Höxter – Gütersloh III – Lippe II
135 Höxter – Gütersloh III – Lippe II | |
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Electoral district for the Bundestag | |
![]() Höxter – Gütersloh III – Lippe II in 2025 | |
State | North Rhine-Westphalia |
Population | 221,400 (2019) |
Electorate | 172,435 (2021) |
Major settlements | Schloß Holte-Stukenbrock Höxter Bad Driburg |
Area | 1,625.9 km2 |
Current electoral district | |
Created | 1949 |
Party | CDU |
Member | Christian Haase |
Elected | 2013, 2017, 2021 |
Höxter – Gütersloh III – Lippe 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 135. It is located in eastern North Rhine-Westphalia, comprising the Höxter district, a small part of the Gütersloh district, and the southern part of the Lippe district.[1]
Höxter – Gütersloh III – Lippe II was created for the inaugural 1949 federal election. Since 2013, it has been represented by Christian Haase of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).[2]
Geography
[edit]Höxter – Gütersloh III – Lippe II is located in eastern North Rhine-Westphalia. As of the 2021 federal election, it comprises the entirety of the Höxter district, the municipality of Schloß Holte-Stukenbrock from the Gütersloh district, and the municipalities of Augustdorf, Horn-Bad Meinberg, Lügde, Schieder-Schwalenberg, and Schlangen from the Lippe district.[1]
History
[edit]Höxter – Gütersloh III – Lippe II was created in 1949, then known as Warburg–Höxter–Büren. From 1965 through 1976, it was named Höxter. From 1980 through 2017, it was named Höxter – Lippe II. It acquired its current name in the 2021 election. In the 1949 election, it was North Rhine-Westphalia constituency 44 in the numbering system. From 1953 through 1961, it was number 103. From 1965 through 1976, it was number 102. From 1980 through 1998, it was a number 106. From 2002 through 2009, it was number 137. In the 2013 through 2021 elections, it was number 136. From the 2025 election, it has been number 135.
Originally, the constituency comprised the districts of Höxter, Warburg, and Büren. From 1980 through 2017, it comprised the district of Höxter and the municipalities of Augustdorf, Detmold, Horn-Bad Meinberg, Lügde, Schieder-Schwalenberg, and Schlangen from the Lippe district. Ahead of the 2021 election, it lost the municipality of Detmold from the Lippe district while acquiring the municipality of Schloß Holte-Stukenbrock from the Gütersloh district.
Election | No. | Name | Borders |
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1949 | 44 | Warburg–Höxter–Büren |
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1953 | 103 | ||
1957 | |||
1961 | |||
1965 | 102 | Höxter | |
1969 | |||
1972 | |||
1976 | |||
1980 | 106 | Höxter – Lippe II |
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1983 | |||
1987 | |||
1990 | |||
1994 | |||
1998 | |||
2002 | 137 | ||
2005 | |||
2009 | |||
2013 | 136 | ||
2017 | |||
2021 | Höxter – Gütersloh III – Lippe II |
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2025 | 135 |
Members
[edit]The constituency has been held continuously by the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) since its creation. It was first represented by Friedrich Holzapfel from 1949 to 1953, followed by Josef Menke until 1965. Heinrich Wilper and Gerd Ritgen then each served a single term. Leo Ernesti was representative from 1972 to 1980, when he was succeeded by Meinolf Michels, who served until 2002. Jürgen Herrmann was representative from 2002 to 2013. Christian Haase was elected in 2013, and re-elected in 2017 and 2021.
Election | Member | Party | % | |
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1949 | Friedrich Holzapfel | CDU | 40.3 | |
1953 | Josef Menke | CDU | 71.7 | |
1957 | 70.5 | |||
1961 | 71.8 | |||
1965 | Heinrich Wilper | CDU | 69.8 | |
1969 | Gerd Ritgen | CDU | 67.5 | |
1972 | Leo Ernesti | CDU | 67.0 | |
1976 | 68.2 | |||
1980 | Meinolf Michels | CDU | 52.6 | |
1983 | 58.7 | |||
1987 | 52.6 | |||
1990 | 51.7 | |||
1994 | 50.3 | |||
1998 | 47.2 | |||
2002 | Jürgen Herrmann | CDU | 47.2 | |
2005 | 49.2 | |||
2009 | 46.1 | |||
2013 | Christian Haase | CDU | 50.0 | |
2017 | 44.3 | |||
2021 | 40.1 |
Election results
[edit]2021 election
[edit]Federal election (2021): Höxter – Gütersloh III – Lippe II[3] | |||||||||
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Notes: | Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. | ||||||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
CDU | ![]() | 53,294 | 40.1 | ![]() | 43,265 | 32.5 | ![]() | ||
SPD | Ulrich Kros | 37,210 | 28.0 | ![]() | 36,253 | 27.2 | ![]() | ||
Greens | Nik Riesmeier | 12,685 | 9.5 | ![]() | 14,717 | 11.1 | ![]() | ||
AfD | Klaus Lange | 11,244 | 8.5 | ![]() | 11,533 | 8.7 | ![]() | ||
FDP | Tanja Kuffner | 9,462 | 7.1 | ![]() | 15,488 | 11.6 | ![]() | ||
Left | Alina Wolf | 3,345 | 2.5 | ![]() | 3,762 | 2.8 | ![]() | ||
PARTEI | Annalena Thiel | 2,429 | 1.8 | 1,367 | 1.0 | ![]() | |||
dieBasis | Sandra Fröhlingsdorf | 1,732 | 1.3 | 1,636 | 1.2 | ||||
Human Environment Animal Protection | 1,553 | 1.2 | ![]() | ||||||
FW | Michael Schröder | 1,529 | 1.2 | ![]() | 1,024 | 0.8 | ![]() | ||
Pirates | 566 | 0.4 | ![]() | ||||||
Team Todenhöfer | 335 | 0.3 | |||||||
Bündnis C | 300 | 0.2 | |||||||
LIEBE | 190 | 0.1 | |||||||
ÖDP | 186 | 0.1 | ![]() | ||||||
Volt | 183 | 0.1 | |||||||
Gesundheitsforschung | 172 | 0.1 | ![]() | ||||||
LfK | 126 | 0.1 | |||||||
NPD | 121 | 0.1 | ![]() | ||||||
Humanists | 91 | 0.1 | ![]() | ||||||
V-Partei3 | 74 | 0.1 | ![]() | ||||||
du. | 48 | 0.0 | |||||||
40 | 0.0 | ||||||||
LKR | 34 | 0.0 | |||||||
MLPD | 10 | 0.0 | ![]() | ||||||
DKP | 8 | 0.0 | ![]() | ||||||
SGP | 6 | 0.0 | ![]() | ||||||
Informal votes | 1,416 | 1,258 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 132,930 | 133,088 | |||||||
Turnout | 134,346 | 77.9 | ![]() | ||||||
CDU hold | Majority | 16,084 | 12.1 | ![]() |
2017 election
[edit]Federal election (2017): Höxter – Lippe II[4] | |||||||||
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Notes: | Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. | ||||||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
CDU | ![]() | 69,910 | 44.3 | ![]() | 58,939 | 37.3 | ![]() | ||
SPD | Petra Rode-Bosse | 42,211 | 26.7 | ![]() | 39,038 | 24.7 | ![]() | ||
AfD | Norbert Senges | 14,443 | 9.1 | ![]() | 15,197 | 9.6 | ![]() | ||
FDP | Hermann Graf von der Schulenburg | 10,813 | 6.9 | ![]() | 19,543 | 12.4 | ![]() | ||
Greens | Robin Wagener | 9,400 | 6.0 | ![]() | 10,194 | 6.4 | ![]() | ||
Left | Lothar Kowalek | 8,724 | 5.5 | ![]() | 10,188 | 6.4 | ![]() | ||
PARTEI | 959 | 0.6 | ![]() | ||||||
Human Environment Animal Protection | 956 | 0.6 | |||||||
FW | Ralf Ochsenfahrt | 1,482 | 0.9 | ![]() | 758 | 0.5 | ![]() | ||
Pirates | 603 | 0.4 | ![]() | ||||||
ÖDP | Wolfgang Seemann | 871 | 0.6 | ![]() | 348 | 0.2 | ![]() | ||
NPD | 336 | 0.2 | ![]() | ||||||
AD-DEMOKRATEN | 211 | 0.1 | |||||||
BGE | 158 | 0.1 | |||||||
DM | 149 | 0.1 | |||||||
Gesundheitsforschung | 145 | 0.1 | |||||||
V-Partei³ | 139 | 0.1 | |||||||
Volksabstimmung | 120 | 0.1 | ![]() | ||||||
DiB | 98 | 0.1 | |||||||
Die Humanisten | 55 | 0.0 | |||||||
MLPD | 32 | 0.0 | ![]() | ||||||
DKP | 14 | 0.0 | |||||||
SGP | 11 | 0.0 | ![]() | ||||||
Informal votes | 2,029 | 1,692 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 157,854 | 158,191 | |||||||
Turnout | 159,883 | 75.8 | ![]() | ||||||
CDU hold | Majority | 27,699 | 17.6 | ![]() |
2013 election
[edit]Federal election (2013): Höxter – Lippe II[5] | |||||||||
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Notes: | Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. | ||||||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
CDU | Christian Haase | 76,882 | 50.0 | ![]() | 70,520 | 45.8 | ![]() | ||
SPD | Petra Rode-Bosse[a] | 48,159 | 31.3 | ![]() | 45,707 | 29.7 | ![]() | ||
Greens | Dirk Brinkschmidt | 8,757 | 5.7 | ![]() | 10,266 | 6.7 | ![]() | ||
Left | Ursula Jacob-Reisinger | 6,328 | 4.1 | ![]() | 7,894 | 5.1 | ![]() | ||
FDP | Horst Grumich | 2,956 | 1.9 | ![]() | 7,423 | 4.8 | ![]() | ||
Pirates | Wilk Spieker | 2,854 | 1.9 | 2,853 | 1.9 | ![]() | |||
AfD | Markus Jäckel | 4,004 | 2.6 | 5,545 | 3.6 | ||||
NPD | 1,312 | 0.9 | ![]() | 1,188 | 0.8 | ![]() | |||
FW | 1,086 | 0.7 | 807 | 0.5 | |||||
Independent | Kohler | 703 | 0.5 | ||||||
PARTEI | 438 | 0.3 | |||||||
ÖDP | 693 | 0.5 | ![]() | 400 | 0.3 | ![]() | |||
Volksabstimmung | 221 | 0.1 | ![]() | ||||||
PRO | 198 | 0.1 | |||||||
Nichtwahler | 113 | 0.1 | |||||||
BIG | 91 | 0.0 | |||||||
Party of Reason | 91 | 0.1 | |||||||
REP | 88 | 0.1 | ![]() | ||||||
RRP | 63 | 0.0 | ![]() | ||||||
PSG | 29 | 0.0 | ![]() | ||||||
BüSo | 22 | 0.0 | ![]() | ||||||
MLPD | 22 | 0.0 | ![]() | ||||||
Die Rechte | 19 | 0.0 | |||||||
Informal votes | 2,260 | 1,996 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 153,734 | 153,998 | |||||||
Turnout | 155,994 | 73.1 | ![]() | ||||||
CDU hold | Majority | 28,723 | 18.7 | ![]() |
2009 election
[edit]Federal election (2009): Höxter – Lippe II[6] | |||||||||
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Notes: | Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. | ||||||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
CDU | ![]() | 71,813 | 46.1 | ![]() | 58,814 | 37.7 | ![]() | ||
SPD | Werner Böhler | 49,149 | 31.6 | ![]() | 45,184 | 29.0 | ![]() | ||
FDP | Christoph Wiemers | 12,086 | 7.8 | ![]() | 23,125 | 14.8 | ![]() | ||
Greens | Herbert Falke | 9,957 | 6.4 | ![]() | 11,708 | 7.5 | ![]() | ||
Left | Wolfgang McGregor | 9,100 | 5.8 | ![]() | 10,266 | 6.6 | ![]() | ||
Pirates | 2,474 | 1.6 | |||||||
FAMILIE | Dagmar Feldmann | 1,586 | 1.0 | ![]() | 1,037 | 0.7 | ![]() | ||
NPD | Burkhard Becker | 1,502 | 1.0 | ![]() | 1,151 | 0.7 | ![]() | ||
Human Environment Animal Protection | 727 | 0.5 | ![]() | ||||||
RENTNER | 374 | 0.2 | |||||||
ÖDP | Kirsten Wallbraun | 455 | 0.3 | 309 | 0.2 | ||||
REP | 254 | 0.2 | ![]() | ||||||
RRP | 132 | 0.1 | |||||||
Volksabstimmung | 125 | 0.1 | ![]() | ||||||
DVU | 109 | 0.1 | |||||||
Centre | 91 | 0.1 | ![]() | ||||||
PSG | 31 | 0.0 | ![]() | ||||||
BüSo | 21 | 0.0 | ![]() | ||||||
MLPD | 21 | 0.0 | ![]() | ||||||
Informal votes | 2,673 | 2,368 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 155,648 | 155,953 | |||||||
Turnout | 158,321 | 73.0 | ![]() | ||||||
CDU hold | Majority | 22,664 | 14.5 | ![]() |
Notes
[edit]- ^ Bode-Rosse entered the Bundestag on the SPD list after the resignation of Dirk Becker in October 2015.
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Constituency Höxter – Gütersloh III – Lippe II". Federal Returning Officer.
- ^ "Results for Höxter – Gütersloh III – Lippe II". Federal Returning Officer.
- ^ Results for Höxter – Gütersloh III – Lippe II
- ^ Results for Höxter – Lippe II
- ^ Results for Höxter – Lippe II
- ^ Results for Höxter – Lippe II