Wesel I 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 113. It is located in the Ruhr region of North Rhine-Westphalia, comprising most of the district of Wesel.[1]
Wesel I is located in the Ruhr region of North Rhine-Westphalia. As of the 2021 federal election, it comprises the entirety of the Wesel district excluding the municipalities of Dinslaken, Moers, and Neukirchen-Vluyn.[1]
Historyedit
Wesel I was created in 1949, then known as Rees – Dinslaken. From 1965 through 1976, it was named Dinslaken. It acquired its current name in the 1980 election. In the 1949 election, it was North Rhine-Westphalia constituency 27 in the numbering system. From 1953 through 1961, it was number 86. From 1965 through 1976, it was number 84. From 1980 through 1998, it was number 82. From 2002 through 2009, it was number 114. Since 2013, it has been number 113.
Originally, the constituency comprised the districts of Rees and Dinslaken. In the 1980 through 1998 elections, it comprised the municipalities of Dinslaken, Hamminkeln, Hünxe, Schermbeck, Voerde, Wesel, and Xanten from the district of Wesel. It acquired its current borders in the 2002 election.
The constituency was first represented by Franz Etzel of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) from 1949 to 1953. He was succeeded by Heinrich Lübke until 1961, Arnold Verhoeven until 1965, and Konrad Kraske until 1969. Udo Hein of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) was elected in 1969 and served a single term; Uwe Jens of the SPD retained the constituency in 1972 and served until 2002. Fellow SPD member Hans-Ulrich Krüger served from then until 2009, when Sabine Weiss of the CDU was elected representative. Rainer Keller was elected for the SPD in 2021.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Wesel I 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 113 It is located in the Ruhr region of North Rhine Westphalia comprising most of the district of Wesel 1 113 Wesel IElectoral districtfor the BundestagWesel I in 2013StateNorth Rhine WestphaliaPopulation261 500 2019 Electorate206 270 2021 Major settlementsWeselKamp LintfortVoerdeArea884 0 km2Current electoral districtCreated1949PartySPDMemberRainer KellerElected2021Wesel I was created for the inaugural 1949 federal election Since 2021 it has been represented by Rainer Keller of the Social Democratic Party SPD 2 Contents 1 Geography 2 History 3 Members 4 Election results 4 1 2021 election 4 2 2017 election 4 3 2013 election 4 4 2009 election 5 ReferencesGeography editWesel I is located in the Ruhr region of North Rhine Westphalia As of the 2021 federal election it comprises the entirety of the Wesel district excluding the municipalities of Dinslaken Moers and Neukirchen Vluyn 1 History editWesel I was created in 1949 then known as Rees Dinslaken From 1965 through 1976 it was named Dinslaken It acquired its current name in the 1980 election In the 1949 election it was North Rhine Westphalia constituency 27 in the numbering system From 1953 through 1961 it was number 86 From 1965 through 1976 it was number 84 From 1980 through 1998 it was number 82 From 2002 through 2009 it was number 114 Since 2013 it has been number 113 Originally the constituency comprised the districts of Rees and Dinslaken In the 1980 through 1998 elections it comprised the municipalities of Dinslaken Hamminkeln Hunxe Schermbeck Voerde Wesel and Xanten from the district of Wesel It acquired its current borders in the 2002 election Election No Name Borders1949 27 Rees Dinslaken Rees district Dinslaken district1953 86195719611965 84 Dinslaken1969197219761980 82 Wesel I Wesel district only Dinslaken Hamminkeln Hunxe Schermbeck Voerde Wesel and Xanten municipalities 198319871990199419982002 114 Wesel district excluding Dinslaken Moers and Neukirchen Vluyn municipalities 200520092013 11320172021Members editThe constituency was first represented by Franz Etzel of the Christian Democratic Union CDU from 1949 to 1953 He was succeeded by Heinrich Lubke until 1961 Arnold Verhoeven until 1965 and Konrad Kraske until 1969 Udo Hein of the Social Democratic Party SPD was elected in 1969 and served a single term Uwe Jens of the SPD retained the constituency in 1972 and served until 2002 Fellow SPD member Hans Ulrich Kruger served from then until 2009 when Sabine Weiss of the CDU was elected representative Rainer Keller was elected for the SPD in 2021 Election Member Party 1949 Franz Etzel CDU 35 51953 Heinrich Lubke CDU 51 31957 50 21961 Arnold Verhoeven CDU 44 31965 Konrad Kraske CDU 46 81969 Udo Hein SPD 50 71972 Uwe Jens SPD 59 61976 55 81980 53 51983 49 81987 51 01990 48 51994 52 51998 57 82002 Hans Ulrich Kruger SPD 50 02005 49 02009 Sabine Weiss CDU 38 52013 43 52017 39 02021 Rainer Keller SPD 34 2Election results edit2021 election edit Federal election 2021 Wesel I 3 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 nbsp Y or nbsp N denotes status of any incumbent win or lose respectively Party Candidate Votes Party votes SPD Rainer Keller 54 488 34 2 nbsp 1 4 53 277 33 4 nbsp 4 7CDU nbsp N Sabine Weiss 47 448 29 8 nbsp 9 2 42 544 26 7 nbsp 7 0Greens Hans Peter Weiss 19 928 12 5 nbsp 7 0 20 629 12 9 nbsp 6 8FDP Bernd Reuther 14 452 9 1 nbsp 1 1 17 302 10 8 nbsp 1 5AfD Holger Raumann 10 842 6 8 nbsp 1 8 10 994 6 9 nbsp 2 1Left Sidney Lewandowski 4 598 2 9 nbsp 3 1 5 103 3 2 nbsp 3 5Tierschutzpartei 2 468 1 5 nbsp 0 8PARTEI Dirk Zerressen 3 907 2 5 2 079 1 3 nbsp 0 6dieBasis Matthias Moser 1 999 1 2 1 444 0 9FW Christian Link 1 376 0 9 966 0 6 nbsp 0 4Team Todenhofer 629 0 4Pirates 515 0 3 nbsp 0 1LIEBE 226 0 1Volt 209 0 1Gesundheitsforschung 205 0 1 nbsp 0 0LfK 162 0 1NPD 134 0 1 nbsp 0 1Bundnis C 92 0 1ODP 91 0 1 nbsp 0 0Humanists 84 0 1 nbsp 0 0V Partei3 81 0 1 nbsp 0 0du 73 0 0MLPD Wolf Dieter Rochlitz 127 0 1 nbsp 0 1 65 0 0 nbsp 0 0PdF 53 0 0LKR 37 0 0DKP 19 0 0 nbsp 0 0PSG 16 0 0 nbsp 0 0Informal votes 1 460 1 128Total Valid votes 159 165 159 497Turnout 160 625 77 9 nbsp 0 5SPD gain from CDU Majority 7 040 4 42017 election edit Federal election 2017 Wesel I 4 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 nbsp Y or nbsp N denotes status of any incumbent win or lose respectively Party Candidate Votes Party votes CDU nbsp Y Sabine Weiss 61 849 39 0 nbsp 4 5 53 623 33 7 nbsp 5 6SPD Jurgen Preuss 52 085 32 8 nbsp 6 4 45 627 28 7 nbsp 6 2AfD Renatus Rieger 13 615 8 6 nbsp 5 6 14 325 9 0 nbsp 5 3FDP Bernd Reuther 12 644 8 0 nbsp 6 1 19 709 12 4 nbsp 7 6Left Gerd Bassfeld 9 461 6 0 nbsp 1 0 10 637 6 7 nbsp 0 7Greens Stefan Meiners 8 763 5 5 nbsp 0 6 9 743 6 1 nbsp 0 3Tierschutzpartei 1 223 0 8PARTEI 1 136 0 7 nbsp 0 3Pirates 664 0 4 nbsp 1 7AD DEMOKRATEN 405 0 3FW 380 0 2 nbsp 0 0NPD 361 0 2 nbsp 0 9Gesundheitsforschung 171 0 1DiB 159 0 1DM 156 0 1V Partei 148 0 1Volksabstimmung 144 0 1 nbsp 0 1ODP 142 0 1 nbsp 0 0BGE 132 0 1MLPD Tufan Aydin 264 0 2 121 0 1 nbsp 0 1Die Humanisten 71 0 0DKP 11 0 0SGP 10 0 0 nbsp 0 0Informal votes 1 663 1 245Total Valid votes 158 681 159 098Turnout 160 344 77 4 nbsp 3 2CDU hold Majority 9 764 6 2 nbsp 1 92013 election edit Federal election 2013 Wesel I 5 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 nbsp Y or nbsp N denotes status of any incumbent win or lose respectively Party Candidate Votes Party votes CDU nbsp Y Sabine Weiss 66 172 43 5 nbsp 5 0 59 970 39 3 nbsp 6 2SPD Hans Ulrich Kruger 59 709 39 2 nbsp 0 9 53 249 34 9 nbsp 2 8Left Sascha Wagner 7 527 4 9 nbsp 2 5 9 091 6 0 nbsp 2 5Greens Tom Wagener 7 489 4 9 nbsp 1 7 9 780 6 4 nbsp 2 2AfD 4 510 3 0 5 678 3 7Pirates Manfred Schramm 3 567 2 3 3 154 2 1 nbsp 0 5FDP Thomas Heiske 2 781 1 8 nbsp 5 3 7 224 4 7 nbsp 8 2NPD 1 646 1 1 nbsp 0 2PARTEI 643 0 4PRO 346 0 2FW 295 0 2Volksabstimmung 256 0 2 nbsp 0 1RRP 490 0 3 243 0 2 nbsp 0 0REP 229 0 2 nbsp 0 1Nichtwahler 179 0 1ODP 158 0 1 nbsp 0 0Party of Reason 116 0 1BIG 84 0 1Die Rechte 39 0 0MLPD 36 0 0 nbsp 0 0PSG 28 0 0 nbsp 0 0BuSo 25 0 0 nbsp 0 0Informal votes 1 736 1 512Total Valid votes 152 245 152 469Turnout 153 981 74 2 nbsp 1 3CDU hold Majority 6 463 4 3 nbsp 4 12009 election edit Federal election 2009 Wesel I 6 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 nbsp Y or nbsp N denotes status of any incumbent win or lose respectively Party Candidate Votes Party votes CDU Sabine Weiss 57 576 38 5 nbsp 0 6 49 564 33 1 nbsp 0 0SPD nbsp N Hans Ulrich Kruger 57 225 38 3 nbsp 10 7 48 139 32 2 nbsp 12 3Left Norbert Segerath 11 071 7 4 nbsp 3 5 12 676 8 5 nbsp 3 7FDP Thomas Heiske 10 624 7 1 nbsp 3 6 19 441 13 0 nbsp 4 0Greens Holger Mrosek 9 873 6 6 nbsp 3 0 12 853 8 6 nbsp 2 3Pirates 2 336 1 6NPD Daniel Krug 1 569 1 0 nbsp 0 2 1 323 0 9 nbsp 0 2Tierschutzpartei 969 0 6 nbsp 0 2FAMILIE Heiner Christinck 1 583 1 1 923 0 6 nbsp 0 2RENTNER 446 0 3REP 395 0 3 nbsp 0 0RRP 187 0 1ODP 114 0 1Volksabstimmung 97 0 1 nbsp 0 0DVU 87 0 1Centre 86 0 1 nbsp 0 0MLPD 30 0 0 nbsp 0 0BuSo 28 0 0 nbsp 0 0PSG 15 0 0 nbsp 0 0Informal votes 1 740 1 553Total Valid votes 149 521 149 708Turnout 149 521 72 9 nbsp 7 4CDU gain from SPD Majority 351 0 2References edit a b Constituency Wesel I Federal Returning Officer Results for Wesel I Federal Returning Officer Results for Wesel I Results for Wesel I Results for Wesel I Results for Wesel I Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Wesel I amp oldid 1164794746, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
