Mannheim (electoral district)

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Location of constituency in Baden-Württemberg

Mannheim is one of the 299 single member constituencies (German: Wahlkreis) used for the German parliament, the Bundestag. The constituency elects one representative under the mixed member proportional representation (MMP) system. Under the current constituency numbering system, it is designated as constituency 158.

One of thirty eight districts covering the state of Baden-Württemberg, it is coterminous with the city of Mannheim. The constituency was created for the 1949 election, the first election in West Germany after World War II. It was held by the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) until the 1994 election, when it was gained by the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). The SPD regained the seat in 1998, but lost it again to the CDU at the 2009 election. The current representative is Egon Jüttner, who had represented the constituency from 1994 to 1998.

Boundaries

The constituency was created as Mannheim-Stadt in 1949, covering the city of Mannheim. At the 1965 election it was reduced in size and renamed Mannheim I. This included most of the city of Mannheim: the city districts of Innenstadt/Jungbusch, Neckarstadt-West, Neckarstadt-Ost/Wohlgelegen, Sandhofen, Schönau, Waldhof, Käfertal, Vogelstang and Schwetzingerstadt/Oststadt, with the southern parts of the city linked with suburban and rural areas in the Mannheim II constituency. Mannheim I expanded for the 1976 election, gaining the city districts of Feudenheim and Wallstadt. It assumed its current name and boundaries for the 2002 election.

Results

2009 election

Party		Constituency results				List results
		Candidate	Votes	% share	+/-	Votes	% share	+/-
	Christian Democratic Union	Egon Jüttner	48,137	36.5	-0.9	38,435	29.0	-2.0
	Social Democratic Party of Germany	Stefan Rebmann	39,845	30.2	-15.7	32,627	24.7	-12.5
	Alliance '90/The Greens	Gerhard Schick	16,648	12.6	+6.8	18,052	13.6	+2.8
	The Left	Michael Schlecht	12,520	9.5	+3.2	14,936	11.3	+4.7
	Free Democratic Party	Birgit Reinemund	11,782	8.9	+4.3	19,900	15.0	+5.1
	National Democratic Party of Germany	Silvio Waldheim	2,418	1.8	N/A	1,772	1.3	-0.0
	Marxist–Leninist Party of Germany	Josef Buck	333	0.3	N/A	121	0.1	N/A
	Pirate Party	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	3,258	2.5	N/A
	Others	N/A	311	0.2	N/A	3,257	2.5	N/A

List of district representatives

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Turnout and vote share at each election

Election	Name	Party
1949	Carlo Schmid	SPD
1953	Carlo Schmid	SPD
1957	Carlo Schmid	SPD
1961	Carlo Schmid	SPD
1965	Carlo Schmid	SPD
1969	Carlo Schmid	SPD
1972	Werner Nagel	SPD
1976	Werner Nagel	SPD
1980	Werner Nagel	SPD
1983	Werner Nagel	SPD
1987	Werner Nagel	SPD
1990	Siegfried Vergin	SPD
1994	Egon Jüttner	CDU
1998	Lothar Mark	SPD
2002	Lothar Mark	SPD
2005	Lothar Mark	SPD
2009	Egon Jüttner	CDU