Landtag constituency of Cologne II

Constituency 14: Cologne II
Country	Germany
state	North Rhine-Westphalia
Constituency number	14th
Eligible voters	113,432
voter turnout	75.0%
Election date	May 14, 2017
Constituency representative
Surname	Bernd Petelkau
Political party	CDU
Voting share	37.0%

The state electoral district of Cologne II is one of seven Cologne electoral districts for the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia . Since 2005, it has covered the entire Lindenthal district .

When it was founded in 1980, the Cologne II constituency still comprised the Rodenkirchen district , later parts of the Neustadt-Süd district , which belongs to the city center district, were added . Rodenkirchen as well as Neustadt-Süd and Altstadt-Süd now form the Cologne I state electoral district . The district of Lindenthal was covered by the Cologne III state electoral district until 2000 .

State election 2017

Election day for the state election in North Rhine-Westphalia 2017 is Sunday, May 14th 2017. 113,432 citizens were eligible to vote in the constituency. The final election result is as follows:

Direct candidate	Political party	First votes in%	Second votes in%
Lisa Steinmann	SPD	29.0	23.8
Bernd Petelkau	CDU	37.0	30.8
Frank Jablonski	GREEN	10.7	12.7
Katja Hoyer	FDP	10.9	18.4
Lisa Hanna Gerlach	PIRATES	0.9	0.8
Carolin Butterwegge	LEFT	6.8	6.7
Roger Beckamp	AfD	3.2	3.8
Other	Other	1.4	2.9

In addition to the constituency winner Bernd Petelkau of the CDU, who was able to remove the direct mandate from the SPD after five years, the AfD candidate Rober Beckamp was elected to the state parliament on second place on his party's state list. The previous constituency member Lisa Steinmann (SPD) resigned from the state parliament because her state list position 53 was not enough for a mandate.

State election 2012

The turnout in the election on May 13, 2012 was 69.1%.

Direct candidate	Political party	First votes in%	Second votes in%
Lisa Steinmann	SPD	35.9	30.2
Martin Schoser	CDU	32.4	22.6
Judith Hasselmann	GREEN	17.3	20.9
Katja Hoyer	FDP	6.4	14.9
Daniel Schwerd	PIRATES	5.7	6.3
Carolin Butterwegge	LEFT	2.3	2.2
-	Other	-	2.9

State election 2010

Election day for the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia 2010 was Sunday, May 9, 2010. 105,621 residents were entitled to vote. The turnout was 69.7 percent.

Direct candidate	Political party	First votes in%	Second votes in%
Martin Schoser	CDU	38.0	32.6
Lisa Steinmann	SPD	31.7	25.1
Judith Hasselmann	GREEN	18.2	22.7
Magnus Tessner	FDP	5.1	10.1
Carolin Butterwegge	LEFT	3.8	4.5
Daniel Schwerd	PIRATES	1.7	1.7
Hans-Martin Breninek	Pro NRW	1.3	1.3
Mario Wuthe	BüSo	0.1	0.1
René Kummer	Free Union	0.1	0.0
-	Others	-	1.9

State election 2005

99,298 residents were entitled to vote.

Direct candidate	Political party	Votes in%
Franz-Josef Knieps	CDU	40.5
Tayfun Keltek	SPD	31.6
Edith Mueller	GREEN	13.7
Hans-Hermann Stein	FDP	10.0
Axel Krämer	WASG	1.2
Paul Schäfer	PDS	1.0
Herbert-Aurel Görgen	GRAY	1.0
Bernd Moser	REP	0.6
Ingulf-Michael Andres	ödp	0.2
Benedict Fuchs	Individual applicants	0.2
Erhard Golla	BüSo	0.1

Web links

• Election results of the state elections 2005
• Final constituency result of the state election 2010

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Allocation of constituencies . State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia. Retrieved December 1, 2012.
2. ↑ Results on www.wahlresults.nrw.de , accessed on November 4, 2018.
3. ↑ State Returning Officer of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia: State Election 2012. (PDF 17.46 MB) Final results in North Rhine-Westphalia. In: Issue 3 (Order No. B793 2012 51). Informatition und Technik ( IT.NRW ), June 2012, pp. 296–298 , accessed on July 2, 2014 : “Top position and bottom lights: voter participation in the state electoral districts 2012 (LTWK) in NRW. 68th LTWK Essen IV : 69.7% ( Peter Weckmann ), 75th LTWK Gelsenkirchen II : 50.0% ( Markus Töns ), 63rd LTWK Duisburg IV : 46.8% ( Sören Link ) and 62nd LTWK Duisburg III : 45.5% ( Ralf Jäger ) - further results for the state elections NRW 2012 " 
4. ↑ State elections 2010. (PDF 7.8 MB) Final results in North Rhine-Westphalia. (No longer available online.) In: Issue 3 (Order No. B 79 3 2010 51). Informatition und Technik ( IT.NRW ), May 2010, pp. 290–292 , archived from the original on April 3, 2014 ; Retrieved on June 17, 2014 (top position and bottom lights :): “Participation in the electoral districts (LTWK) in NRW. 68th LTWK Essen IV ; 69.8% ( Manfred Kuhmichel ), 63rd LTWK Duisburg IV : 48.5% ( Sören Link ) and 62nd LTWK Duisburg III : 46.7% ( Ralf Jäger ) “ Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked . Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.