Frankfurt am Main I (electoral district)

Location of constituency in Hesse

Frankfurt am Main I is one of the 299 single member constituencies used for the German parliament, the Bundestag. One of twenty two districts covering the state of Hesse and one of two in the city of Frankfurt, it covers the northern and western parts of the city.

The constituency was created for the 1949 election, the first election in West Germany after World War II. Throughout its history the constituency has been won by the two main German parties the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). The current representative is Matthias Zimmer of the CDU, who was first elected at the 2009 general election.

Boundaries

Election(s)	District name and number	Areas covered
1949	15 Frankfurt/M I	The Frankfurt city districts of Oberrad, Sachsenhausen, Niederrad, Goldstein, Schwanheim, Griesheim, Nied, Höchst, Sindlingen, Zeilsheim, Unterliederbach and Sossenheim
1953–1961	140 Frankfurt/M I
1965–1972	140 Frankfurt I
1976	140 Frankfurt (Main) I – Main-Taunus	The Frankfurt city districts of Höchst, Schwanheim, Griesheim, Nied, Sindlingen, Zeilsheim, Unterliederbach, Sossenheim, Rödelheim, Hausen, Praunheim and Goldstein-West; From Main-Taunus-Kreis, the towns and municipalities of Bad Soden, Eschborn, Hattersheim am Main, Kriftel, Liederbach am Taunus, Schwalbach am Taunus and Sulzbach
1980–1998	138 Frankfurt am Main I – Main-Taunus
2002-2005	183 Frankfurt am Main I	The Frankfurt city districts of Altstadt, Bahnhofsviertel, Bockenheim, Dornbusch, Eschersheim, Gallusviertel, Ginnheim, Griesheim, Gutleutviertel, Hausen, Heddernheim, Höchst, Innenstadt, Nied, Niederursel, Praunheim, Rödelheim, Sindlingen, Sossenheim, Unterliederbach, Westend and Zeilsheim[1]
2009-2013	182 Frankfurt am Main I

Results

2013 election

Party		Constituency results				List results
		Candidate	Votes	% share	+/-	Votes	% share	+/-
	Christian Democratic Union	Matthias Zimmer	52,427	40.2	+4.9	43,883	33.5	+0.5
	Social Democratic Party of Germany	Gregor Amann	43,124	33.0	+3.0	35,106	26.8	+4.5
	Alliance '90/The Greens	Angela Anne Hanisch	12,875	9.9	-2.2	17,398	13.3	-2.5
	The Left	Eva Margarete Wieme	10,280	7.9	-1.4	11,684	8.9	-2.2
	Free Democratic Party	Hans-Joachim Otto	4,125	3.2	-6.7	9,209	7.0	-10.4
	Pirate Party	Thorsten Wirth	3,066	2.3	N/A	3,117	2.4	-0.2
	Free Voters	Rainer Drephal	1,586	1.2	N/A	904	0.7	N/A
	National Democratic Party of Germany	Martin Patrick Baumgart	1,148	0.9	-0.1	949	0.7	-0.2
	The Republicans	Frank-Michael Homa	772	0.6	-0.1	450	0.3	-0.3
	Die PARTEI	Nico Wehnemann	939	0.7	N/A	869	0.7	N/A
	Bürgerrechtsbewegung Solidarität	Ilja Bertold Karpowski	177	0.1	-0.1	85	0.1	-0.1
	Alternative for Germany	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	6,983	5.3	N/A
	Others					251	0.1	N/A

Source:^[2]

List of district representatives

Election	Name	Party
1949	Hermann Brill	SPD
1953	Peter Horn	CDU
1957	Peter Horn	CDU
1961	Georg Leber	SPD
1965	Georg Leber	SPD
1969	Georg Leber	SPD
1972	Georg Leber	SPD
1976	Karsten Voigt	SPD
1980	Karsten Voigt	SPD
1983	Heinz Riesenhuber	CDU
1987	Heinz Riesenhuber	CDU
1990	Heinz Riesenhuber	CDU
1994	Heinz Riesenhuber	CDU
1998	Heinz Riesenhuber	CDU
2002	Gudrun Schaich-Walch	SPD
2005	Gregor Amann	SPD
2009	Matthias Zimmer	CDU
2013	Matthias Zimmer	CDU

References

1. Constituency boundaries, bundeswahlleiter.de, accessed 3 March 2014
2. 2013 constituency results, bundeswahlleiter.de, accessed 3 March 2014