Berlin-Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf 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 79. It is located in western Berlin, comprising the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf borough.[1]
79 Berlin-Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf | |
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Electoral district for the Bundestag | |
![]() Berlin-Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf in 2025 | |
State | Berlin |
Population | 286,100 (2019) |
Electorate | 196,800 (2021) |
Area | 57.1 km2 |
Current electoral district | |
Created | 1990 |
Party | SPD |
Member | Michael Müller |
Elected | 2021 |
Berlin-Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf was created for the inaugural 1990 federal election after German reunification. Since 2021, it has been represented by Michael Müller of the Social Democratic Party (SPD).[2]
Geography
editBerlin-Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf is located in western Berlin. As of the 2021 federal election, it comprises the entirety of the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf borough excluding the area north of the Spree, specifically the locality of Charlottenburg-Nord and the neighbourhood of Kalowswerder from Charlottenburg locality.[1]
History
editBerlin-Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf was created after German reunification in 1990. In the 1990 through 1998 elections, it was constituency 254 in the numbering system. In the 2002 through 2009 elections, it was number 81. In the 2013 through 2021 elections, it was number 80. From the 2025 election, it has been number 79.
Originally, the constituency comprised the entirety of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf excluding the Charlottenburg-Nord locality. In the 2002 election, it lost the neighbourhood of Kalowswerder from Charlottenburg locality.
Members
editThe constituency was first represented by Dietrich Mahlo of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) from 1990 to 1998. It was won by the Social Democratic Party (SPD) in 1998 and represented by Siegrun Klemmer until 2002, followed by Petra-Evelyne Merkel until 2013. Klaus-Dieter Gröhler of the CDU was elected in 2013, and re-elected in 2017. Michael Müller regained the constituency for the SPD in 2021.
Election | Member | Party | % | |
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1990 | Dietrich Mahlo | CDU | 46.3 | |
1994 | 42.2 | |||
1998 | Siegrun Klemmer | SPD | 43.3 | |
2002 | Petra-Evelyne Merkel | SPD | 41.7 | |
2005 | 44.0 | |||
2009 | 32.0 | |||
2013 | Klaus-Dieter Gröhler | CDU | 37.1 | |
2017 | 30.2 | |||
2021 | Michael Müller | SPD | 27.9 |
Election results
edit2021 election
editFederal election (2021): Berlin-Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf[3] | |||||||||
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Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
SPD | Michael Müller | 42,934 | 27.9 | 0.3 | 36,986 | 24.1 | 4.7 | ||
Greens | Lisa Paus | 37,531 | 24.4 | 10.8 | 40,471 | 26.3 | 10.5 | ||
CDU | Klaus-Dieter Gröhler | 34,308 | 22.3 | 7.8 | 29,199 | 19.0 | 6.6 | ||
FDP | Christoph Meyer | 14,982 | 9.7 | 0.5 | 20,183 | 13.1 | 1.7 | ||
Left | Michael Efler | 8,802 | 5.7 | 3.7 | 9,947 | 6.5 | 5.3 | ||
AfD | Eva-Marie Doerfler | 6,539 | 4.3 | 3.3 | 7,371 | 4.8 | 3.1 | ||
Human Environment Animal Protection | Henriette Spiering | 2,423 | 1.6 | 2,323 | 1.5 | 0.6 | |||
PARTEI | Lennart Schwertfeger | 1,858 | 1.2 | 0.9 | 1,560 | 1.0 | 0.3 | ||
dieBasis | Carolin Linge | 1,752 | 1.1 | ||||||
Team Todenhöfer | 1,227 | 0.8 | |||||||
Volt | 1,175 | 0.8 | |||||||
FW | Marcel Luthe | 1,434 | 0.9 | 1,050 | 0.7 | 0.6 | |||
Die Grauen | 752 | 0.5 | 0.2 | ||||||
Pirates | Therese Lehnen | 549 | 0.4 | 425 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |||
Humanists | Barend Wolf | 259 | 0.2 | 245 | 0.2 | ||||
ÖDP | Lars Clemens Arnold | 221 | 0.1 | 194 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |||
Gesundheitsforschung | 191 | 0.1 | 0.0 | ||||||
Independent | Norbert Voß | 140 | 0.1 | ||||||
du. | 133 | 0.1 | 0.0 | ||||||
V-Partei3 | 79 | 0.1 | 0.1 | ||||||
DKP | 77 | 0.1 | 0.0 | ||||||
LKR | Christian Schmidt | 74 | 0.0 | 62 | 0.0 | ||||
NPD | 46 | 0.0 | |||||||
BüSo | 40 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||
SGP | 26 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||
MLPD | 21 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||
Informal votes | 1,920 | 1,943 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 153,806 | 153,783 | |||||||
Turnout | 155,726 | 79.1 | 0.4 | ||||||
SPD gain from CDU | Majority | 5,403 | 3.5 |
2017 election
editFederal election (2017): Berlin-Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf[4] | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
CDU | Klaus-Dieter Gröhler | 47,077 | 30.2 | 6.9 | 40,085 | 25.6 | 6.9 | ||
SPD | Tim Renner | 43,123 | 27.6 | 3.8 | 30,351 | 19.4 | 7.7 | ||
Greens | Lisa Paus | 21,286 | 13.6 | 1.0 | 24,770 | 15.8 | 0.4 | ||
Left | Friederike Benda | 14,745 | 9.4 | 3.3 | 18,367 | 11.7 | 2.9 | ||
FDP | Christoph Meyer | 14,426 | 9.2 | 6.7 | 23,280 | 14.9 | 8.0 | ||
AfD | Nicolaus Fest | 11,722 | 7.5 | 3.8 | 12,374 | 7.9 | 3.1 | ||
PARTEI | Lothar Blickensdorf | 3,292 | 2.1 | 1.4 | 2,110 | 1.3 | 0.7 | ||
Human Environment Animal Protection | 1,490 | 1.0 | |||||||
Pirates | 693 | 0.4 | 2.1 | ||||||
Die Grauen | 454 | 0.3 | |||||||
BGE | 443 | 0.3 | |||||||
DiB | 442 | 0.3 | |||||||
DM | 264 | 0.2 | |||||||
ÖDP | 222 | 0.1 | 0.0 | ||||||
V-Partei³ | 221 | 0.1 | |||||||
FW | 203 | 0.1 | 0.2 | ||||||
du. | 200 | 0.1 | |||||||
Gesundheitsforschung | 200 | 0.1 | |||||||
Menschliche Welt | 199 | 0.1 | |||||||
BüSo | Jonathan Thron | 443 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 108 | 0.1 | 0.0 | ||
MLPD | 74 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||
DKP | 46 | 0.0 | |||||||
B* | 31 | 0.0 | |||||||
SGP | 20 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||
Informal votes | 1,920 | 1,387 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 156,114 | 156,647 | |||||||
Turnout | 158,034 | 79.5 | 2.0 | ||||||
CDU hold | Majority | 3,954 | 2.6 | 3.0 |
2013 election
editFederal election (2013): Berlin-Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf[5] | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
CDU | Klaus-Dieter Gröhler | 56,079 | 37.1 | 6.9 | 49,285 | 32.5 | 6.0 | ||
SPD | Ülker Radziwill | 47,619 | 31.5 | 0.6 | 41,058 | 27.1 | 5.7 | ||
Greens | Lisa Paus | 22,176 | 14.7 | 3.5 | 23,324 | 15.4 | 6.7 | ||
Left | Marlene Cieschinger | 9,368 | 6.2 | 0.6 | 13,446 | 8.9 | 0.2 | ||
AfD | Hugh Bronson | 5,649 | 3.7 | 7,276 | 4.8 | ||||
FDP | Lars Lindemann | 3,801 | 2.5 | 8.6 | 10,347 | 6.8 | 9.6 | ||
Pirates | Siegfried Schlosser | 3,657 | 2.4 | 3,872 | 2.6 | 0.2 | |||
PARTEI | Carl Willke | 1,057 | 0.7 | 976 | 0.6 | ||||
NPD | Jens Pühse | 754 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 639 | 0.4 | 0.2 | ||
FW | 478 | 0.3 | 457 | 0.3 | |||||
ÖDP | 242 | 0.2 | 0.0 | ||||||
PRO | 220 | 0.1 | |||||||
BIG | 227 | 0.1 | 205 | 0.1 | |||||
Independent | Fricke | 204 | 0.1 | ||||||
BüSo | 181 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 120 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |||
REP | 114 | 0.1 | 0.1 | ||||||
RRP | 84 | 0.1 | |||||||
MLPD | 45 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||
PSG | 39 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||
Informal votes | 2,086 | 1,755 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 151,334 | 151,665 | |||||||
Turnout | 153,420 | 77.6 | 0.8 | ||||||
CDU gain from SPD | Majority | 8,460 | 5.6 |
2009 election
editFederal election (2009): Berlin-Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf[6] | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
SPD | Petra-Evelyne Merkel | 47,340 | 32.0 | 11.9 | 31,719 | 21.4 | 10.6 | ||
CDU | Ingo Schmitt | 44,549 | 30.2 | 3.4 | 39,331 | 26.5 | 0.8 | ||
Greens | Lisa Paus | 26,778 | 18.1 | 7.1 | 32,724 | 22.1 | 2.6 | ||
FDP | Peter Schantz | 16,397 | 11.1 | 5.6 | 24,313 | 16.4 | 4.0 | ||
Left | Hans-Ulrich Riedel | 9,978 | 6.8 | 2.2 | 12,868 | 8.7 | 2.8 | ||
Pirates | 3,564 | 2.4 | |||||||
Human Environment Animal Protection | 1,518 | 1.0 | |||||||
NPD | Bettina Bieder | 1,187 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 893 | 0.6 | 0.0 | ||
DIE VIOLETTEN | 465 | 0.3 | |||||||
BüSo | Anna-Maria Hildebrand | 912 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 265 | 0.2 | 0.0 | ||
Independent | Rudolf Dettweiler | 331 | 0.2 | ||||||
REP | 262 | 0.2 | 0.1 | ||||||
Independent | Herbert Polei | 261 | 0.2 | ||||||
ÖDP | 243 | 0.2 | |||||||
DVU | 88 | 0.1 | |||||||
PSG | 53 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||
DKP | 45 | 0.0 | |||||||
MLPD | 34 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||
Informal votes | 2,623 | 1,971 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 147,733 | 148,385 | |||||||
Turnout | 150,356 | 76.8 | 3.9 | ||||||
SPD hold | Majority | 2,791 | 1.8 | 8.6 |
References
edit- ^ a b "Constituency Berlin-Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf". Federal Returning Officer.
- ^ "Results for Berlin-Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf". Federal Returning Officer.
- ^ Results for Berlin-Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf
- ^ Results for Berlin-Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf
- ^ Results for Berlin-Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf
- ^ Results for Berlin-Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf