41 Stadt Hannover I
Electoral district for the Bundestag
Stadt Hannover I in 2013
State	Lower Saxony
Population	260,100 (2019)
Electorate	176,770 (2021)
Major settlements	Hanover (partial)
Area	112.9 km2
Current electoral district
Created	1949
Party	SPD
Member	Adis Ahmetovic
Elected	2021

Stadt Hannover I (English: Hanover City 1) 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 41. It is located in central Lower Saxony, comprising the northern part of the city of Hanover.^[1]

Stadt Hannover I was created for the inaugural 1949 federal election. Since 2021, it has been represented by Adis Ahmetovic of the Social Democratic Party (SPD).^[2]

Geography

Stadt Hannover I is located in central Lower Saxony. As of the 2021 federal election, it comprises the northern part of the city of Hanover, specifically the districts of Bothfeld-Vahrenheide, Buchholz-Kleefeld, Mitte (excluding Mitte and Calenberger Neustadt), Herrenhausen-Stöcken (excluding Herrenhausen), Misburg-Anderten, Nord (excluding Nordstadt), and Vahrenwald-List.^[1]

History

Stadt Hannover I was created in 1949, then known as Stadt Hannover-Nord. In the 1965 through 1976 elections, it was named Hannover I. It acquired its current name in the 1980 election. In the inaugural Bundestag election, it was Lower Saxony constituency 18 in the numbering system. From 1953 through 1961, it was number 40. From 1965 through 1998, it was number 36. In the 2002 and 2005 elections, it was number 41. In the 2009 election, it was number 42. Since the 2013 election, it has been number 41.

Originally, the constituency comprised the city quarters of Buchholz, Hainholz, Herrenhausen, Stöcken, List, Vahrenwald, and Mitte. In the 1965 through 1976 elections, it comprised the area of the city north of the Seelze–Hannover Hauptbahnhof–Lehrte railway line. It acquired its current borders in the 1980 election.

Members

The constituency has been held by the Social Democratic Party (SPD) during all but one Bundestag term since 1949. Its first representative was Bruno Leddin of the SPD, who served from 1949 until his death in 1951. Egon Franke won the resulting by-election, and served until 1957, when Adolf Cillien of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) won the constituency. Franke won it back in 1961, and went on to serve until 1987. He was succeeded by Gerd Andres, who served from 1987 to 2009. Kerstin Tack was elected in 2009, and re-elected in 2013 and 2017. She was succeeded by Adis Ahmetovic in 2021.

Election results

2021 election

Federal election (2021): Stadt Hannover I[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	Adis Ahmetovic		44,538	34.9	0.8	39,511	31.0	3.6
	Greens	Swantje Michaelsen		27,851	21.8	12.7	30,360	23.8	11.6
	CDU	Maximilian Oppelt		27,303	21.4	8.2	23,410	18.3	8.8
	FDP	Katharina Wieking		9,550	7.5	0.9	13,282	10.4	0.2
	AfD	Jörn König		7,549	5.9	2.6	7,677	6.0	3.1
	Left	Hans-Herbert Ullrich		4,662	3.7	3.5	5,768	4.5	4.8
	PARTEI	Jens Bolm		1,586	1.2	0.6	1,161	0.9	0.4
	Tierschutzpartei	Corinna Günther		1,528	1.2		1,400	1.1	0.2
	dieBasis	Karl-Heinz Bader		1,265	1.0		1,192	0.9
	Team Todenhöfer						1,073	0.8
	FW	Ronald Rüdiger		847	0.7	0.2	691	0.5	0.2
	Pirates	Reiner Budnick		746	0.6	0.3	681	0.5	0.0
	Volt						674	0.5
	Humanists						180	0.1
	V-Partei3						121	0.1	0.1
	ÖDP	Iko Schneider		138	0.1		103	0.1	0.0
	NPD						87	0.1	0.1
	du.						72	0.1
	DKP						63	0.0	0.0
	MLPD	Anke Nierstenhöfer		114	0.1	0.0	55	0.0	0.0
	LKR						25	0.0
Informal votes				1,217			1,308
Total Valid votes				127,677			127,586
Turnout				128,894	72.9	2.0
	SPD hold		Majority	16,687	13.1	7.1

2017 election

Federal election (2017): Stadt Hannover I[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 Kerstin Tack		47,549	35.6	7.9	36,645	27.4	8.1
	CDU	Maximilian Oppelt		39,487	29.6	6.9	36,401	27.2	6.3
	Greens	Swantje Michaelsen		12,102	9.1	1.4	16,292	12.2	0.1
	AfD	Jörn König		11,364	8.5	5.4	12,226	9.1	5.5
	Left	Hans-Herbert Ullrich		9,579	7.2	2.2	12,470	9.3	3.1
	FDP	Claudia Winterstein		8,734	6.5	5.1	13,658	10.2	5.5
	PARTEI	Jens Manuel Bolm		2,401	1.8		1,768	1.3
	Pirates	Christian Vey		1,231	0.9	1.0	768	0.6	1.3
	Tierschutzpartei						1,222	0.9	0.1
	FW	Claas Donat Osterloh		668	0.5	0.1	409	0.3	0.1
	DM						545	0.4
	BGE						365	0.3
	DiB						297	0.2
	NPD						244	0.2	0.4
	V-Partei³						220	0.2
	ÖDP						162	0.1
	MLPD	Anke Nierstenhöfer		163	0.1	0.0	78	0.1	0.0
	DKP	Frank Georg Braun		137	0.1		79	0.1
Informal votes				1,390			956
Total Valid votes				133,415			133,849
Turnout				134,805	74.9	3.2
	SPD hold		Majority	8,062	6.0	1.0

2013 election

Federal election (2013): Stadt Hannover I[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 Kerstin Tack		55,711	43.5	4.6	45,441	35.5	4.3
	CDU	Wilfried Lorenz		46,650	36.5	3.6	42,910	33.5	7.0
	Greens	Silvia Klingenburg-Pülm		9,876	7.7	2.6	15,718	12.3	2.4
	Left	Oliver Förste		6,435	5.0	3.2	7,993	6.2	3.1
	AfD	Matthias Dorn		4,051	3.2		4,654	3.6
	Pirates	Reiner Budnick		2,434	1.9		2,434	1.9	0.5
	FDP	Thomas Iseke		1,889	1.5	6.0	6,043	4.7	8.1
	Tierschutzpartei						988	0.8	0.1
	NPD						808	0.6	0.7
	FW	Bettina Redöhl		790	0.6		505	0.4
	PRO						168	0.1
	MLPD	Kurt-Peter Kleffel		143	0.1	0.0	78	0.1	0.0
	PBC						137	0.1
	REP						122	0.1
Informal votes				1,888			1,868
Total Valid votes				127,979			127,999
Turnout				129,867	71.7	1.2
	SPD hold		Majority	9,061	7.0	0.9

2009 election

Federal election (2009): Stadt Hannover I[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	Kerstin Tack		50,592	39.0	13.9	40,497	31.2	15.3
	CDU	Rita Pawelski		42,621	32.8	1.0	34,448	26.5	0.3
	Greens	Carolin Friedemann		13,364	10.3	4.3	19,019	14.6	3.6
	Left	Michael Höntsch		10,624	8.2	4.2	12,111	9.3	4.5
	FDP	Claudia Winterstein		9,699	7.5	3.6	16,680	12.8	3.9
	Pirates						3,102	2.4
	NPD	Olaf Klanke		1,759	1.4	0.1	1,681	1.3	0.1
	Tierschutzpartei						1,081	0.8	0.3
	RRP	Renate Rodriguez Gómez		978	0.8		973	0.7
	ÖDP						190	0.1
	MLPD	Kurt-Peter Kleffel		176	0.1	0.0	88	0.1	0.0
	DVU						118	0.1
Informal votes				1,556			1,381
Total Valid votes				129,813			129,988
Turnout				131,369	72.9	5.3
	SPD hold		Majority	7,971	6.1	15.0

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