Bergstraße (electoral district)

File:BWahlkreis 188.svg

Location of constituency in Hesse

Bergstraße is one of the 299 single member constituencies used for the German parliament, the Bundestag. One of twenty two districts covering the state of Hesse, it covers the Bergstraße district in the south of the state. The constituency elects one representative under the mixed member proportional representation (MMP) system. Under the current constituency numbering system, it is designated as constituency 188.

The constituency was created for the 1949 election, the first election in West Germany after World War II. Though the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) has managed occasional successes, since its creation most elections have been won by the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). The current representative is Michael Meister of the CDU, who gained the constituency from the SPD at the 2005 election, having previously represented the district from 1994 to 1998.

2009 election

Party		Constituency results				List results
		Candidate	Votes	% share	+/-	Votes	% share	+/-
	Christian Democratic Union	Michael Meister	64,472	44.4	+0.0	50,275	34.5	-2.0
	Social Democratic Party of Germany	Christine Lambrecht	44,903	30.9	-10.9	35,748	24.6	-10.8
	Free Democratic Party	Benjamin Kramer	12,966	8.9	+5.1	25,219	17.3	+6.2
	Alliance '90/The Greens	Christian Gerber	11,296	7.8	+3.9	15,683	10.8	+2.1
	The Left	Harry Siegert	9,171	6.3	+3.0	10,891	7.5	+3.2
	National Democratic Party of Germany	Edna Windecker	2,365	1.6	-0.0	1,607	1.1	-0.2
	Pirate Party	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	2,782	1.9	N/A
	Human Environment Animal Protection	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	1,618	1.1	+0.2
	Republicans	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	1,458	1.0	-0.1
	German People's Union	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	113	0.1	N/A
	La Rouche Movement	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	165	0.1	-0.0
	Marxist–Leninist Party of Germany	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	41	0.1	-0.0

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List of district representatives

Election	Name	Party
1949	Heinrich von Brentano	CDU
1953	Heinrich von Brentano	CDU
1957	Heinrich von Brentano	CDU
1961	Heinrich von Brentano	CDU
1965	Carl Otto Lenz	CDU
1969	Wolfgang Schwabe	SPD
1972	Wolfgang Schwabe	SPD
1976	Carl Otto Lenz	CDU
1980	Klaus Kübler	SPD
1983	Carl Otto Lenz	CDU
1987	Franz-Hermann Kappes	CDU
1990	Franz-Hermann Kappes	CDU
1994	Michael Meister	CDU
1998	Christine Lambrecht	SPD
2002	Christine Lambrecht	SPD
2005	Michael Meister	CDU
2009	Michael Meister	CDU