Plön – Neumünster
6 Plön – Neumünster | |
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Electoral district for the Bundestag | |
![]() Plön – Neumünster in 2025 | |
State | Schleswig-Holstein |
Population | 223,000 (2019) |
Electorate | 174,908 (2021) |
Major settlements | Neumünster Plön |
Area | 1,302.4 km2 |
Current electoral district | |
Created | 1976 |
Party | SPD |
Member | Kristian Klinck |
Elected | 2021 |
Plön – Neumünster 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 6. It is located in central eastern Schleswig-Holstein, comprising the Plön district, the urban district of Neumünster and part of the Segeberg district.[1]
Plön – Neumünster was created for the 1976 federal election. Since 2021, it has been represented by Kristian Klinck of the Social Democratic Party (SPD).[2]
Geography
[edit]Plön – Neumünster is located in central eastern Schleswig-Holstein. As of the 2021 federal election, it comprises the entirety of the district of Plön and the urban district of Neumünster, as well as the Amt of Boostedt-Rickling from the Segeberg district.[1]
History
[edit]Plön – Neumünster was created in 1976 and contained parts of the abolished constituencies of Rendsburg – Neumünster and Plön. Originally, it comprised only the district of Plön and the urban district of Neumünster. In the 2002 election, the Amt of Boostedt-Rickling was transferred to Plön – Neumünster from the Segeberg – Stormarn-Nord constituency.
Election | No. | Name | Borders |
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1976 | 6 | Plön – Neumünster |
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Members
[edit]The constituency has frequently changed hands since its creation in 1976. It was first held by the Social Democratic Party (SPD) from 1976 until 1983, during which time it was represented by Horst Jungmann. It was then won by the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), and represented by Karl Eigen for a single term. Former SPD member Jungmann regained it for a single term in 1987. The CDU's Helmut Lamp won in 1990, but it again returned to the SPD in 1998. From then until 2009, it was represented by Michael Bürsch. Philipp Murmann of the CDU won the constituency in 2009, and was re-elected in 2013. He was succeeded by party fellow Melanie Bernstein in 2017, who was defeated by the SPD's Kristian Klinck in 2021.
Election | Member | Party | % | |
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1976 | Horst Jungmann | SPD | 49.1 | |
1980 | 51.4 | |||
1983 | Karl Eigen | CDU | 48.4 | |
1987 | Horst Jungmann | SPD | 45.8 | |
1990 | Helmut Lamp | CDU | 44.5 | |
1994 | 45.1 | |||
1998 | Michael Bürsch | SPD | 51.2 | |
2002 | 47.9 | |||
2005 | 47.0 | |||
2009 | Philipp Murmann | CDU | 38.6 | |
2013 | 43.7 | |||
2017 | Melanie Bernstein | CDU | 40.7 | |
2021 | Kristian Klinck | SPD | 31.4 |
Election results
[edit]2021 election
[edit]Federal election (2021): Plön – Neumünster[3] | |||||||||
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Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
SPD | Kristian Klinck | 41,497 | 31.4 | ![]() |
38,670 | 29.2 | ![]() | ||
CDU | ![]() |
36,870 | 27.9 | ![]() |
30,290 | 22.9 | ![]() | ||
Greens | Martin Drees | 20,740 | 15.7 | ![]() |
23,051 | 17.4 | ![]() | ||
FDP | Gunnar Schulz | 12,420 | 9.4 | ![]() |
15,901 | 12.0 | ![]() | ||
AfD | Alexis Giersch | 9,404 | 7.1 | ![]() |
9,741 | 7.4 | ![]() | ||
Left | Gabi Gschwind-Wiese | 3,718 | 2.8 | ![]() |
4,232 | 3.2 | ![]() | ||
SSW | 3,203 | 2.4 | |||||||
dieBasis | Karina Reiß | 2,508 | 1.9 | 2,007 | 1.5 | ||||
Human Environment Animal Protection | 1,446 | 1.1 | |||||||
PARTEI | Jana Käding | 2,196 | 1.7 | 1,300 | 1.0 | ![]() | |||
FW | Manfred Koch | 2,386 | 1.8 | ![]() |
1,275 | 1.0 | ![]() | ||
Team Todenhöfer | 415 | 0.3 | |||||||
NPD | 242 | 0.2 | ![]() | ||||||
Volt | 230 | 0.2 | |||||||
Humanists | 111 | 0.1 | |||||||
V-Partei3 | 98 | 0.1 | |||||||
ÖDP | 94 | 0.1 | ![]() | ||||||
LKR | Jürgen Joost | 223 | 0.2 | 94 | 0.1 | ||||
du. | 70 | 0.1 | |||||||
DKP | 34 | 0.0 | |||||||
MLPD | 23 | 0.0 | ![]() | ||||||
Informal votes | 1,759 | 1,194 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 131,962 | 132,527 | |||||||
Turnout | 133,721 | 76.5 | ![]() |
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SPD gain from CDU | Majority | 4,627 | 3.5 |
2017 election
[edit]Federal election (2017): Plön – Neumünster[4] | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
CDU | Melanie Bernstein | 53,109 | 40.7 | ![]() |
43,778 | 33.5 | ![]() | ||
SPD | Birgit Malecha-Nissen | 37,728 | 28.9 | ![]() |
31,013 | 23.8 | ![]() | ||
Greens | Susanne Elbert | 11,736 | 9.0 | ![]() |
16,350 | 12.5 | ![]() | ||
AfD | Bernd Wiegmann | 10,223 | 7.8 | ![]() |
11,161 | 8.6 | ![]() | ||
FDP | Martin Wolf | 9,379 | 7.2 | ![]() |
16,481 | 12.6 | ![]() | ||
Left | Lorenz Gösta Beutin | 7,009 | 5.4 | ![]() |
8,503 | 6.5 | ![]() | ||
PARTEI | 1,342 | 1.0 | |||||||
FW | Holger Steffen | 1,305 | 1.0 | 749 | 0.6 | ![]() | |||
BGE | 632 | 0.4 | |||||||
NPD | 479 | 0.4 | ![]() | ||||||
ÖDP | 186 | 0.1 | |||||||
MLPD | 61 | 0.0 | ![]() | ||||||
Informal votes | 1,224 | 1,199 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 130,489 | 130,514 | |||||||
Turnout | 131,713 | 75.3 | ![]() |
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CDU hold | Majority | 15,381 | 11.8 | ![]() |
2013 election
[edit]Federal election (2013): Plön – Neumünster[5] | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
CDU | ![]() |
54,833 | 43.7 | ![]() |
48,683 | 38.8 | ![]() | ||
SPD | Birgit Malecha-Nissen | 47,085 | 37.5 | ![]() |
41,094 | 32.7 | ![]() | ||
Greens | Bernhard Dierdorf | 7,979 | 6.4 | ![]() |
11,577 | 9.2 | ![]() | ||
AfD | Arne Stanneck | 4,837 | 3.9 | 5,901 | 4.7 | ||||
Left | Lorenz Gösta Beutin | 4,708 | 3.8 | ![]() |
5,987 | 4.8 | ![]() | ||
FDP | Martin Wolf | 2,322 | 1.9 | ![]() |
6,722 | 5.4 | ![]() | ||
Pirates | Peter Matthiesen | 2,167 | 1.7 | 2,154 | 1.7 | ![]() | |||
NPD | Daniel Nordhorn | 1,162 | 0.9 | ![]() |
1,159 | 0.9 | ![]() | ||
Human Environment Animal Protection | 1,004 | 0.8 | |||||||
FW | 711 | 0.6 | |||||||
Rentner | 535 | 0.4 | ![]() | ||||||
Independent | Frank Schepke | 319 | 0.3 | ![]() |
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MLPD | 46 | 0.0 | ![]() | ||||||
Informal votes | 1,681 | 1,520 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 125,412 | 125,573 | |||||||
Turnout | 127,093 | 72.7 | ![]() |
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CDU hold | Majority | 7,748 | 6.2 | ![]() |
2009 election
[edit]Federal election (2009): Plön – Neumünster[6] | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
CDU | Philipp Murmann | 48,136 | 38.6 | ![]() |
30,110 | 32.1 | ![]() | ||
SPD | Birgit Malecha-Nissen | 41,683 | 33.4 | ![]() |
35,557 | 28.5 | ![]() | ||
FDP | Martin Wolf | 12,515 | 10.0 | ![]() |
19,772 | 15.8 | ![]() | ||
Greens | Sebastian Fricke | 12,187 | 9.8 | ![]() |
15,701 | 12.6 | ![]() | ||
Left | Esther Hartmann | 7,871 | 6.3 | 8,936 | 7.2 | ![]() | |||
Pirates | 2,281 | 1.8 | |||||||
NPD | Jens Lütke | 1,363 | 1.1 | ![]() |
1,315 | 1.1 | ![]() | ||
Rentner | 1,095 | 0.9 | |||||||
Independent | Frank Schepke | 924 | 0.7 | ||||||
DVU | 131 | 0.1 | |||||||
MLPD | 42 | 0.1 | ![]() | ||||||
Informal votes | 3,292 | 3,031 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 124,679 | 124,940 | |||||||
Turnout | 127,971 | 73.1 | ![]() |
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CDU gain from SPD | Majority | 6,453 | 5.2 |
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Constituency Plön – Neumünster". Federal Returning Officer.
- ^ "Results for Plön – Neumünster". Federal Returning Officer.
- ^ Results for Flensburg – Schleswig
- ^ Results for Plön – Neumünster
- ^ Results for Plön – Neumünster
- ^ Results for Plön – Neumünster