Stadt Osnabrück

39 Stadt Osnabrück
Electoral district for the Bundestag
Stadt Osnabrück in 2025
State	Lower Saxony
Population	258,300 (2019)
Electorate	195,467 (2021)
Major settlements	Osnabrück
Area	325.3 km2
Current electoral district
Created	1949
Party	SPD
Member	Manuel Gava
Elected	2021

Stadt Osnabrück (English: Osnabrück City) 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 39. It is located in western Lower Saxony, comprising the independent city of Osnabrück.

Stadt Osnabrück was created for the inaugural 1949 federal election. Since 2021, it has been represented by Manuel Gava of the Social Democratic Party (SPD).

Geography

Stadt Osnabrück is located in western Lower Saxony. As of the 2021 federal election, it comprises the independent city of Osnabrück and the municipalities of Belm, Georgsmarienhütte, Hagen am Teutoburger Wald, Hasbergen, and Wallenhorst from the district of Osnabrück.

History

Stadt Osnabrück was created in 1949, then known as Osnabrück-Stadt und -Land. In the 1965 through 1983 elections, it was simply named Osnabrück. It acquired its current name in the 1987 election. In the inaugural Bundestag election, it was Lower Saxony constituency 6 in the numbering system. From 1953 through 1961, it was number 28. From 1965 through 1998, it was number 33. In the 2002 and 2005 elections, it was number 39. In the 2009 election, it was number 40. Since the 2013 election, it has been number 39.

Originally, the constituency comprised the independent city of Osnabrück and the entirety of the district of Osnabrück, which at the time was significantly smaller than its present area. In the 1980 election, it acquired its current borders.

Election	No.	Name	Borders
1949	6	Osnabrück-Stadt und -Land	Osnabrück city Osnabrück district
1953	28
1957
1961
1965	33	Osnabrück
1969
1972
1976
1980			Osnabrück city Osnabrück district (only Belm, Georgsmarienhütte, Hagen am Teutoburger Wald, Hasbergen, and Wallenhorst municipalities)
1983
1987		Stadt Osnabrück
1990
1994
1998
2002	39
2005
2009	40
2013	39
2017
2021
2025

Members

The constituency was first held by Anton Storch of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), who served from 1949 until 1965. He was succeeded by fellow CDU member Ferdinand Erpenbeck. In 1972, Alfred Emmerlich of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) won the constituency. In 1976, Karl-Heinz Hornhues of the CDU was elected representative, but Emmerlich won again in 1980. Hornhues was against elected in 1983, and served until 1998. In 1998, Ernst Schwanhold of the SPD won the constituency. He was succeeded by fellow SPD member Martin Schwanholz in 2002. Mathias Middelberg of the CDU was elected in 2009, and re-elected in 2013 and 2017. Manuel Gava regained it for the SPD in 2021.

Election		Member	Party	%
	1949	Anton Storch	CDU	35.4
	1953			52.1
	1957			52.3
	1961			47.1
	1965	Ferdinand Erpenbeck	CDU	50.0
	1969			49.0
	1972	Alfred Emmerlich	SPD	48.7
	1976	Karl-Heinz Hornhues	CDU	48.8
	1980	Alfred Emmerlich	SPD	49.4
	1983	Karl-Heinz Hornhues	CDU	51.0
	1987			45.8
	1990			47.4
	1994			46.8
	1998	Ernst Schwanhold	SPD	47.8
	2002	Martin Schwanholz	SPD	45.7
	2005			44.1
	2009	Mathias Middelberg	CDU	38.4
	2013			45.7
	2017			40.3
	2021	Manuel Gava	SPD	30.3

Election results

2021 election

Federal election (2021): Stadt Osnabrück
Notes:		Blue 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, or other incumbent. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	SPD	Manuel Gava		44,876	30.3	1.4	44,919	30.2	5.5
	CDU	N Mathias Middelberg		43,316	29.2	11.1	34,462	23.2	12.5
	Greens	Thomas Klein		34,140	23.0	12.9	34,546	23.3	11.1
	FDP	Nemir Ali		10,090	6.8	2.1	14,627	9.8	0.4
	Left	Heidi Reichinnek		6,977	4.7	3.7	6,224	4.2	4.2
	AfD	Florian Meyer		6,695	4.5		6,903	4.6	1.6
	dieBasis	Maria Anita Haunhorst		1,918	1.3		1,482	1.0
	PARTEI						1,341	0.9	0.0
	Tierschutzpartei						1,284	0.9	0.2
	Team Todenhöfer						598	0.4
	FW						543	0.4	0.1
	Volt						543	0.4
	Pirates						437	0.3	0.2
	Humanists						153	0.1
	ÖDP						125	0.1	0.0
	NPD						80	0.1	0.1
	du.						79	0.1
	V-Partei3						76	0.1	0.1
	DKP	Joachim Bigus		194	0.1	0.5	52	0.0	0.0
	LKR						25	0.0
	MLPD						11	0.0	0.0
Informal votes				1,335			1,031
Total valid votes				148,206			148,510
Turnout				149,541	76.5	0.8
	SPD gain from CDU		Majority	1,560	1.1

2017 election

Federal election (2017): Stadt Osnabrück
Notes:		Blue 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, or other incumbent. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	CDU	Y Mathias Middelberg		60,185	40.3	5.4	53,977	35.7	7.3
	SPD	Antje Schulte-Schoh		47,279	31.6	3.2	37,336	24.7	5.8
	Greens	Günther Westermann		15,108	10.1	1.2	18,353	12.1	1.2
	FDP	Thomas Thiele		13,353	8.9	6.1	14,309	9.5	5.3
	Left	Giesela Brandes-Steggewentz		12,521	8.4	4.2	12,759	8.4	3.3
	AfD						9,499	6.3	3.6
	PARTEI						1,361	0.9
	DKP	Joachim Bigus		962	0.6		77	0.1
	Tierschutzpartei						933	0.6	0.0
	Pirates						702	0.5	1.5
	BGE						402	0.3
	FW						344	0.2	0.1
	DiB						264	0.2
	DM						232	0.2
	NPD						211	0.1	0.3
	V-Partei³						209	0.1
	ÖDP						173	0.1
	MLPD						28	0.0	0.0
Informal votes				2,699			938
Total valid votes				149,408			151,169
Turnout				152,107	77.3	3.8
	CDU hold		Majority	12,906	8.7	2.2

2013 election

Federal election (2013): Stadt Osnabrück
Notes:		Blue 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, or other incumbent. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	CDU	Y Mathias Middelberg		64,416	45.7	7.3	60,754	43.0	9.0
	SPD	Martin Schwanholz		49,059	34.8	1.8	43,099	30.5	3.8
	Greens	Dorothea Steiner		12,568	8.9	1.1	15,390	10.9	2.1
	Left	Derk-Olaf Steggewentz		5,840	4.1	2.8	7,188	5.1	3.3
	FDP	Thomas Thiele		3,934	2.8	7.6	5,874	4.2	9.8
	AfD						3,765	2.7
	Pirates	Kerstin Demuth		3,102	2.2		2,794	2.0	0.2
	NPD	Helmut Walter		884	0.6	0.0	652	0.5	0.1
	FW	Robert Kiauka		828	0.6		472	0.3
	Tierschutzpartei						815	0.6	0.0
	PBC	Ralf Gervelmeyer		290	0.2		226	0.2
	PRO						88	0.1
	REP						49	0.0
	MLPD						33	0.0	0.0
Informal votes				1,919			1,641
Total valid votes				140,921			141,199
Turnout				142,840	73.5	1.1
	CDU hold		Majority	15,357	10.9	5.5

2009 election

Federal election (2009): Stadt Osnabrück
Notes:		Blue 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, or other incumbent. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	CDU	Mathias Middelberg		54,522	38.4	2.1	48,398	34.0	1.7
	SPD	N Martin Schwanholz		46,979	33.1	11.1	38,000	26.7	13.3
	FDP	Carl-Ludwig Thiele		14,823	10.4	5.1	19,941	14.0	4.8
	Greens	Dorothea Steiner		14,282	10.0	3.8	18,463	13.0	3.3
	Left	Maren Kaminski		9,918	7.0	3.8	11,878	8.3	4.7
	Pirates						3,168	2.2
	NPD	Jochim Schnell		945	0.7	0.1	848	0.6	0.1
	Tierschutzpartei						880	0.6	0.2
	Independent	Volker Stöckel		658	0.5
	RRP						443	0.3
	ÖDP						216	0.2
	DVU						88	0.1
	MLPD						18	0.0	0.0
Informal votes				1,584			1,370
Total valid votes				142,127			142,341
Turnout				143,711	74.7	5.6
	CDU gain from SPD		Majority	7,543	5.3