Märkischer Kreis II
149 Märkischer Kreis II | |
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Electoral district for the Bundestag | |
![]() Märkischer Kreis II in 2025 | |
State | North Rhine-Westphalia |
Population | 268,100 (2019) |
Electorate | 195,816 (2021) |
Major settlements | Iserlohn Menden Hemer |
Area | 611.7 km2 |
Current electoral district | |
Created | 1980 |
Party | CDU |
Member | Paul Ziemiak |
Elected | 2021 |
Märkischer Kreis II 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 149. It is located in southern North Rhine-Westphalia, comprising the northern part of the Märkischer Kreis district.[1]
Märkischer Kreis II was created for the 1980 federal election. Since 2002, it has been represented by Paul Ziemiak of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).[2]
Geography
[edit]Märkischer Kreis II is located in southern North Rhine-Westphalia. As of the 2021 federal election, it comprises the entirety of the Märkischer Kreis district excluding the municipalities of Halver, Herscheid, Kierspe, Lüdenscheid, Meinerzhagen, and Schalksmühle.[1]
History
[edit]Märkischer Kreis II was created in 1980. In the 1980 through 1998 elections, it was constituency 123 in the numbering system. From 2002 through 2009, it was number 151. In the 2013 through 2021 elections, it was number 150. From the 2025 election, it has been number 149.
Originally, the constituency comprised the municipalities of Lüdenscheid, Altena, Meinerzhagen, Kierspe, Plettenberg, Werdohl, Halver, Herscheid, and Schalksmühle from the Märkischer Kreis district. It acquired its current borders in the 2002 election.
Election | No. | Name | Borders |
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1980 | 123 | Märkischer Kreis II |
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1983 | |||
1987 | |||
1990 | |||
1994 | |||
1998 | |||
2002 | 151 |
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2005 | |||
2009 | |||
2013 | 150 | ||
2017 | |||
2021 | |||
2025 | 149 |
Members
[edit]The constituency has been held by the Social Democratic Party (SPD) during all but two Bundestag terms since its creation. It was first represented by Günter Topmann from 1980 to 1983. Wolfgang Lohmann of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) won it in 1983 and served a single term. Lisa Seuster regained it for the SPD in 1987, and served until 1998. Dieter Dzewas was then representative from 1998 to 2002. Dagmar Freitag was elected in 2002 and served until 2021. Paul Ziemiak won the constituency for the CDU in 2021.
Election | Member | Party | % | |
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1980 | Günter Topmann | SPD | 51.0 | |
1983 | Wolfgang Lohmann | CDU | 47.0 | |
1987 | Lisa Seuster | SPD | 47.3 | |
1990 | 45.2 | |||
1994 | 48.8 | |||
1998 | Dieter Dzewas | SPD | 52.0 | |
2002 | Dagmar Freitag | SPD | 49.7 | |
2005 | 47.5 | |||
2009 | 41.0 | |||
2013 | 41.7 | |||
2017 | 38.6 | |||
2021 | Paul Ziemiak | CDU | 33.6 |
Election results
[edit]2021 election
[edit]Federal election (2021): Märkischer Kreis II[3] | |||||||||
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Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
CDU | Paul Ziemiak | 47,937 | 33.6 | ![]() |
40,368 | 28.3 | ![]() | ||
SPD | Bettina Lugk | 43,346 | 30.4 | ![]() |
42,230 | 29.6 | ![]() | ||
AfD | Daniel Bläsing | 12,933 | 9.1 | 13,082 | 9.2 | ![]() | |||
Greens | Ingo Stuckmann | 12,866 | 9.0 | ![]() |
14,880 | 10.4 | ![]() | ||
FDP | Jochen Lipproß | 12,749 | 8.9 | ![]() |
17,125 | 12.0 | ![]() | ||
Left | Michael Thomas-Lienkämper | 4,668 | 3.3 | ![]() |
4,804 | 3.4 | ![]() | ||
Human Environment Animal Protection | Michael Siethoff | 4,382 | 3.1 | 2,994 | 2.1 | ![]() | |||
FW | Hans Herbers | 2,004 | 1.4 | 1,228 | 0.9 | ![]() | |||
dieBasis | Stefan Radtke | 1,575 | 1.1 | 1,496 | 1.0 | ||||
PARTEI | 1,300 | 0.9 | ![]() | ||||||
Team Todenhöfer | 925 | 0.5 | |||||||
Pirates | 540 | 0.4 | ![]() | ||||||
Gesundheitsforschung | 245 | 0.2 | ![]() | ||||||
LIEBE | 222 | 0.2 | |||||||
Volt | 215 | 0.2 | |||||||
NPD | 185 | 0.1 | ![]() | ||||||
LfK | 154 | 0.1 | |||||||
Humanists | 111 | 0.1 | ![]() | ||||||
Bündnis C | 105 | 0.1 | |||||||
ÖDP | 85 | 0.1 | ![]() | ||||||
V-Partei3 | 75 | 0.1 | ![]() | ||||||
du. | 68 | 0.0 | |||||||
MLPD | 52 | 0.0 | ![]() | ||||||
46 | 0.0 | ||||||||
DKP | 32 | 0.0 | ![]() | ||||||
LKR | 28 | 0.0 | |||||||
SGP | 13 | 0.0 | ![]() | ||||||
Informal votes | 1,229 | 1,081 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 142,460 | 142,608 | |||||||
Turnout | 143,689 | 73.4 | ![]() |
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CDU gain from SPD | Majority | 4,591 | 3.2 |
2017 election
[edit]Federal election (2017): Märkischer Kreis II[4] | |||||||||
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Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
SPD | ![]() |
54,890 | 38.6 | ![]() |
37,193 | 25.8 | ![]() | ||
CDU | Christel Voßbeck-Kayser | 53,714 | 37.8 | ![]() |
49,061 | 34.0 | ![]() | ||
FDP | Michael Schulte | 15,221 | 10.7 | ![]() |
19,328 | 13.4 | ![]() | ||
AfD | 16,688 | 11.6 | ![]() | ||||||
Left | Christian Kißler | 11,113 | 7.8 | ![]() |
9,427 | 6.5 | ![]() | ||
Greens | John Haberle | 5,356 | 3.8 | ![]() |
7,060 | 4.9 | ![]() | ||
Independent | Konrad Maier | 1,799 | 1.3 | ||||||
Human Environment Animal Protection | 1,262 | 0.9 | |||||||
PARTEI | 931 | 0.6 | ![]() | ||||||
AD-DEMOKRATEN | 729 | 0.5 | |||||||
Pirates | 604 | 0.4 | ![]() | ||||||
FW | 421 | 0.3 | ![]() | ||||||
NPD | 352 | 0.2 | ![]() | ||||||
Gesundheitsforschung | 189 | 0.1 | |||||||
Volksabstimmung | 187 | 0.1 | ![]() | ||||||
DiB | 138 | 0.1 | |||||||
ÖDP | 134 | 0.1 | ![]() | ||||||
DM | 133 | 0.1 | |||||||
BGE | 130 | 0.1 | |||||||
V-Partei³ | 111 | 0.1 | |||||||
Die Humanisten | 59 | 0.0 | |||||||
MLPD | 56 | 0.0 | ![]() | ||||||
DKP | 15 | 0.0 | |||||||
SGP | 14 | 0.0 | ![]() | ||||||
Informal votes | 3,381 | 1,252 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 142,093 | 144,222 | |||||||
Turnout | 145,474 | 72.5 | ![]() |
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SPD hold | Majority | 1,176 | 0.8 | ![]() |
2013 election
[edit]Federal election (2013): Märkischer Kreis II[5] | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
SPD | ![]() |
59,821 | 41.7 | ![]() |
46,318 | 32.3 | ![]() | ||
CDU | Christel Voßbeck-Kayser | 59,768 | 41.6 | ![]() |
59,536 | 41.5 | ![]() | ||
Left | Manuel Huff | 6,926 | 4.8 | ![]() |
8,463 | 5.9 | ![]() | ||
AfD | 4,709 | 3.3 | 7,122 | 5.0 | |||||
Greens | Elke Olbrich-Tripp | 4,498 | 3.1 | ![]() |
7,971 | 5.6 | ![]() | ||
Pirates | Hans-Joachim Ossenberg | 3,114 | 2.2 | 3,284 | 2.3 | ![]() | |||
FDP | Michael Schulte | 2,792 | 1.9 | ![]() |
6,431 | 4.5 | ![]() | ||
NPD | 1,874 | 1.3 | ![]() |
1,620 | 1.1 | ![]() | |||
PARTEI | 625 | 0.4 | |||||||
FW | 389 | 0.3 | |||||||
Volksabstimmung | 363 | 0.3 | ![]() | ||||||
PRO | 317 | 0.2 | |||||||
REP | 284 | 0.2 | ![]() | ||||||
Nichtwahler | 194 | 0.1 | |||||||
BIG | 147 | 0.1 | |||||||
ÖDP | 145 | 0.1 | ![]() | ||||||
RRP | 119 | 0.1 | ![]() | ||||||
Party of Reason | 109 | 0.1 | |||||||
MLPD | 47 | 0.0 | ![]() | ||||||
PSG | 31 | 0.0 | ![]() | ||||||
Die Rechte | 27 | 0.0 | |||||||
BüSo | 18 | 0.0 | ![]() | ||||||
Informal votes | 1,695 | 1,637 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 143,502 | 143,560 | |||||||
Turnout | 145,197 | 70.4 | ![]() |
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SPD hold | Majority | 53 | 0.1 | ![]() |
2009 election
[edit]Federal election (2009): Märkischer Kreis II[6] | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
SPD | ![]() |
59,521 | 41.0 | ![]() |
41,755 | 28.7 | ![]() | ||
CDU | Christel Voßbeck-Kayser | 52,751 | 36.3 | ![]() |
51,494 | 35.4 | ![]() | ||
FDP | Rainer Eckehard Krause | 11,740 | 8.1 | ![]() |
20,616 | 14.2 | ![]() | ||
Left | Karsten Renfordt | 10,431 | 7.2 | ![]() |
12,450 | 8.6 | ![]() | ||
Greens | Elke Olbrich-Tripp | 6,207 | 4.3 | ![]() |
10,589 | 7.3 | ![]() | ||
Pirates | 2,181 | 1.5 | |||||||
NPD | Timo Pradel | 2,331 | 1.6 | ![]() |
1,902 | 1.3 | ![]() | ||
Human Environment Animal Protection | Michael Siethoff | 2,217 | 1.5 | 1,310 | 0.9 | ![]() | |||
FAMILIE | 810 | 0.6 | ![]() | ||||||
RENTNER | 786 | 0.5 | |||||||
REP | 555 | 0.4 | ![]() | ||||||
RRP | 335 | 0.2 | |||||||
Volksabstimmung | 169 | 0.1 | ![]() | ||||||
DVU | 105 | 0.1 | |||||||
ÖDP | 105 | 0.1 | |||||||
Centre | 67 | 0.0 | ![]() | ||||||
MLPD | 48 | 0.0 | ![]() | ||||||
BüSo | 25 | 0.0 | ![]() | ||||||
PSG | 23 | 0.0 | ![]() | ||||||
Informal votes | 1,788 | 1,661 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 145,198 | 145,325 | |||||||
Turnout | 146,986 | 69.7 | ![]() |
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SPD hold | Majority | 6,770 | 4.7 | ![]() |
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Constituency Märkischer Kreis II". Federal Returning Officer.
- ^ "Results for Märkischer Kreis II". Federal Returning Officer.
- ^ Results for Märkischer Kreis II
- ^ Results for Märkischer Kreis II
- ^ Results for Märkischer Kreis II
- ^ Results for Märkischer Kreis II