Bonn (electoral district)

95 Bonn
95 Bonn
Electoral district; for the Bundestag
	Bonn in 2025
State	North Rhine-Westphalia
Population	329,700 (2019)
Electorate	230,215 (2021)
Major settlements	Bonn
Area	141.1 km2
Current electoral district
Created	1949
Party	GRÜNE
Member	Katrin Uhlig
Elected	2021

Bonn 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 95. It is located in southwestern North Rhine-Westphalia, comprising the city of Bonn.^[1]

Bonn was created for the inaugural 1949 federal election. Since 2021, it has been represented by Katrin Uhlig of the Alliance 90/The Greens.^[2]

Geography[edit]

Bonn is located in southwestern North Rhine-Westphalia. As of the 2021 federal election, it is coterminous with the independent city of Bonn.^[1]

History[edit]

Bonn was created in 1949, then known as Bonn-Stadt und -Land. It acquired its current name in the 1965 election. In the 1949 election, it was North Rhine-Westphalia constituency 10 in the numbering system. From 1953 through 1961, it was number 69. From 1965 through 1998, it was number 63. From 2002 through 2009, it was number 97. In the 2013 through 2021 elections, it was number 96. From the 2025 election, it has been number 95.

Originally, the constituency comprised the city of Bonn and the district of Landkreis Bonn. It acquired its current borders in the 1965 election.

Election	No.	Name	Borders
1949	10	Bonn-Stadt und -Land	Bonn city Landkreis Bonn district
1953	69
1957
1961
1965	63	Bonn	Bonn city
1969
1972
1976
1980
1983
1987
1990
1994
1998
2002	97
2005
2009
2013	96
2017
2021
2025	95

Members[edit]

The constituency was first represented by Konrad Adenauer, the first Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, from 1949 until his death in 1967. He was a member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). In the 1969 election, he was succeeded by fellow CDU member Alo Hauser, who served until 1983. Hans Daniels of the CDU was then elected and served two terms. Party fellow Editha Limbach became representative in 1990, followed by Norbert Hauser in 1998. The constituency was won by the Social Democratic Party (SPD) for the first time in 2002, and represented by Ulrich Kelber. He was re-elected in 2005, 2009, 2013, and 2017. Kelber resigned in January 2020 after being elected Federal Commissioner for Data Protection. Katrin Uhlig won the constituency for the Greens in 2021.

	Member	Party	%
1949	Konrad Adenauer	CDU	54.9
1953			68.8
1957			68.5
1961			60.3
1965			59.6
1969	Alo Hauser	CDU	37.9
1972			51.8
1976			54.1
1980			49.3
1983	Hans Daniels	CDU	55.1
1987	Hans Daniels	CDU	50.3
1990	Editha Limbach	CDU	44.8
1994	Editha Limbach	CDU	44.8
1998	Norbert Hauser	CDU	42.8
2002	Ulrich Kelber	SPD	39.7
2005			42.0
2009			33.3
2013			38.2
2017			34.9
2021	Katrin Uhlig	GRÜNE	25.2

Election results[edit]

2021 election[edit]

Federal election (2021): Bonn^[3]
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	%	±%
	Greens	Katrin Uhlig		46,467	25.2	16.8	50,174	27.2	13.1
	SPD	Jessica Rosenthal		46,251	25.1	9.7	41,641	22.6	2.4
	CDU	Christoph Jansen		44,872	24.4	7.7	41,551	22.5	7.2
	FDP	Alexander Graf Lambsdorff		23,198	12.6	2.1	21,902	11.9	3.8
	AfD	Hans Neuhoff		7,448	4.0	2.0	7,750	4.2	3.1
	Left	Ilja Bergen		6,675	3.6	2.1	10,026	5.4	4.1
	Volt	Livia Juliane Genn		2,919	1.6		1,955	1.1
	PARTEI	Moritz Van den Bergh		2,700	1.5	0.0	1,661	0.9	0.2
	dieBasis	Gregor Berneiser		2,101	1.1		1,823	1.0
	Team Todenhöfer						1,817	1.0
	Tierschutzpartei						1,371	0.7	0.4
	FW	Jutta Acar		1,183	0.6	0.2	897	0.5	0.3
	Pirates						611	0.3	0.0
	Humanists						196	0.1	0.0
	ÖDP						162	0.1	0.1
	V-Partei3						130	0.1	0.1
	LIEBE						118	0.1
	Gesundheitsforschung						113	0.1	0.0
	Bündnis C						106	0.1
	LfK						77	0.0
	LKR	Reinhard Limbach		158	0.1		75	0.0
	du.						68	0.0
	MLPD	Roger Stamm		138	0.1		57	0.0	0.0
	PdF						53	0.0
	NPD						51	0.0	0.1
	DKP						47	0.0	0.0
	PSG						12	0.0	0.0
Informal votes				1,447			1,113
Total valid votes				184,110			184,444
Turnout				185,557	80.6	1.3
	Greens gain from SPD		Majority	216	0.1

2017 election[edit]

Federal election (2017): Bonn^[4]
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	Y Ulrich Kelber		62,377	34.9	3.3	36,119	20.2	5.8
	CDU	Claudia Lücking-Michel		57,330	32.0	5.4	53,334	29.8	6.5
	FDP	Alexander Graf Lambsdorff		18,724	10.5	4.4	28,113	15.7	7.4
	Greens	Katja Dörner		15,056	8.4	0.1	25,197	14.1	0.4
	AfD	Sascha Ulbrich		10,882	6.1	3.5	13,136	7.3	3.1
	Left	Jürgen Repschläger		10,193	5.7	1.3	17,133	9.6	3.2
	PARTEI	Dominik Haffner		2,617	1.5	0.9	1,950	1.1	0.5
	Tierschutzpartei						684	0.4
	Pirates	Mehdi Ebrahimi Zadeh		857	0.5	1.9	663	0.4	2.2
	DiB						431	0.2
	FW	Werner Bader		806	0.5		412	0.2	0.1
	AD-DEMOKRATEN						325	0.2
	BGE						312	0.2
	V-Partei³						273	0.2
	ÖDP						253	0.1	0.0
	Die Humanisten						211	0.1
	DM						206	0.1
	NPD						147	0.1	0.4
	Volksabstimmung						107	0.1	0.1
	Independent	Quo-Chir Luong		99	0.1
	MLPD						81	0.0	0.0
	Gesundheitsforschung						69	0.0
	DKP						30	0.0
	SGP						22	0.0	0.0
Informal votes				1,498			1,231
Total valid votes				178,941			179,208
Turnout				180,439	79.3	2.0
	SPD hold		Majority	5,047	2.9	2.2

2013 election[edit]

Federal election (2013): Bonn^[5]
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	Y Ulrich Kelber		65,955	38.2	4.8	44,909	25.9	3.4
	CDU	Claudia Lücking-Michel		64,778	37.5	6.3	62,844	35.3	5.1
	Greens	Katja Dörner		14,797	8.6	1.6	23,686	14.7	2.3
	FDP	Guido Westerwelle		10,416	6.0	13.1	14,418	8.3	10.7
	Left	Paul Schäfer		7,523	4.4	0.7	10,988	6.3	0.7
	AfD	Andrea Konorza		4,382	2.5		7,389	4.3
	Pirates	Klaus Benndorf		4,113	2.4		4,418	2.6	0.3
	PARTEI	Carlo Metterhausen		907	0.5		1,079	0.6
	BIG						955	0.6
	NPD						801	0.5	0.2
	PRO						358	0.2
	FW						309	0.2
	ÖDP						293	0.2	0.0
	Nichtwahler						217	0.1
	Volksabstimmung						197	0.1	0.0
	Party of Reason						132	0.1
	REP						92	0.1	0.1
	RRP						47	0.0	0.0
	MLPD						42	0.0	0.0
	BüSo						25	0.0	0.0
	PSG						21	0.0	0.0
	Die Rechte						19	0.0
Informal votes				2,143			1,775
Total valid votes				172,871			173,239
Turnout				175,014	77.3	0.8
	SPD hold		Majority	1,177	0.7	1.4

2009 election[edit]

Federal election (2009): Bonn^[6]
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	Y Ulrich Kelber		55,251	33.3	8.6	37,387	22.5	9.4
	CDU	Stephan Eisel		51,674	31.2	8.3	51,654	31.1	3.6
	FDP	Guido Westerwelle		31,606	19.1	10.4	31,483	19.0	5.3
	Greens	Katja Dörner		16,856	10.2	4.0	26,573	16.0	2.7
	Left	Paul Schäfer		8,381	5.1	2.1	11,624	7.0	2.6
	Pirates						3,685	2.2
	NPD	Andreas Kaschke		1,211	0.7	0.1	1,049	0.6	0.2
	Tierschutzpartei						786	0.5	0.1
	DIE VIOLETTEN	Ulrike Kraemer-Schwinn		446	0.3
	FAMILIE						443	0.3	0.0
	RENTNER						280	0.2
	REP						244	0.1	0.0
	ÖDP						208	0.1
	Volksabstimmung						137	0.1	0.0
	BüSo	Ilja Bertold Karpowski		251	0.2		87	0.1	0.0
	Centre						87	0.1	0.0
	RRP						74	0.0
	DVU						52	0.0
	MLPD						40	0.0	0.0
	PSG						26	0.0	0.0
Informal votes				1,898			1,655
Total valid votes				165,676			165,919
Turnout				167,574	76.4	4.8
	SPD hold		Majority	2,577	2.1	0.4

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b "Constituency Bonn". Federal Returning Officer.
^ "Results for Bonn". Federal Returning Officer.
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[Area-1] "Constituency Bonn". Federal Returning Officer.

[2] "Results for Bonn". Federal Returning Officer.

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