Rostock – Landkreis Rostock II
14 Rostock – Landkreis Rostock II | |
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Electoral district for the Bundestag | |
![]() Rostock – Landkreis Rostock II in 2025 | |
State | Mecklenburg-Vorpommern |
Population | 276,500 (2019) |
Electorate | 222,705 (2021) |
Major settlements | Rostock |
Area | 994.5 km2 |
Current electoral district | |
Created | 1990 |
Party | SPD |
Member | Katrin Zschau |
Elected | 2021 |
Rostock – Landkreis Rostock 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 14. It is located in northern Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, comprising the independent city of Rostock and the northern part of the Landkreis Rostock district.[1]
Rostock – Landkreis Rostock II was created for the inaugural 1990 federal election after German reunification. Since 2021, it has been represented by Katrin Zschau of the Social Democratic Party (SPD).[2]
Geography
[edit]Rostock – Landkreis Rostock II is located in northern Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. As of the 2021 federal election, it comprises the independent city of Rostock and northern parts of the Landkreis Rostock district, specifically the municipalities of Dummerstorf, Graal-Müritz, and Sanitz and the Ämter of Carbäk, Rostocker Heide, Schwaan, Tessin, and Warnow-West.[1]
History
[edit]Rostock – Landkreis Rostock II was created after German reunification in 1990, then known as Rostock. Until 2002, it was constituency 265 in the numbering system. Originally, it comprised only the independent city of Rostock. In the 2005 election, it acquired the municipalities of Graal-Müritz and Sanitz and the Ämter of Carbäk, Rostocker Heide, and Tessin from the now-abolished Bad Doberan district. In the 2013 election, was further expanded to its current borders and renamed to Rostock – Landkreis Rostock II.
Election | No. | Name | Borders |
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1990 | 265 | Rostock |
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1998 | |||
2002 | 14 | ||
2005 |
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2009 | |||
2013 | Rostock – Landkreis Rostock II |
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Members
[edit]The constituency was held by the Social Democratic Party (SPD) from its creation in 1990 until 2009, during which time it was represented by Christine Lucyga (until 2005) and Christian Kleiminger. In 2009, it was won by Steffen Bockhahn of The Left. Peter Stein of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) won the constituency in 2013, and was re-elected in 2017. Katrin Zschau regained it for the SPD in 2021.
Election | Member | Party | % | |
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1990 | Christine Lucyga | SPD | 34.4 | |
1994 | 33.2 | |||
1998 | 36.8 | |||
2002 | 45.2 | |||
2005 | Christian Kleiminger | SPD | 37.7 | |
2009 | Steffen Bockhahn | LINKE | 32.3 | |
2013 | Peter Stein | CDU | 35.0 | |
2017 | 29.5 | |||
2021 | Katrin Zschau | SPD | 27.0 |
Election results
[edit]2021 election
[edit]Federal election (2021): Rostock – Landkreis Rostock II[3] | |||||||||
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Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
SPD | Katrin Zschau | 43,932 | 27.0 | ![]() |
47,280 | 29.0 | ![]() | ||
Left | Dietmar Bartsch | 29,715 | 18.2 | ![]() |
21,491 | 13.2 | ![]() | ||
CDU | ![]() |
27,672 | 17.0 | ![]() |
23,103 | 14.2 | ![]() | ||
AfD | Tobias Pontow | 19,882 | 12.2 | ![]() |
20,658 | 12.7 | ![]() | ||
Greens | Andreas Tesche | 16,556 | 10.2 | ![]() |
20,941 | 12.8 | ![]() | ||
FDP | Hagen Reinhold | 12,242 | 7.5 | ![]() |
14,852 | 9.1 | ![]() | ||
dieBasis | Susanne Kreft | 4,744 | 2.9 | 3,488 | 2.1 | ||||
Human Environment Animal Protection | Seraphine Jörn | 4,476 | 2.7 | 3,935 | 2.4 | ![]() | |||
PARTEI | 2,036 | 1.2 | ![]() | ||||||
FW | Christine Dubberke | 2,131 | 1.3 | ![]() |
1,871 | 1.1 | ![]() | ||
Pirates | Jan-Peter Rühmann | 1,304 | 0.8 | 854 | 0.5 | ||||
NPD | 696 | 0.4 | ![]() | ||||||
Volt | 501 | 0.3 | |||||||
Team Todenhöfer | 408 | 0.3 | |||||||
Humanists | 290 | 0.2 | |||||||
ÖDP | 274 | 0.2 | ![]() | ||||||
MLPD | Eric Dunst | 356 | 0.2 | ![]() |
152 | 0.1 | ![]() | ||
DKP | 147 | 0.1 | |||||||
Informal votes | 2,319 | 2,352 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 163,010 | 162,977 | |||||||
Turnout | 165,329 | 74.2 | ![]() |
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SPD gain from CDU | Majority | 14,217 | 8.8 |
2017 election
[edit]Federal election (2017): Rostock – Landkreis Rostock II[4] | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
CDU | ![]() |
47,923 | 29.5 | ![]() |
49,433 | 30.5 | ![]() | ||
Left | Dietmar Bartsch | 40,202 | 24.8 | ![]() |
33,575 | 20.7 | ![]() | ||
SPD | Christian Reinke | 29,056 | 17.9 | ![]() |
25,650 | 15.8 | ![]() | ||
AfD | Stephan Schmidt | 23,785 | 14.7 | 25,171 | 15.5 | ![]() | |||
Greens | Uwe Flachsmeyer | 8,333 | 5.1 | ![]() |
10,229 | 6.3 | ![]() | ||
FDP | Hagen Reinhold | 7,368 | 4.5 | ![]() |
10,661 | 6.6 | ![]() | ||
PARTEI | Eric Adelsberger | 3,132 | 1.9 | 2,517 | 1.6 | ||||
Human Environment Animal Protection | 2,008 | 1.2 | |||||||
FW | Arne Gericke | 1,453 | 0.9 | ![]() |
955 | 0.6 | ![]() | ||
NPD | 907 | 0.6 | ![]() | ||||||
ÖDP | Torsten Frosina | 591 | 0.4 | 349 | 0.2 | ||||
BGE | 564 | 0.3 | |||||||
MLPD | Philipp Schwartz | 396 | 0.2 | ![]() |
303 | 0.2 | ![]() | ||
Informal votes | 1,777 | 1,694 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 162,239 | 162,322 | |||||||
Turnout | 164,016 | 73.6 | ![]() |
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CDU hold | Majority | 7,721 | 4.7 | ![]() |
2013 election
[edit]Federal election (2013): Rostock – Landkreis Rostock II[5] | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
CDU | Peter Stein | 52,661 | 35.1 | ![]() |
57,188 | 37.9 | ![]() | ||
Left | ![]() |
46,160 | 30.7 | ![]() |
35,792 | 23.7 | ![]() | ||
SPD | Christian Kleiminger | 27,498 | 18.3 | ![]() |
29,010 | 18.2 | ![]() | ||
Greens | Harald Terpe | 11,216 | 7.5 | ![]() |
11,216 | 6.5 | ![]() | ||
AfD | 8,196 | 5.4 | |||||||
Pirates | Michael Slobidnyk | 3,263 | 2.2 | 3,588 | 2.4 | ![]() | |||
NPD | Normen Schreiter | 3,308 | 2.2 | ![]() |
2,484 | 1.6 | ![]() | ||
Independent | Steffen Wiechmann | 2,509 | 1.7 | ||||||
FDP | Hagen Reinhold | 1,606 | 1.1 | ![]() |
2,911 | 1.9 | ![]() | ||
FW | Klaus-Dieter Gabbert | 1,385 | 0.9 | 1,109 | 0.7 | ||||
MLPD | Renate Voß | 545 | 0.4 | 292 | 0.2 | ![]() | |||
PRO | 224 | 0.1 | |||||||
REP | 106 | 0.1 | ![]() | ||||||
Informal votes | 2,669 | 2,046 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 150,151 | 150,774 | |||||||
Turnout | 152,820 | 68.3 | ![]() |
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CDU gain from Left | Majority | 6,501 | 4.4 |
2009 election
[edit]Federal election (2009): Rostock[6] | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
Left | Steffen Bockhahn | 41,539 | 32.3 | ![]() |
40,045 | 31.1 | ![]() | ||
CDU | Peter Stein | 34,517 | 26.9 | ![]() |
34,759 | 27.0 | ![]() | ||
SPD | ![]() |
25,389 | 19.8 | ![]() |
23,223 | 18.0 | ![]() | ||
Greens | Harald Terpe | 13,727 | 10.7 | ![]() |
10,772 | 8.4 | ![]() | ||
FDP | Hagen Reinhold | 8,517 | 6.6 | ![]() |
12,234 | 9.5 | ![]() | ||
Pirates | 4,215 | 3.3 | |||||||
NPD | Franziska Vorpahl | 3,215 | 2.5 | 2,999 | 2.3 | ![]() | |||
Independent | Hartmut Rusin | 565 | 0.4 | ||||||
MLPD | Renate Voß | 554 | 0.4 | ![]() |
324 | 0.3 | ![]() | ||
Independent | Gabriele Radloff | 479 | 0.4 | ||||||
REP | 177 | 0.1 | |||||||
Informal votes | 2,157 | 1,911 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 128,502 | 128,748 | |||||||
Turnout | 130,659 | 65.8 | ![]() |
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Left gain from SPD | Majority | 7,022 | 5.5 |
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Constituency Rostock – Landkreis Rostock II". Federal Returning Officer.
- ^ "Results for Rostock – Landkreis Rostock II". Federal Returning Officer.
- ^ Bundestag election 2021 in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
- ^ Results for Rostock – Landkreis Rostock II
- ^ Results for Rostock – Landkreis Rostock II
- ^ Results for Rostock