Bamberg 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 235. It is located in northern Bavaria, comprising the city of Bamberg, the southern part of the Landkreis Bamberg district, and the western part of the Forchheim district.[1]
235 Bamberg | |
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Electoral district for the Bundestag | |
![]() Bamberg in 2025 | |
State | Bavaria |
Population | 241,100 (2019) |
Electorate | 182,586 (2021) |
Major settlements | Bamberg Forchheim |
Area | 1,003.1 km2 |
Current electoral district | |
Created | 1949 |
Party | CSU |
Member | Thomas Silberhorn |
Elected | 2002, 2005, 2009, 2013, 2017, 2021 |
Bamberg was created for the inaugural 1949 federal election. Since 2002, it has been represented by Thomas Silberhorn of the Christian Social Union (CSU).[2]
Geography
editBamberg is located in northern Bavaria. As of the 2021 federal election, it comprises the independent city of Bamberg, the municipalities of Altendorf, Buttenheim, Frensdorf, Hallstadt, Hirschaid, Pettstadt, Pommersfelden, Schlüsselfeld, Stegaurach, Strullendorf, and Walsdorf and the Verwaltungsgemeinschaften of Burgebrach, Ebrach, and Lisberg from the Landkreis Bamberg district, and the municipalities of Eggolsheim, Forchheim, Hallerndorf, Hausen, Heroldsbach, Igensdorf, Langensendelbach, and Neunkirchen am Brand and the Verwaltungsgemeinschaften of Dormitz, Effeltrich, Gosberg, and Kirchehrenbach from the Forchheim district.[1]
History
editBamberg was created in 1949. In the 1949 election, it was Bavaria constituency 24 in the numbering system. In the 1953 through 1961 elections, it was number 219. In the 1965 through 1998 elections, it was number 222. In the 2002 and 2005 elections, it was number 237. In the 2009 through 2021 elections, it was number 236. From the 2025 election, it has been number 235.
Originally, the constituency comprised the independent city of Bamberg and the districts of Landkreis Bamberg and Staffelstein. In the 1965 through 1972 elections, it also contained the Höchstadt an der Aisch district. In the 1976 through 1998 elections, it comprised the city of Bamberg, southern parts of the Landkreis Bamberg district, and the Forchheim district. It acquired its current borders in the 2002 election.
Election | No. | Name | Borders |
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1949 | 24 | Bamberg |
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1953 | 219 | ||
1957 | |||
1961 | |||
1965 | 222 |
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1969 | |||
1972 | |||
1976 |
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1980 | |||
1983 | |||
1987 | |||
1990 | |||
1994 | |||
1998 | |||
2002 | 237 |
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2005 | |||
2009 | 236 | ||
2013 | |||
2017 | |||
2021 | |||
2025 | 235 |
Members
editLike most constituencies in rural Bavaria, it is an CSU safe seat, the party holding the seat continuously since its creation. It was first represented by Emil Kemmer from 1949 to 1965, followed by Paul Röhner from 1965 to 1983. Gerhard Scheu was then representative from 1983 to 2002. Thomas Silberhorn was elected in 2002 and re-elected in 2005, 2009, 2013, 2017, and 2021.
Election | Member | Party | % | |
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1949 | Emil Kemmer | CSU | 33.0 | |
1953 | 54.4 | |||
1957 | 63.1 | |||
1961 | 62.7 | |||
1965 | Paul Röhner | CSU | 63.0 | |
1969 | 64.5 | |||
1972 | 65.2 | |||
1976 | 68.4 | |||
1980 | 66.7 | |||
1983 | Gerhard Scheu | CSU | 67.3 | |
1987 | 64.0 | |||
1990 | 59.3 | |||
1994 | 56.8 | |||
1998 | 54.6 | |||
2002 | Thomas Silberhorn | CSU | 60.7 | |
2005 | 57.4 | |||
2009 | 49.1 | |||
2013 | 52.2 | |||
2017 | 42.1 | |||
2021 | 37.0 |
Election results
edit2021 election
editFederal election (2021): Bamberg[3] | |||||||||
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Notes: |
Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
CSU | Thomas Silberhorn | 54,726 | 37.0 | 5.1 | 49,463 | 33.4 | 5.5 | ||
SPD | Andreas Schwarz | 28,123 | 19.0 | 1.4 | 25,698 | 17.4 | 1.8 | ||
Greens | Lisa Badum | 22,728 | 15.4 | 6.2 | 21,898 | 14.8 | 4.9 | ||
AfD | Michael Weiß | 13,279 | 9.0 | 2.5 | 14,284 | 9.6 | 3.1 | ||
FDP | Sven Bachmann | 9,821 | 6.6 | 0.1 | 14,336 | 9.7 | 0.1 | ||
FW | Jens Herzog | 8,708 | 5.9 | 3.0 | 9,184 | 6.2 | 3.8 | ||
Left | Jan Jaegers | 3,625 | 2.5 | 2.8 | 4,676 | 3.2 | 3.3 | ||
dieBasis | Sabine Wezel | 2,361 | 1.6 | 2,093 | 1.4 | ||||
Human Environment Animal Protection | 1,499 | 1.0 | 0.1 | ||||||
PARTEI | Paul Mari | 1,627 | 1.1 | 1,111 | 0.8 | 0.2 | |||
ÖDP | Lisa Lösel | 1,287 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 742 | 0.5 | 0.2 | ||
Volt | Hans-Günter Brünker | 726 | 0.5 | 575 | 0.4 | ||||
Pirates | 514 | 0.3 | 0.0 | ||||||
BP | Thomas Dotzler | 491 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 381 | 0.3 | 0.2 | ||
Team Todenhöfer | 319 | 0.2 | |||||||
Unabhängige | 262 | 0.2 | |||||||
Gesundheitsforschung | 211 | 0.1 | 0.0 | ||||||
Humanists | 173 | 0.1 | |||||||
V-Partei3 | 149 | 0.1 | 0.1 | ||||||
NPD | 127 | 0.1 | 0.3 | ||||||
The III. Path | 108 | 0.1 | |||||||
Bündnis C | 105 | 0.1 | |||||||
du. | 70 | 0.0 | |||||||
MLPD | Therese Gmelch | 179 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 50 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||
Independent | Andreas Roensch | 114 | 0.1 | ||||||
LKR | 23 | 0.0 | |||||||
DKP | 17 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||
Informal votes | 865 | 592 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 147,795 | 148,068 | |||||||
Turnout | 148,660 | 81.4 | 1.9 | ||||||
CSU hold | Majority | 26,603 | 18.0 | 3.7 |
2017 election
editFederal election (2017): Bamberg[4] | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
CSU | Thomas Silberhorn | 60,675 | 42.1 | 10.1 | 56,138 | 38.9 | 10.0 | ||
SPD | Andreas Schwarz | 29,475 | 20.4 | 2.4 | 22,529 | 15.6 | 4.2 | ||
AfD | Jan Schiffers | 16,603 | 11.5 | 8.2 | 18,392 | 12.7 | 8.6 | ||
Greens | Lisa Badum | 13,194 | 9.2 | 1.0 | 14,279 | 9.9 | 0.9 | ||
FDP | Sebastian Körber | 9,364 | 6.5 | 3.1 | 13,776 | 9.5 | 4.7 | ||
Left | David Klanke | 7,504 | 5.2 | 1.7 | 9,351 | 6.5 | 2.4 | ||
FW | Daniela Saiko | 4,203 | 2.9 | 0.1 | 3,425 | 2.4 | 0.5 | ||
Human Environment Animal Protection | 1,305 | 0.9 | 0.1 | ||||||
PARTEI | 1,303 | 0.9 | |||||||
ÖDP | Lucas Büchner | 1,942 | 1.3 | 947 | 0.7 | 0.0 | |||
BP | Thomas Dotzler | 821 | 0.6 | 622 | 0.4 | 0.0 | |||
NPD | 566 | 0.4 | 0.9 | ||||||
Pirates | 480 | 0.3 | 2.0 | ||||||
DM | 285 | 0.2 | |||||||
V-Partei³ | 246 | 0.2 | |||||||
DiB | 234 | 0.2 | |||||||
BGE | 204 | 0.1 | |||||||
Gesundheitsforschung | 188 | 0.1 | |||||||
MLPD | Therese Gmelch | 352 | 0.2 | 110 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |||
BüSo | 25 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||
DKP | 16 | 0.0 | |||||||
Informal votes | 1,089 | 801 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 144,133 | 144,421 | |||||||
Turnout | 145,222 | 79.6 | 9.1 | ||||||
CSU hold | Majority | 31,200 | 21.7 | 7.6 |
2013 election
editFederal election (2013): Bamberg[5] | |||||||||
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Notes: |
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
CSU | Thomas Silberhorn | 65,723 | 52.2 | 3.2 | 61,546 | 48.9 | 4.0 | ||
SPD | Andreas Schwarz | 28,794 | 22.9 | 2.4 | 24,924 | 19.8 | 4.5 | ||
Greens | Wolfgang Grader | 10,283 | 8.2 | 1.0 | 11,267 | 8.9 | 1.6 | ||
Left | Wolfgang Böhme | 4,365 | 3.5 | 2.5 | 5,143 | 4.1 | 2.4 | ||
FDP | Sebastian Körber | 4,252 | 3.4 | 7.3 | 6,073 | 4.8 | 8.9 | ||
AfD | Franz Hermann Eibl | 4,222 | 3.4 | 5,211 | 4.1 | ||||
FW | Peter Korbinian Dorscht | 3,549 | 2.8 | 3,559 | 2.8 | ||||
Pirates | Robert Streng | 3,025 | 2.4 | 2,905 | 2.3 | 0.1 | |||
NPD | Sven Diem | 1,661 | 1.3 | 0.2 | 1,619 | 1.3 | 0.1 | ||
Human Environment Animal Protection | 964 | 0.8 | 0.1 | ||||||
ÖDP | 792 | 0.6 | 0.0 | ||||||
REP | 586 | 0.5 | 1.0 | ||||||
BP | 570 | 0.5 | 0.1 | ||||||
DIE FRAUEN | 319 | 0.3 | |||||||
DIE VIOLETTEN | 139 | 0.1 | 0.1 | ||||||
Party of Reason | 131 | 0.1 | |||||||
PRO | 82 | 0.1 | |||||||
MLPD | 60 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||
RRP | 40 | 0.0 | 0.5 | ||||||
BüSo | 19 | 0.0 | 0.1 | ||||||
Informal votes | 995 | 920 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 125,874 | 125,949 | |||||||
Turnout | 126,869 | 70.5 | 2.3 | ||||||
CSU hold | Majority | 36,929 | 29.3 | 0.6 |
2009 election
editFederal election (2009): Bamberg[6] | |||||||||
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Notes: |
Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
CSU | Thomas Silberhorn | 62,548 | 49.1 | 8.3 | 57,433 | 44.9 | 5.6 | ||
SPD | Andreas Schwarz | 26,044 | 20.4 | 3.4 | 19,553 | 15.3 | 8.5 | ||
FDP | Sebastian Körber | 13,590 | 10.7 | 5.3 | 17,523 | 13.7 | 4.6 | ||
Greens | Lisa Badum | 11,726 | 9.2 | 1.1 | 13,512 | 10.6 | 2.8 | ||
Left | Heinrich Schwimmbeck | 7,601 | 6.0 | 8,316 | 6.5 | 3.0 | |||
Pirates | 3,041 | 2.4 | |||||||
REP | Joseph Lorenz | 2,213 | 1.7 | 1,937 | 1.5 | 0.2 | |||
NPD | Axel Michaelis | 1,899 | 1.5 | 1.7 | 1,759 | 1.4 | 0.3 | ||
FAMILIE | 1,061 | 0.8 | 0.2 | ||||||
Human Environment Animal Protection | 790 | 0.6 | |||||||
BP | Thomas Dotzler | 1,562 | 1.2 | 770 | 0.6 | 0.2 | |||
ÖDP | 754 | 0.6 | |||||||
RRP | 714 | 0.6 | |||||||
Independent | Monika Lamprecht | 303 | 0.2 | ||||||
DIE VIOLETTEN | 244 | 0.2 | |||||||
PBC | 188 | 0.1 | 0.1 | ||||||
CM | 138 | 0.1 | |||||||
MLPD | 58 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||
DVU | 55 | 0.0 | |||||||
BüSo | 33 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||
Informal votes | 1,563 | 1,170 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 127,486 | 127,879 | |||||||
Turnout | 129,049 | 72.8 | 5.5 | ||||||
CSU hold | Majority | 36,504 | 28.7 | 4.9 |
References
edit- ^ a b "Constituency Bamberg". Federal Returning Officer.
- ^ "Results for Bamberg". Federal Returning Officer.
- ^ Results for Bamberg
- ^ Results for Bamberg
- ^ Results for Bamberg
- ^ Results for Bamberg