Berlin Spandau – Charlottenburg North (electoral district)

Location of constituency in Berlin

Berlin Spandau – Charlottenburg North is one of the 299 single member constituencies used for the German parliament, the Bundestag. Located in West Berlin, the constituency was created for the 2002 election, mostly replacing the former constituency of Berlin Spandau.

The first two elections in 2002 and 2005 were won by the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) though the constituency was gained by the Christian Democratic Union candidate Kai Wegner at the 2009 election.

History and boundaries

The constituency, numbered constituency 79 by the German electoral authorities,^[1] contains the whole of the Berlin borough of Spandau. This area formed its own constituency until the 2002 election. For that election, as part of a wider reform which reduced the number of Bundestag constituencies, Berlin lost one of its thirteen seats. Consequently the Spandau constituency expanded to take in the neighbourhood of Charlottenburg-Nord, located in the borough of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf. Prior to 2002, Charlottenburg-Nord was part of the Berlin Tiergarten - Wedding - North Charlottenburg constituency.

The main predecessor constituency, Berlin Spandau had been won by the CDU in 1990 and 1994 and gained by the SPD in 1998.

Profile

The number of residents with German citizenship was 87.0%, a figure just above the Berlin average of 86.6%.^[2] 26.0% of residents had qualifications which met the requirements for University entry.

Electoral system

Elections in Germany take place using the Additional Member System. Voters have two votes, one for a constituency MP and one for a regional list to elect representatives for the whole of Berlin city. Elections for the Spandau - Charlottenburg Nord constituency take place using the First past the post system.

Results

2009 election

Party		Constituency results				List results
Party		Candidate	Votes	% share	+/-	Votes	% share	+/-
	Christian Democratic Union	Kai Wegner	44,994	36.4	+0.8	37,170	30.0	+0.6
	Social Democratic Party of Germany	Swen Schultz	41,051	33.2	-13.6	29,109	23.5	-12.8
	The Left Party.PDS	Monika Merk	11,446	9.3	+3.7	13,611	11.0	+3.7
	Alliance '90/The Greens	Christoph Sonnenberg-Westeson	10,853	8.8	+4.1	16,451	13.3	+2.7
	Free Democratic Party	Kai Gersch	10,612	8.6	+4.5	18,277	14.7	+4.9
	National Democratic Party of Germany		2,463	2.0	+0.7	1,982	+1.6	0.0
	Pirate Party	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	3,173	2.6	N/A
	Others		2,282	1.8	N/A	4,205	3.4	N/A

Out of a total electorate of 184,436, the total number of votes cast was 126,799 (68.7%) of which 3,098 votes were invalid.

Source:^[3]

2005 election

Party		Constituency results				List results
Party		Candidate	Votes	% share	+/-	Votes	% share	+/-
	Social Democratic Party of Germany	Swen Schultz	64,119	46.8	+2.6	49,797	36.2	-1.5
	Christian Democratic Union	Kai Wegner	48,791	35.6	-3.4	40,351	29.4	-5.6
	The Left Party.PDS	Jörg Kuhle	7,608	5.6	+3.5	9,983	7.3	+4.9
	Alliance '90/The Greens	Elisabeth Paus	6,347	4.6	-1.2	14,485	10.5	-0.6
	Free Democratic Party	Kai Gersch	5,562	4.1	-1.4	13,593	9.9	+2.0
	National Democratic Party of Germany		1,733	1.3	+0.7	1,703	1.2	+0.8
	Others		2,864	2.1	N/A	7,529	5.6	N/A

Out of a total electorate of 184,180, the total number of votes cast was 140,504 (76.3%) of which 3,480 votes were invalid.

Source:^[4]

2002 election

Party		Constituency results				List results
Party		Candidate	Votes	% share	Votes	% share
	Social Democratic Party of Germany	Swen Schultz	62,111	44.1	53,253	37.8
	Christian Democratic Union	Kai Wegner	54,884	39.0	49,304	35.0
	Alliance '90/The Greens	Elizabeth Paus	8,181	5.8	15,677	11.1
	Free Democratic Party	Karl-Heinz Bannasch	7,640	5.4	11,101	7.9
	The Left Party.PDS	Jörg Kuhle	2,874	2.0	3,297	2.3
	The Grays – Gray Panthers	Thorsten Hartje	2,482	1.8	1,769	1.3
	The Republicans	Olaf Neitzel	1,740	1.2	1,317	0.9
	National Democratic Party of Germany	Frank Stendel	787	0.6	560	0.4
	Others	N/A	N/A	N/A	4,717	3.4

Out of a total electorate of 184,596, the total number of votes cast was 143,214 (77.6%) of which 2,515 votes were invalid.

Source:^[5]

References

Electoral districts of Berlin in the German Bundestag

2002 election to present	Berlin Charlottenburg–Wilmersdorf Berlin Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg–Prenzlauer Berg East Berlin Lichtenberg Berlin Marzahn–Hellersdorf Berlin Mitte Berlin Neukölln Berlin Pankow Berlin Reinickendorf Berlin Spandau–Charlottenburg North Berlin Steglitz-Zehlendorf Berlin-Tempelhof–Schöneberg Berlin Treptow–Köpenick

1994 and 1998 elections	Berlin Charlottenburg–Wilmersdorf Berlin Friedrichshain-Lichtenberg Berlin Hellersdorf-Marzahn Berlin Hohenschönhausen–Pankow–Weissensee Berlin Kreuzberg–Schöneberg Berlin Mitte-Prenzlauer Berg Berlin Neukölln Berlin Reinickendorf Berlin Spandau Berlin Steglitz-Zehlendorf Berlin Templehof Berlin Tiergarten-Wedding-North Charlottenburg Berlin Treptow–Köpenick

1990 election	Berlin Charlottenburg–Wilmersdorf Berlin Friedrichshain-Treptow–Lichtenberg I Berlin Hellersdorf-Marzahn Berlin Hohenschönhausen–Pankow–Weissensee II Berlin-Kreuzberg – Schöneberg Berlin Mitte-Prenzlauer Berg-Weissensee I Berlin Neukölln Berlin Reinickendorf Berlin Spandau Berlin Steglitz-Zehlendorf Berlin Templehof-South-East-Stieglitz Berlin Tiergarten-Wedding-North Charlottenburg Berlin Köpenick-Lichtenberg II