Leverkusen – Cologne IV

Leverkusen - Cologne IV in North Rhine-Westphalia

Leverkusen – Cologne IV (German: Leverkusen – Köln IV) is one of the four electoral districts (German: Wahlkreis) covering the city of Cologne in the German Bundestag. Most of the electorate comes from the neighbouring city of Leverkusen. Part of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, the constituency elects one representative under the mixed member proportional representation (MMP) system. Under the current constituency numbering system, it is designated as constituency 96. The district has been held by the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) since it was created for the 2002 election, with Karl Lauterbach representing the district since the 2005 election.

Boundaries

The constituency was created for the 2002 election. At that election, the number of single member constituencies in Germany was reduced from 328 to 298.[1] As a result Cologne was only entitled to three and a half districts instead of the four which it had had since the 1965 election. To achieve this, the Cologne IV district was split in two. The Kalk district was transferred to Cologne I, with the remaining district of Mülheim combined with the city of Leverkusen, which had formerly been part of the Leverkusen – Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis II district.[2]

2009 election

Party Constituency results List results
Candidate Votes % share +/- Votes % share +/-
Social Democratic Party of Germany Karl Lauterbach 47,625 35.9 -14.6 37,019 27.8 -13.0
Christian Democratic Union Thomas Portz 38,093 28.7 -1.7 33,367 25.1 +0.0
Alliance '90/The Greens Ulrike Kessing 22,550 17.0 +7.7 24,797 18.7 +3.2
Free Democratic Party Benedikt Vennemann 11,187 8.4 +4.5 17,225 13.0 +3.3
The Left Party.PDS Manuel Lindlar 11,390 8.6 +3.8 13,540 10.2 +4.0
National Democratic Party of Germany Bruno Kirchner 1,788 1.3 +0.5 1,231 0.9 +0.2
Pirate Party N/A N/A N/A N/A 2,791 2.1 N/A
Others 1,939 1.6 N/A

Source:[3]

District representatives

The District's MPs have been:

Year Name Party First vote %
2009 Karl Lauterbach SPD 37.1%
2005 Karl Lauterbach SPD 48.6%
2002 Ernst Küchler SPD 50.0%

References

  1. ↑ Overview of German electoral system, Electionresources.org, accessed 15 June 2012
  2. ↑ Electoral boundaries, bundeswahlleiter.de, accessed 15 June 2012
  3. ↑ 2009 constituency results, bundeswahlleiter.de, accessed 28 June 2012

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