Aachen II

Kreis Aachen in North Rhine-Westphalia

Aachen II is an electoral constituency (German: Wahlkreis) represented in the German Bundestag. Part of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, the constituency elects one representative under the mixed member proportional representation (MMP) system. Under the current constituency numbering system, it is designated as constituency 88. The constituency was created for the 1949 election, the first election in West Germany after World War II. It was called Aachen-Land until being renamed Kreis Aachen at the 1980 election. It assumed its current name for the 2013 election.

Election results

2009 election

The following table does not list parties which did not contest or gain constituency votes.

Federal election 2009: Kreis Aachen[1]

Notes: Green 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.
A Green tickY or Red XN denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.

Party Candidate Votes % ±% Party Votes % ±%
CDU Helmut Brandt 63,511 40.2% +0.6% 53,062 33.5% -0.8%
SPD Martin Peters 54,205 34.3% -11.7% 45,981 29.0% -11.9%
Left Andreas Müller 13,502 8.5% +3.3% 14,926 9.4% 3.1%
FDP Stefan Rohmann 13,275 8.4% +4.2% 23,518 14.8% +5.5%
Green Bettina Herlitzius 11,056 7.0% +3.4% 12,491 7.9% +1.9%
NPD Willibert Kunkel 2,501 1.6% +0.3% 1,767 1.1% +0.2%
Informal votes 2,766 2,296
Total Valid votes 158,050 158,520
Turnout 168,816 70.4% -7.4%
CDU gain from SPD Majority 9,306 5.9%

References

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