42 Stadt Hannover II | |
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Electoral district for the Bundestag | |
![]() Stadt Hannover II in 2025 | |
State | Lower Saxony |
Population | 276,800 (2019) |
Electorate | 190,336 (2017) |
Major settlements | Hanover (partial) |
Area | 91.4 km2 |
Current electoral district | |
Created | 1949 |
Party | SPD |
Member | Yasmin Fahimi |
Elected | 2017, 2021 |
Stadt Hannover II (English: Hanover City 2) 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 42. It is located in central Lower Saxony, comprising the southern part of the city of Hanover. [1]
Stadt Hannover II was created for the inaugural 1949 federal election. Since 2017, it has been represented by Yasmin Fahimi of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). [2]
Stadt Hannover II is located in central Lower Saxony. As of the 2021 federal election, it comprises the northern part of the city of Hanover, specifically the districts of Ahlem-Badenstedt-Davenstedt, Döhren-Wülfel, Mitte (excluding Oststadt and Zoo), Herrenhausen-Stöcken (only Herrenhausen), Kirchrode-Bemerode-Wülferode, Linden-Limmer, Nord (only Nordstadt), Ricklingen, and Südstadt-Bult. [1]
Stadt Hannover II was created in 1949, then known as Stadt Hannover-Süd. In the 1965 through 1976 elections, it was named Hannover II. It acquired its current name in the 1980 election. In the inaugural Bundestag election, it was Lower Saxony constituency 19 in the numbering system. From 1953 through 1961, it was number 41. From 1965 through 1998, it was number 37. In the 2002 and 2005 elections, it was number 42. In the 2009 election, it was number 43. Since the 2013 election, it has been number 42.
Originally, the constituency comprised the city quarters of Badenstedt, Döhren, Wülfel, Kirchrode, Kleefeld, Limmer, Linden, and Ricklingen. In the 1965 through 1976 elections, it comprised the area of the city south of the Seelze–Hannover Hauptbahnhof–Lehrte railway line. It acquired its current borders in the 1980 election.
Election | No. | Name | Borders |
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1949 | 19 | Stadt Hannover-Süd |
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1953 | 41 | ||
1957 | |||
1961 | |||
1965 | 37 | Hannover II |
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1969 | |||
1972 | |||
1976 | |||
1980 | Stadt Hannover II |
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1983 | |||
1987 | |||
1990 | |||
1994 | |||
1998 | |||
2002 | 42 | ||
2005 | |||
2009 | 43 | ||
2013 | 42 | ||
2017 | |||
2021 | |||
2025 |
The constituency has been held continuously by the Social Democratic Party (SPD) since its creation. Its first representative was Kurt Schumacher, the first post-war leader of the SPD, who served from 1949 until his death in 1952. Ernst Winter won the resulting by-election, and served less than a year before being succeeded by new SPD leader Erich Ollenhauer in the 1953 federal election. He served until his death in 1963. Helmut Rohde was elected in the 1965 election, and served until 1987. He was succeeded by Edelgard Bulmahn. In 2017, she was succeeded by Yasmin Fahimi, who was re-elected in 2021.
Election | Member | Party | % | |
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1949 | Kurt Schumacher | SPD | 55.1 | |
1952 | Ernst Winter | SPD | 59.8 | |
1953 | Erich Ollenhauer | SPD | 51.9 | |
1957 | 52.1 | |||
1961 | 53.9 | |||
1965 | Helmut Rohde | SPD | 51.0 | |
1969 | 57.2 | |||
1972 | 59.8 | |||
1976 | 54.6 | |||
1980 | 53.3 | |||
1983 | 49.1 | |||
1987 | Edelgard Bulmahn | SPD | 46.3 | |
1990 | 44.0 | |||
1994 | 45.1 | |||
1998 | 53.6 | |||
2002 | 56.3 | |||
2005 | 54.3 | |||
2009 | 39.6 | |||
2013 | 42.8 | |||
2017 | Yasmin Fahimi | SPD | 33.7 | |
2021 | 32.9 |
Federal election (2021): Stadt Hannover II [3] | |||||||||
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Notes: | Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. | ||||||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
SPD | ![]() | 46,929 | 32.9 | ![]() | 40,116 | 28.2 | ![]() | ||
Greens | Sven-Christian Kindler | 37,779 | 26.5 | ![]() | 41,976 | 29.5 | ![]() | ||
CDU | Diana Rieck-Vogt | 26,196 | 18.4 | ![]() | 22,537 | 15.8 | ![]() | ||
FDP | Knut Gerschau | 9,538 | 6.7 | ![]() | 13,288 | 9.3 | ![]() | ||
Left | Parwaneh Bokah | 7,390 | 5.2 | ![]() | 8,831 | 6.2 | ![]() | ||
AfD | Reinhard Hirche | 6,476 | 4.5 | ![]() | 6,753 | 4.7 | ![]() | ||
PARTEI | Juli Klippert | 2,428 | 1.7 | ![]() | 1,705 | 1.2 | ![]() | ||
Tierschutzpartei | Christian Wulff | 1,937 | 1.4 | 1,479 | 1.0 | ![]() | |||
dieBasis | Niels Heinrich | 1,568 | 1.1 | 1,440 | 1.0 | ||||
Team Todenhöfer | 1,070 | 0.8 | |||||||
Volt | 931 | 0.7 | |||||||
Pirates | Thomas Ganskow | 979 | 0.7 | ![]() | 759 | 0.5 | ![]() | ||
FW | Andreas Hey | 875 | 0.6 | 698 | 0.5 | ![]() | |||
Humanists | Eduard Kirschmann | 287 | 0.2 | 199 | 0.1 | ||||
V-Partei3 | 189 | 0.1 | ![]() | ||||||
ÖDP | 122 | 0.1 | ![]() | ||||||
du. | 109 | 0.1 | |||||||
DKP | 89 | 0.1 | ![]() | ||||||
MLPD | Käthe Kleffel | 146 | 0.1 | ![]() | 70 | 0.0 | ![]() | ||
NPD | 59 | 0.0 | ![]() | ||||||
LKR | 20 | 0.0 | |||||||
Informal votes | 1,184 | 1,262 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 142,528 | 142,450 | |||||||
Turnout | 143,712 | 75.5 | ![]() | ||||||
SPD hold | Majority | 9,150 | 6.4 | ![]() |
Federal election (2017): Stadt Hannover II [4] | |||||||||
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Notes: | Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. | ||||||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
SPD | Yasmin Fahimi | 49,744 | 33.7 | ![]() | 37,964 | 25.6 | ![]() | ||
CDU | Ursula von der Leyen | 42,713 | 28.9 | ![]() | 36,203 | 24.4 | ![]() | ||
Greens | Sven-Christian Kindler | 16,486 | 11.2 | ![]() | 22,079 | 14.9 | ![]() | ||
Left | Parwaneh Bokah | 13,775 | 9.3 | ![]() | 17,823 | 12.0 | ![]() | ||
AfD | Herbert Klever | 10,590 | 7.2 | ![]() | 11,241 | 7.6 | ![]() | ||
FDP | Ulla Ihnen | 8,165 | 5.5 | ![]() | 14,735 | 9.9 | ![]() | ||
PARTEI | Julian Klippert | 4,168 | 2.8 | 2,966 | 2.0 | ||||
Pirates | Thomas Ganskow | 1,516 | 1.0 | ![]() | 968 | 0.7 | ![]() | ||
Tierschutzpartei | 1,342 | 0.9 | ![]() | ||||||
DM | 512 | 0.3 | |||||||
BGE | 489 | 0.3 | |||||||
DiB | 470 | 0.3 | |||||||
FW | 355 | 0.2 | ![]() | ||||||
V-Partei³ | 306 | 0.2 | |||||||
ÖDP | 186 | 0.1 | |||||||
NPD | 186 | 0.1 | ![]() | ||||||
MLPD | Kurt-Peter Kleffel | 235 | 0.2 | 127 | 0.1 | ![]() | |||
DKP | Sabine Huppert | 232 | 0.2 | 139 | 0.1 | ||||
Informal votes | 1,407 | 940 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 147,624 | 148,091 | |||||||
Turnout | 149,031 | 77.0 | ![]() | ||||||
SPD hold | Majority | 7,031 | 4.8 | ![]() |
Federal election (2013): Stadt Hannover II [5] | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
SPD | ![]() | 59,686 | 42.8 | ![]() | 48,292 | 34.7 | ![]() | ||
CDU | Ursula von der Leyen | 47,180 | 33.9 | ![]() | 41,684 | 29.9 | ![]() | ||
Greens | Sven-Christian Kindler | 14,229 | 10.2 | ![]() | 21,559 | 15.5 | ![]() | ||
Left | Jörn Jan Leidecker | 8,657 | 6.2 | ![]() | 11,129 | 8.0 | ![]() | ||
AfD | Jörn König | 3,802 | 2.7 | 4,749 | 3.4 | ||||
Pirates | Christian Szymanek | 2,937 | 2.1 | 3,113 | 2.2 | ![]() | |||
FDP | Patrick Döring | 2,050 | 1.5 | ![]() | 5,983 | 4.3 | ![]() | ||
Tierschutzpartei | 1,171 | 0.8 | ![]() | ||||||
NPD | Karin Hollack | 803 | 0.6 | ![]() | 736 | 0.5 | ![]() | ||
FW | 398 | 0.3 | |||||||
PRO | 155 | 0.1 | |||||||
PBC | 146 | 0.1 | |||||||
MLPD | 95 | 0.1 | ![]() | ||||||
REP | 80 | 0.1 | |||||||
Informal votes | 1,871 | 1,925 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 139,344 | 139,290 | |||||||
Turnout | 141,215 | 73.1 | ![]() | ||||||
SPD hold | Majority | 12,506 | 8.9 | ![]() |
Federal election (2009): Stadt Hannover II [6] | |||||||||
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Notes: | Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. | ||||||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
SPD | ![]() | 55,068 | 39.6 | ![]() | 41,482 | 29.8 | ![]() | ||
CDU | Ursula von der Leyen | 44,534 | 32.1 | ![]() | 33,872 | 24.3 | ![]() | ||
Greens | Maaret Westphely | 15,797 | 11.4 | ![]() | 24,705 | 17.7 | ![]() | ||
Left | Heidrun Dittrich | 12,886 | 9.3 | ![]() | 14,786 | 10.6 | ![]() | ||
FDP | Patrick Döring | 8,657 | 6.2 | ![]() | 16,098 | 11.6 | ![]() | ||
Pirates | 4,368 | 3.1 | |||||||
NPD | Wilfried Aldag | 1,573 | 1.1 | ![]() | 1,411 | 1.0 | ![]() | ||
Tierschutzpartei | 1,106 | 0.8 | ![]() | ||||||
RRP | 887 | 0.6 | |||||||
Independent | Gerd Weiland | 417 | 0.3 | ||||||
ÖDP | 221 | 0.2 | |||||||
MLPD | 137 | 0.1 | ![]() | ||||||
DVU | 122 | 0.1 | |||||||
Informal votes | 1,655 | 1,392 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 138,932 | 139,195 | |||||||
Turnout | 140,587 | 73.8 | ![]() | ||||||
SPD hold | Majority | 10,534 | 7.6 | ![]() |
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