Groß-Gerau 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 183. It is located in southern Hesse, comprising the Groß-Gerau district.[1]
183 Groß-Gerau | |
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Electoral district for the Bundestag | |
State | Hesse |
Population | 275,700 (2019) |
Electorate | 174,082 (2021) |
Major settlements | Rüsselsheim am Main Mörfelden-Walldorf Groß-Gerau |
Area | 453.0 km2 |
Current electoral district | |
Created | 1949 |
Party | SPD |
Member | Melanie Wegling |
Elected | 2021 |
Groß-Gerau was created for the inaugural 1949 federal election. Since 2021, it has been represented by Melanie Wegling of the Social Democratic Party (SPD).[2]
Geography
editGroß-Gerau is located in southern Hesse. As of the 2021 federal election, it is coterminous with the Groß-Gerau district.[1]
History
editGroß-Gerau was created in 1949. In the 1949 election, it was Hesse constituency 18 in the numbering system. From 1953 through 1976, it was number 143. From 1980 through 1998, it was number 141. In the 2002 and 2005 elections, it was number 185. In the 2009 through 2021 elections, it was number 184. From the 2025 election, it has been number 183.
Originally, the constituency comprised the districts of Groß-Gerau and Main-Taunus-Kreis. In the 1965 through 1972 elections, it comprised the Groß-Gerau district and the modern municipalities of Eppstein, Hofheim am Taunus, Hattersheim am Main, Kriftel, Flörsheim am Main, and Hochheim am Main from the Main-Taunus-Kreis district. In the 1976 through 1998 elections, it comprised the Groß-Gerau district and the municipalities of Hofheim am Taunus, Flörsheim am Main, and Hochheim am Main from the Main-Taunus-Kreis district. Since the 2002 election, it has been coterminous with the Groß-Gerau district.
Election | No. | Name | Borders |
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1949 | 18 | Groß-Gerau |
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1953 | 143 | ||
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1965 |
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1976 |
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1980 | 141 | ||
1983 | |||
1987 | |||
1990 | |||
1994 | |||
1998 | |||
2002 | 185 |
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2005 | |||
2009 | 184 | ||
2013 | |||
2017 | |||
2021 | |||
2025 | 183 |
Members
editThe constituency was first represented by Ludwig Bergsträsser of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) from 1949 to 1953. He was succeeded by fellow SPD member Hermann Schmitt-Vockenhausen, who served from 1953 to 1980, a total of seven consecutive terms. Norbert Wieczorek of the SPD then served a single term before Otto Zink of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) won the constituency in 1983. Former member Wieczorek regained it for the SPD in 1990, but Heinz-Adolf Hörsken returned to the CDU in 1994. Wieczorek won a third non-consecutive term in 1998, and was succeeded by fellow SPD member Gerold Reichenbach in the 2002 election, who served two terms. Franz Josef Jung of the CDU won the constituency in 2009 and served until 2017. Stefan Sauer of the CDU was elected in 2017. Melanie Wegling regained it for the SPD in 2021.
Election | Member | Party | % | |
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1949 | Ludwig Bergsträsser | SPD | 38.8 | |
1953 | Hermann Schmitt-Vockenhausen | SPD | 38.8 | |
1957 | 43.0 | |||
1961 | 47.6 | |||
1965 | 52.2 | |||
1969 | 53.4 | |||
1972 | 56.7 | |||
1976 | 51.2 | |||
1980 | Norbert Wieczorek | SPD | 50.6 | |
1983 | Otto Zink | CDU | 46.0 | |
1987 | 43.7 | |||
1990 | Norbert Wieczorek | SPD | 41.8 | |
1994 | Heinz-Adolf Hörsken | CDU | 42.7 | |
1998 | Norbert Wieczorek | SPD | 48.3 | |
2002 | Gerold Reichenbach | SPD | 50.2 | |
2005 | 47.1 | |||
2009 | Franz Josef Jung | CDU | 36.3 | |
2013 | 42.2 | |||
2017 | Stefan Sauer | CDU | 35.1 | |
2021 | Melanie Wegling | SPD | 33.5 |
Election results
edit2021 election
editFederal election (2021): Groß-Gerau[3] | |||||||||
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Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
SPD | Melanie Wegling | 42,598 | 33.5 | 1.1 | 37,973 | 29.8 | 4.4 | ||
CDU | Stefan Sauer | 35,334 | 27.7 | 7.4 | 27,301 | 21.4 | 9.1 | ||
Greens | Lars Nitschke | 14,890 | 11.7 | 4.9 | 18,928 | 14.8 | 4.8 | ||
AfD | Thorsten Blümlein | 10,880 | 8.5 | 2.8 | 11,246 | 8.8 | 3.3 | ||
FDP | Stephan Dehler | 10,726 | 8.4 | 2.8 | 14,999 | 11.8 | 2.1 | ||
Left | Jörg Cezanne | 5,047 | 4.0 | 2.7 | 5,394 | 4.2 | 4.0 | ||
FW | Achim Weidner | 3,470 | 2.7 | 0.8 | 2,478 | 1.9 | 0.9 | ||
Human Environment Animal Protection | 2,163 | 1.7 | 0.6 | ||||||
Team Todenhöfer | 1,998 | 1.6 | |||||||
PARTEI | Daniel Weber | 2,430 | 1.9 | 1,387 | 1.1 | 0.2 | |||
dieBasis | Thomas Unverzagt | 1,834 | 1.4 | 1,462 | 1.1 | ||||
Pirates | 545 | 0.4 | 0.3 | ||||||
Volt | 469 | 0.4 | |||||||
Gesundheitsforschung | 214 | 0.2 | |||||||
Humanists | 175 | 0.1 | |||||||
Bündnis C | 157 | 0.1 | |||||||
NPD | 149 | 0.1 | 0.2 | ||||||
V-Partei3 | 141 | 0.1 | 0.1 | ||||||
ÖDP | 137 | 0.1 | 0.0 | ||||||
DKP | 92 | 0.1 | 0.0 | ||||||
MLPD | Johannes Rücker | 127 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 81 | 0.1 | 0.0 | ||
Bündnis 21 | 56 | 0.0 | |||||||
LKR | 39 | 0.0 | |||||||
Informal votes | 1,925 | 1,677 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 127,336 | 127,584 | |||||||
Turnout | 129,261 | 74.3 | 2.0 | ||||||
SPD gain from CDU | Majority | 7,264 | 5.8 |
2017 election
editFederal election (2017): Groß-Gerau[4] | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
CDU | Stefan Sauer | 45,963 | 35.1 | 7.1 | 39,950 | 30.5 | 6.2 | ||
SPD | Jan Deboy | 42,342 | 32.4 | 5.7 | 33,318 | 25.4 | 5.1 | ||
AfD | Thorsten Blümlein | 14,805 | 11.3 | 15,943 | 12.2 | 6.5 | |||
Greens | Nina Eisenhardt | 8,877 | 6.8 | 0.9 | 11,862 | 9.0 | 1.6 | ||
Left | Jörg Cezanne | 8,729 | 6.7 | 0.5 | 10,755 | 8.2 | 2.0 | ||
FDP | Stephan Dehler | 7,358 | 5.6 | 3.6 | 12,645 | 9.6 | 5.0 | ||
Human Environment Animal Protection | 1,463 | 1.1 | |||||||
FW | Jens Hassen | 2,507 | 1.9 | 1,387 | 1.1 | 0.2 | |||
PARTEI | 1,192 | 0.9 | 0.4 | ||||||
Pirates | 962 | 0.7 | 1.7 | ||||||
NPD | 403 | 0.3 | 0.8 | ||||||
DM | 386 | 0.3 | |||||||
BGE | 244 | 0.2 | |||||||
V-Partei³ | 222 | 0.2 | |||||||
ÖDP | 201 | 0.2 | |||||||
MLPD | Matthias Rücker | 276 | 0.2 | 124 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |||
DKP | 81 | 0.1 | |||||||
BüSo | 42 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||
Informal votes | 2,461 | 2,138 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 130,857 | 131,180 | |||||||
Turnout | 133,318 | 76.3 | 3.1 | ||||||
CDU hold | Majority | 3,621 | 2.7 | 1.4 |
2013 election
editFederal election (2013): Groß-Gerau[5] | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
CDU | Franz Josef Jung | 52,087 | 42.2 | 5.9 | 45,389 | 36.7 | 6.8 | ||
SPD | Gerold Reichenbach | 46,942 | 38.1 | 2.1 | 37,781 | 30.5 | 2.6 | ||
Greens | Benjamin Weiß | 9,502 | 7.7 | 1.9 | 13,129 | 10.6 | 1.9 | ||
Left | Jochen Nagel | 7,645 | 6.2 | 1.4 | 7,693 | 6.2 | 2.6 | ||
AfD | 6,939 | 5.6 | |||||||
Pirates | Christian Hufgard | 4,639 | 3.8 | 2,989 | 2.4 | 0.2 | |||
FDP | Marcella Giovanna Matthes | 2,489 | 2.0 | 6.1 | 5,762 | 4.7 | 10.2 | ||
NPD | 1,430 | 1.2 | 0.2 | ||||||
FW | 1,036 | 0.8 | |||||||
PARTEI | 643 | 0.5 | |||||||
REP | 509 | 0.4 | 0.5 | ||||||
PRO | 200 | 0.2 | |||||||
MLPD | 76 | 0.1 | 0.0 | ||||||
SGP | 61 | 0.0 | |||||||
BüSo | 52 | 0.0 | 0.1 | ||||||
Informal votes | 4,079 | 3,694 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 123,304 | 123,689 | |||||||
Turnout | 127,383 | 73.2 | 1.2 | ||||||
CDU hold | Majority | 5,145 | 4.1 | 3.8 |
2009 election
editFederal election (2009): Groß-Gerau[6] | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
CDU | Franz Josef Jung | 45,410 | 36.3 | 0.1 | 37,526 | 29.9 | 1.2 | ||
SPD | Gerold Reichenbach | 44,973 | 36.0 | 11.1 | 35,058 | 28.0 | 11.3 | ||
Greens | Andrea Graf | 12,072 | 9.7 | 3.5 | 15,677 | 12.5 | 1.8 | ||
FDP | Andreas Bummel | 10,177 | 8.1 | 4.4 | 18,630 | 14.9 | 4.2 | ||
Left | Norman Kalteyer | 9,449 | 7.6 | 3.2 | 11,103 | 8.9 | 3.7 | ||
Pirates | 2,772 | 2.2 | |||||||
NPD | Andreas Jahn | 2,457 | 2.0 | 0.1 | 1,680 | 1.3 | 0.0 | ||
Human Environment Animal Protection | 1,463 | 1.2 | 0.3 | ||||||
REP | 1,098 | 0.9 | 0.2 | ||||||
Independent | Pasquale Aita | 482 | 0.4 | ||||||
BüSo | 178 | 0.1 | 0.1 | ||||||
DVU | 109 | 0.1 | |||||||
MLPD | 60 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||
Informal votes | 3,099 | 2,765 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 125,020 | 125,354 | |||||||
Turnout | 128,119 | 74.4 | 5.6 | ||||||
CDU gain from SPD | Majority | 437 | 0.3 |
References
edit- ^ a b "Constituency Groß-Gerau". Federal Returning Officer.
- ^ "Results for Groß-Gerau". Federal Returning Officer.
- ^ Results for Groß-Gerau
- ^ Results for Groß-Gerau
- ^ Results for Groß-Gerau
- ^ Results for Groß-Gerau