Olpe – Märkischer Kreis 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 148. It is located in southern North Rhine-Westphalia, comprising the Olpe district and the southern part of the Märkischer Kreis district.[1]
148 Olpe – Märkischer Kreis I | |
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Electoral district for the Bundestag | |
![]() Olpe – Märkischer Kreis I in 2025 | |
State | North Rhine-Westphalia |
Population | 276,100 (2019) |
Electorate | 203,350 (2021) |
Major settlements | Lüdenscheid Lennestadt Olpe |
Area | 1,161.5 km2 |
Current electoral district | |
Created | 1980 |
Party | CDU |
Member | Florian Müller |
Elected | 2021 |
Olpe – Märkischer Kreis I was created for the 1980 federal election. Since 2021, it has been represented by Florian Müller of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).[2]
Geography
editOlpe – Märkischer Kreis I is located in southern North Rhine-Westphalia. As of the 2021 federal election, it comprises the entirety of the Olpe district and the municipalities of Halver, Herscheid, Kierspe, Lüdenscheid, Meinerzhagen, and Schalksmühle from the Märkischer Kreis district.[1]
History
editOlpe – Märkischer Kreis I was created in 1980, then known as Olpe – Siegen-Wittgenstein II. It acquired its current name in the 2002 election. In the 1980 through 1998 elections, it was constituency 121 in the numbering system. From 2002 through 2009, it was number 150. In the 2013 through 2021 elections, it was number 149. From the 2025 election, it has been number 148.
Originally, the constituency comprised the Olpe district and the municipalities of Freudenberg, Hilchenbach, and Kreuztal from the Siegen-Wittgenstein district. It acquired its current borders in the 2002 election.
Election | No. | Name | Borders |
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1980 | 121 | Olpe – Siegen-Wittgenstein II |
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1983 | |||
1987 | |||
1990 | |||
1994 | |||
1998 | |||
2002 | 150 | Olpe – Märkischer Kreis I |
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2005 | |||
2009 | |||
2013 | 149 | ||
2017 | |||
2021 | |||
2025 | 148 |
Members
editThe constituency has been held by the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) since its creation. It was first represented by Willi Weiskirch from 1980 to 1987, followed by Joachim Grünewald from 1987 to 1994. Hartmut Schauerte became representative in 1994 and served until 2009. Matthias Heider was elected in 2009, and re-elected in 2013 and 2017. He was succeeded by Florian Müller in 2021.
Election | Member | Party | % | |
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1980 | Willi Weiskirch | CDU | 54.8 | |
1983 | 61.1 | |||
1987 | Joachim Grünewald | CDU | 57.0 | |
1990 | 56.2 | |||
1994 | Hartmut Schauerte | CDU | 52.1 | |
1998 | 49.9 | |||
2002 | 48.2 | |||
2005 | 50.8 | |||
2009 | Matthias Heider | CDU | 47.4 | |
2013 | 51.7 | |||
2017 | 47.9 | |||
2021 | Florian Müller | CDU | 37.1 |
Election results
edit2021 election
editFederal election (2021): Olpe – Märkischer Kreis 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 | Florian Müller | 56,879 | 37.1 | 10.8 | 50,364 | 32.8 | 7.8 | ||
SPD | Nezahat Baradari | 45,366 | 29.6 | 3.2 | 42,362 | 27.6 | 4.3 | ||
FDP | Johannes Vogel | 15,944 | 10.4 | 1.6 | 19,227 | 12.5 | 1.2 | ||
Greens | Holger Thamm | 13,645 | 8.9 | 5.5 | 15,243 | 9.9 | 5.4 | ||
AfD | Klaus Heger | 13,104 | 8.5 | 0.3 | 13,100 | 8.5 | 0.6 | ||
Left | Otto Ersching | 3,935 | 2.6 | 2.2 | 4,150 | 2.7 | 2.7 | ||
Human Environment Animal Protection | 1,899 | 1.2 | 0.6 | ||||||
FW | Sabrina Dieckmann | 2,269 | 1.5 | 1,251 | 0.8 | 0.6 | |||
dieBasis | Dagmar Welz | 2,021 | 1.3 | 1,676 | 1.1 | ||||
PARTEI | 1,213 | 0.8 | 0.2 | ||||||
Team Todenhöfer | 691 | 0.4 | |||||||
Pirates | 511 | 0.3 | 0.1 | ||||||
Bündnis C | 326 | 0.2 | |||||||
Volt | 278 | 0.2 | |||||||
ÖDP | 265 | 0.2 | 0.0 | ||||||
LIEBE | 211 | 0.1 | |||||||
Gesundheitsforschung | 190 | 0.1 | 0.0 | ||||||
NPD | 181 | 0.1 | 0.2 | ||||||
LfK | 128 | 0.1 | |||||||
Humanists | 87 | 0.1 | 0.0 | ||||||
V-Partei3 | 78 | 0.1 | 0.0 | ||||||
du. | 69 | 0.0 | |||||||
DKP | Engelbert Prevorcic | 221 | 0.1 | 60 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |||
46 | 0.0 | ||||||||
LKR | 27 | 0.0 | |||||||
MLPD | 26 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||
SGP | 12 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||
Informal votes | 1,446 | 1,159 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 153,384 | 153,671 | |||||||
Turnout | 154,830 | 76.1 | 2.3 | ||||||
CDU hold | Majority | 11,513 | 7.5 | 14.0 |
2017 election
editFederal election (2017): Olpe – Märkischer Kreis I[4] | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
CDU | Matthias Heider | 72,158 | 47.9 | 3.8 | 61,394 | 40.6 | 7.4 | ||
SPD | Nezahat Baradari[a] | 39,699 | 26.3 | 6.4 | 35,269 | 23.3 | 4.9 | ||
AfD | Klaus Heger | 13,306 | 8.8 | 6.2 | 13,847 | 9.2 | 5.0 | ||
FDP | Johannes Vogel | 13,230 | 8.8 | 6.4 | 20,758 | 13.7 | 8.6 | ||
Left | Ingeborg Mohr-Simeonidis | 7,197 | 4.8 | 1.0 | 8,205 | 5.4 | 0.6 | ||
Greens | Christian Hohn | 5,170 | 3.4 | 0.0 | 6,866 | 4.5 | 0.6 | ||
Human Environment Animal Protection | 975 | 0.6 | |||||||
PARTEI | 828 | 0.5 | 0.2 | ||||||
Pirates | 631 | 0.4 | 1.4 | ||||||
AD-DEMOKRATEN | 482 | 0.3 | |||||||
NPD | 417 | 0.3 | 0.8 | ||||||
FW | 371 | 0.2 | 0.1 | ||||||
ÖDP | 319 | 0.2 | 0.1 | ||||||
Gesundheitsforschung | 151 | 0.1 | |||||||
Volksabstimmung | 140 | 0.1 | 0.1 | ||||||
DM | 139 | 0.1 | |||||||
DiB | 128 | 0.1 | |||||||
V-Partei³ | 127 | 0.1 | |||||||
BGE | 101 | 0.1 | |||||||
Die Humanisten | 61 | 0.0 | |||||||
MLPD | 40 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||
DKP | 27 | 0.0 | |||||||
SGP | 13 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||
Informal votes | 1,782 | 1,253 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 150,760 | 151,289 | |||||||
Turnout | 152,542 | 73.8 | 2.4 | ||||||
CDU hold | Majority | 32,459 | 21.6 | 2.6 |
2013 election
editFederal election (2013): Olpe – Märkischer Kreis I[5] | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
CDU | Matthias Heider | 76,911 | 51.7 | 4.3 | 71,437 | 48.0 | 8.2 | ||
SPD | Petra Crone | 48,711 | 32.7 | 4.4 | 42,002 | 28.2 | 3.8 | ||
Left | Wolfgang Hoffmann | 5,635 | 3.8 | 3.0 | 7,113 | 4.8 | 2.5 | ||
Greens | Kai Bitzer | 5,132 | 3.4 | 2.2 | 7,726 | 5.2 | 1.8 | ||
AfD | Hasso Simon | 3,931 | 2.6 | 6,151 | 4.1 | ||||
FDP | Johannes Vogel | 3,586 | 2.4 | 8.0 | 7,694 | 5.2 | 11.6 | ||
Pirates | Bastian Halbe | 2,694 | 1.8 | 2,708 | 1.8 | 0.5 | |||
NPD | 1,692 | 1.1 | 0.2 | 1,574 | 1.1 | 0.0 | |||
FW | 545 | 0.4 | 505 | 0.3 | |||||
PARTEI | 488 | 0.3 | |||||||
Volksabstimmung | 312 | 0.2 | 0.1 | ||||||
PRO | 275 | 0.2 | |||||||
ÖDP | 193 | 0.1 | 0.1 | ||||||
REP | 188 | 0.1 | 0.2 | ||||||
Nichtwahler | 134 | 0.1 | |||||||
BIG | 117 | 0.1 | |||||||
Party of Reason | 101 | 0.1 | |||||||
RRP | 84 | 0.1 | 0.1 | ||||||
PSG | 44 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||
BüSo | 27 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||
MLPD | 22 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||
Die Rechte | 20 | 0.0 | |||||||
Informal votes | 1,632 | 1,554 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 148,837 | 148,915 | |||||||
Turnout | 150,469 | 71.4 | 0.8 | ||||||
CDU hold | Majority | 28,200 | 19.0 | 0.1 |
2009 election
editFederal election (2009): Olpe – Märkischer Kreis I[6] | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
CDU | Matthias Heider | 70,705 | 47.4 | 3.4 | 59,358 | 39.7 | 2.9 | ||
SPD | Petra Crone | 42,273 | 28.3 | 9.3 | 36,470 | 24.4 | 9.9 | ||
FDP | Johannes Vogel | 15,568 | 10.4 | 6.6 | 25,021 | 16.7 | 6.0 | ||
Left | Josef Filippek | 10,100 | 6.8 | 3.0 | 10,797 | 7.2 | 2.8 | ||
Greens | Christian Röner | 8,476 | 5.7 | 2.8 | 10,379 | 6.9 | 2.0 | ||
Pirates | 1,901 | 1.3 | |||||||
NPD | Stephan Haase | 2,064 | 1.4 | 0.3 | 1,564 | 1.0 | 0.2 | ||
Human Environment Animal Protection | 978 | 0.7 | 0.2 | ||||||
FAMILIE | 879 | 0.6 | 0.2 | ||||||
RENTNER | 673 | 0.5 | |||||||
REP | 503 | 0.3 | 0.2 | ||||||
RRP | 281 | 0.2 | |||||||
Volksabstimmung | 151 | 0.1 | 0.0 | ||||||
DVU | 119 | 0.1 | |||||||
Centre | 115 | 0.1 | 0.0 | ||||||
ÖDP | 108 | 0.1 | |||||||
MLPD | 40 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||
PSG | 37 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||
BüSo | 20 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||
Informal votes | 1,941 | 1,733 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 149,186 | 149,394 | |||||||
Turnout | 151,127 | 70.6 | 6.8 | ||||||
CDU hold | Majority | 28,432 | 19.1 | 5.9 |
Notes
edit- ^ Baradari entered the Bundestag on the SPD list after the resignation of Ulrich Kelber in January 2019.
References
edit- ^ a b "Constituency Olpe – Märkischer Kreis I". Federal Returning Officer.
- ^ "Results for Olpe – Märkischer Kreis I". Federal Returning Officer.
- ^ Results for Olpe – Märkischer Kreis I
- ^ Results for Olpe – Märkischer Kreis I
- ^ Results for Olpe – Märkischer Kreis I
- ^ Results for Olpe – Märkischer Kreis I