138 Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis II | |
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Electoral district for the Bundestag | |
State | North Rhine-Westphalia |
Population | 225,800 (2019) |
Electorate | 175,283 (2021) |
Major settlements | Witten Hattingen Wetter (Ruhr) |
Area | 245.9 km2 |
Current electoral district | |
Created | 1949 |
Party | SPD |
Member | Axel Echeverria |
Elected | 2021 |
Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis II 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 138. It is located in the Ruhr region of North Rhine-Westphalia, comprising the northern part of the Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis district. [1]
Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis II was created for the inaugural 1949 federal election. Since 2021, it has been represented by Axel Echeverria of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). [2]
Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis II is located in the Ruhr region of North Rhine-Westphalia. As of the 2021 federal election, it comprises the municipalities of Hattingen, Herdecke, Sprockhövel, Wetter (Ruhr), and Witten from the Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis district. [1]
Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis II was created in 1949, then known as Ennepe-Ruhr – Witten. From 1965 through 1976, it was named Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis. From 1980 through 1998, it was named Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis I. It acquired its current name in the 2002 election. In the 1949 election, it was North Rhine-Westphalia constituency 54 in the numbering system. From 1953 through 1961, it was number 113. From 1965 through 1976, it was number 112. From 1980 through 1998, it was number 109. From 2002 through 2009, it was number 140. In the 2013 through 2021 elections, it was number 139. From the 2025 election, it has been number 138.
Originally, the constituency comprised the Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis district and the independent city of Witten. From 1965 through 1976, it was coterminous with the Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis district. From 1980 through 1998, it comprised the entirety of the Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis district excluding Witten. It acquired its current borders in the 2002 election.
Election | No. | Name | Borders |
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1949 | 54 | Ennepe-Ruhr – Witten |
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1953 | 113 | ||
1957 | |||
1961 | |||
1965 | 112 | Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis |
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1969 | |||
1972 | |||
1976 | |||
1980 | 109 | Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis I |
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1983 | |||
1987 | |||
1990 | |||
1994 | |||
1998 | |||
2002 | 140 | Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis II |
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2005 | |||
2009 | |||
2013 | 139 | ||
2017 | |||
2021 | |||
2025 | 138 |
The constituency has been held continuously by the Social Democratic Party (SPD) since its creation. It was first represented by Walter Freitag 1949 to 1953, followed by Heinrich Sträter until 1961. Wilhelm Michels was elected in 1961 and served until 1972. He was succeeded by Hans-Jürgen Augstein, who served two terms. Eugen von der Wiesche was then representative from 1980 to 1990. Adolf Ostertag served until 2002, followed by Christel Humme from 2002 to 2013. Ralf Kapschack was elected in 2013 and re-elected in 2017. He was succeeded by Axel Echeverria in 2021.
Election | Member | Party | % | |
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1949 | Walter Freitag | SPD | 40.5 | |
1953 | Heinrich Sträter | SPD | 43.1 | |
1957 | 46.2 | |||
1961 | Wilhelm Michels | SPD | 49.4 | |
1965 | 53.2 | |||
1969 | 56.0 | |||
1972 | Hans-Jürgen Augstein | SPD | 59.8 | |
1976 | 54.7 | |||
1980 | Eugen von der Wiesche | SPD | 54.0 | |
1983 | 50.4 | |||
1987 | 50.8 | |||
1990 | Adolf Ostertag | SPD | 48.5 | |
1994 | 52.1 | |||
1998 | 57.1 | |||
2002 | Christel Humme | SPD | 55.7 | |
2005 | 52.4 | |||
2009 | 40.9 | |||
2013 | Ralf Kapschack | SPD | 42.3 | |
2017 | 36.7 | |||
2021 | Axel Echeverria | SPD | 35.4 |
Federal election (2021): Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis II [3] | |||||||||
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Notes: | Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. | ||||||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
SPD | Axel Echeverria | 47,993 | 35.4 | 1.3 | 45,664 | 33.7 | 3.8 | ||
CDU | Hartmut Ziebs | 33,357 | 24.6 | 8.3 | 29,855 | 22.0 | 5.3 | ||
Greens | Ina Gießwein | 21,734 | 16.0 | 7.5 | 21,941 | 16.2 | 8.0 | ||
FDP | Anna Neumann | 11,530 | 8.5 | 2.0 | 14,432 | 10.6 | 2.0 | ||
AfD | Carl-Dietrich Korte | 9,731 | 7.2 | 9,654 | 7.1 | 2.6 | |||
Left | Clemens Jost | 3,715 | 2.7 | 5.3 | 5,029 | 3.7 | 4.4 | ||
Tierschutzpartei | 2,085 | 1.5 | 0.6 | ||||||
PARTEI | Michael Hanses | 2,558 | 1.9 | 1,623 | 1.2 | 0.3 | |||
dieBasis | Michael Kirchner | 1,750 | 1.3 | 1,485 | 1.1 | ||||
FW | Thorsten Michaelis | 1,466 | 1.1 | 843 | 0.6 | 0.4 | |||
Pirates | Eric Tiggemann | 1,434 | 1.1 | 1.6 | 804 | 0.6 | 0.1 | ||
Team Todenhöfer | 660 | 0.5 | |||||||
Volt | 278 | 0.2 | |||||||
Gesundheitsforschung | 186 | 0.1 | 0.0 | ||||||
LIEBE | 180 | 0.1 | |||||||
ÖDP | 143 | 0.1 | 0.0 | ||||||
LfK | 140 | 0.1 | |||||||
NPD | 129 | 0.1 | 0.1 | ||||||
MLPD | Achim Czylwick | 186 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 105 | 0.1 | 0.0 | ||
Bündnis C | 104 | 0.1 | |||||||
Humanists | 96 | 0.1 | 0.0 | ||||||
V-Partei3 | 83 | 0.1 | 0.0 | ||||||
du. | 65 | 0.0 | |||||||
DKP | 48 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||
37 | 0.0 | ||||||||
LKR | 20 | 0.0 | |||||||
PSG | 11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||
Informal votes | 1,252 | 1,006 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 135,454 | 135,700 | |||||||
Turnout | 136,706 | 78.0 | 0.9 | ||||||
SPD hold | Majority | 14,636 | 10.8 | 7.0 |
Federal election (2017): Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis II [4] | |||||||||
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Notes: | Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. | ||||||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
SPD | Ralf Kapschack | 49,333 | 36.7 | 5.6 | 40,767 | 29.9 | 8.4 | ||
CDU | Ralf Brauksiepe | 44,273 | 32.9 | 2.8 | 37,284 | 27.3 | 5.7 | ||
FDP | Jürgen Alexander Weber | 14,175 | 10.5 | 8.5 | 17,270 | 12.7 | 8.2 | ||
AfD | 13,190 | 9.7 | 5.8 | ||||||
Greens | Janosch Dahmen [lower-alpha 1] | 11,538 | 8.6 | 0.3 | 11,142 | 8.2 | 0.9 | ||
Left | Heinz-Dieter Kempka | 10,804 | 8.0 | 3.0 | 11,092 | 8.1 | 1.7 | ||
Tierschutzpartei | 1,239 | 0.9 | |||||||
PARTEI | 1,158 | 0.8 | 0.5 | ||||||
Pirates | Roland Löpke | 3,565 | 2.7 | 0.4 | 881 | 0.6 | 1.6 | ||
AD-DEMOKRATEN | 452 | 0.3 | |||||||
FW | 291 | 0.2 | 0.1 | ||||||
NPD | 264 | 0.2 | 0.7 | ||||||
DiB | 198 | 0.1 | |||||||
ÖDP | 183 | 0.1 | 0.0 | ||||||
BGE | 163 | 0.1 | |||||||
MLPD | Achim Czylwick | 688 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 158 | 0.1 | 0.0 | ||
V-Partei³ | 146 | 0.1 | |||||||
Volksabstimmung | 143 | 0.1 | 0.1 | ||||||
Gesundheitsforschung | 135 | 0.1 | |||||||
DM | 133 | 0.1 | |||||||
Die Humanisten | 80 | 0.1 | |||||||
DKP | 46 | 0.0 | |||||||
SGP | 9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||
Informal votes | 3,256 | 1,208 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 134,376 | 136,424 | |||||||
Turnout | 137,632 | 77.1 | 2.7 | ||||||
SPD hold | Majority | 5,060 | 3.8 | 2.7 |
Federal election (2013): Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis II [5] | |||||||||
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Notes: | Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. | ||||||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
SPD | Ralf Kapschack | 56,197 | 42.3 | 1.4 | 50,946 | 38.3 | 3.4 | ||
CDU | Ralf Brauksiepe | 47,530 | 35.8 | 5.4 | 44,028 | 33.1 | 6.3 | ||
Greens | Janosch Dahmen | 10,964 | 8.3 | 0.4 | 12,071 | 9.1 | 2.3 | ||
Left | Helmut Kanand | 6,743 | 5.1 | 3.3 | 8,498 | 6.4 | 3.0 | ||
AfD | Christian Rombeck | 3,993 | 3.0 | 5,178 | 3.9 | ||||
Pirates | Roland Löpke | 3,003 | 2.3 | 2,951 | 2.2 | 0.6 | |||
FDP | Rosemarie Steinhauer | 2,666 | 2.0 | 8.0 | 5,977 | 4.5 | 8.0 | ||
NPD | Dieter Schulz | 1,523 | 1.1 | 0.2 | 1,241 | 0.9 | 0.1 | ||
PARTEI | 487 | 0.4 | |||||||
PRO | 323 | 0.2 | |||||||
Volksabstimmung | 222 | 0.2 | 0.1 | ||||||
FW | 197 | 0.1 | |||||||
ÖDP | 187 | 0.1 | 0.1 | ||||||
MLPD | 233 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 156 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |||
Nichtwahler | 153 | 0.1 | |||||||
REP | 152 | 0.1 | 0.1 | ||||||
BIG | 143 | 0.1 | |||||||
Party of Reason | 75 | 0.1 | |||||||
RRP | 64 | 0.0 | 0.1 | ||||||
Die Rechte | 44 | 0.0 | |||||||
PSG | 37 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||
BüSo | 19 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||
Informal votes | 1,897 | 1,600 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 132,852 | 133,149 | |||||||
Turnout | 134,749 | 74.4 | 0.3 | ||||||
SPD hold | Majority | 8,667 | 6.5 | 4.0 |
Federal election (2009): Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis II [6] | |||||||||
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Notes: | Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. | ||||||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
SPD | Christel Humme | 54,845 | 40.9 | 11.5 | 46,848 | 34.8 | 12.3 | ||
CDU | Ralf Brauksiepe | 40,763 | 30.4 | 0.5 | 35,927 | 26.7 | 0.4 | ||
FDP | Konrad Schily | 13,392 | 10.0 | 4.9 | 16,778 | 12.5 | 3.3 | ||
Greens | Janosch Dahmen | 11,621 | 8.7 | 3.8 | 15,248 | 11.3 | 2.8 | ||
Left | Wolfgang Pauli | 11,180 | 8.3 | 3.9 | 12,596 | 9.4 | 3.5 | ||
Pirates | 2,180 | 1.6 | |||||||
NPD | Dieter Schulz | 1,762 | 1.3 | 0.4 | 1,382 | 1.0 | 0.3 | ||
Tierschutzpartei | 1,103 | 0.8 | 0.0 | ||||||
FAMILIE | 673 | 0.5 | 0.1 | ||||||
RENTNER | 559 | 0.4 | |||||||
REP | 307 | 0.2 | 0.0 | ||||||
RRP | 194 | 0.1 | |||||||
MLPD | Jakobus Fröhlich | 285 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 153 | 0.1 | 0.0 | ||
Volksabstimmung | 126 | 0.1 | 0.0 | ||||||
ÖDP | 116 | 0.1 | |||||||
DVU | 108 | 0.1 | |||||||
Centre | 61 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||
PSG | 42 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||
BüSo | 29 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||
Informal votes | 1,727 | 1,430 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 134,133 | 134,430 | |||||||
Turnout | 135,860 | 74.1 | 6.1 | ||||||
SPD hold | Majority | 14,082 | 10.5 | 11.0 |
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