Marburg (electoral district)

170 Marburg
Electoral district for the Bundestag
Marburg in 2025
State	Hesse
Population	247,100 (2019)
Electorate	181,588 (2021)
Major settlements	Marburg Stadtallendorf Kirchhain
Area	1,262.4 km2
Current electoral district
Created	1949
Party	SPD
Member	Sören Bartol
Elected	2002, 2005, 2009, 2013, 2017, 2021

Marburg 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 170. It is located in northern Hesse, comprising the Marburg-Biedenkopf district.

Marburg was created for the inaugural 1949 federal election. Since 2002, it has been represented by Sören Bartol of the Social Democratic Party (SPD).

Geography

Marburg is located in northern Hesse. As of the 2021 federal election, it is coterminous with the Marburg-Biedenkopf district.

History

Marburg was created in 1949. In the 1949 election, it was Hesse constituency 6 in the numbering system. In the 1953 through 1976 elections, it was number 131. From 1980 through 1998, it was number 129. In 2002 and 2005, it was number 173. In the 2009 election, it was number 172. In the 2013 through 2021 elections, it was number 171. From the 2025 election, it has been number 170.

Originally, the constituency comprised the independent city of Marburg and the districts of Biedenkopf and Landkreis Marburg. In the 1965 election, it lost the municipality of Schiffelbach from the Landkreis Marburg district. It acquired its current borders in the 1976 election.

Election	No.	Name	Borders
1949	6	Marburg	Marburg city Biedenkopf district Landkreis Marburg district
1953	131
1957
1961
1965			Marburg city Biedenkopf district Landkreis Marburg district (excluding Schiffelbach municipality)
1969
1972
1976			Marburg-Biedenkopf district
1980	129
1983
1987
1990
1994
1998
2002	173
2005
2009	172
2013	171
2017
2021
2025	170

Members

The constituency was first represented by Ludwig Preiß from 1949 to 1961. In the 1949 and 1953 elections, he represented by Free Democratic Party (FDP); in 1957, he was elected for the German Party (DP). Gerhard Jahn of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) was elected in 1961, but former member Preiß won the constituency in 1965, this time representing the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Jahn was elected again in 1969 and served until 1983. Friedrich Bohl of the CDU was elected in 1983 and was representative until 1994. Brigitte Lange regained the constituency for the SPD in 1994, and served until 2002. Sören Bartol was elected in 2002, and re-elected in 2005, 2009, 2013, 2017, and 2021.

Election		Member	Party	%
	1949	Ludwig Preiß	FDP	36.2
	1953			33.6
	1957		DP	41.9
	1961	Gerhard Jahn	SPD	41.5
	1965	Ludwig Preiß	CDU	44.9
	1969	Gerhard Jahn	SPD	49.2
	1972			53.4
	1976			47.3
	1980			49.6
	1983	Friedrich Bohl	CDU	47.6
	1987			43.6
	1990			42.3
	1994	Brigitte Lange	SPD	43.1
	1998			47.7
	2002	Sören Bartol	SPD	47.8
	2005			47.5
	2009			38.9
	2013			43.7
	2017			35.7
	2021			36.9

Election results

2021 election

Federal election (2021): Marburg
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	%	±%
	SPD	Y Sören Bartol		51,630	36.9	1.1	42,098	30.0	3.6
	CDU	Stefan Heck		36,528	26.1	7.3	31,042	22.1	8.0
	Greens	Stephanie Theiss		18,709	13.4	7.0	22,347	15.9	6.6
	AfD	Julian Schmidt		12,591	9.0	1.2	12,558	9.0	2.5
	FDP	Niklas Hannott		9,334	6.7	2.4	14,789	10.5	1.9
	Left	Maximilian Peter		6,588	4.7	3.5	8,089	5.8	4.5
	Tierschutzpartei						1,863	1.3	0.5
	FW	Gökhan Özdemir		2,178	1.6	0.1	1,767	1.3	0.6
	dieBasis	Rüdiger Schapner		2,146	1.5		1,828	1.3
	PARTEI						1,178	0.8	0.1
	Team Todenhöfer						497	0.4
	Pirates						453	0.3	0.1
	Volt						434	0.3
	ÖDP						291	0.2	0.0
	Bündnis C						275	0.2
	Independent	Simon Carstensen		271	0.2
	Gesundheitsforschung						177	0.1
	NPD						176	0.1	0.1
	Humanists						133	0.1
	V-Partei3						115	0.1	0.0
	Independent	Karin Marinello		103	0.1
	DKP						61	0.0	0.0
	Bündnis 21						43	0.0
	LKR						32	0.0
	MLPD						23	0.0	0.0
Informal votes				1,503			1,312
Total valid votes				140,078			140,269
Turnout				141,581	78.0	0.3
	SPD hold		Majority	15,102	10.8	8.4

2017 election

Federal election (2017): Marburg
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	%	±%
	SPD	Y Sören Bartol		50,214	35.7	8.0	37,202	26.4	7.0
	CDU	Stefan Heck		46,888	33.4	6.2	42,377	30.1	6.6
	AfD	Julian Schmidt		14,378	10.2		16,125	11.5	6.9
	Left	Elisabeth Kula		11,557	8.2	3.0	14,420	10.2	3.4
	Greens	Rainer Flohrschütz		8,989	6.4	0.5	13,088	9.3	1.2
	FDP	Hanke Friedrich Bokelmann		6,044	4.3	2.6	12,191	8.7	4.7
	PARTEI						1,296	0.9	0.4
	Tierschutzpartei						1,148	0.8
	FW	Daniel Baron		2,005	1.4		950	0.7	0.2
	Pirates						527	0.4	1.4
	Independent	Rainer Schmidtke		491	0.3
	NPD						357	0.3	0.6
	ÖDP						312	0.2
	BGE						297	0.2
	DM						180	0.1
	V-Partei³						174	0.1
	DKP						64	0.0
	MLPD						45	0.0	0.0
	BüSo						33	0.0	0.0
Informal votes				1,799			1,579
Total valid votes				140,566			140,786
Turnout				142,365	77.7	6.8
	SPD hold		Majority	3,326	2.3	1.8

2013 election

Federal election (2013): Marburg
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	%	±%
	SPD	Y Sören Bartol		55,982	43.7	4.8	42,749	33.4	4.8
	CDU	Stefan Heck		50,683	39.6	4.0	46,993	36.7	5.7
	Greens	Matthias Knoche		7,595	5.9	1.9	13,443	10.5	2.2
	Left	Janis Ehling		6,746	5.3	2.9	8,720	6.8	3.1
	AfD						5,858	4.6
	Pirates	Michael Weber		2,581	2.0		2,206	1.7	0.2
	FDP	Jörg Hartmut Behlen		2,229	1.7	6.5	5,111	4.0	9.1
	NPD	Alfred Hermann Horst		1,459	1.1	0.1	1,034	0.8	0.2
	PARTEI	Marcus-Alexander Assmann		727	0.6		645	0.5
	FW						593	0.5
	REP						313	0.2	0.4
	PRO						109	0.1
	SGP						62	0.0
	BüSo						47	0.0	0.1
	MLPD						26	0.0	0.0
Informal votes				2,943			3,036
Total valid votes				128,002			127,909
Turnout				130,945	70.9	2.2
	SPD hold		Majority	5,299	4.1	0.8

2009 election

Federal election (2009): Marburg
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	%	±%
	SPD	Y Sören Bartol		51,712	38.9	8.6	38,139	28.7	10.2
	CDU	Stefan Heck		47,322	35.6	1.0	41,356	31.1	0.8
	FDP	Jörg Behlen		10,964	8.2	4.4	17,410	13.1	3.7
	Left	Hans Köster-Sollwedel		10,857	8.2	3.3	13,181	9.9	3.7
	Greens	Matthias Knoche		10,366	7.8	3.8	16,884	12.7	2.6
	Pirates						2,625	2.0
	NPD	Manuel Mann		1,690	1.3	0.2	1,290	1.0	0.1
	Tierschutzpartei						1,116	0.8	0.2
	REP						843	0.6	0.6
	BüSo						151	0.1	0.0
	DVU						76	0.1
	MLPD						27	0.0	0.0
Informal votes				2,382			2,195
Total valid votes				132,911			133,098
Turnout				135,293	73.1	5.2
	SPD hold		Majority	4,390	3.3	7.6