Stuttgart II (electoral district)

Location of constituency in Baden-Württemberg

Stuttgart II is one of the 299 single member constituencies used for the German parliament, the Bundestag. One of two districts covering the city of Stuttgart, it covers one of the city's five inner districts as well as eleven of the twenty three outer districts.

The constituency was created for the 1949 election, the first election in West Germany after World War II. For most of the period until the 1983 election, the constituency was held by the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). At the 1983 election the constituency was regained by the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), who held it until 1998. At that election the constituency was won by SPD candidate Ute Kumpf, however the CDU regained the seat at the most recent election in 2009. The current MP is Karin Maag.

History and boundaries

Upon creation for the 1949 election, the district was called Stuttgart II and covered the Stuttgart-Ost, Stuttgart-Nord, Bad Cannstatt, Stammheim, Zuffenhausen, Mühlhausen, Hofen, Münster, Untertürkheim, Rotenberg, Uhlbach, Wangen, Obertürkheim, Rohracker, Hedelfingen, Sillenbuch, Heumaden and Riedenberg towns and districts. At the 1965 election boundary changes saw the constituency consist of Stuttgart-Mitte, Stuttgart-Ost, Stuttgart-Nord, Birkach, Hedelfingen, Untertürkheim, Obertürkheim, Plieningen, Sillenbuch und Wangen.

The constituency was renamed Stuttgart-Nord for the 1980 election, when it contained the areas and towns of Stuttgart-Ost, Weilimdorf, Feuerbach, Botnang, Bad Cannstatt, Stammheim, Zuffenhausen, Mühlhausen, Münster, Untertürkheim, Wangen und Obertürkheim. Since then, the constituency boundaries have remained unchanged, though the name reverted to Stuttgart II at the 2002 election.^[1]

Results

2013 election

German federal election, 2013: Stuttgart II
Notes:		Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list. Yellow background denotes an electorate win by a list member, or other incumbent. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	CDU			58,222	43.9%	9.3%	52,323	39.3%	10.2%
	SPD			34,690	26.1%	0.2%	30,469	22.9%	2.0%
	Green			18,505	13.9%	2.9%	18,341	13.8%	4.2%
	Left			6,633	5.0%	3.6%	8,902	6.7%	2.3%
	AfD			4,497	3.4%		6,047	4.5%
	FDP			3,594	2.7%	7.7%	8,920	6.7%	10.6%
	Pirates			3,064	2.3%	0.8%	3,460	2.6%	0.6%
	FW			1,203	0.9%		732	0.6%
	NPD			1,074	0.8%	0.5%	799	0.6%	0.2%
	MLPD			281	0.2%		219	0.2%
	BüSo			121	0.1%	0.2%	44	0.0%	0.1%
	Tierschutzpartei						846	0.6%
	REP						479	0.4%	0.7%
	ÖDP						382	0.3%	0.1%
	Pensioners'						367	0.3%
	BIG						255	0.2%
	Volksabstimmung						153	0.1%	0.1
	PBC						135	0.1%	0.1
	pro-Deutschland						84	0.1%
	PDV						84	0.1%
	[[{{{party}}}|{{Template:{{{party}}}/meta/shortname}}]]	Eckstein		951	0.7%
Informal votes				1,520			1,314
Total Valid votes				132,835			133,041
	CDU hold		Majority	23,532	17.7%

There was a 73.4% turnout.

District representatives

References