Landtag constituency Recklinghausen IV

Constituency 72: Recklinghausen IV
Country	Germany
state	North Rhine-Westphalia
Constituency number	72
Eligible voters	102,634
voter turnout	67.2%
Election date	May 14, 2017
Constituency representative
Surname	Josef Hovenjürgen
Political party	CDU
Voting share	41.2

The state constituency of Recklinghausen IV is a state constituency in the Recklinghausen district in North Rhine-Westphalia . It includes the communities of Haltern am See and Oer-Erkenschwick as well as the districts of Deuten, Lembeck, Rhade and Wulfen of the city of Dorsten , the districts of Hüls-Süd and Sinsen-Lenkerbeck of the city of Marl and the district electoral district I in the northwest of the municipality of Datteln .

The constituency was newly formed for the 2005 state elections . It emerged roughly from the constituency of Recklinghausen IV, as it was formed for the state election in 2000 (Datteln, Haltern, Oer-Erkenschwick). Before that it included the communities of Castrop-Rauxel and Waltrop .

State election 2017

102,634 residents were entitled to vote.

Direct candidate	Political party	First votes in%	Second votes in%
Hans-Peter Müller	SPD	36.4	34.1
Josef Hovenjürgen	CDU	41.2	34.2
Dariusch Rimkus	GREEN	4.8	4.5
Christian Leson	FDP	9.2	10.4
Nicolaus Kern	Pirates	3.0	1.0
Asli Nau	LEFT	5.4	4.1
-	AfD	-	8.4
-	Rest	-	3.3

The constituency is represented by the directly elected constituency member Josef Hovenjürgen (CDU), who has been a member of the state parliament since 1999 with one interruption from 2000 to 2002 and who was able to recapture the direct mandate from the SPD after five years. The previous constituency member Hans-Peter Müller (SPD) left the state parliament because his 28th place on the list was not enough for him to move back in. The previous pirate member Nicolaus Kern only ran for election in the constituency and no longer on the state list, so that his departure from the state parliament was practically certain before the election.

State election 2012

103,156 residents were entitled to vote.

Direct candidate	Political party	First votes in%	Second votes in%
Hans-Peter Müller	SPD	42.7	42.8
Josef Hovenjürgen	CDU	34.3	26.7
Christian Wegner	GREEN	7.8	9.3
Peter Amsel	FDP	3.2	6.2
Friedrich-Josef Geisthövel	LEFT	3.0	2.4
Christian Folke	Pirates	8.9	8.4
-	Rest	-	4.2

State election 2010

103,950 residents were entitled to vote.

Direct candidate	Political party	First votes in%	Second votes in%
Josef Hovenjürgen	CDU	40.7	34.6
Hans-Peter Müller	SPD	40.3	38.3
Thorsten Winskowski	GREEN	9.1	10.0
Simon Saro Avakian	FDP	2.9	5.2
Friedrich Geisthövel	LEFT	7.1	6.1
-	Others	-	5.8

State election 2005

103,395 residents were entitled to vote.

Direct candidate	Political party	Votes in%
Andreas Krebs	SPD	40.1
Josef Hovenjürgen	CDU	44.0
Burkhart Fidora	FDP	4.1
Horst Papenfuß	GREEN	4.5
Peter Arning	REP	0.6
Friedrich-Wilhelm Zachraj	PDS	0.8
Michael Schoenberg	INDEPENDENT CITIZENS	0.6
Richard Muller	Animal welfare	0.9
Martin Seelert	NPD	0.9
Nicole Schmitz	ödp	0.1
Heinz-Dieter Teigelkämper	WASG	2.1
Karl-Heinz Rusche	Individual applicants	1.3

State election 2000

78,394 residents were entitled to vote.

Direct candidate	Political party	Votes in%
Karl-Heinz Rusche	SPD	49.2
Josef Hovenjürgen	CDU	33.8
Ulrich Brack	GREEN	5.8
Peter Fechner	FDP	8.0
Dieter Nahler	REP	1.6
Rest	Rest	1.8

Constituency winner

year	Constituency name	area	Direct mandate	Political party
1947	90 Recklinghausen-Land, northeast	old Recklinghausen district	Hedwig Finger	CDU
1950	90 Recklinghausen-Ld.-Nordost	old Recklinghausen district	Hedwig Finger	CDU
1954	90 Recklinghausen-Ld.-Nordost	old Recklinghausen district	Lambert Lensing	CDU
1958	90 Recklinghausen-Land-Nordost	old Recklinghausen district	Heinrich Wiesmann	CDU
1962	90 Recklinghausen-Land-Nordost	old Recklinghausen district	Heinrich Wiesmann	CDU
1966	93 Recklinghausen-Land I	old Recklinghausen district	Heinz Netta	SPD
1970	93 Recklinghausen-Land I	old Recklinghausen district	Heinz Netta	SPD
1975	93 Recklinghausen-Land I	old Recklinghausen district	Heinz Netta	SPD
1980	83 Recklinghausen III	Datteln, Haltern, Oer-Erkenschwick	Heinz Netta	SPD
1985	83 Recklinghausen III	Datteln, Haltern, Oer-Erkenschwick	Karl-Heinz Rusche	SPD
1990	83 Recklinghausen III	Datteln, Haltern, Oer-Erkenschwick, Dorsten (partially)	Karl-Heinz Rusche	SPD
1995	83 Recklinghausen III	Datteln, Haltern, Oer-Erkenschwick, Dorsten (partially)	Karl-Heinz Rusche	SPD
2000	84 Recklinghausen IV	Datteln, Haltern, Oer-Erkenschwick	Karl-Heinz Rusche	SPD
2005	72 Recklinghausen IV	Haltern, Oer-Erkenschwick, Datteln (partly), Dorsten (partly), Marl (partly)	Josef Hovenjürgen	CDU
2010	72 Recklinghausen IV	Haltern, Oer-Erkenschwick, Datteln (partly), Dorsten (partly), Marl (partly)	Josef Hovenjürgen	CDU
2012	72 Recklinghausen IV	Haltern, Oer-Erkenschwick, Datteln (partly), Dorsten (partly), Marl (partly)	Hans-Peter Müller	SPD
2017	72 Recklinghausen IV	Haltern, Oer-Erkenschwick, Datteln (partly), Dorsten (partly), Marl (partly)	Josef Hovenjürgen	CDU

See also

• State elections in North Rhine-Westphalia
• List of state electoral districts in North Rhine-Westphalia 2010–2012

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Allocation of constituencies . State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia. Retrieved December 4, 2012.
2. ↑ Results of the state election 2017 , accessed on December 13, 2018.
3. ↑ Results of the state elections 2012 ( Memento of the original from December 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , accessed November 24, 2012. 
4. ↑ Results of the state elections 2010 ( Memento of the original from December 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , accessed 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 December 13, 2018.
7. ↑ Constituency winner on landtag.nrw.de

Web links

• State elections NRW