Vorpommern-Rügen – Vorpommern-Greifswald I

15 Vorpommern-Rügen – Vorpommern-Greifswald I
Electoral district for the Bundestag
Vorpommern-Rügen – Vorpommern-Greifswald I in 2013
State	Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Population	292,300 (2015)
Electorate	240,887 (2017)
Major settlements	Greifswald Stralsund
Area	3,466.1 km2
Current electoral district
Created	1990
Party	CDU
Member	Angela Merkel
Elected	1990, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2005, 2009, 2013, 2017

Vorpommern-Rügen – Vorpommern-Greifswald 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 15. It is located in northeast Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, comprising the Vorpommern-Rügen district and a small part of the Vorpommern-Greifswald district.

Vorpommern-Rügen – Vorpommern-Greifswald I was created for the inaugural 1990 federal election after German reunification. Since 1990, it has been represented by Angela Merkel of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).

Geography

Vorpommern-Rügen – Vorpommern-Greifswald I is located in northeast Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. As of the 2021 federal election, it comprises the entirety of the Vorpommern-Rügen district, as well as the municipality of Greifswald and the Amt of Landhagen from the Vorpommern-Greifswald district.

History

Vorpommern-Rügen – Vorpommern-Greifswald I was created after German reunification in 1990, then known as Stralsund – Rügen – Grimmen. Until 2002, it was constituency 267 in the numbering system. Originally, it comprised the now-abolished districts of Grimmen, Rügen, and Stralsund, and the independent city of Stralsund. In the 2002 election, it was expanded to contain the former Ribnitz-Damgarten district, which had been abolished in 1994; it now covered the entirety of the later-abolished Nordvorpommern district. At this time, it was renamed to Stralsund – Nordvorpommern – Rügen, and acquired its current constituency number of 15. In the 2013 election, it was further expanded to include the independent city of Greifswald and the Amt of Landhagen, and was renamed to Vorpommern-Rügen – Vorpommern-Greifswald I.

Election	No.	Name	Borders
1990	267	Stralsund – Rügen – Grimmen	Stralsund city Grimmen district Rügen district Stralsund district
1994
1998
2002	15	Stralsund – Nordvorpommern – Rügen	Stralsund city Nordvorpommern district Rügen district
2005
2009
2013		Vorpommern-Rügen – Vorpommern-Greifswald I	Vorpommern-Rügen district Vorpommern-Greifswald district (only Greifswald municipality and Landhagen Amt)
2017
2021

Members

The constituency has been held continuously by Angela Merkel of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) since its formation, including during its prior configurations from 1990–2002 and 2002–2013.

Election		Member	Party	%
rowspan=8 bgcolor=Template:Christian Democratic Union of Germany/meta/color|	1990	Angela Merkel	CDU	48.5
1994	48.6
1998	37.3
2002	41.6
2005	41.3
2009	49.3
2013	56.2
2017	44.0

Election results

2017 election

Federal election (2017): Vorpommern-Rügen – Vorpommern-Greifswald I
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	Y Angela Merkel		73,746	44.0	12.3	55,110	32.9	12.0
	AfD	Leif-Erik Holm		32,173	19.2		32,881	19.6	13.1
	Left	Kerstin Kassner		26,650	15.9	3.4	30,107	18.0	2.6
	SPD	Sonja Steffen		19,515	11.6	2.4	20,405	12.2	2.4
	FDP	Patrick Meinhardt		5,229	3.1	2.3	11,490	6.9	4.2
	Greens	Claudia Müller		5,081	3.0	0.0	8,498	5.1	0.3
	Human Environment Animal Protection	Robert Gabel		2,161	1.3		3,319	2.0
	PARTEI						1,867	1.1
	FW	Armin Pagel		1,576	0.9	0.2	1,232	0.7	0.2
	NPD	Udo Pastörs		976	0.6	2.0	1,368	0.8	1.5
	BGE						692	0.4
	MLPD	Karl-Heinz Schulze		407	0.2		249	0.1	0.0
	ÖDP						194	0.1
	Independent	Georg Tschammer-Osten		148	0.1
Informal votes				1,866			2,116
Total valid votes				167,662			167,412
Turnout				169,528	70.4	6.1
	CDU hold		Majority	41,573	24.8	12.1

2013 election

Federal election (2013): Vorpommern-Rügen – Vorpommern-Greifswald I
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	Y Angela Merkel		87,142	56.2	9.8	69,683	45.0	8.5
	Left	Kerstin Kassner		29,847	19.3	7.2	31,930	20.6	7.4
	SPD	Sonja Steffen		21,688	14.0	1.4	22,630	14.6	1.7
	AfD						10,159	6.6
	Greens	Claudia Müller		4,728	3.1	1.4	7,372	4.8	0.9
	NPD	Michael Andrejewski		3,970	2.6	0.2	3,525	2.3	0.5
	Pirates	Susanne Wiest		3,738	2.4		3,527	2.3	0.3
	Independent	Michael Adomeit		1,390	0.9
	FDP	Gino Leonhard		1,227	0.8	4.8	4,067	2.6	8.5
	FW	Jürgen Dettmann		1,205	0.8		1,466	0.9
	PRO						330	0.2
	MLPD						161	0.1	0.1
	REP						126	0.1	0.1
Informal votes				2,467			2,426
Total valid votes				154,935			154,976
Turnout				157,402	64.3	3.4
	CDU hold		Majority	57,295	36.9	14.0

2009 election

Federal election (2009): Stralsund – Nordvorpommern – Rügen
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	Y Angela Merkel		57,865	49.3	8.0	43,650	37.3	2.7
	Left	Marianne Linke		30,935	26.4	2.6	33,522	28.6	4.5
	SPD	Sonja Steffen		14,040	12.0	13.4	15,048	12.9	12.8
	FDP	Gino Leonhard		5,668	4.8	1.9	13,087	11.2	3.7
	Greens	Arnold von Bosse		3,735	3.2	1.2	5,349	4.6	1.4
	NPD	Raimund Borrmann		3,262	2.8	0.7	3,434	2.9	0.7
	Pirates						2,564	2.2
	Independent	Michael Harald Adomeit		1,322	1.1
	Independent	Maria Hilde Wilke		479	0.4
	REP						236	0.2
	MLPD						210	0.2
Informal votes				2,063			2,269
Total valid votes				117,306			117,100
Turnout				119,369	59.8	9.8
	CDU hold		Majority	26,930	23.0	7.1