Stralsund – Nordvorpommern – Rügen (electoral district)

Stralsund – Nordvorpommern – Rügen in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

Stralsund – Nordvorpommern – Rügen was an electoral constituency (German: Wahlkreis) represented in the German Bundestag from 1990 to 2013. Part of the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the constituency elected one representative under the mixed member proportional representation (MMP) system. Under the current constituency numbering system, it was designated as constituency 15. The constituency was abolished as part of the 2012 federal boundary review, which saw the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern lose one of its 7 geographic constituencies as a result of population change.^[1] It was largely replaced with the Vorpommern-Rügen – Vorpommern-Greifswald I constituency, which took its district number of 15.

Members of the Bundestag[]

The constituency has been held since its creation in 1990 by the CDU's Angela Merkel, Federal Chancellor since 2005. In the 2009 federal election, Merkel won the seat by 23 percentage points over her nearest opponent.

Election results[]

2009 election[]

The following table does not list parties which did not contest or gain constituency votes.

Federal election 2009: Stralsund – Nordvorpommern – Rügen [2]
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	Y Angela Merkel		57,865	49.3	+8.0	43,650	37.3	+2.7
	Left			30,935	26.4	+2.6	33,522	28.6	+4.5
	SPD	Sonja Steffen		14,040	12.0	−13.4	15,048	12.9	−12.8
	FDP			5,668	4.8	+1.9	13,087	11.2	+3.7
	Green	Arnold von Bosse		3,735	3.2	+1.2	5,349	4.6	+1.4
	NPD			3,262	2.8	−0.7	3,434	2.9	−0.7
	Independent	Michael Adomeit		1,322	1.1	−0.1
	Independent	Maria Wilke		479	0.4	N/A
Informal votes				2,063			2,269
Total Valid votes				117,306			117,100
Turnout				119,369	59.8	−9.6
	CDU hold		Majority	26,930	22.9

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