Karlsruhe-Stadt (electoral district)
Karlsruhe-Stadt (English: Karlsruhe City) 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 271. It is located in northwestern Baden-Württemberg, comprising the city of Karlsruhe.[1]
271 Karlsruhe-Stadt | |
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Electoral district for the Bundestag | |
![]() Karlsruhe-Stadt in 2025 | |
State | Baden-Württemberg |
Population | 312,100 (2019) |
Electorate | 205,608 (2021) |
Major settlements | Karlsruhe |
Area | 173.4 km2 |
Current electoral district | |
Created | 1949 |
Party | GRÜNE |
Member | Zoe Mayer |
Elected | 2021 |
Karlsruhe-Stadt was created for the inaugural 1949 federal election. Since 2021, it has been represented by Zoe Mayer of the Alliance 90/The Greens.[2]
Geography
editKarlsruhe-Stadt is located in northwestern Baden-Württemberg. As of the 2021 federal election, it is coterminous with the independent city of Karlsruhe.[1]
History
editKarlsruhe-Stadt was created in 1949. In the 1965 through 1976 elections, it was named Karlsruhe. In the 1949 election, it was Württemberg-Baden Landesbezirk Baden constituency 1 in the number system. In the 1953 through 1961 elections, it was number 175. In the 1965 through 1976 elections, it was number 178. In the 1980 through 1998 elections, it was number 175. In the 2002 and 2005 elections, it was number 272. Since the 2009 election, it has been number 271.
Originally, the constituency was coterminous with the independent city of Karlsruhe. In the 1998 election, it also included the municipality of Rheinstetten from the Landkreis Karlsruhe district. Since the 2002 election, it has again been coterminous with the city of Karlsruhe.
Election | No. | Name | Borders |
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1949 | 1 | Karlsruhe-Stadt |
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1953 | 175 | ||
1957 | |||
1961 | |||
1965 | 178 | Karlsruhe | |
1969 | |||
1972 | |||
1976 | |||
1980 | 175 | Karlsruhe-Stadt | |
1983 | |||
1987 | |||
1990 | |||
1994 | |||
1998 |
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2002 | 272 |
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2005 | |||
2009 | 271 | ||
2013 | |||
2017 | |||
2021 | |||
2025 |
Members
editThe constituency was first represented by Hermann Veit of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) from 1949 to 1953. It was won by Friedrich Werber of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in 1953, who served until 1961. He was succeeded by fellow CDU member Max Güde from 1961 to 1969. Peter Corterier of the SPD was elected in 1969 and re-elected in 1972. Gerold Benz of the CDU won the constituency in 1976, but former member Corterier regained it in 1980. Rudolf Ruf of the CDU was representative from 1983 to 1990, followed by fellow CDU member Norbert Rieder from 1990 to 1998. Brigitte Wimmer of the SPD was elected in 1998 and re-elected in 2002. Ingo Wellenreuther of the CDU was representative from 2005 to 2021. Zoe Mayer won the constituency for the Greens in 2021.
Election | Member | Party | % | |
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1949 | Hermann Veit | SPD | 37.0 | |
1953 | Friedrich Werber | CDU | 48.0 | |
1957 | 48.8 | |||
1961 | Max Güde | CDU | 45.9 | |
1965 | 46.1 | |||
1969 | Peter Corterier | SPD | 45.3 | |
1972 | 50.3 | |||
1976 | Gerold Benz | CDU | 47.5 | |
1980 | Peter Corterier | SPD | 45.2 | |
1983 | Rudolf Ruf | CDU | 49.0 | |
1987 | 47.6 | |||
1990 | Norbert Rieder | CDU | 44.9 | |
1994 | 41.5 | |||
1998 | Brigitte Wimmer | SPD | 40.0 | |
2002 | 40.0 | |||
2005 | Ingo Wellenreuther | CDU | 41.3 | |
2009 | 38.1 | |||
2013 | 39.5 | |||
2017 | 28.6 | |||
2021 | Zoe Mayer | GRÜNE | 30.0 |
Election results
edit2021 election
editFederal election (2021): Karlsruhe-Stadt[3] | |||||||||
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Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
Greens | Zoe Mayer | 47,473 | 30.0 | 12.4 | 44,011 | 27.8 | 9.5 | ||
SPD | Parsa Marvi | 33,630 | 21.3 | 2.4 | 33,828 | 21.3 | 4.5 | ||
CDU | Ingo Wellenreuther | 30,921 | 19.5 | 9.0 | 27,998 | 17.7 | 10.2 | ||
FDP | Michael Theurer | 15,793 | 10.0 | 1.4 | 20,615 | 13.0 | 1.0 | ||
AfD | Marc Bernhard | 10,811 | 6.8 | 3.2 | 10,774 | 6.8 | 3.6 | ||
Left | Michel Brandt | 7,956 | 5.0 | 2.5 | 8,910 | 5.6 | 4.0 | ||
dieBasis | Martin Buchfink | 3,152 | 2.0 | 2,863 | 1.8 | ||||
PARTEI | Daniel Barth | 2,811 | 1.8 | 0.0 | 1,851 | 1.2 | 0.2 | ||
Human Environment Animal Protection | 1,608 | 1.0 | 0.0 | ||||||
FW | Bernhard Barutta | 1,723 | 1.1 | 1,438 | 0.9 | 0.5 | |||
Volt | Tassi Giannikopoulos | 1,547 | 1.0 | 1,313 | 0.8 | ||||
Team Todenhöfer | 785 | 0.5 | |||||||
Pirates | 622 | 0.4 | 0.2 | ||||||
Humanists | Andreas Schäfer | 749 | 0.5 | 463 | 0.3 | ||||
ÖDP | Franz-Josef Behr | 605 | 0.4 | 385 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |||
KlimalisteBW | Markus Schmoll | 456 | 0.3 | ||||||
Bündnis C | Klaus-Jürgen Raphael | 452 | 0.3 | 322 | 0.2 | ||||
DiB | 182 | 0.1 | 0.2 | ||||||
Gesundheitsforschung | 138 | 0.1 | |||||||
Bürgerbewegung | 101 | 0.1 | |||||||
MLPD | Jonas Dachner | 162 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 89 | 0.1 | 0.0 | ||
NPD | 71 | 0.0 | 0.1 | ||||||
DKP | 44 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||
Bündnis 21 | 34 | 0.0 | |||||||
LKR | 23 | 0.0 | |||||||
Informal votes | 1,350 | 1,123 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 158,241 | 158,468 | |||||||
Turnout | 159,591 | 77.6 | 0.0 | ||||||
Greens gain from CDU | Majority | 13,843 | 8.7 |
2017 election
editFederal election (2017): Karlsruhe-Stadt[4] | |||||||||
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Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
CDU | Ingo Wellenreuther | 45,821 | 28.5 | 10.9 | 44,776 | 27.8 | 9.7 | ||
SPD | Parsa Marvi | 37,924 | 23.6 | 6.0 | 27,044 | 16.8 | 5.9 | ||
Greens | Sylvia Kotting-Uhl | 28,268 | 17.6 | 3.9 | 29,408 | 18.3 | 3.3 | ||
AfD | Marc Bernhard | 16,073 | 10.0 | 6.0 | 16,741 | 10.4 | 4.8 | ||
FDP | Michael Theurer | 13,829 | 8.6 | 5.4 | 19,251 | 12.0 | 5.9 | ||
Left | Michel Brandt | 12,155 | 7.6 | 2.7 | 15,452 | 9.6 | 3.6 | ||
PARTEI | Stefan Glause | 2,899 | 1.8 | 2,179 | 1.4 | ||||
Human Environment Animal Protection | Robin Margic | 2,412 | 1.5 | 1,595 | 1.0 | 0.2 | |||
Pirates | 999 | 0.6 | 3.4 | ||||||
Independent | Bruno Mayer | 724 | 0.5 | ||||||
FW | 600 | 0.4 | 0.1 | ||||||
DiB | 505 | 0.3 | |||||||
BGE | 442 | 0.3 | |||||||
ÖDP | 438 | 0.3 | 0.0 | ||||||
Tierschutzallianz | 346 | 0.2 | |||||||
DM | 263 | 0.2 | |||||||
V-Partei³ | 240 | 0.1 | |||||||
Menschliche Welt | 191 | 0.1 | |||||||
NPD | 188 | 0.1 | 0.5 | ||||||
MLPD | Jonas Dachner | 250 | 0.2 | 142 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |||
DIE RECHTE | Uwe Kasper | 151 | 0.1 | 78 | 0.0 | ||||
DKP | 33 | 0.0 | |||||||
Informal votes | 1,633 | 1,228 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 160,506 | 160,911 | |||||||
Turnout | 162,139 | 77.6 | 4.7 | ||||||
CDU hold | Majority | 7,897 | 4.9 | 5.0 |
2013 election
editFederal election (2013): Karlsruhe-Stadt[5] | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
CDU | Ingo Wellenreuther | 58,452 | 39.5 | 1.4 | 55,791 | 37.5 | 8.9 | ||
SPD | Parsa Marvi | 43,866 | 29.6 | 2.9 | 33,785 | 22.7 | 2.1 | ||
Greens | Sylvia Kotting-Uhl | 20,337 | 13.7 | 1.4 | 22,263 | 15.0 | 3.4 | ||
Left | Karin Binder | 7,254 | 4.9 | 2.2 | 8,933 | 6.0 | 2.3 | ||
AfD | Marc Jongen | 5,983 | 4.0 | 8,334 | 5.6 | ||||
Pirates | Martin Bartsch | 5,149 | 3.5 | 0.4 | 6,009 | 4.0 | 0.9 | ||
FDP | Heinz Golombeck | 4,714 | 3.2 | 5.2 | 8,978 | 6.0 | 11.4 | ||
Human Environment Animal Protection | 1,111 | 0.7 | 0.1 | ||||||
FW | Peter Rapp | 992 | 0.7 | 724 | 0.5 | ||||
NPD | Heiko Köhler | 912 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 853 | 0.6 | 0.3 | ||
ÖDP | 423 | 0.3 | 0.0 | ||||||
REP | Rainer Haag | 452 | 0.3 | 352 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |||
RENTNER | 250 | 0.2 | |||||||
PBC | 205 | 0.1 | 0.2 | ||||||
Volksabstimmung | 185 | 0.1 | 0.0 | ||||||
Party of Reason | 116 | 0.1 | |||||||
MLPD | 93 | 0.1 | 0.0 | ||||||
PRO | 90 | 0.1 | |||||||
BIG | 77 | 0.1 | |||||||
BüSo | 34 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||
Informal votes | 1,939 | 1,444 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 148,111 | 148,606 | |||||||
Turnout | 150,050 | 72.9 | 1.8 | ||||||
CDU hold | Majority | 14,586 | 9.9 | 1.5 |
2009 election
editFederal election (2009): Karlsruhe-Stadt[6] | |||||||||
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Notes: |
Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
CDU | Ingo Wellenreuther | 53,872 | 38.1 | 3.3 | 40,566 | 28.6 | 4.2 | ||
SPD | Johannes Jung | 37,845 | 26.7 | 12.7 | 29,227 | 20.6 | 11.4 | ||
Greens | Sylvia Kotting-Uhl | 21,452 | 15.2 | 6.0 | 26,051 | 18.4 | 3.7 | ||
FDP | Heinz Golombeck | 11,845 | 8.4 | 4.1 | 24,654 | 17.4 | 5.4 | ||
Left | Karin Binder | 10,034 | 7.1 | 2.8 | 11,807 | 8.3 | 3.4 | ||
Pirates | Dennis Laurisch | 4,359 | 3.1 | 5,008 | 3.5 | ||||
NPD | Siegfried Gärttner | 1,534 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 1,295 | 0.9 | 0.2 | ||
Human Environment Animal Protection | 894 | 0.6 | |||||||
REP | 544 | 0.4 | 0.2 | ||||||
PBC | 444 | 0.3 | 0.0 | ||||||
ÖDP | 405 | 0.3 | |||||||
DIE VIOLETTEN | 254 | 0.2 | |||||||
Volksabstimmung | 205 | 0.1 | |||||||
MLPD | Gabriele Maria Conrad | 234 | 0.2 | 133 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |||
Independent | Rainer Leyendecker | 215 | 0.2 | ||||||
Independent | Helmut Günther Ringger | 101 | 0.1 | ||||||
DVU | 76 | 0.1 | |||||||
BüSo | 75 | 0.1 | 0.0 | ||||||
ADM | 28 | 0.0 | |||||||
Informal votes | 2,030 | 1,855 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 141,491 | 141,666 | |||||||
Turnout | 143,521 | 71.1 | 5.0 | ||||||
CDU hold | Majority | 16,027 | 11.4 | 9.4 |
References
edit- ^ a b "Constituency Karlsruhe-Stadt". Federal Returning Officer.
- ^ "Results for Karlsruhe-Stadt". Federal Returning Officer.
- ^ Results for Karlsruhe-Stadt
- ^ Results for Karlsruhe-Stadt
- ^ Results for Karlsruhe-Stadt
- ^ Results for Karlsruhe-Stadt