Frankfurt am Main II (electoral district)

182 Frankfurt am Main II
Electoral district for the Bundestag
Frankfurt am Main II in 2025
State	Hesse
Population	383,200 (2019)
Electorate	227,207 (2021)
Major settlements	Frankfurt am Main (partial)
Area	163.2 km2
Current electoral district
Created	1949
Party	GRÜNE
Member	Omid Nouripour
Elected	2021

Frankfurt am Main II 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 182. It is located in southern Hesse, comprising the eastern part of the city of Frankfurt am Main.

Frankfurt am Main II was created for the inaugural 1949 federal election. Since 2021, it has been represented by Omid Nouripour of the Alliance 90/The Greens.

Geography

Frankfurt am Main II is located in southern Hesse. As of the 2021 federal election, it comprises the Ortsbezirke of Innenstadt III, Bornheim/Ostend, Süd, West (only Schwanheim Ortsteil), Nord-Ost, Ost, Kalbach-Riedberg, Nieder-Erlenbach, Harheim, Nieder-Eschbach, and Bergen-Enkheim from the independent city of Frankfurt am Main.

History

Frankfurt am Main II was created in 1949, then known as Frankfurt/M II. From 1965 through 1972, it was named Frankfurt II. In the 1976 election, it was named Frankfurt (Main) II. It acquired its current name in the 1980 election. In the 1949 election, it was Hesse constituency 16 in the numbering system. From 1953 through 1976, it was number 141. From 1980 through 1998, it was number 139. In the 2002 and 2005 elections, it was number 184. In the 2009 through 2021 elections, it was number 183. From the 2025 election, it has been number 182.

Originally, the constituency comprised the Stadtbezirke of Innenstadt, Gutleutviertel, Gallusviertel, Rebstock, Westend, Bockenheim, Rödelheim, Hausen, Praunheim, Heddernheim, Ginnheim, Eschersheim, and Niederursel from the city of Frankfurt am Main. In the 1976 through 1998 elections, it comprised the Stadtbezirke of Innenstadt, Gutleutviertel, Gallusviertel, Westend, Bockenheim, Heddernheim, Ginnheim, Eschersheim, Niederursel, Sachsenhausen, Niederrad, Goldstein-Ost, Altstadt, Bahnhofsviertel, Kalbach, and Dornbusch-West from the city of Frankfurt am Main. It acquired its current borders in the 2002 election.

Election	No.	Name	Borders
1949	16	Frankfurt/M II	Frankfurt am Main city (only Innenstadt, Gutleutviertel, Gallusviertel, Rebstock, Westend, Bockenheim, Rödelheim, Hausen, Praunheim, Heddernheim, Ginnheim, Eschersheim, and Niederursel Stadtbezirke)
1953	141
1957
1961
1965		Frankfurt II
1969
1972
1976		Frankfurt (Main) II	Frankfurt am Main city (only Innenstadt, Gutleutviertel, Gallusviertel, Westend, Bockenheim, Heddernheim, Ginnheim, Eschersheim, Niederursel, Sachsenhausen, Niederrad, Goldstein-Ost, Altstadt, Bahnhofsviertel, Kalbach, and Dornbusch-West Stadtbezirke)
1980	139	Frankfurt am Main II
1983
1987
1990
1994
1998
2002	184		Frankfurt am Main city (only Innenstadt III, Bornheim/Ostend, Süd, West (only Schwanheim Ortsteil), Nord-Ost, Ost, Kalbach-Riedberg, Nieder-Erlenbach, Harheim, Nieder-Eschbach, and Bergen-Enkheim Ortsbezirke)
2005
2009	183
2013
2017
2021
2025	182

Members

The constituency was first represented by Willi Birkelbach of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) from 1949 to 1953, followed by Walter Leiske of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) from 1953 to 1961. Former member Birkelbach won it back and served another term from 1961 to 1965. Brigitte Freyh of the SPD was then representative from 1965 to 1972, when she was succeeded by party fellow Fred Zander. Karl Becker of the CDU was representative for one term from 1976 to 1980, when former member Zander regained it for the SPD. Becker was then elected in 1983 and re-elected in 1987. Joachim Gres succeeded him in 1990 for two terms. Gudrun Schaich-Walch won the constituency for the SPD in 1998 and served one term; Rita Streb-Hesse held it for the SPD in 2002. Erika Steinbach of the CDU was representative from 2005 to 2017. Bettina Wiesmann of the CDU was elected in 2017. Omid Nouripour won the constituency for the Greens in 2021.

Election		Member	Party	%
	1949	Willi Birkelbach	SPD	39.3
	1953	Walter Leiske	CDU	39.3
	1957			45.7
	1961	Willi Birkelbach	SPD	42.6
	1965	Brigitte Freyh	SPD	45.8
	1969			52.1
	1972	Fred Zander	SPD	51.8
	1976	Karl Becker	CDU	45.3
	1980	Fred Zander	SPD	44.4
	1983	Karl Becker	CDU	48.1
	1987			45.6
	1990	Joachim Gres	CDU	43.4
	1994			45.3
	1998	Gudrun Schaich-Walch	SPD	41.7
	2002	Rita Streb-Hesse	SPD	35.6
	2005	Erika Steinbach	CDU	37.3
	2009			35.8
	2013			36.3
	2017	Bettina Wiesmann	CDU	32.4
	2021	Omid Nouripour	GRÜNE	29.0

Election results

2021 election

Federal election (2021): Frankfurt am Main II
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	Omid Nouripour		50,230	29.0	15.5	44,370	25.6	10.1
	SPD	Kaweh Mansoori		40,431	23.3	2.6	38,777	22.3	2.7
	CDU	N Bettina Wiesmann		38,995	22.5	9.9	31,660	18.2	8.5
	FDP	Thorsten Lieb		19,766	11.4	3.3	25,530	14.7	0.5
	Left	Achim Kessler		10,629	6.1	3.0	11,901	6.9	4.9
	AfD	Joana Cotar		7,990	4.6	3.0	8,188	4.7	3.3
	Volt						2,674	1.5
	Team Todenhöfer						1,965	1.1
	dieBasis	Konstantinos Marketakis		2,547	1.5		1,923	1.1
	Tierschutzpartei						1,754	1.0	0.1
	PARTEI						1,565	0.9	0.3
	FW	Dieter Breidt		2,478	1.4	0.8	1,512	0.9	0.4
	Pirates						686	0.4	0.0
	V-Partei3						201	0.1	0.1
	Gesundheitsforschung						190	0.1
	Humanists						190	0.1
	Bündnis C						134	0.1
	ÖDP						128	0.1	0.1
	DKP						87	0.1	0.0
	NPD						76	0.0	0.1
	LKR						56	0.0
	MLPD	Tufan Aydin		186	0.1	0.0	48	0.0	0.0
	Bündnis 21						36	0.0
Informal votes				1,752			1,353
Total valid votes				173,252			173,651
Turnout				175,004	77.0	0.0
	Greens gain from CDU		Majority	9,799	5.7

2017 election

Federal election (2017): Frankfurt am Main II
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	Bettina Wiesmann		55,221	32.4	3.9	45,731	26.8	7.1
	SPD	Ulli Nissen		44,240	25.9	4.5	33,511	19.6	6.7
	Greens	Omid Nouripour		23,026	13.5	0.0	26,415	15.5	0.1
	Left	Monika Brigitte Cristann		15,523	9.1	3.0	20,059	11.7	3.6
	FDP	Katharina Schreiner		13,877	8.1	4.7	24,336	14.3	7.3
	AfD	Steffen Reichmann		13,033	7.6	4.4	13,737	8.0	3.2
	PARTEI	Leo Fischer		3,221	1.9	1.2	2,065	1.2	0.6
	Tierschutzpartei						1,577	0.9
	Pirates	Sebastian Alscher		1,226	0.7	1.1	762	0.4	1.7
	FW	Karlheinz Grabmann		1,026	0.6	0.0	736	0.4	0.2
	BGE						435	0.3
	V-Partei³						364	0.2
	ÖDP						295	0.2
	NPD						265	0.2	0.4
	DM						250	0.1
	MLPD	Bernadette Leidinger-Beierle		176	0.1		114	0.1	0.0
	DKP						91	0.1
	BüSo						30	0.0	0.0
Informal votes				1,824			1,620
Total valid votes				170,569			170,773
Turnout				172,393	77.0	4.1
	CDU hold		Majority	10,981	6.5	0.7

2013 election

Federal election (2013): Frankfurt am Main II
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 Erika Steinbach		57,004	36.3	0.6	53,198	33.9	6.0
	SPD	Ulli Nissen		47,854	30.5	1.2	41,360	26.3	4.8
	Greens	Omid Nouripour		21,184	13.5	1.7	24,165	15.4	2.9
	Left	Wolfgang Gehrcke		9,547	6.1	1.7	12,778	8.1	1.8
	FDP	Christoph Schnurr		5,434	3.5	5.9	10,979	7.0	10.5
	AfD	Erich Heinrich Heidkamp		5,155	3.3		7,669	4.9
	Independent	Michael Paris		4,682	3.0
	Pirates	Christian Bethke		2,858	1.8		3,426	2.2	0.2
	PARTEI	Leo Fischer		1,155	0.7		1,006	0.6
	NPD	Günter Reinhard Ulrich		1,015	0.6	0.4	930	0.6	0.2
	FW	Kai-Sören Kehrmann		988	0.6		932	0.6
	REP						235	0.1	0.3
	PRO						125	0.1
	BüSo	Klaus Fimmen		101	0.1	0.2	87	0.1	0.1
	PSG						69	0.0
	MLPD						54	0.0	0.0
Informal votes				2,937			2,901
Total valid votes				156,977			157,013
Turnout				159,914	72.9	0.9
	CDU hold		Majority	9,150	5.8	0.7

2009 election

Federal election (2009): Frankfurt am Main II
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 Erika Steinbach		55,027	35.8	1.5	43,089	27.9	1.2
	SPD	Ulli Nissen		45,074	29.3	4.5	33,243	21.5	8.3
	Greens	Omid Nouripour		23,403	15.2	3.5	28,225	18.3	0.8
	FDP	Christoph Schnurr		14,336	9.3	5.0	27,031	17.5	3.7
	Left	Wolfgang Gehrcke		11,998	7.8	3.1	15,397	10.0	3.5
	Pirates						3,722	2.4
	Tierschutzpartei	Friederike Prüll		2,077	1.3		1,503	1.0	0.1
	NPD	Jörg Krebs		1,546	1.0	0.3	1,183	0.8	0.1
	REP						651	0.4	0.2
	BüSo	Klaus Fimmen		416	0.3		190	0.1	0.1
	DVU						102	0.1
	MLPD						62	0.0	0.0
Informal votes				2,671			2,150
Total valid votes				153,877			154,398
Turnout				156,548	73.8	3.5
	CDU hold		Majority	9,953	6.5	2.9