Hamburg Eimsbüttel (electoral district)

20 Hamburg Eimsbüttel
electoral district for the Bundestag
Hamburg Eimsbüttel in 2017
State	Hamburg
Population	252,900 (2015)
Electorate	192,399 (2017)
Major settlements	Eimsbüttel
Area	49.6 km2
Current electoral district
Created	1949
Party	SPD
Member	Niels Annen
Elected	2013, 2017

Hamburg Eimsbüttel 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 20. It is located in northwestern Hamburg, comprising the Eimsbüttel borough.^[1]

Hamburg Eimsbüttel was created for the inaugural 1949 federal election. Since 2013, it has been represented by Niels Annen of the Social Democratic Party (SPD).^[2]

Geography[]

Hamburg Eimsbüttel is located in northwestern Hamburg. As of the 2021 federal election, it is coterminous with the borough of Eimsbüttel.^[1]

History[]

Hamburg Eimsbüttel was created in 1949, then known as Hamburg III. From 1965 through 1976, it was simply named Eimsbüttel. It acquired its current name in the 1980 election. In the inaugural Bundestag election, it was Hamburg constituency 1 in the numbering system. From 1953 through 1961, it was number 17. From 1965 through 1998, it was number 14. From 2002 through 2009, it was number 21. Since 2013, it has been constituency 20.

Originally, it comprised the entirety of the Eimsbüttel borough with the exception of the quarters of Rotherbaum, Harvestehude, and Hoheluft-West, and with the Ortsteile of Altona-Nord/Ost und Altona-Nord/Nord from the quarter of Altona-Nord. Since the 1965 election, it has been coterminous with the Eimsbüttel borough.

Members[]

The constituency has been held by the Social Democratic Party (SPD) during all but two Bundestag terms since 1949; it returned a representative from the SPD in every federal election from 1957 until 2009. Its first representative was Peter Blachstein of the SPD. In 1953, the constituency was won by Fritz Becker of the German Party (DP), who served for a single term. Blachstein won the constituency back for the SPD in 1957. In 1969, he was succeeded by , who was in turn succeeded in 1976 by , who served until 1994, and then by Angelika Mertens until 2002. Niels Annen won the constituency in 2005. In 2009, Rüdiger Kruse of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) became the first non-SPD member since 1953; he was defeated in 2013 by Niels Annen, who was re-elected in 2017.

Election results[]

2021 election[]

Federal election (2021): Hamburg Eimsbüttel[3]
Notes:		Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list. Yellow background denotes an electorate win by a list member, or other incumbent. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	SPD	Y Niels Annen
	CDU	Rüdiger Kruse
	Green	Till Steffen
	AfD	Marc Cremer-Thursby
	FDP	Carolin Hümpel
	Left	Żaklin Nastić
	PARTEI	Martin Sommer
	Tierschutzpartei
	FW	Alexander Feltz
	ÖDP	Hannes Lincke
	V-Partei³
	NPD
	MLPD	Uwe Wagner
	DKP
	dieBasis	Inke Meyer
	Bündnis 21
	du.
	LKR
	PDV
	Pirates
	Team Todenhöfer
	Volt	Sören Horn
Informal votes
Total Valid votes
Turnout
	[[|N/A]] hold		Majority

2017 election[]

Federal election (2017): Hamburg Eimsbüttel[4]
Notes:		Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list. Yellow background denotes an electorate win by a list member, or other incumbent. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	SPD	Y Niels Annen		48,920	31.6	5.9	34,575	22.3	9.1
	CDU	Rüdiger Kruse		44,416	28.7	4.6	41,826	26.9	4.1
	Green	Anna Gallina		23,220	15.0	2.0	26,372	17.0	1.4
	Left	Żaklin Nastić		16,123	10.4	3.5	19,290	12.4	3.9
	FDP	Ria Schröder		10,537	6.8	4.5	17,463	11.3	6.1
	AfD	Herbert Wolf		8,777	5.7	2.8	9,138	5.9	2.2
	PARTEI						2,427	1.6	0.9
	Independent	Marco Scheffler		1,457	0.9
	Tierschutzpartei						1,262	0.8
	ÖDP	Benjamin Krohn		983	0.6		442	0.3	0.1
	DiB						738	0.5
	BGE						605	0.4
	V-Partei³						336	0.2
	FW						327	0.2	0.1
	MLPD	Mustafa Kurt		297	0.2		126	0.1	0.0
	NPD						184	0.1	0.3
	DKP						92	0.1
Informal votes				1,283			810
Total Valid votes				154,730			155,203
Turnout				156,013	81.1	5.7
	SPD hold		Majority	4,504	2.9	1.3

2013 election[]

Federal election (2013): Hamburg Eimsbüttel[5]
Notes:		Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list. Yellow background denotes an electorate win by a list member, or other incumbent. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	SPD	Niels Annen		53,105	37.5	13.7	44,492	31.4	4.6
	CDU	N Rüdiger Kruse		47,112	33.3	2.1	43,989	31.1	4.2
	Green	Anna Gallina		18,399	13.0	13.0	22,074	15.6	2.7
	Left	Kersten Artus		9,728	6.9	2.1	12,137	8.6	1.9
	AfD	Günther Siegert		4,034	2.9		5,197	3.7
	Pirates	Anne Alter		3,352	2.4		3,751	2.6	0.1
	FDP	Burkhardt Müller-Sönksen		3,264	2.3	6.1	9,138	5.9	8.3
	Independent	Marco Scheffler		1,469	1.0
	PARTEI						870	0.6
	NPD	Wolfgang Möller		548	0.4	0.3	551	0.4	0.2
	RENTNER						525	0.4	0.3
	FW	Gregor Voht		427	0.3		397	0.3
	ÖDP						293	0.2	0.1
	MLPD						56	0.0	0.0
Informal votes				1,646			1,444
Total Valid votes				141,438			141,640
Turnout				143,084	75.4	0.8
	SPD gain from CDU		Majority	5,993	4.2

2009 election[]

Federal election (2009): Hamburg Eimsbüttel[6]
Notes:		Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list. Yellow background denotes an electorate win by a list member, or other incumbent. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	CDU	Rüdiger Kruse		43,714	31.2	2.5	37,695	26.8	0.6
	Green	Krista Sager		36,518	26.1	13.5	25,819	18.3	0.4
	SPD	Danial Ilkhanipour		33,364	23.8	21.2	37,722	26.8	10.5
	Left	Herbert Schulz		12,540	8.9	4.6	14,732	10.5	4.3
	FDP	Burkhardt Müller-Sönksen		11,732	8.4	4.7	18,851	13.4	3.9
	Pirates						3,531	2.5
	Independent	Marco Scheffler		1,295	0.9
	NPD	Thorsten Schuster		969	0.7	0.0	799	0.6	0.1
	RENTNER						934	0.7
	ÖDP						428	0.3
	DVU						144	0.1
	MLPD						70	0.0	0.0
Informal votes				1,891			1,298
Total Valid votes				140,132			140,725
Turnout				142,023	76.2	4.8
	CDU gain from SPD		Majority	7,196	5.1

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