Ravensburg (electoral district)
294 Ravensburg | |
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Former electoral district for the Bundestag | |
![]() Ravensburg in 2025 | |
State | Baden-Württemberg |
Population | 256,200 (2019) |
Electorate | 187,817 (2021) |
Major settlements | Ravensburg Wangen im Allgäu Weingarten |
Area | 1,293.5 km2 |
Former electoral district | |
Created | 1949 2009 (re-established) |
Abolished | 1980 |
Party | CDU |
Member | Axel Müller |
Elected | 2017, 2021 |
Ravensburg 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 294. It is located in southeastern Baden-Württemberg, comprising most of the district of Ravensburg.[1]
Ravensburg was created for the inaugural 1949 federal election. It was abolished in 1980 and re-established in the 2009 federal election. Since 2017, it has been represented by Axel Müller of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).[2]
Geography
[edit]Ravensburg is located in southeastern Baden-Württemberg. As of the 2021 federal election, it comprises the district of Ravensburg excluding the municipalities of Aichstetten, Aitrach, Bad Wurzach, Kißlegg.[1]
History
[edit]Ravensburg was created in 1949. In the 1949 election, it was Württemberg-Hohenzollern constituency 6 in the numbering system. In the 1953 through 1961 elections, it was number 195. In the 1965 through 1976 elections, it was number 199. Originally, the constituency comprised the districts of Ravensburg, Wangen, and Tettnang. In the 1965 through 1976 elections, it also contained the municipality of Achberg from the Sigmaringen district and the Adelsreute municipality from the Überlingen district.
Ravensburg was abolished in the 1980 election. Its area was divided between the new constituency of Ravensburg – Bodensee and the redistributed constituency of Biberach.
Ravensburg was re-established in the 2009 election. Its constituency number and borders have not changed since its re-establishment.
Election | No. | Name | Borders |
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1949 | 6 | Ravensburg |
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1953 | 195 | ||
1957 | |||
1961 | |||
1965 | 199 |
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1969 | |||
1972 | |||
1976 | |||
1980 | Abolished | ||
1983 | |||
1987 | |||
1990 | |||
1994 | |||
1998 | |||
2002 | |||
2005 | |||
2009 | 294 | Ravensburg |
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2013 | |||
2017 | |||
2021 | |||
2025 |
Members
[edit]The constituency has been held continuously by the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) throughout both its incarnations. It was first represented by Kurt Georg Kiesinger from 1949 to 1961, followed by Eduard Adorno from 1961 to 1972. Claus Jäger was representative from 1972 until the constituency's abolition in 1980. After its re-establishment, it was represented by Andreas Schockenhoff from 2009 until his death in 2014. Axel Müller was elected in 2017.
Election | Member | Party | % | |
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1949 | Kurt Georg Kiesinger | CDU | 75.3 | |
1953 | 76.3 | |||
1957 | 75.3 | |||
1961 | Eduard Adorno | CDU | 66.8 | |
1965 | 66.1 | |||
1969 | 66.2 | |||
1972 | Claus Jäger | CDU | 64.3 | |
1976 | 66.9 | |||
Abolished (1980–2009) | ||||
2009 | Andreas Schockenhoff | CDU | 44.8 | |
2013 | 51.6 | |||
2017 | Axel Müller | CDU | 38.5 | |
2013 | 30.6 |
Election results
[edit]2021 election
[edit]Federal election (2021): Ravensburg[3] | |||||||||
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Notes: |
Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
CDU | ![]() |
44,597 | 30.6 | ![]() |
38,927 | 26.7 | ![]() | ||
Greens | Agnieszka Brugger | 30,743 | 21.1 | ![]() |
25,536 | 17.5 | ![]() | ||
FDP | Benjamin Strasser | 20,934 | 14.3 | ![]() |
21,740 | 14.9 | ![]() | ||
SPD | Heike Engelhardt | 20,128 | 13.8 | ![]() |
27,750 | 19.0 | ![]() | ||
AfD | Christoph Högel | 11,727 | 8.0 | ![]() |
12,650 | 8.7 | ![]() | ||
dieBasis | Julian Aicher | 4,710 | 3.2 | 4,156 | 2.8 | ||||
FW | Günter Ruchti | 4,441 | 3.0 | ![]() |
3,751 | 2.6 | ![]() | ||
Left | Jasmin Runge | 4,365 | 3.0 | ![]() |
4,735 | 3.2 | ![]() | ||
Human Environment Animal Protection | 1,604 | 1.1 | ![]() | ||||||
PARTEI | Lukas Rein | 1,913 | 1.3 | 1,373 | 0.9 | ![]() | |||
ÖDP | Siegfried Scharpf | 1,904 | 1.3 | ![]() |
1,091 | 0.7 | ![]() | ||
Team Todenhöfer | 570 | 0.4 | |||||||
Pirates | 536 | 0.4 | ![]() | ||||||
Volt | 445 | 0.3 | |||||||
Menschliche Welt | Sona Pietsch | 351 | 0.2 | ![]() |
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Bündnis C | 238 | 0.2 | |||||||
Bürgerbewegung | 183 | 0.1 | |||||||
DiB | 163 | 0.1 | ![]() | ||||||
Gesundheitsforschung | 160 | 0.1 | |||||||
Humanists | 121 | 0.1 | |||||||
NPD | 93 | 0.1 | ![]() | ||||||
Bündnis 21 | 48 | 0.0 | |||||||
MLPD | Karl-Heinz Pauli | 127 | 0.1 | ![]() |
46 | 0.0 | ![]() | ||
LKR | 44 | 0.0 | |||||||
DKP | 18 | 0.0 | ![]() | ||||||
Informal votes | 1,080 | 1,042 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 145,940 | 145,978 | |||||||
Turnout | 147,020 | 78.3 | ![]() |
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CDU hold | Majority | 13,854 | 9.5 | ![]() |
2017 election
[edit]Federal election (2017): Ravensburg[4] | |||||||||
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Notes: |
Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
CDU | Axel Müller | 55,758 | 38.5 | ![]() |
56,264 | 38.9 | ![]() | ||
Greens | Agnieszka Brugger | 29,216 | 20.2 | ![]() |
21,770 | 15.0 | ![]() | ||
SPD | Heike Engelhardt | 17,958 | 12.4 | ![]() |
19,398 | 13.4 | ![]() | ||
FDP | Benjamin Strasser | 14,672 | 10.1 | ![]() |
16,441 | 11.4 | ![]() | ||
AfD | Helmut Dietz | 13,668 | 9.4 | ![]() |
14,901 | 10.3 | ![]() | ||
Left | Jasmin Runge | 7,860 | 5.4 | ![]() |
8,889 | 6.1 | ![]() | ||
ÖDP | Thomas Bergmann | 2,483 | 1.7 | ![]() |
1,618 | 1.1 | ![]() | ||
FW | Klaus Wirthwein | 2,085 | 1.4 | ![]() |
1,296 | 0.9 | ![]() | ||
Human Environment Animal Protection | 1,007 | 0.7 | ![]() | ||||||
PARTEI | 768 | 0.5 | |||||||
Pirates | 496 | 0.3 | ![]() | ||||||
Menschliche Welt | Sylvia Makowski | 652 | 0.5 | 457 | 0.3 | ||||
Tierschutzallianz | 289 | 0.2 | |||||||
NPD | 274 | 0.2 | ![]() | ||||||
BGE | 254 | 0.2 | |||||||
DM | 217 | 0.1 | |||||||
Independent | Stefan Weinert | 174 | 0.1 | ||||||
DiB | 167 | 0.1 | |||||||
V-Partei³ | 165 | 0.1 | |||||||
MLPD | Karl-Heinz Pauli | 131 | 0.1 | 56 | 0.0 | ![]() | |||
DIE RECHTE | 41 | 0.0 | |||||||
DKP | 19 | 0.0 | |||||||
Informal votes | 1,517 | 1,387 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 144,657 | 144,787 | |||||||
Turnout | 146,174 | 78.2 | ![]() |
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CDU hold | Majority | 26,542 | 18.3 | ![]() |
2013 election
[edit]Federal election (2013): Ravensburg[5] | |||||||||
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Notes: |
Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
CDU | ![]() |
69,312 | 51.6 | ![]() |
67,251 | 50.0 | ![]() | ||
SPD | Hannes Munzinger | 26,909 | 20.0 | ![]() |
23,266 | 17.3 | ![]() | ||
Greens | Agnieszka Brugger | 18,298 | 13.6 | ![]() |
16,571 | 12.3 | ![]() | ||
Left | Michael Konieczny | 4,424 | 3.3 | ![]() |
5,770 | 4.3 | ![]() | ||
AfD | Bernhard Russ | 3,674 | 2.7 | 5,200 | 3.9 | ||||
FDP | Ralf Sauer | 3,320 | 2.5 | ![]() |
7,047 | 5.2 | ![]() | ||
ÖDP | Thomas Bergmann | 2,782 | 2.1 | 1,982 | 1.5 | ![]() | |||
Pirates | Roman Brauchle | 2,761 | 2.1 | 2,837 | 2.1 | ![]() | |||
NPD | Benjamin Hennes | 1,252 | 0.9 | ![]() |
1,164 | 0.9 | ![]() | ||
Human Environment Animal Protection | 951 | 0.7 | ![]() | ||||||
FW | Johannes Butscher | 1,192 | 0.9 | 901 | 0.7 | ||||
REP | 418 | 0.3 | ![]() | ||||||
Independent | Paul-Gerhard Kanis | 323 | 0.2 | ||||||
Volksabstimmung | 320 | 0.2 | ![]() | ||||||
RENTNER | 297 | 0.2 | |||||||
PBC | 231 | 0.2 | ![]() | ||||||
Party of Reason | 103 | 0.1 | |||||||
PRO | 85 | 0.1 | |||||||
MLPD | 60 | 0.0 | ![]() | ||||||
BIG | 29 | 0.0 | |||||||
BüSo | 23 | 0.0 | ![]() | ||||||
Informal votes | 1,630 | 1,371 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 134,247 | 134,506 | |||||||
Turnout | 135,877 | 73.4 | ![]() |
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CDU hold | Majority | 42,403 | 31.6 | ![]() |
2009 election
[edit]Federal election (2009): Ravensburg[6] | |||||||||
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Notes: |
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
CDU | Andreas Schockenhoff | 56,931 | 44.8 | ![]() |
48,146 | 37.6 | ![]() | ||
SPD | Anne Jenter | 22,530 | 17.7 | ![]() |
19,969 | 15.6 | ![]() | ||
Greens | Agnieszka Malczak | 18,639 | 14.7 | ![]() |
18,408 | 14.3 | ![]() | ||
FDP | Marc-Ernst Oberscheid | 17,946 | 14.1 | ![]() |
23,997 | 18.7 | ![]() | ||
Left | Mirco Kolarczik | 7,918 | 6.2 | ![]() |
8,428 | 6.6 | ![]() | ||
Pirates | 2,404 | 1.9 | |||||||
ÖDP | 1,965 | 1.5 | |||||||
NPD | Jürgen Widder | 2,006 | 1.6 | ![]() |
1,250 | 1.0 | ![]() | ||
Independent | Katharina Scheinert | 1,048 | 0.8 | ||||||
REP | 944 | 0.7 | ![]() | ||||||
Human Environment Animal Protection | 883 | 0.7 | |||||||
PBC | 493 | 0.4 | ![]() | ||||||
Volksabstimmung | 480 | 0.4 | |||||||
DIE VIOLETTEN | 444 | 0.3 | |||||||
ADM | 115 | 0.1 | |||||||
BüSo | 86 | 0.1 | ![]() | ||||||
DVU | 76 | 0.1 | |||||||
MLPD | 74 | 0.1 | ![]() | ||||||
Informal votes | 3,110 | 1,966 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 127,018 | 128,162 | |||||||
Turnout | 130,128 | 71.8 | ![]() |
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CDU win new seat | Majority | 34,401 | 27.1 |
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Constituency Ravensburg". Federal Returning Officer.
- ^ "Results for Ravensburg". Federal Returning Officer.
- ^ Results for Ravensburg
- ^ Results for Ravensburg
- ^ Results for Ravensburg
- ^ Results for Ravensburg