Bundestag constituency Werra-Meißner - Hersfeld-Rotenburg

Constituency 169: Werra-Meißner - Hersfeld-Rotenburg
Country	Germany
state	Hesse
Constituency number	169
Residents	224.100
Eligible voters	180.203
voter turnout	72.9%
Election date	22nd September 2013
Constituency representative
Surname	Michael Roth
Political party	SPD
Voting share	43.1%

The constituency Werra-Meißner - Hersfeld-Rotenburg (constituency 169) is a Bundestag constituency in Hesse . The constituency includes the two North Hessian districts of Hersfeld-Rotenburg and Werra-Meißner . The constituency is considered an SPD stronghold.

Election 2017

Bundestag election 2017 - WK Werra-Meißner - Hersfeld-Rotenburg

(in %)

%

40

30th

20th

10

0

32.6

29.4

6.0

6.7

13.1

8.5

0.5

0.3

0.9

0.7

Gains and losses

compared to 2013

% p

8th

6th

4th

2

0

-2

-4

-6

-8th

-4.3

-6.6

-1.0

+0.7

+7.5

+4.6

-1.1

-1.2

+0.1

+0.3

The 2017 Bundestag election will take place on Sunday, September 24, 2017. In Hessen , 20 parties applied with their state list. The Alliance of German Democrats withdrew their application. The violet one was rejected by the state election committee because the required two thousand signatures for support were not presented. Thus 18 parties apply with their state lists in Hesse. A total of 353 applicants are running on the state lists, less than a third (114) of them women.

Subject of Proof		First- be right		Second- be right
Applicants	Political party	number	%	number	%
Eligible voters		175.992	100.0	175.992	100.0
Voters		133,740	76.0	133,740	76.0
Invalid votes		2,513	1.9	2,677	2.0
Valid votes		131,227	98.1	131,063	98.0
from that
Timo Lübeck	CDU	39,300	29.9	38,529	29.4
Michael Helmut Roth	SPD	54.030	41.2	42,734	32.6
Martina Selzer	GREEN	5,236	4.0	7,843	6.0
Sabine Ingeborg Leidig	THE LEFT	7,281	5.5	8,746	6.7
Stefan Wild	AfD	16,408	12.5	17.173	13.1
Manfred Lister	FDP	6,597	5.0	11.096	8.5
	PIRATES	-	-	429	0.3
	NPD	-	-	601	0.5
Emmanuel Anyangwe Ngassa	FREE VOTERS	2,375	1.8	1,238	0.9
	The party	-	-	855	0.7
	Busy	-	-	29	0.0
	MLPD	-	-	35	0.0
	UBI	-	-	204	0.2
	DKP	-	-	34	0.0
	DM	-	-	208	0.2
	ÖDP	-	-	139	0.1
	Animal welfare party	-	-	1,021	0.8
	V party³	-	-	149	0.1

Election 2013

Bundestag election 2013 - WK Werra-Meißner - Hersfeld-Rotenburg

(in %)

%

40

30th

20th

10

0

36.9

36.0

7.0

6.0

5.6

3.9

1.6

1.5

0.8

0.4

Gains and losses

compared to 2009

% p

6th

4th

2

0

-2

-4

-6

-8th

-10

+2.5

+5.7

-1.1

-3.8

+5.6

-9.4

+0.1

± 0.0

+0.8

+0.4

The 2013 federal election took place on Sunday, September 22, 2013, together with the 2013 state election in Hesse . In Hesse, 16 parties had applied with their state lists. The ödp has withdrawn its list. This meant that 15 parties could be elected nationwide.

Result of the federal election on
September 22, 2013
Subject of evidence		First votes		Second votes
Applicants	Political party	number	%	number	%
Eligible voters		180.203	100.0	180.203	100.0
Voters		131,446	72.9	131,446	72.9
Invalid votes		4,632	3.5	4.193	3.2
Valid votes		126,814	100.0	127.253	100.0
from that
Helmut Heiderich	CDU	51,386	40.5	45,872	36.0
Michael Roth	SPD	54,630	43.1	46,913	36.9
Manfred Lister	FDP	2,513	2.0	5,014	3.9
Armin Jung	GREEN	6.333	5.0	8,868	7.0
Johanna Scheringer-Wright	THE LEFT	7,277	5.7	7,584	6.0
Michael Balke	PIRATES	2,283	1.8	1,954	1.5
Gisela Lück	NPD	2,392	1.9	2.013	1.6
	REP	-	-	170	0.1
	BüSo	-	-	55	0.0
	MLPD	-	-	41	0.0
	AfD	-	-	7.096	5.6
	per Germany	-	-	136	0.1
	FREE VOTERS	-	-	961	0.8
	The party	-	-	521	0.4
	PSG	-	-	55	0.0

Helmut Heiderich was able to move into the 18th German Bundestag via the CDU state list.

Election 2009

Result of the federal election on
September 27, 2009
Subject of evidence		First votes		Second votes
Applicants	Political party	number	%	number	%
Eligible voters		184,337	100.0	184,337	100.0
Voters		135,727	73.6	135,727	73.6
Invalid votes		3.713	2.7	3,630	2.7
Valid votes		132.014	100.0	132.097	100.0
from that
Michael Roth	SPD	53,275	40.4	45.401	34.4
Helmut Heiderich	CDU	45,711	34.6	39,966	30.3
Thomas Fehling	FDP	12,290	9.3	17,526	13.3
Philipp Schmagold	GREEN	7,530	5.7	10,679	8.1
Mareike Zingsem	THE LEFT	11,080	8.4	12,927	9.8
Konrad Bentz	NPD	2.128	1.6	1.939	1.5
	REP	-	-	422	0.3
	The animal welfare party	-	-	1.004	0.8
	BüSo	-	-	155	0.1
	MLPD	-	-	35	0.0
	DVU	-	-	95	0.1
	PIRATES	-	-	1,948	1.5

Election 2005

Result of the federal election on
September 18, 2005
Subject of evidence		First votes		Second votes
Applicants	Political party	number	%	number	%
Eligible voters		188.904	100.0	188.904	100.0
Voters		149.474	79.1	149.474	79.1
Invalid votes		3,958	2.6	3,880	2.6
Valid votes		145,516	100.0	145,594	100.0
from that
Michael Roth	SPD	75,269	51.7	65,876	45.2
Helmut Heiderich	CDU	49,882	34.3	43,457	29.8
Jörg Althoff	GREEN	4,283	2.9	9,804	6.7
Thomas Fehling	FDP	5,699	3.9	12,750	8.8
Ines Wolf	The left.	6,514	4.5	8,622	5.9
	REP	-	-	888	0.6
	The animal welfare party	-	-	1,000	0.7
Konrad Bentz	NPD	2,402	1.7	2.234	1.5
	GRAY	-	-	515	0.4
	BüSo	-	-	164	0.1
	MLPD	-	-	67	0.0
	PSG	-	-	217	0.1
Wolfhard Austen	Independent candidates	1,467	1.0	-	-

Election 2002

Result of the federal election on
September 22, 2002
Subject of evidence		First votes		Second votes
Applicants	Political party	number	%	number	%
Eligible voters		191.217	100.0	191.217	100.0
Voters		153,878	80.5	153,878	80.5
Invalid votes		3,645	2.4	3,438	2.2
Valid votes		150.233	100.0	150,440	100.0
from that
Michael Roth	SPD	82,541	54.9	74,756	49.7
Helmut Heiderich	CDU	53,108	35.4	49,307	32.8
Hans-Jürgen Müller	GREEN	5.141	3.4	9,949	6.6
Gernot Müller	FDP	7.166	4.8	10,550	7.0
	REP	-	-	947	0.6
Claudia Fittkow	PDS	1,767	1.2	1,733	1.2
	The animal welfare party	-	-	786	0.5
	NPD	-	-	540	0.4
	GRAY	-	-	263	0.2
	PBC	-	-	228	0.2
	CM	-	-	90	0.1
	ödp	-	-	52	0.0
	BüSo	-	-	38	0.0
	Schill	-	-	1,201	0.8
Hans-Jürgen Spinn	Individual applicants	510	0.3	-	-

Helmut Heiderich entered the Bundestag via the CDU's state list.

Constituency history

For the 2002 elections lost Nordhessen a constituency. From areas of the two constituencies Hersfeld and Werra-Meißner , which were dissolved in this context , a new constituency was set up with the name Werra-Meißner - Hersfeld , whose name was changed to Werra-Meißner - Hersfeld-Rotenburg for the 2005 federal election .

year	Constituency name	area	Direct candidate	Political party	Votes in%
2002	171 Werra-Meißner - Hersfeld	District of Hersfeld-Rotenburg , Werra-Meißner district	Michael Roth	SPD	54.9
2005	171 Werra-Meißner - Hersfeld-Rotenburg		Michael Roth	SPD	51.7
2009	170 Werra-Meißner - Hersfeld-Rotenburg		Michael Roth	SPD	40.4
2013	169 Werra-Meißner - Hersfeld-Rotenburg		Michael Roth	SPD	43.1

Web links

Structural data of the constituency on the homepage of the Federal Returning Officer

Individual evidence

↑ Official constituency division 2013 ( Memento from June 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
^ Official final result of the federal election on September 24, 2017 in the Werra-Meißner - Hersfeld-Rotenburg constituency
^ Frankfurter Neue Presse: Hessen: 18 parties with state lists for the federal election | Frankfurter Neue Presse . ( fnp.de [accessed on July 29, 2017]). Hessen: 18 parties with state lists for the federal election | Frankfurter Neue Presse ( Memento from July 29, 2017 in the Internet Archive )

↑ PM 2 - Bundestag election 2017 . In: Elections in Hesse . July 27, 2017 ( hessen.de [accessed July 29, 2017]).

↑ State election committee allows 15 parties to participate in the federal election in Hesse ( Memento from September 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Press release from the Hessian state return officer of July 26, 2013

^ Result of the 2013 federal election in constituency 169 ( memo from December 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on the homepage of the state returning officer for Hesse

↑ Nominations for the Bundestag election on September 22, 2013 (ZIP, 668 kB)

↑ Applicants selected via the state lists ( memento of July 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on the homepage of the state returning officer for Hesse

↑ Bundestag constituency 170 - Werra-Meißner - Hersfeld-Rotenburg ( Memento from December 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on the homepage of the State Returning Officer for Hesse

↑ Nominations for the Bundestag election on September 27, 2009 (ZIP, 288 kB)

^ Result of the 2005 Bundestag election in constituency 171 ( memento from March 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on the homepage of the State Returning Officer for Hesse

↑ Nominations for the federal election on September 18, 2005 in Hesse (ZIP, 414 kB)

^ Final result of the Bundestag election on September 22, 2002 in the state of Hesse on September 22, 2002 . In: State Returning Officer for Hesse (Ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 2002 No. 42 , p. 4008 , 1000 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 6.5 MB ]).

↑ Nominations for the Bundestag election on September 22, 2002 in Hesse (ZIP, 352 kB)

↑ ^a ^b Sixteenth Act to Amend the Federal Election Act of April 27, 2001 ( Federal Law Gazette I p. 701 )

↑ ^a ^b Seventeenth law amending the Federal Electoral Act of March 11, 2005 ( Federal Law Gazette I p. 674 )

↑ ^a ^b Eighteenth Act to Amend the Federal Election Act of March 17, 2008 ( Federal Law Gazette I p. 316 )

↑ ^a ^b Twentieth Act to Amend the Federal Election Act of April 12, 2012 ( Federal Law Gazette I p. 518 )

[1] Official constituency division 2013 ( Memento from June 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

[Wahl_2017-2] Official final result of the federal election on September 24, 2017 in the Werra-Meißner - Hersfeld-Rotenburg constituency

[3] Frankfurter Neue Presse: Hessen: 18 parties with state lists for the federal election | Frankfurter Neue Presse . ( fnp.de [accessed on July 29, 2017]). Hessen: 18 parties with state lists for the federal election | Frankfurter Neue Presse ( Memento from July 29, 2017 in the Internet Archive )

[4] PM 2 - Bundestag election 2017 . In: Elections in Hesse . July 27, 2017 ( hessen.de [accessed July 29, 2017]).

[5] State election committee allows 15 parties to participate in the federal election in Hesse ( Memento from September 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Press release from the Hessian state return officer of July 26, 2013

[6] Result of the 2013 federal election in constituency 169 ( memo from December 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on the homepage of the state returning officer for Hesse

[7] Nominations for the Bundestag election on September 22, 2013 (ZIP, 668 kB)

[8] Applicants selected via the state lists ( memento of July 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on the homepage of the state returning officer for Hesse

[9] Bundestag constituency 170 - Werra-Meißner - Hersfeld-Rotenburg ( Memento from December 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on the homepage of the State Returning Officer for Hesse

[10] Nominations for the Bundestag election on September 27, 2009 (ZIP, 288 kB)

[11] Result of the 2005 Bundestag election in constituency 171 ( memento from March 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on the homepage of the State Returning Officer for Hesse

[12] Nominations for the federal election on September 18, 2005 in Hesse (ZIP, 414 kB)

[13] Final result of the Bundestag election on September 22, 2002 in the state of Hesse on September 22, 2002 . In: State Returning Officer for Hesse (Ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 2002 No. 42 , p. 4008 , 1000 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 6.5 MB ]).

[14] Nominations for the Bundestag election on September 22, 2002 in Hesse (ZIP, 352 kB)

['01-15] Sixteenth Act to Amend the Federal Election Act of April 27, 2001 ( Federal Law Gazette I p. 701 )

['05-16] Seventeenth law amending the Federal Electoral Act of March 11, 2005 ( Federal Law Gazette I p. 674 )

['08-17] Eighteenth Act to Amend the Federal Election Act of March 17, 2008 ( Federal Law Gazette I p. 316 )

['12-18] Twentieth Act to Amend the Federal Election Act of April 12, 2012 ( Federal Law Gazette I p. 518 )