Koblenz (electoral district)

The electoral district of Koblenz (Wahlkreis Koblenz) is one of the 299 single-member constituencies of the German Bundestag. The electoral district contains the city of Koblenz and parts of Mayen-Koblenz and the Rhein-Lahn-Kreis.[1] The district has been won by the CDU in every federal election since 1949. The district, currently numbered 199, has been district 200 in the 2013 election, with no changes in territory.[2]

Koblenz
Constituency
for the Bundestag
Electoral district of Koblenz shown within Rhineland-Palatinate
CountryGermany
StateRhineland-Palatinate
Electorate196,999
Current constituency
Created1949
PartyCDU
MdBJosef Oster
District number199

Boundaries

The Wahlkreis consists of Koblenz, Bendorf, Lahnstein, and the Verbandsgemeinden Rhein-Mosel, Vallendar, Weißenthurm, Bad Ems and Loreley.[1]

List of district representatives
Election Name Party
1949 Karl Weber CDU
1953 Karl Weber CDU
1957 Karl Weber CDU
1961 Karl Weber CDU
1965 Egon Klepsch CDU
1969 Egon Klepsch CDU
1972 Egon Klepsch CDU
1976 Egon Klepsch CDU
1980 Roswitha Verhülsdonk CDU
1983 Roswitha Verhülsdonk CDU
1987 Roswitha Verhülsdonk CDU
1990 Roswitha Verhülsdonk CDU
1994 Karl-Heinz Scherhag CDU
1998 Karl-Heinz Scherhag CDU
2002 Michael Fuchs CDU
2005 Michael Fuchs CDU
2009 Michael Fuchs CDU
2013 Michael Fuchs CDU
2017 Josef Oster CDU

Election results

2017 election

The result of the 2017 election were:[3][4]

Party Constituency results List results
Candidate Votes % share Change Votes % share Change
CDU Josef Oster 61,594 41.3 -6.7 56,616 37.8 -7.2
SPD Detlev Pilger 42,780 28.7 -2.1 35,679 23.8 -3.3
Greens Patrick Zwiernik 9,273 6.2 -1.8 11,862 7.9 +0.2
FDP Florian Glock 9,732 6.5 +3.8 16,152 10.8 +5.4
The Left Ulrich Lenz 7,693 5.2 +0.2 10,332 6.9 +1.7
AfD Thomas Damson 12,153 8.2 8.2 13,701 9.2 +4.5
Pirates Marieluise Charlotte Salm 1,058 0.7 -2.1 741 0.5 -1.7
Free Voters Stefan Scheer 2,623 1.8 -0.9 1,627 1.1 -0.1
Die PARTEI Andreas Werner Müller 1,723 1.2 1.2 1,715 1.1 1.1
Others 383 0.3 1,004 0.7

Detlev Pilger was elected to the Bundestag on the SPD party list for Rheinland-Pfalz.[5]

References
  1. "Delimitation of constituency boundaries Koblenz - The Federal Returning Officer". www.bundeswahlleiter.de. Archived from the original on 2019-09-05. Retrieved 2019-09-05.
  2. "Delimitation of constituency boundaries Koblenz - The Federal Returning Officer". www.bundeswahlleiter.de. Retrieved 2019-09-12.
  3. WELT (2017-09-24). "Wahlergebnis Koblenz: Das Ergebnis im Wahlkreis 199 - Bundestagswahl 2017". Retrieved 2019-09-05.
  4. "Results Koblenz - The Federal Returning Officer". www.bundeswahlleiter.de. Archived from the original on 2019-09-05. Retrieved 2019-09-05.
  5. "Elected candidates by Land lists in Rheinland-Pfalz - The Federal Returning Officer". www.bundeswahlleiter.de. Retrieved 2019-09-05.

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