18 Hamburg-Mitte
Electoral district for the Bundestag
Hamburg-Mitte in 2017
State	Hamburg
Population	360,300 (2019)
Electorate	242,078 (2021)
Area	118.4 km2
Current electoral district
Created	1965
Party	SPD
Member	Falko Droßmann
Elected	2021

Hamburg-Mitte 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 18. It is located in central Hamburg, comprising the Hamburg-Mitte borough and southern parts of the Hamburg-Nord borough.^[1]

Hamburg-Mitte was created for the 1965 federal election. Since 2021, it has been represented by Falko Droßmann of the Social Democratic Party (SPD).^[2]

Geography

Hamburg-Mitte is located in central Hamburg. As of the 2021 federal election, it comprises all of the Hamburg-Mitte borough with the exception of the quarter of Wilhelmsburg, as well as the quarters of Barmbek-Nord, Barmbek-Süd, Dulsberg, Hohenfelde, and Uhlenhorst from the Hamburg-Nord borough.^[1]

History

Hamburg-Mitte was created in 1965 and contained parts of the abolished constituencies of Hamburg I, Hamburg VI and Hamburg VII. Until 1998, it had the constituency 12 in the numbering system. Originally, it comprised the Hamburg-Mitte borough with the exception of the quarters of Horn, Billstedt, and Billbrook; it included the quarters of Altona-Altstadt and Altona-Nord/Süd from the Altona borough.

In the 1976 election, the quarter of Eilbek from the Wandsbek borough was added. From the 1980 election through the 1998 election, the constituency comprised the entirety of Hamburg-Mitte without the quarters of Finkenwerder and Billstedt, plus the quarter of Barmbek-Uhlenhorst from the Hamburd-Nord borough. For the 2002 election, the constituency was reconfigured. It comprised the Hamburg-Mitte borough without Wilhelmsburg, as well as the quarters of Barmbek-Nord, Barmbek-Süd, Dulsberg, Hohenfelde, and Uhlenhorst from the Hamburg-Nord borough, and Eilbek from the Wandsbek borough. In the 2013 election, the new quarter of Sternschanze was transferred from Hamburg-Mitte to the Hamburg-Altona constituency. In the 2017 election, the quarter of Eilbek was transferred from Hamburg-Mitte to the Hamburg-Wandsbek constituency.

Members

The constituency has been held continuously by the Social Democratic Party (SPD) since its creation in 1965. Its first representative was Eugen Glombig, who served from 1965 to 1980, followed by Freimut Duve from 1980 to 1998. Johannes Kahrs was representative from 1998 to 2021. Falko Droßmann was elected in 2021.

Election results

2021 election

Federal election (2021): Hamburg-Mitte[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 Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	SPD	Falko Droßmann		59,229	33.2	2.3	51,170	28.7	4.8
	Greens	Manuel Muja		46,326	26.0	13.1	49,791	27.9	13.4
	CDU	Christoph de Vries		23,231	13.1	11.2	19,982	11.2	12.3
	Left	David Stoop		16,195	9.1	4.8	15,593	8.7	6.2
	FDP	James Blum		14,424	8.1	1.7	18,723	10.5	1.2
	AfD	Nicole Jordan		8,664	4.9	2.5	9,100	5.1	2.9
	PARTEI	Arne Ihlenfeld		4,251	2.4	0.4	2,494	1.4	0.9
	Tierschutzpartei						2,486	1.4	0.3
	dieBasis	Dennis Sommer		2,940	1.6		2,396	1.3
	Team Todenhöfer						2,019	1.1
	Volt						1,137	0.6
	FW	Ralf Relmer		1,340	0.8	0.2	974	0.5	0.1
	Pirates						905	0.5
	du.						398	0.2
	ÖDP	Sebastian Bollien		704	0.4	0.2	370	0.2	0.1
	Independent	Odin Janoske-Kizildag		564	0.3
	V-Partei3						303	0.2	0.1
	Humanists						275	0.2
	MLPD	Joachim Griesbaum		194	0.1	0.1	70	0.0	0.1
	NPD	Lennart Schwarzbach		136	0.1	0.1	130	0.1	0.1
	DKP						112	0.1	0.0
	Bündnis 21						77	0.0
	LKR						50	0.0
Informal votes				1,439			1,082
Total Valid votes				178,198			178,555
Turnout				179,637	74.2	2.1
	SPD hold		Majority	12,903	7.2	0.5

2017 election

Federal election (2017): Hamburg-Mitte[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 Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	SPD	Y Johannes Kahrs		53,795	30.9	8.3	41,551	23.8	9.8
	CDU	Christoph de Vries		42,149	24.2	3.7	40,909	23.5	3.3
	Left	Martin Dolzer		24,083	13.8	4.2	26,109	15.0	3.9
	Greens	Meryem Celikkol		22,368	12.9	0.9	25,164	14.4	0.8
	AfD	Nicole Jordan		12,728	7.3	4.0	13,940	8.0	3.7
	FDP	Michael Kruse		11,202	6.4	4.7	16,255	9.3	5.5
	PARTEI	Samantha Edsen		4,929	2.8	1.8	3,945	2.3	1.3
	Tierschutzpartei						1,817	1.0
	BGE						1,105	0.6
	ÖDP	Martin Krause		1,090	0.6		613	0.4	0.1
	FW	Henner Kühne		1,038	0.6	0.2	744	0.4	0.1
	DiB						976	0.6
	V-Partei³						523	0.3
	MLPD	Stephan Brandt		317	0.2		181	0.1	0.0
	NPD	Bodo Johlke		316	0.2	0.6	348	0.2	0.6
	DKP						113	0.1
Informal votes				1,716			1,438
Total Valid votes				174,015			174,293
Turnout				175,731	72.2	7.0
	SPD hold		Majority	11,646	6.7	4.3

2013 election

Federal election (2013): Hamburg-Mitte[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 Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	SPD	Y Johannes Kahrs		64,997	39.2	4.5	55,721	33.5	5.3
	CDU	Dirk Marx		46,753	28.2	1.4	44,947	27.0	3.4
	Greens	Katharina Fegebank		19,943	12.0	4.2	22,645	13.6	3.0
	Left	Jochen Hanisch		15,693	9.5	3.6	18,124	10.9	2.7
	Pirates	Michael Büker		5,733	3.5		6,442	3.9	0.1
	AfD	Kay Gottschalk		5,525	3.3		7,186	4.3
	FDP	Najibulla Karim		2,878	1.7	6.1	6,458	3.9	7.8
	PARTEI	Michel Gérard		1,738	1.0		1,545	0.9
	NPD	Torben Klebe		1,245	0.7	0.7	1,257	0.8	0.4
	RENTNER						790	0.5
	FW	Henner Kühne		700	0.4		589	0.4
	Independent	Stefan Füsers		661	0.4
	ÖDP						417	0.3	0.2
	Independent	Romuald Jasinski		154	0.1
	MLPD						92	0.1	0.0
Informal votes				2,445			2,252
Total Valid votes				166,020			166,213
Turnout				168,465	65.6	0.5
	SPD hold		Majority	18,244	11.0	2.9

2009 election

Federal election (2009): Hamburg-Mitte[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 Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	SPD	Y Johannes Kahrs		56,809	34.5	15.0	46,419	28.1	13.9
	CDU	David Erkalp		43,587	26.5	1.0	38,689	23.4	0.4
	Greens	Farid Müller		27,213	16.5	5.1	27,865	16.9	1.3
	Left	Joachim Bischoff		21,718	13.2	7.1	22,702	13.7	5.9
	FDP	Lothar Hänsch		12,818	7.8	4.2	19,105	11.6	3.8
	NPD	Jürgen Rieger		2,348	1.4	0.1	1,822	1.1	0.1
	Pirates						6,303	3.8
	RENTNER						1,176	0.7
	ÖDP						675	0.4
	DVU						243	0.1
	MLPD						132	0.1	0.0
Informal votes				2,737			2,089
Total Valid votes				164,493			165,131
Turnout				167,220	66.1	7.2
	SPD hold		Majority	13,222	8.0	14.0

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