen I .

Constituency history

In addition to the Gelsenkirchen I constituency, there was the Gelsenkirchen II constituency from 1965 to 1980 and the Gelsenkirchen II - Recklinghausen III constituency from 1980 to 2002 .

choice	Constituency name	area
1949	40 Gelsenkirchen	Gelsenkirchen
1953-1961	99 Gelsenkirchen
1965-1976	97 Gelsenkirchen I	Northern and western parts of Gelsenkirchen with the districts Hassel , Buer , Horst , Heßler and Rotthausen
1980-1998	93 Gelsenkirchen I	City districts middle, west and south
2002-2009	124 Gelsenkirchen	Gelsenkirchen
2013	123 Gelsenkirchen

Web links

• Structural data constituency Gelsenkirchen. Federal Returning Officer, 2009, accessed January 12, 2012 . 
• Results of the federal elections. Federal Returning Officer, 2005, accessed January 12, 2009 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gelsenkirchen constituency division. (No longer available online.) Federal Returning Officer, 2013, archived from the original on July 2, 2013 ; Retrieved January 22, 2013 . 
2. ↑ Official constituency result 2013 ( Memento from September 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive )