Upper Allgäu Bundestag constituency

Constituency 256: Oberallgäu
Country	Germany
state	Bavaria
Constituency number	256
Residents	300,000
Eligible voters	225,952
voter turnout	78.1%
Election date	September 24, 2017
MPs	3 (CSU, FDP, AfD)

Ballot from the 2017 federal election

The Bundestag constituency Oberallgäu (constituency 256) is a constituency for the elections to the German Bundestag in Bavaria . It includes the independent city of Kempten and the districts of Lindau and Oberallgäu . In the federal election in 2013, 223,340 residents were eligible to vote. The predecessor constituency of the Oberallgäu constituency was the Kempten Bundestag constituency from 1949 to 1976 . The district election management takes over the district office Lindau.

Bundestag election 2017

For the general election in 2017 on September 24, 2017 nine direct candidates and 21 regional lists were approved. The CSU remained the strongest force, but lost a lot of votes. The AfD is new . Gerd Müller from the CSU received the direct mandate for the Bundestag. In addition, Peter Felser (AfD) and Stephan Thomae (FDP) enter the Bundestag. While the turnout in 2013 was 69.4 percent, it rose to 78.1 percent.

Direct candidate	Political party	First votes in%	Second votes in%
Gerd Müller	CSU	50.4	41.5
Katharina Schrader	SPD	12.2	12.4
Erna-Kathrein grudge	Alliance 90 / The Greens	9.2	11.3
Stephan Thomae	FDP	7th	10.8
Peter Felser	AfD	9.6	10.6
Franz Xaver Merk	The left	4.7	5.8
Hugo Michael Wirthensohn	Free voters	4.5	2.9
-	PIRATES	-	0.3
Lucia Maria Fischer	ödp	1.3	0.9
Josef Anton Kirchmann	BP	1	0.7
-	NPD	-	0.2
-	Animal welfare party	-	0.9
-	MLPD	-	0.0
-	Busy	-	0.0
-	UBI	-	0.3
-	DiB	-	0.1
-	DKP	-	0.0
-	DM	-	0.2
-	The party	-	0.5
-	Health research	-	0.1
-	V party³	-	0.2

Bundestag election 2013

Direct candidate	Political party	First votes in%	Second votes in%
Gerd Müller	CSU	60.7	52.4
Katharina Schrader	SPD	17.3	16.0
Michael Schropp	Alliance 90 / The Greens	8.5	9.3
Stephan Thomae	FDP	3.5	5.6
Ludwig Streitle	REP	1.4	0.7
Stefan Albanesi	The left	3.6	3.6
-	NPD	-	0.6
-	BP	-	0.6
Wilhelm Vachenauer	ödp	2.7	1.4
Ralph Osterkamp	PIRATES	2.0	1.6
-	The animal welfare party	-	0.8
-	AFD	-	4.3
-	FREE VOTERS	-	2.5
Maximilian Schoenberger	Alliance 21 / RRP	0.3	0.1
-	other	-	0.5

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%
Gerd Müller	CSU	53.0	44.9	52.9
Reinhard Strehlke	SPD	12.2	13.0	20.9
Thomas Hartmann	Alliance 90 / The Greens	12.8	11.3	8.2
Stephan Thomae	FDP	11.1	16.5	10.8
Konrad Huber	REP	1.3	1.1	1.0
Stefan Albanesi	The left .	5.0	5.6	3.0
Alexander Kreidemann	NPD	0.8	0.8	0.8
-	PBC	-	0.2	0.3
Josef Kirchmann	BP	1.7	1.0	0.4
Wilhelm Vachenauer	ödp	2.0	1.4	-
-	PIRATES	-	1.7	-
-	BüSo	-	0.0	0.1
-	FAMILY	-	0.8	0.8
-	THE VIOLETS	-	0.2	-
-	The animal welfare party	-	0.7	-
-	RRP	-	0.6	-
-	CM	-	0.2	-

Constituency winner since 1949

choice	Surname	Political party
1949	Karl Graf von Spreti	CSU
1953	Karl Graf von Spreti	CSU
1957	Georg jug	CSU
1961	Georg jug	CSU
1965	Georg jug	CSU
1969	Wolfgang Pohle	CSU
1972	Ignaz Kiechle	CSU
1976	Ignaz Kiechle	CSU
1980	Ignaz Kiechle	CSU
1983	Ignaz Kiechle	CSU
1987	Ignaz Kiechle	CSU
1990	Ignaz Kiechle	CSU
1994	Gerd Müller	CSU
1998	Gerd Müller	CSU
2002	Gerd Müller	CSU
2005	Gerd Müller	CSU
2009	Gerd Müller	CSU
2013	Gerd Müller	CSU
2017	Gerd Müller	CSU

Constituency history

choice	Constituency name	area
1949	46 Kempten	City of Kempten, district of Kempten (Allgäu) , city of Lindau (Lake Constance) , district of Lindau (Lake Constance), district of Sonthofen
1953-1961	241 Kempten
1965-1972	243 Kempten	City of Kempten, District of Kempten (Allgäu), City of Lindau (Lake Constance), District of Lindau (Lake Constance), District of Sonthofen, District of Füssen
1976-1998	242 Oberallgäu	District of Oberallgäu, City of Kempten (Allgäu), District of Lindau (Lake Constance)
2002-2005	257 Oberallgäu
since 2009	256 Oberallgäu

Web links

• Structural data for the Oberallgäu constituency from the Federal Returning Officer
• Constituency results of earlier federal elections. The Federal Returning Officer, accessed on May 12, 2009 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Structural data 256: Oberallgäu. Federal Returning Officer , accessed on September 30, 2017 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Results 256: Oberallgäu. Federal Returning Officer , accessed on September 30, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Constituency division ( memento from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ The Federal Returning Officer : Direct candidate (inside) in Schweinfurt - The Federal Returning Officer. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 26, 2017 ; accessed on September 29, 2017 . 
5. ^ The Federal Returning Officer : State lists of the parties in Bavaria - The Federal Returning Officer. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 26, 2017 ; accessed on September 29, 2017 .