Landtag constituency Recklinghausen II

Constituency 70: Recklinghausen II
Country	Germany
state	North Rhine-Westphalia
Constituency number	70
Eligible voters	95.160
voter turnout	61.7%
Election date	May 14, 2017
Constituency representative
Surname	Carsten Löcker
Political party	SPD
Voting share	39.7%

The state constituency Recklinghausen II is a state constituency in North Rhine-Westphalia . It is located in the Recklinghausen district and includes the cities of Herten and Marl (excluding Sinsen-Lenkerbeck and Hüls-Süd, which are part of the Recklinghausen IV state constituency ).

The constituency was reformed for the 2005 state elections. In 2000 it still comprised the communities of Castrop-Rauxel and Waltrop (today Recklinghausen V ), before that it comprised almost the entire city of Marl except for Polsum .

State election 2017

95,160 residents were entitled to vote.

Direct candidate	Political party	First votes in%	Second votes in%
Carsten Löcker	SPD	39.7	38.4
Patrick Rohmann	CDU	30.6	27.1
Martina Herrmann	GREEN	3.7	3.7
Thorsten Leineweber	FDP	8.0	9.6
Melanie Kern	Pirates	1.9	1.1
Martina Ruhardt	LEFT	5.2	4.4
Marcus Pretzell	AfD	9.6	11.2
Rest	Rest	1.3	4.6

In addition to the directly elected constituency member Carsten Löcker (SPD), who has held the mandate since 2012, the AfD candidate Marcus Pretzell was chosen as the top candidate of his party on the state list. He resigned from the AfD on September 26, 2017 and has been a non-attached member of the state parliament ever since.

State election 2012

97,797 residents were entitled to vote.

Direct candidate	Political party	First votes in%	Second votes in%
Matthias Dörtelmann	CDU	24.4	20.5
Carsten Löcker	SPD	51.5	49.8
Jan Philipp Lindmeyer	GREEN	6.1	7.3
Thorsten Leineweber	FDP	3.6	5.3
Merle Lindemann	LEFT	3.2	2.7
Michael Levedag	Pirates	10.0	9.0

State election 2010

98,922 residents were entitled to vote.

Direct candidate	Political party	First votes in%	Second votes in%
Matthias Dörtelmann	CDU	30.0	27.5
Margret Gottschlich	SPD	52.1	47.9
Siegfried Schönfeld	B'90 / Greens	5.9	7.3
Thorsten Leineweber	FDP	3.9	4.2
Markus Brick	The left	6.9	6.4
Udo Surmann	Individual applicants	1.1	-
-	Others	-	6.7

State election 2005

101,212 residents were eligible to vote.

Direct candidate	Political party	Votes in%
Margret Gottschlich	SPD	50.6
Karl-Heinz Dargel	CDU	35.2
Jens Hoffmann	FDP	4.1
Karl Kneip	GREEN	3.6
Wilfried Kunstmann	WASG	2.8
Joachim Gläßel	NPD	1.4
Engelbert Maas	PDS	1.1
Erwin Pietzka	REP	0.9
Helmut Wohlgemuth	ödp	0.3

State election 2000

83,315 residents were entitled to vote.

Direct candidate	Political party	Votes in%
Bernhard Kasperek	SPD	52.5
Karl-Heinz Dargel	CDU	30.7
Robert Heinze	FDP	7.5
Karl Kneip	GREEN	5.5
Heinz Huebner	REP	1.7

Constituency winner

year	Constituency name	area	Direct mandate	Political party
1947	91 Recklinghausen-Land, southwest	old Recklinghausen district	Anton Hoppe	CDU
1950	91 Recklinghausen-Ld., Southwest	old Recklinghausen district	Heinrich Wiesmann	CDU
1954	91 Recklinghausen-Ld., Southwest	old Recklinghausen district	Heinrich Wiesmann	CDU
1958	93 Recklinghausen-Land, southwest	old Recklinghausen district	Adolf Oertmann	CDU
1962	93 Recklinghausen-Land, southwest	old Recklinghausen district	Wilhelm Pelkmann	CDU
1966	95 Recklinghausen-Land III	old Recklinghausen district	Karl Steinhart	SPD
1970	95 Recklinghausen-Land III	old Recklinghausen district	Cornelius Riewerts	CDU
1975	95 Recklinghausen-Land III	old Recklinghausen district	Heinz Wiese	SPD
1980	81 Recklinghausen I	Dorsten, Herten, Marl-Polsum	Willi Wessel	SPD
1985	81 Recklinghausen I	Dorsten, Herten, Marl-Polsum	Willi Wessel	SPD
1990	81 Recklinghausen I	Dorsten (partially), Herten, Marl-Polsum	Bernhard Kasperek	SPD
1995	81 Recklinghausen I	Dorsten (partially), Herten, Marl-Polsum	Bernhard Kasperek	SPD
2000	83 Recklinghausen III	Herten, Marl (partially)	Bernhard Kasperek	SPD
2005	70 Recklinghausen II	Herten, Marl (partially)	Margret Gottschlich	SPD
2010	70 Recklinghausen II	Herten, Marl (partially)	Margret Gottschlich	SPD
2012	70 Recklinghausen II	Herten, Marl (partially)	Carsten Löcker	SPD
2017	70 Recklinghausen II	Herten, Marl (partially)	Carsten Löcker	SPD

Individual evidence

↑ Allocation of constituencies . State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia. Retrieved December 4, 2012.
↑ Results of the 2017 state elections , accessed on December 12, 2018.
↑ Results of the 2012 state elections ( Memento from December 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on November 24, 2012.
↑ Results of the 2010 state elections ( memento from December 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on November 24, 2012.
↑ Results of the 2005 state elections , accessed on November 24, 2012.
↑ Results of the state elections in 2000 , accessed on November 24, 2012.
↑ Constituency winner on landtag.nrw.de

Web links

State elections NRW

[1] Allocation of constituencies . State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia. Retrieved December 4, 2012.

[2] Results of the 2017 state elections , accessed on December 12, 2018.

[3] Results of the 2012 state elections ( Memento from December 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on November 24, 2012.

[4] Results of the 2010 state elections ( memento from December 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on November 24, 2012.

[5] Results of the 2005 state elections , accessed on November 24, 2012.

[6] Results of the state elections in 2000 , accessed on November 24, 2012.

[7] Constituency winner on landtag.nrw.de