47 Hannover-Land II
Electoral district for the Bundestag
Hannover-Land II in 2013
State	Lower Saxony
Population	313,800 (2019)
Electorate	238,323 (2021)
Major settlements	Lehrte Laatzen Seelze
Area	957.1 km2
Current electoral district
Created	1949
Party	SPD
Member	Matthias Miersch
Elected	2005, 2009, 2013, 2017, 2021

Hannover-Land II 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 47. It is located in central Lower Saxony, comprising the southern part of the Hanover Region.^[1]

Hannover-Land II was created for the inaugural 1949 federal election. Since 2005, it has been represented by Matthias Miersch of the Social Democratic Party (SPD).^[2]

Geography

Hannover-Land II is located in central Lower Saxony. As of the 2021 federal election, it comprises the northern part of the Hanover Region, specifically the municipalities of Barsinghausen, Gehrden, Hemmingen, Laatzen, Lehrte, Pattensen, Ronnenberg, Seelze, Sehnde, Springe, Uetze, and Wennigsen.^[1]

History

Hannover-Land II was created in 1949, then known as Hannover-Land. In the 1965 through 1976 elections, it was named Hannover III. It acquired its current name in the 1980 election. In the inaugural Bundestag election, it was Lower Saxony constituency 20 in the numbering system. From 1953 through 1961, it was number 42. From 1965 through 1976, it was number 38. From 1980 through 1998, it was number 42. In the 2002 and 2005 elections, it was number 47. In the 2009 election, it was number 48. Since the 2013 election, it has been number 47.

Originally, the constituency comprised the entirety of the now-abolished Landkreis Hannover district, as well as the municipalities of Lehrte and Sehnde from the Burgdorf district. In the 1965 through 1976 elections, it comprised the Landkreis Hannover district and the quarters of Döhren, Wülfel, Kirchrode, Bemerode, and Wülferode from the independent city of Hanover. After administrative boundaries were redrawn, from the 1980 election the constituency comprised the municipalities of Barsinghausen, Gehrden, Hemmingen, Laatzen, Pattensen, Ronnenberg, Seelze, Sehnde, Springe, Wennigsen, and Wunstorf from the Landkreis Hannover district. In the 2002 election, it lost Wunstorf while gaining Uetze und Lehrte.

Members

The constituency has been held by the Social Democratic Party (SPD) during all but three Bundestag terms since its creation. Its first representative was Hans Jahn of the SPD, who served from 1949 to 1961. He was succeeded by fellow SPD member Werner Marquardt, who served until 1976. The SPD's Günter Kiehm served a single term before the constituency was won by Herbert Lattmann of the CDU in 1983. Kiehm regained it in 1987, but Lattmann was elected in 1990 and again in 1994. In 1998, Horst Schild of the SPD won the constituency and served two terms as representative. He was succeeded in 2005 by Matthias Miersch, who was re-elected in 2009, 2013, 2017, and 2021.

Election results

2021 election

Federal election (2021): Hannover-Land II[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	Y Matthias Miersch		73,088	40.7	3.7	62,024	34.6	5.1
	CDU	Tilman Kuban		45,721	25.5	9.8	40,612	22.7	8.9
	Greens	Simone Meyer		22,283	12.4	6.7	29,201	16.3	7.6
	AfD	Dirk Brandes		13,377	7.5	2.0	13,850	7.7	2.6
	FDP	Nadin Zaya		11,883	6.6	1.2	18,320	10.2	0.6
	Left	Thorsten Kuhn		4,095	2.3	3.1	4,994	2.8	3.8
	Tierschutzpartei	Claudia Klitz		2,618	1.5		2,535	1.4	0.6
	FW	Moritz Krienke		1,978	1.1	0.2	1,672	0.9	0.5
	PARTEI	Lisa-Marie Rosien		1,701	0.9		1,432	0.8	0.1
	dieBasis	Eva-Maria Görres		1,635	0.9		1,650	0.9
	Pirates	Uwe Kopec		1,119	0.6	0.3	867	0.5	0.0
	Team Todenhöfer						752	0.4
	Volt						421	0.2
	NPD						169	0.1	0.2
	Humanists						158	0.1
	V-Partei3						125	0.1	0.1
	ÖDP						113	0.1	0.0
	du.						86	0.0
	Independent	Wolfgang Göller		50	0.0
	LKR						40	0.0
	DKP						36	0.0	0.0
	MLPD						35	0.0	0.0
Informal votes				1,654			2,110
Total Valid votes				179,548			179,092
Turnout				181,202	76.0	2.5
	SPD hold		Majority	27,367	15.2	13.4

2017 election

Federal election (2017): Hannover-Land II[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 Matthias Miersch		69,104	37.0	6.4	55,161	29.5	6.5
	CDU	Maria Flachsbarth		65,815	35.2	6.6	58,984	31.5	6.9
	AfD	Sabine Ehrke		17,570	9.4		19,392	10.4	6.5
	Greens	Roland Christoph Panter		10,693	5.7	0.5	16,290	8.7	0.2
	Left	Jessica Kaußen		10,124	5.4	1.4	12,305	6.6	1.8
	FDP	Harald Klotz		10,092	5.4	4.0	17,925	9.6	5.6
	FW	Beate Julitta Lange		1,691	0.9	0.2	822	0.4	0.1
	PARTEI						1,679	0.9
	Pirates	Gerhard Posywio		1,677	0.9	0.8	936	0.5	1.0
	Tierschutzpartei						1,556	0.8	0.0
	NPD						508	0.3	0.6
	DM						396	0.2
	DiB						312	0.2
	BGE						250	0.1
	V-Partei³						237	0.1
	ÖDP						163	0.1
	MLPD						66	0.0	0.0
	DKP						34	0.0
Informal votes				1,729			1,479
Total Valid votes				186,766			187,016
Turnout				188,495	78.6	2.5
	SPD hold		Majority	3,289	1.8	0.3

2013 election

Federal election (2013): Hannover-Land II[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 Matthias Miersch		78,433	43.4	2.9	65,169	35.9	3.1
	CDU	Maria Flachsbarth		75,761	41.9	5.7	69,644	38.4	6.9
	Greens	Abdulselam Dogan		9,422	5.2	1.7	16,212	8.9	1.5
	Left	Agnes Hasenjäger		7,350	4.1	2.6	8,669	4.8	2.9
	AfD						6,958	3.8
	Pirates	Thomas Gundelbacher		3,144	1.7		2,737	1.5	0.4
	FDP	Dirk Weissleder		2,567	1.4	5.8	7,228	4.0	8.1
	NPD	Sebastian Wolf		2,247	1.2	0.3	1,499	0.8	0.6
	FW	Arno Ulrichs		1,972	1.1		1,044	0.6
	Tierschutzpartei						1,429	0.8	0.0
	PRO						309	0.2
	REP						172	0.1
	PBC						168	0.1
	MLPD						53	0.0	0.0
Informal votes				2,067			1,672
Total Valid votes				180,896			181,291
Turnout				182,963	76.1	0.5
	SPD hold		Majority	2,672	1.5	2.7

2009 election

Federal election (2009): Hannover-Land II[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 Matthias Miersch		73,215	40.4	11.0	59,493	32.8	14.0
	CDU	Maria Flachsbarth		65,573	36.2	0.1	57,144	31.5	1.1
	FDP	Dirk Weissleder		12,982	7.2	3.7	22,004	12.1	3.6
	Greens	Dorota Szymanska		12,533	6.9	2.8	18,936	10.4	2.7
	Left	Gerhard-Walter Schulz		11,976	6.6	3.3	13,908	7.7	4.0
	Pirates						3,528	1.9
	NPD	Karin Hollack		2,853	1.6	0.1	2,534	1.4	0.0
	RRP	Walter Heinrich Christian Mehring		1,422	0.8		1,767	1.0
	Tierschutzpartei						1,513	0.8	0.2
	Independent	Jorg Böttcher		502	0.3
	ÖDP						248	0.1
	DVU						181	0.1
	MLPD						53	0.0	0.0
Informal votes				2,258			2,005
Total Valid votes				181,056			181,309
Turnout				183,314	76.6	5.5
	SPD hold		Majority	7,642	4.2	11.1

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