Wetterau I
176 Wetterau I | |
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Electoral district for the Bundestag | |
State | Hesse |
Population | 243,000 (2019) |
Electorate | 176,897 (2021) |
Major settlements | Bad Vilbel Bad Nauheim Friedberg |
Area | 745.8 km2 |
Current electoral district | |
Created | 1949 |
Party | SPD |
Member | Natalie Pawlik |
Elected | 2021 |
Wetterau I is an electoral constituency (German: Wahlkreis) represented in the Bundestag. It elects one member via first-past-the-post voting. Under the current constituency numbering system, it is designated as constituency 176. It is located in central Hesse, comprising most of the Wetteraukreis district.[1]
Wetterau I was created for the inaugural 1949 federal election. Since 2021, it has been represented by Natalie Pawlik of the Social Democratic Party (SPD).[2]
Geography
[edit]Wetterau I is located in central Hesse. As of the 2021 federal election, it comprises the entirety of the Wetteraukreis district excluding the municipalities of Altenstadt, Büdingen, Gedern, Glauburg, Hirzenhain, Kefenrod, Limeshain, and Ortenberg.[1]
History
[edit]Wetterau I was created in 1949, then known as Friedberg. In the 1976 through 2009 elections, it was named Wetterau. It acquired its current name in the 2013 election. In the 1949 election, it was Hesse constituency 11 in the numbering system. From 1953 through 1976, it was number 136. From 1980 through 1998, it was number 134. In the 2002 and 2005 elections, it was number 178. In the 2009 through 2021 elections, it was number 177. From the 2025 election, it has been number 176.
Originally, the constituency comprised the districts of Büdingen and Friedberg. From 1976 through 1998, it was coterminous with the Wetteraukreis district. In the 2002 through 2009 elections, it comprised the Wetteraukreis district and the municipalities of Bad Soden-Salmünster, Brachttal, and Wächtersbach from the Main-Kinzig-Kreis district. It acquired its current borders in the 2013 election.
Election | No. | Name | Borders |
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1949 | 11 | Friedberg |
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1953 | 136 | ||
1957 | |||
1961 | |||
1965 | |||
1969 | |||
1972 | Obertaunuskreis (Hochtaunuskreis) | ||
1976 | Wetterau |
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1980 | 134 | ||
1983 | |||
1987 | |||
1990 | |||
1994 | |||
1998 | |||
2002 | 178 |
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2005 | |||
2009 | 177 | ||
2013 | Wetterau I |
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2017 | |||
2021 | |||
2025 | 176 |
Members
[edit]The constituency was first represented by Wilhelm Knothe of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) from 1949 until his death in 1952. Fellow party member Kurt Moosdorf won the subsequent by-election, but Willi Richter replaced him as SPD candidate and representative in the 1953 federal election. Richter was succeeded by Lucie Beyer in 1957. Georg Schlaga then served from 1969 to 1983. Christian Schwarz-Schilling of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) was elected in 1983 and was representative until 1998. Nina Hauer won the constituency for the SPD in 1998 and served three terms. Lucia Puttrich of the CDU was then representative from 2009 to 2013. Oswin Veith was elected in 2013 and re-elected in 2017. He resigned in March 2020 to become chairman of Oberhessische Versorgungsbetriebe (OVAG). Natalie Pawlik was elected for the SPD in 2021.
Election | Member | Party | % | |
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1949 | Wilhelm Knothe | SPD | 33.1 | |
1952 | Kurt Moosdorf | SPD | ||
1953 | Willi Richter | SPD | 37.3 | |
1957 | Lucie Beyer | SPD | 41.1 | |
1961 | 47.1 | |||
1965 | 49.8 | |||
1969 | Georg Schlaga | SPD | 51.3 | |
1972 | 53.8 | |||
1976 | 47.8 | |||
1980 | 49.6 | |||
1983 | Christian Schwarz-Schilling | CDU | 44.2 | |
1987 | 45.3 | |||
1990 | 44.2 | |||
1994 | 46.3 | |||
1998 | Nina Hauer | SPD | 46.3 | |
2002 | 46.4 | |||
2005 | 43.3 | |||
2009 | Lucia Puttrich | CDU | 41.0 | |
2013 | Oswin Veith | CDU | 47.1 | |
2017 | 36.4 | |||
2021 | Natalie Pawlik | SPD | 29.7 |
Election results
[edit]2021 election
[edit]Federal election (2021): Wetterau I[3] | |||||||||
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Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
SPD | Natalie Pawlik | 40,618 | 29.7 | 0.6 | 35,909 | 26.2 | 3.5 | ||
CDU | Armin Häuser | 38,807 | 28.3 | 8.1 | 32,419 | 23.6 | 8.4 | ||
Greens | Michaela Colletti | 18,996 | 13.9 | 5.6 | 21,917 | 16.0 | 6.5 | ||
FDP | Peter Heidt | 15,000 | 11.0 | 2.9 | 19,043 | 13.9 | 1.1 | ||
AfD | Andreas Lichert | 11,318 | 8.3 | 2.7 | 11,680 | 8.5 | 3.1 | ||
FW | Cenk Gönül | 4,238 | 3.1 | 1.3 | 2,812 | 2.0 | 1.1 | ||
Left | Julian Eder | 3,904 | 2.9 | 2.1 | 4,905 | 3.6 | 3.2 | ||
Tierschutzpartei | 2,255 | 1.6 | 0.5 | ||||||
dieBasis | Eva Rosen | 2,411 | 1.8 | 1,915 | 1.4 | ||||
PARTEI | 1,153 | 0.8 | 0.0 | ||||||
Pirates | Stephan Flindt | 1,633 | 1.2 | 771 | 0.6 | 0.2 | |||
Team Todenhöfer | 637 | 0.5 | |||||||
Volt | 559 | 0.4 | |||||||
NPD | 352 | 0.3 | 0.3 | ||||||
Gesundheitsforschung | 230 | 0.2 | |||||||
V-Partei3 | 162 | 0.1 | 0.1 | ||||||
ÖDP | 145 | 0.1 | 0.1 | ||||||
Humanists | 139 | 0.1 | |||||||
Bündnis C | 114 | 0.1 | |||||||
Bündnis 21 | 50 | 0.0 | |||||||
LKR | 39 | 0.0 | |||||||
DKP | 29 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||
MLPD | 22 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||
Informal votes | 2,010 | 1,678 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 136,925 | 137,257 | |||||||
Turnout | 138,935 | 78.5 | 0.2 | ||||||
SPD gain from CDU | Majority | 1,811 | 1.4 |
2017 election
[edit]Federal election (2017): Wetterau I[4] | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
CDU | Oswin Veith | 49,891 | 36.4 | 10.6 | 43,951 | 32.0 | 8.9 | ||
SPD | Natalie Pawlik | 39,773 | 29.0 | 2.9 | 31,152 | 22.7 | 4.7 | ||
AfD | Klaus Herrmann | 14,987 | 10.9 | 15,895 | 11.6 | 5.6 | |||
Greens | Kathrin Anders | 11,368 | 8.3 | 0.9 | 13,002 | 9.5 | 0.1 | ||
FDP | Peter Heidt[a] | 11,047 | 8.1 | 5.3 | 17,462 | 12.7 | 6.8 | ||
Left | Julian Simon Eder | 6,719 | 4.9 | 0.1 | 9,249 | 6.7 | 1.6 | ||
Tierschutzpartei | 1,632 | 1.2 | |||||||
FW | Thorsten Schwellnus | 2,417 | 1.8 | 0.1 | 1,299 | 0.9 | 0.2 | ||
PARTEI | 1,199 | 0.9 | 0.4 | ||||||
NPD | Stefan Jagsch | 719 | 0.5 | 1.3 | 811 | 0.6 | 0.9 | ||
Pirates | 544 | 0.4 | 1.6 | ||||||
DM | 249 | 0.2 | |||||||
V-Partei³ | 239 | 0.2 | |||||||
BGE | 233 | 0.2 | |||||||
ÖDP | 229 | 0.2 | |||||||
BüSo | 27 | 0.0 | 0.1 | ||||||
MLPD | 24 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||
DKP | 23 | 0.0 | |||||||
Informal votes | 1,932 | 1,633 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 136,921 | 137,220 | |||||||
Turnout | 138,853 | 78.7 | 3.6 | ||||||
CDU hold | Majority | 10,118 | 7.4 | 7.8 |
2013 election
[edit]Federal election (2013): Wetterau I[5] | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
CDU | Oswin Veith | 60,118 | 47.1 | 5.7 | 52,419 | 40.9 | 7.4 | ||
SPD | Stefan Lux | 40,805 | 31.9 | 1.0 | 34,937 | 27.3 | 2.7 | ||
Greens | Antje Gesinn | 9,497 | 7.4 | 0.1 | 11,991 | 9.4 | 2.1 | ||
AfD | 7,608 | 5.9 | |||||||
Left | Gabriele Faulhaber | 6,174 | 4.8 | 1.0 | 6,615 | 5.2 | 2.1 | ||
FDP | Natascha Colette Baumann | 3,527 | 2.8 | 6.4 | 7,586 | 5.9 | 12.0 | ||
Pirates | Marc Stephan Weitz | 2,863 | 2.2 | 2,535 | 2.0 | 0.1 | |||
FW | Rebecca Scholz | 2,422 | 1.9 | 1,440 | 1.1 | ||||
NPD | Stefan Jagsch | 2,364 | 1.9 | 0.0 | 1,860 | 1.5 | 0.3 | ||
PARTEI | 604 | 0.5 | |||||||
REP | 194 | 0.2 | 0.1 | ||||||
PRO | 170 | 0.1 | |||||||
BüSo | 110 | 0.1 | 0.0 | ||||||
SGP | 57 | 0.0 | |||||||
MLPD | 23 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||
Informal votes | 3,710 | 3,331 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 127,770 | 128,149 | |||||||
Turnout | 131,480 | 75.1 | 0.6 | ||||||
CDU hold | Majority | 19,313 | 15.2 | 7.3 |
2009 election
[edit]Federal election (2009): Wetterau[6] | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
CDU | Lucia Puttrich | 73,702 | 41.0 | 0.9 | 60,038 | 33.4 | 1.2 | ||
SPD | Nina Hauer | 59,420 | 33.1 | 10.2 | 45,085 | 25.1 | 9.6 | ||
FDP | Achim Güssgen | 16,284 | 9.1 | 4.9 | 31,612 | 17.6 | 5.1 | ||
Greens | Christian Kolb | 12,425 | 6.9 | 3.0 | 19,242 | 10.7 | 1.6 | ||
Left | Gabriele Faulhaber | 11,116 | 6.2 | 2.2 | 13,681 | 7.6 | 2.6 | ||
Pirates | 3,623 | 2.0 | |||||||
NPD | Daniel Lachmann | 3,792 | 2.1 | 0.1 | 3,426 | 1.9 | 0.1 | ||
Tierschutzpartei | Christa Rust | 2,631 | 1.5 | 2,069 | 1.2 | 0.3 | |||
REP | 677 | 0.4 | 0.3 | ||||||
Independent | Manuel Hachenburger | 328 | 0.2 | ||||||
BüSo | 182 | 0.1 | 0.0 | ||||||
DVU | 138 | 0.1 | |||||||
MLPD | 45 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||
Informal votes | 4,122 | 4,002 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 179,698 | 179,818 | |||||||
Turnout | 183,820 | 74.5 | 4.2 | ||||||
CDU gain from SPD | Majority | 14,282 | 7.9 |
Notes
[edit]- ^ Heidt entered the Bundestag on the FDP list after the resignation of Nicola Beer in July 2019.
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Constituency Wetterau I". Federal Returning Officer.
- ^ "Results for Wetterau I". Federal Returning Officer.
- ^ Results for Wetterau I
- ^ Results for Wetterau I
- ^ Results for Wetterau I
- ^ Results for Wetterau