Aachen I

Aachen in North Rhine-Westphalia

Aachen I is an electoral constituency (German: Wahlkreis) represented in the German Bundestag. Part of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and including the city of Aachen, the constituency elects one representative under the mixed member proportional representation (MMP) system. Under the current constituency numbering system, it is designated as constituency 87. The constituency was created for the 1949 election, the first election in West Germany after World War II. It was called Aachen-Stadt until being renamed Aachen at the 1980 election. It assumed its current name for the 2013 election.

Election results

2009 election

The following table does not list parties which did not contest or gain constituency votes.

Federal election 2009: Aachen[1]
Notes: Green 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. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party Votes	%	±%
	CDU	Rudolf Henke		50,703	39.4%	+0.3%	41,146	31.9%	-0.9%
	SPD	N Ulla Schmidt		38,523	29.9%	-10.6%	28,937	22.4%	-10.8%
	Green	Jochen Luczak		17,241	13.4%	+4.2%	20,765	16.1%	+1.7%
	FDP	Petra Müller		11,554	9.0%	+3.5%	19,464	15.1%	+3.6%
	Left	Andrej Hunko		9,520	7.4%	+2.5%	10,911	8.5%	+2.5%
	NPD	Oliver Harf		1,088	0.8%	+0.1%	789	0.6%	0.0%
Informal votes				1,582			1,194
Total Valid votes				128,629			129,017
Turnout				130,211	73.6%	-5.2%
	CDU gain from SPD		Majority	12,180	9.5%

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