Stralsund – Nordvorpommern – Rügen is an electoral constituency (German: Wahlkreis) represented in the German Bundestag. Part of the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the constituency elects one representative under the mixed member proportional representation (MMP) system. Under the current constituency numbering system, it is designated as constituency 15.
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This constituency has been held by CDU leader and Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel since its creation in 1990. In the 2009 federal election, Merkel won the seat by 23 percentage points over her nearest opponent.
| Election | Member | Party | |
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| 1990 | Angela Merkel | CDU | |
The following table does not list parties which did not contest or gain constituency votes.
| Federal election 2009: Stralsund – Nordvorpommern – Rügen [1] | |||||||||
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Notes: Green background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. |
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party Votes | % | ±% | ||
| CDU | Angela Merkel | 57,865 | 49.3% | +8.0% | 43,650 | 37.3% | +2.7% | ||
| The Left | Marianne Linke | 30,935 | 26.4% | +2.6% | 33,522 | 28.6% | +4.5% | ||
| SPD | Sonja Steffen | 14,040 | 12.0% | -13.4% | 15,048 | 12.9% | -12.8% | ||
| FDP | Gino Leonhard | 5,668 | 4.8% | +1.9% | 13,087 | 11.2% | +3.7% | ||
| Green | Arnold von Bosse | 3,735 | 3.2% | +1.2% | 5,349 | 4.6% | +1.4% | ||
| NPD | Raimund Borrmann | 3,262 | 2.8% | -0.7% | 3,434 | 2.9% | -0.7% | ||
| Independent | Michael Adomeit | 1,322 | 1.1% | -0.1% | |||||
| Independent | Maria Wilke | 479 | 0.4% | N/A | |||||
| Informal votes | 2,063 | 2,269 | |||||||
| Total Valid votes | 117,306 | 117,100 | |||||||
| Turnout | 119,369 | 59.8% | -9.6% | ||||||
| CDU hold | Majority | 26,930 | 22.9% | ||||||