Bundestag constituency of the city of Hanover II

Constituency 42: City of Hanover II
Country	Germany
state	Lower Saxony
Constituency number	42
Eligible voters	193,433
voter turnout	77.0%
Election date	September 24, 2017
Constituency representative
Surname	Yasmin Fahimi
Political party	SPD
Voting share	33.7%

The Bundestag constituency Stadt Hannover II (constituency 42) is an electoral district in Lower Saxony and comprises the southern part of the independent city of Hanover with the districts Ahlem, Badenstedt, Bemerode, Bornum, Bult, Calenberger Neustadt, Davenstedt, Döhren, Herrenhausen, Kirchrode, Limmer, Linden ( -Nord, -Mitte and -Süd), Mitte, Mittelfeld, Mühlenberg, Nordstadt, Oberricklingen, Ricklingen, Seelhorst, Südstadt, Waldhausen, Waldheim, Wettbergen, Wülfel and Wülferode. The constituency has been won by the direct candidates of the SPD in all federal elections since 1949 . The two most prominent constituency members were the former SPD chairmen Kurt Schumacher and Erich Ollenhauer .

Bundestag election 2017

For the federal election on September 24, 2017, 18 state lists were admitted. The parties put forward the following candidates.

Direct candidate	Political party	First votes in%	Second votes in%
Ursula von der Leyen	CDU	28.9	24.4
Yasmin Fahimi	SPD	33.7	25.6
Sven-Christian Kindler	GREEN	11.2	14.9
Parwaneh Bokah	THE LEFT.	9.3	12.0
Ulla you	FDP	5.5	10.0
Herbert Klever	AfD	7.2	7.6
Thomas Ganskow	PIRATES	1.0	0.7
-	NPD	-	0.1
-	Animal welfare party	-	0.9
-	FREE VOTERS	-	0.2
Kurt-Peter Kleffel	MLPD	0.2	0.1
-	UBI	-	0.3
-	DiB	-	0.3
Sabine Huppert	DKP	0.2	0.1
-	German center	-	0.3
-	ÖDP	-	0.1
Julian Klippert	The party	2.8	2.0
-	V party³	-	0.2

Result of the federal election 2013

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

Direct candidate	Political party	First votes in%	Second votes in%
Ursula von der Leyen	CDU	33.9	29.9
Edelgard Bulmahn	SPD	42.8	34.7
Patrick Döring	FDP	1.5	4.3
Sven-Christian Kindler	GREEN	10.2	15.5
Jörn Jan Leidecker	THE LEFT.	6.2	8.0
Christian Szymanek	PIRATES	2.1	2.2
Karin Hollack	NPD	0.6	0.5
-	Animal welfare party	-	0.8
-	MLPD	-	0.1
Jörn König	AfD	2.7	3.4
-	per Germany	-	0.1
-	REP	-	0.1
-	FREE VOTERS	-	0.3
-	PBC	-	0.1

Result of the 2009 Bundestag election

Bundestag election 2009 - City of Hanover II

 %

30th

20th

10

0

29.8

24.3

17.7

11.6

10.6

5.9

SPD

CDU

Green

FDP

left

Otherwise.

Gains and losses

compared to 2005

 % p

   6th

   4th

   2

   0

  -2

  -4

  -6

  -8th

-10

-12

-14

-16

-15.3

-1.1

+3.8

+3.6

+5.2

+3.7

SPD

CDU

Green

FDP

left

Otherwise.

Direct candidate	Political party	First votes	Second votes
Edelgard Bulmahn	SPD	39.6%	29.8%
Ursula von der Leyen	CDU	32.1%	24.3%
Maaret Westphely	GREEN	11.4%	17.7%
Patrick Döring	FDP	6.2%	11.6%
Heidrun Dittrich	The left .	9.3%	10.6%
Others		1.4%	5.9%

Result of the 2005 Bundestag election

Direct candidate	Political party	First votes	Second votes
Edelgard Bulmahn	SPD	54.3%	45.1%
Friedbert Pflüger	CDU	30.3%	25.4%
Silke Stokar from Neuforn	GREEN	6.8%	13.9%
Patrick Döring	FDP	3.2%	8.0%
Diether Dehm	The left .	4.3%	5.4%
Others		1.1%	2.2%

Constituency winner

choice	Surname	Political party	First votes
2017	Yasmin Fahimi	SPD	33.7%
2013	Edelgard Bulmahn	SPD	42.8%
2009	Edelgard Bulmahn	SPD	39.6%
2005	Edelgard Bulmahn	SPD	54.3%
2002	Edelgard Bulmahn	SPD	56.3%
1998	Edelgard Bulmahn	SPD	53.6%
1994	Edelgard Bulmahn	SPD	45.1%
1990	Edelgard Bulmahn	SPD	44.0%
1987	Edelgard Bulmahn	SPD	46.3%
1983	Helmut Rohde	SPD	49.1%
1980	Helmut Rohde	SPD	53.3%
1976	Helmut Rohde	SPD	54.6%
1972	Helmut Rohde	SPD	59.8%
1969	Helmut Rohde	SPD	57.2%
1965	Helmut Rohde	SPD	51.0%
1961	Erich Ollenhauer	SPD	53.9%
1957	Erich Ollenhauer	SPD	52.1%
1953	Erich Ollenhauer	SPD	51.9%
1952 (by-election)	Ernst Winter	SPD	59.8%
1949	Kurt Schumacher	SPD	55.1%

Constituency history

choice	Constituency name	area
1949	19 City of Hanover-South	From Hanover, the former districts of Badenstedt, Döhren, Wülfel, Kirchrode, Kleefeld, Limmer, Linden and Ricklingen
1953-1961	41 City of Hanover-South
1965-1976	37 Hanover II	From Hanover the urban area southwest of the railway line Seelze - Hanover main station - Göttingen without the districts of Döhren and Wülfel
1980-1998	37 City of Hanover II	From Hanover the districts of Ahlem, Badenstedt, Bemerode, Bornum, Bult, Calenberger Neustadt, Davenstedt, Döhren, Herrenhausen, Kirchrode, Limmer, Linden, Mitte, Mittelfeld, Mühlenberg, Nordstadt, Oberricklingen, Ricklingen, Seelhorst, Südstadt, Waldhausen, Waldheim, Wettbergen , Wülfel and Wülferode
2002-2005	42 City of Hanover II
2009	43 City of Hanover II
2013	42 City of Hanover II

Web links

• Structural data for the constituency of the City of Hanover II. Federal Returning Officer, 2009, accessed on January 12, 2012 . 
• Results of the federal elections. Federal Returning Officer, 2005, accessed January 12, 2009 . 
• Results of the 2009 Bundestag election

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Constituency division of the city of Hannover II. (No longer available online.) Federal Returning Officer, 2008, archived from the original on September 8, 2009 ; Retrieved January 22, 2009 . 
2. ↑ 18 state lists approved by the state election committee. In: Lower Saxony State Returning Officer. July 28, 2017, accessed July 31, 2017 . 
3. ↑ 2017 Bundestag election, state capital Hanover. First vote. In: Bundestag election 2017, state capital Hanover. Retrieved September 26, 2017 . 
4. ↑ 2017 Bundestag election, state capital Hanover. Second vote. In: Bundestag election 2017, state capital Hanover. Retrieved September 26, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Simon Benne: These are the CDU candidates for the federal election. In: HAZ . January 28, 2017. Retrieved July 25, 2017 . 
6. ↑ Candidates. In: SPD district of Hanover. Retrieved July 25, 2017 . 
7. ↑ Bundestag election 2017. (No longer available online.) In: Homepage of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen Niedersachsen. July 25, 2017, archived from the original on August 8, 2017 ; Retrieved July 25, 2017 . 
8. ↑ direct candidates. (No longer available online.) In: Homepage of Die Linke Niedersachsen. July 25, 2017, archived from the original on July 31, 2017 ; Retrieved July 25, 2017 . 
9. ↑ Constituency candidates of the FDP Lower Saxony for the 2017 federal election. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: Homepage of the FDP Lower Saxony. April 12, 2017, archived from the original on August 8, 2017 ; Retrieved July 25, 2017 . 
10. ↑ The AfD direct candidates for the German Bundestag introduce themselves. (No longer available online.) In: AfD Niedersachsen. Archived from the original on July 30, 2017 ; Retrieved July 25, 2017 . 
11. ↑ Pirates Hanover have voted. Direct candidates for the 2017 federal election have been drawn up. In: Pirate Party Hanover. November 20, 2016. Retrieved July 25, 2017 . 
12. ↑ 14 state lists approved by the state election committee. State Returning Officer, July 26, 2013, accessed on July 26, 2013 . 
13. ^ Official final result of the Bundestag election on September 27, 2009 in the constituency of the City of Hanover II ( Memento from July 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive )