Diepholz – Nienburg 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 33. It is located in central Lower Saxony, comprising the Diepholz district and parts of the Nienburg district.[1]
33 Diepholz – Nienburg I | |
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Electoral district for the Bundestag | |
![]() Diepholz – Nienburg I in 2025 | |
State | Lower Saxony |
Population | 247,900 (2019) |
Electorate | 194,371 (2021) |
Major settlements | Syke Diepholz |
Area | 2,490.9 km2 |
Current electoral district | |
Created | 1949 |
Party | CDU |
Member | Axel Knoerig |
Elected | 2009, 2013, 2017, 2021 |
Diepholz – Nienburg I was created for the inaugural 1949 federal election. Since 2009, it has been represented by Axel Knoerig of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).[2]
Geography
editDiepholz – Nienburg I is located in central Lower Saxony. As of the 2021 federal election, it comprises the entirety of the Diepholz district as well as the Samtgemeinden of Grafschaft Hoya and Uchte from the Nienburg district.[1]
History
editDiepholz – Nienburg I was created in 1949, then known as Diepholz – Melle – Wittlage. In the 1965 through 1976 elections, it was named Nienburg. From 1980 through 1998, it was named Diepholz. It acquired its current name in the 2002 election. In the inaugural Bundestag election, it was Lower Saxony constituency 23 in the numbering system. From 1953 through 1961, it was number 45. From 1965 through 1976, it was number 34. From 1980 through 1998, it was number 28. From 2002 through 2009, it was number 34. Since 2013, it has been constituency 33.
Originally, the constituency comprised the districts of Grafschaft Diepholz, Melle, and Wittlage. It also included part of the Nienburg district, specifically the territory which now comprises the Samtgemeinde of Uchte. In the 1965 election, the entirety of the Nienburg district was transferred to the constituency. In the 1980 election, the area of the abolished Melle and Wittlage districts was transferred away, as was the Nienburg district. From then until 2002, the constituency comprised only the district of Diepholz. It acquired its current borders in the 2002 election.
Election | No. | Name | Borders |
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1949 | 23 | Diepholz – Melle – Wittlage |
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1953 | 45 | ||
1957 | |||
1961 | |||
1965 | 34 | Nienburg |
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1969 | |||
1972 | |||
1976 | |||
1980 | 28 | Diepholz |
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1983 | |||
1987 | |||
1990 | |||
1994 | |||
1998 | |||
2002 | 34 | Diepholz – Nienburg I |
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2005 | |||
2009 | |||
2013 | 33 | ||
2017 | |||
2021 | |||
2025 |
Members
editThe constituency was first held by Rudolf Eickhoff of the German Party (DP), who served from 1949 until 1957. He was succeeded by Karl Gossel of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), who served two terms. Fellow CDU members Günter von Nordenskjöld (1965–72) and Richard Ey (1972–80) then each served two terms. In 1980, the Social Democratic Party (SPD) won the constituency, and Peter Würtz was its representative for a single term. The CDU's Walter Link regained it in 1983, and served until 1998. In 1998, the SPD's Detlev von Larcher won, and served a single term. Rolf Kramer of the SPD was representative from 2002 to 2009. Axel Knoerig of the CDU has served as representative since 2009.
Election | Member | Party | % | |
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1949 | Rudolf Eickhoff | DP | 34.2 | |
1953 | 26.7 | |||
1957 | Karl Gossel | CDU | 30.5 | |
1961 | 35.4 | |||
1965 | Günter von Nordenskjöld | CDU | 45.1 | |
1969 | 46.4 | |||
1972 | Richard Ey | CDU | 45.5 | |
1976 | 49.2 | |||
1980 | Peter Würtz | SPD | 46.0 | |
1983 | Walter Link | CDU | 50.1 | |
1987 | 44.3 | |||
1990 | 46.3 | |||
1994 | 44.3 | |||
1998 | Detlev von Larcher | SPD | 48.4 | |
2002 | Rolf Kramer | SPD | 48.3 | |
2005 | 45.7 | |||
2009 | Axel Knoerig | CDU | 37.5 | |
2013 | 47.5 | |||
2017 | 44.6 | |||
2021 | 33.8 |
Election results
edit2021 election
editFederal election (2021): Diepholz – Nienburg I[3] | |||||||||
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Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
CDU | Axel Knoerig | 49,116 | 33.8 | 10.8 | 36,915 | 25.3 | 12.6 | ||
SPD | Peggy Schierenbeck | 46,455 | 31.9 | 4.6 | 48,196 | 33.0 | 7.6 | ||
Greens | Sylvia Holste-Hagen | 19,702 | 13.5 | 5.9 | 21,139 | 14.5 | 6.3 | ||
FDP | Jan Andreas Hinderks | 13,671 | 9.4 | 2.4 | 17,628 | 12.1 | 1.5 | ||
AfD | Alfons Muhle | 9,683 | 6.7 | 1.5 | 10,372 | 7.1 | 1.3 | ||
Left | Jürgen Abelmann | 4,029 | 2.8 | 2.5 | 3,920 | 2.7 | 3.4 | ||
Human Environment Animal Protection | 1,774 | 1.2 | 0.3 | ||||||
dieBasis | Detlev Pigors | 2,111 | 1.5 | 1,722 | 1.2 | ||||
FW | 1,322 | 0.9 | 0.5 | ||||||
PARTEI | 1,294 | 0.9 | 0.1 | ||||||
Independent | Rüdiger Gums | 727 | 0.5 | ||||||
Pirates | 465 | 0.3 | 0.0 | ||||||
Team Todenhöfer | 395 | 0.3 | |||||||
Volt | 228 | 0.2 | |||||||
NPD | 123 | 0.1 | 0.2 | ||||||
Humanists | 118 | 0.1 | |||||||
ÖDP | 113 | 0.1 | 0.1 | ||||||
V-Partei3 | 98 | 0.1 | 0.1 | ||||||
du. | 78 | 0.1 | |||||||
LKR | 39 | 0.0 | |||||||
MLPD | 21 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||
DKP | 12 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||
Informal votes | 1,460 | 982 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 145,494 | 145,972 | |||||||
Turnout | 146,954 | 75.6 | 0.9 | ||||||
CDU hold | Majority | 2,661 | 1.9 | 15.4 |
2017 election
editFederal election (2017): Diepholz – Nienburg I[4] | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
CDU | Axel Knoerig | 65,465 | 44.6 | 2.9 | 55,833 | 37.9 | 5.6 | ||
SPD | Tevfik Özkan | 40,102 | 27.3 | 6.1 | 37,505 | 25.5 | 6.0 | ||
AfD | Karl-Heinz Gerd Breternitz | 11,955 | 8.1 | 5.6 | 12,434 | 8.4 | 5.0 | ||
Greens | Klaus-Joachim Schmelz | 11,252 | 7.7 | 0.1 | 11,992 | 8.1 | 0.0 | ||
FDP | Alexander Carapinha-Hesse | 10,285 | 7.0 | 5.0 | 15,515 | 10.5 | 5.6 | ||
Left | Jürgen Abelmann | 7,759 | 5.3 | 1.8 | 8,951 | 6.1 | 1.6 | ||
Human Environment Animal Protection | 1,353 | 0.9 | 0.1 | ||||||
PARTEI | 1,104 | 0.7 | |||||||
FW | 668 | 0.5 | |||||||
Pirates | 476 | 0.3 | 1.2 | ||||||
NPD | 366 | 0.2 | 0.6 | ||||||
BGE | 258 | 0.2 | |||||||
ÖDP | 219 | 0.1 | |||||||
DM | 206 | 0.1 | |||||||
V-Partei³ | 191 | 0.1 | |||||||
DiB | 162 | 0.1 | |||||||
MLPD | 28 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||
DKP | 17 | 0.0 | |||||||
Informal votes | 1,480 | 1,020 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 146,818 | 147,278 | |||||||
Turnout | 148,298 | 76.5 | 2.7 | ||||||
CDU hold | Majority | 25,363 | 17.3 | 3.2 |
2013 election
editFederal election (2013): Diepholz – Nienburg I[5] | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
CDU | Axel Knoerig | 66,862 | 47.5 | 9.9 | 61,404 | 43.5 | 9.7 | ||
SPD | Christoph Lanzendörfer | 47,067 | 33.4 | 1.0 | 44,431 | 31.5 | 3.8 | ||
Greens | Torsten Eggelmann | 10,651 | 7.6 | 0.9 | 11,556 | 8.2 | 1.8 | ||
Left | Ingo Waschner | 4,933 | 3.5 | 3.5 | 6,359 | 4.5 | 3.8 | ||
AfD | Arno Heinz Staschewski | 3,571 | 2.5 | 4,840 | 3.4 | ||||
FDP | Marcel Schiller | 2,797 | 2.0 | 9.4 | 6,929 | 4.9 | 10.8 | ||
Pirates | Mario Gärtner | 2,166 | 1.5 | 2,143 | 1.5 | 0.2 | |||
NPD | Bernd Neumann | 1,288 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 1,175 | 0.8 | 0.2 | ||
Human Environment Animal Protection | 1,196 | 0.8 | 0.1 | ||||||
FW | Olaf Schulz | 903 | 0.6 | 673 | 0.5 | ||||
Independent | Rüdiger Gums | 616 | 0.4 | ||||||
PRO | 169 | 0.1 | |||||||
PBC | 137 | 0.1 | |||||||
REP | 102 | 0.1 | |||||||
MLPD | 21 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||
Informal votes | 1,496 | 1,215 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 140,854 | 141,135 | |||||||
Turnout | 142,350 | 73.7 | 0.4 | ||||||
CDU hold | Majority | 19,795 | 14.1 | 11.1 |
2009 election
editFederal election (2009): Diepholz – Nienburg I[6] | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
CDU | Axel Knoerig | 52,599 | 37.5 | 1.5 | 47,565 | 33.8 | 0.4 | ||
SPD | Rolf Kramer | 48,313 | 34.5 | 11.3 | 38,955 | 27.7 | 14.0 | ||
FDP | Horst Gaumann | 15,928 | 11.4 | 6.4 | 22,067 | 15.7 | 5.0 | ||
Greens | Stefanie Henneke | 11,917 | 8.5 | 3.0 | 13,999 | 10.0 | 2.6 | ||
Left | Ulrich Vanek | 9,775 | 7.0 | 3.4 | 11,701 | 8.3 | 4.0 | ||
Pirates | 2,453 | 1.7 | |||||||
NPD | Dietrich Seidel | 1,660 | 1.2 | 0.0 | 1,442 | 1.0 | 0.2 | ||
Human Environment Animal Protection | 1,059 | 0.8 | 0.2 | ||||||
RRP | 937 | 0.7 | |||||||
DVU | 193 | 0.1 | |||||||
ÖDP | 143 | 0.1 | |||||||
MLPD | 27 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||
Informal votes | 1,646 | 1,315 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 140,192 | 140,523 | |||||||
Turnout | 141,838 | 73.3 | 5.7 | ||||||
CDU gain from SPD | Majority | 4,286 | 3.1 |
References
edit- ^ a b "Constituency Diepholz – Nienburg I". Federal Returning Officer.
- ^ "Results for Diepholz – Nienburg I". Federal Returning Officer.
- ^ Results for Diepholz – Nienburg I
- ^ Results for Diepholz – Nienburg I
- ^ Results for Diepholz – Nienburg I
- ^ Results for Diepholz – Nienburg I