Berlin Treptow – Köpenick (electoral district)
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Berlin Treptow – Köpenick is one of the 299 single member constituencies
used for the German parliament, the Bundestag
. Located in south-east Berlin
the constituency was created for the 1994 election. After the 2005 election it was one of just three single member constituencies in Germany to be represented by The Left Party
(DL). The current MP is Gregor Gysi
who gained the seat at the 2005 election. Gysi is the former leader of the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS), the successor party to the East German Communist party
.
of Treptow-Köpenick
. This borough, a merger of two former boroughs, was created by the 2001 administrative reform. The Treptow and Köpenick areas were combined for the first time for the 1994 election, having previously been in the short lived constituencies of Berlin Friedrichshain – Treptow – Lichtenberg I and Berlin Köpenick – Lichtenberg II. Both predecessor constituencies were only used for the 1990 election and were won by the Social Democratic Party
(SPD).
In both the 1994 and 1998 elections, the SPD winning margin was 2.8% over the PDS. At the 2002 election, the SPD increased their lead to 9.2%. Under Germany's electoral system, a party must win either 3 constituency seats or poll more than 5% of the vote across Germany as a whole in order to be awarded list seats. The failure of the PDS to win a third constituency here or in other potential seats such as Berlin Pankow
or Berlin Kreuzberg-Friedrichshain - Prenzlauer Berg East
in 2002 proved crucial to the overall result as it meant the party missed out on 15 list MPs. The 2005 election saw the situation reversed, with the PDS beating the SPD by 7.2%. In the 2009 election, Gregor Gysi, the candidate of The Left, the successors to the PDS, increased his majority to 23.9%. The CDU took second place with the SPD slipping to third place.
. Voters have two votes, one for a constituency MP and one for a regional list to elect representatives for the whole of Berlin city. Elections for the Treptow – Köpenick constituency take place using the First past the post system.
source:
Out of a total electorate of 193,339, the total number of votes cast was 152,302 (78.8%) of which 2,498 votes were invalid.
Out of a total electorate of 189,307, the total number of votes cast was 147,762 (78.1%) of which 1,986 votes were invalid.
Electoral district
An electoral district is a distinct territorial subdivision for holding a separate election for one or more seats in a legislative body...
used for the German parliament, the Bundestag
Bundestag
The Bundestag is a federal legislative body in Germany. In practice Germany is governed by a bicameral legislature, of which the Bundestag serves as the lower house and the Bundesrat the upper house. The Bundestag is established by the German Basic Law of 1949, as the successor to the earlier...
. Located in south-east Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
the constituency was created for the 1994 election. After the 2005 election it was one of just three single member constituencies in Germany to be represented by The Left Party
The Left (Germany)
The Left , also commonly referred to as the Left Party , is a democratic socialist political party in Germany. The Left is the most left-wing party of the five represented in the Bundestag....
(DL). The current MP is Gregor Gysi
Gregor Gysi
Dr. Gregor Gysi is a German attorney and key politician of the socialist left-wing political party The Left . He played an important role in the end of communist rule in East Germany in 1989, and was a main figure in the post-reunification Party of Democratic Socialism...
who gained the seat at the 2005 election. Gysi is the former leader of the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS), the successor party to the East German Communist party
Socialist Unity Party of Germany
The Socialist Unity Party of Germany was the governing party of the German Democratic Republic from its formation on 7 October 1949 until the elections of March 1990. The SED was a communist political party with a Marxist-Leninist ideology...
.
History and boundaries
The constituency, numbered constituency 85 by the German electoral authorities, contains the whole of the Berlin boroughBoroughs and localities of Berlin
Berlin is both a city and one of Germany’s federal states. It is made up of twelve boroughs , each with its own borough government, though all boroughs are subject to Berlin’s city and state government.-History:Each borough is made up of several officially recognized localities...
of Treptow-Köpenick
Treptow-Köpenick
Treptow-Köpenick is the ninth borough of Berlin, Germany, formed in Berlin's 2001 administrative reform by merging the former boroughs of Treptow and Köpenick.-Overview:...
. This borough, a merger of two former boroughs, was created by the 2001 administrative reform. The Treptow and Köpenick areas were combined for the first time for the 1994 election, having previously been in the short lived constituencies of Berlin Friedrichshain – Treptow – Lichtenberg I and Berlin Köpenick – Lichtenberg II. Both predecessor constituencies were only used for the 1990 election and were won by the Social Democratic Party
Social Democratic Party of Germany
The Social Democratic Party of Germany is a social-democratic political party in Germany...
(SPD).
In both the 1994 and 1998 elections, the SPD winning margin was 2.8% over the PDS. At the 2002 election, the SPD increased their lead to 9.2%. Under Germany's electoral system, a party must win either 3 constituency seats or poll more than 5% of the vote across Germany as a whole in order to be awarded list seats. The failure of the PDS to win a third constituency here or in other potential seats such as Berlin Pankow
Berlin Pankow (electoral district)
thumb|right|300px|Location of constituency in BerlinBerlin Pankow is one of the 299 single member constituencies used for the German parliament, the Bundestag. Located in north-east Berlin the constituency was created in its current form for the 2002 election...
or Berlin Kreuzberg-Friedrichshain - Prenzlauer Berg East
Berlin Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg - Prenzlauer Berg East (electoral constituency)
thumb|right|300px|Location of constituency in BerlinBerlin Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg- - Prenzlauer Berg East is one of the 299 single member constituencies used for the German parliament, the Bundestag...
in 2002 proved crucial to the overall result as it meant the party missed out on 15 list MPs. The 2005 election saw the situation reversed, with the PDS beating the SPD by 7.2%. In the 2009 election, Gregor Gysi, the candidate of The Left, the successors to the PDS, increased his majority to 23.9%. The CDU took second place with the SPD slipping to third place.
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The number of residents with German citizenship was 96.6%, a figure above the Berlin average of 86.6% and the highest figure for any Berlin constituency. 28.8% of residents had qualifications which met the requirements for University entry.Electoral system
Elections in Germany take place using the Additional Member SystemAdditional Member System
The Additional Member System is the term used in the United Kingdom for the mixed member proportional representation voting system used in Scotland, Wales and the London Assembly....
. Voters have two votes, one for a constituency MP and one for a regional list to elect representatives for the whole of Berlin city. Elections for the Treptow – Köpenick constituency take place using the First past the post system.
2009 election
| Party | Constituency candidate | Constituency results | List results | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % share | +/- | Votes | % share | +/- | |||
| The Left Party.PDS | Gregor Gysi Gregor Gysi Dr. Gregor Gysi is a German attorney and key politician of the socialist left-wing political party The Left . He played an important role in the end of communist rule in East Germany in 1989, and was a main figure in the post-reunification Party of Democratic Socialism... |
62,733 | 44.7 | +4.4 | 47,385 | 33.7 | +5.3 | |
| Christian Democratic Union Christian Democratic Union (Germany) The Christian Democratic Union of Germany is a Christian democratic and conservative political party in Germany. It is regarded as on the centre-right of the German political spectrum... |
Niels Korte | 29,193 | 20.8 | +4.3 | 25,933 | 18.5 | +3.3 | |
| Social Democratic Party of Germany Social Democratic Party of Germany The Social Democratic Party of Germany is a social-democratic political party in Germany... |
Karl-Josef Wasserhövel | 25,479 | 18.2 | -15.1 | 27,731 | 19.7 | -16.9 | |
| Alliance '90/The Greens Alliance '90/The Greens Alliance '90/The Greens is a green political party in Germany, formed from the merger of the German Green Party and Alliance 90 in 1993. Its leaders are Claudia Roth and Cem Özdemir... |
Peter Groos | 10,388 | 7.4 | +3.4 | 15,419 | 11.0 | +2.7 | |
| Free Democratic Party Free Democratic Party (Germany) The Free Democratic Party , abbreviated to FDP, is a centre-right classical liberal political party in Germany. It is led by Philipp Rösler and currently serves as the junior coalition partner to the Union in the German federal government... |
Hellmut Königshaus | 6,192 | 4.4 | +2.1 | 11,218 | 8.0 | +2.4 | |
| National Democratic Party of Germany National Democratic Party of Germany The National Democratic Party of Germany – The People's Union , is a far right German nationalist party. It was founded in 1964 a successor to the German Reich Party . Party statements self-identify as Germany's "only significant patriotic force"... |
Udo Voigt Udo Voigt Udo Voigt is a German politician and former leader of the far-right National Democratic Party of Germany since 1996. He is a former aviation engineer and captain in the German army.- Political career :... |
4,079 | 2.9 | +0.4 | 3,685 | 2.6 | +0.3 | |
| La Rouche Movement Bürgerrechtsbewegung Solidarität Bürgerrechtsbewegung Solidarität , or the Civil Rights Movement Solidarity, is a German political party founded by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, wife of U.S. political activist Lyndon LaRouche.... |
Daniel Buchmann | 1,122 | 0.8 | -0.1 | 510 | 0.4 | +0.1 | |
| Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany The Marxist–Leninist Party of Germany is an Anti-Revisionist Marxist-Leninist, Maoist, Communist political party in Germany without parliamentary representation... |
Petra Ilius | 397 | 0.3 | +0.3 | 166 | 0.1 | +0.0 | |
| Independent candidate Independent (politician) In politics, an independent or non-party politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, a viewpoint more extreme than any major party, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do... |
Willi Kurt Wende | 615 | 0.4 | +0.4 | ||||
| Pirate Party | 4,670 | 3.3 | +3.3 | |||||
| Animal Welfare Party | 2,112 | 1.5 | +1.5 | |||||
| Republicans Republicans (Germany) The Republicans is a national conservative political party in Germany. The primary plank of the program is opposition to immigration. The party tends to attract protest voters who think that the Christian Democratic Union and the Christian Social Union of Bavaria are not sufficiently conservative... |
443 | 0.3 | -0.1 | |||||
| Violets | 366 | 0.3 | +0.3 | |||||
| Ecological Democratic Party Ecological Democratic Party The Ecological Democratic Party is an environmentalist political party in Germany. It was founded in 1982 by former members of the German Green Party. The ÖDP combines issues which are not often found together: a focus on state financial support for families and childrearing, and a belief in the... |
305 | 0.2 | +0.2 | |||||
| German People's Union German People's Union The German People's Union is a nationalist political party in Germany. It was founded by publisher Gerhard Frey as an informal association in 1971 and established as a party in 1987. Financially, it is largely dependent on Frey.... |
233 | 0.2 | +0.2 | |||||
| German Communist Party German Communist Party The German Communist Party is a Marxist-Leninist party in Germany.-History:The DKP was formed in West Germany in 1968, in order to fill the place of the Communist Party of Germany , which had been banned by the Federal Constitutional Court in 1956... |
206 | 0.1 | +0.1 | |||||
| Social Equality Party Social Equality Party (Germany) The Social Equality Party is a Trotskyst minor political party in Germany. It was founded in 1997 as successor to the Federation of Socialist Workers .... |
134 | 0.1 | -0.0 | |||||
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2005 election
| Party | Constituency results | List results | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Votes | % share | +/- | Votes | % share | +/- | ||
| The Left Party.PDS | 60,470 | 40.4 | +10.3 | |||||
| Social Democratic Party of Germany Social Democratic Party of Germany The Social Democratic Party of Germany is a social-democratic political party in Germany... |
49,807 | 33.2 | -6.1 | |||||
| Christian Democratic Union Christian Democratic Union (Germany) The Christian Democratic Union of Germany is a Christian democratic and conservative political party in Germany. It is regarded as on the centre-right of the German political spectrum... |
24,823 | 16.6 | -1.5 | |||||
| Alliance '90/The Greens Alliance '90/The Greens Alliance '90/The Greens is a green political party in Germany, formed from the merger of the German Green Party and Alliance 90 in 1993. Its leaders are Claudia Roth and Cem Özdemir... |
6,051 | 4.0 | -1.1 | |||||
| National Democratic Party of Germany National Democratic Party of Germany The National Democratic Party of Germany – The People's Union , is a far right German nationalist party. It was founded in 1964 a successor to the German Reich Party . Party statements self-identify as Germany's "only significant patriotic force"... |
3,788 | 2.5 | +0.7 | |||||
| Free Democratic Party Free Democratic Party (Germany) The Free Democratic Party , abbreviated to FDP, is a centre-right classical liberal political party in Germany. It is led by Philipp Rösler and currently serves as the junior coalition partner to the Union in the German federal government... |
3,532 | 2.4 | -1.8 | |||||
| La Rouche Movement Bürgerrechtsbewegung Solidarität Bürgerrechtsbewegung Solidarität , or the Civil Rights Movement Solidarity, is a German political party founded by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, wife of U.S. political activist Lyndon LaRouche.... |
1,333 | 0.9 | N/A | |||||
Out of a total electorate of 193,339, the total number of votes cast was 152,302 (78.8%) of which 2,498 votes were invalid.
2002 election
| Party | Constituency results | List results | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Votes | % share | +/- | Votes | % share | +/- | ||
| Social Democratic Party of Germany Social Democratic Party of Germany The Social Democratic Party of Germany is a social-democratic political party in Germany... |
57,311 | 39.3 | ||||||
| The Left Party.PDS | 43,924 | 30.1 | ||||||
| Christian Democratic Union Christian Democratic Union (Germany) The Christian Democratic Union of Germany is a Christian democratic and conservative political party in Germany. It is regarded as on the centre-right of the German political spectrum... |
26,427 | 18.1 | ||||||
| Alliance '90/The Greens Alliance '90/The Greens Alliance '90/The Greens is a green political party in Germany, formed from the merger of the German Green Party and Alliance 90 in 1993. Its leaders are Claudia Roth and Cem Özdemir... |
7,414 | 5.1 | ||||||
| Free Democratic Party Free Democratic Party (Germany) The Free Democratic Party , abbreviated to FDP, is a centre-right classical liberal political party in Germany. It is led by Philipp Rösler and currently serves as the junior coalition partner to the Union in the German federal government... |
6,059 | 4.2 | ||||||
| The Grays – Gray Panthers The Grays – Gray Panthers The Greys – Grey Panthers was a German political party and interest group founded by activist Trude Unruh. Their main areas of focus were the protection of the interests of seniors and the securing of stable pensions. They were also active on environmental issues.... |
1,752 | 1.2 | ||||||
| National Democratic Party of Germany National Democratic Party of Germany The National Democratic Party of Germany – The People's Union , is a far right German nationalist party. It was founded in 1964 a successor to the German Reich Party . Party statements self-identify as Germany's "only significant patriotic force"... |
2,557 | 1.8 | ||||||
| Lange | 332 | 0.2 | ||||||
Out of a total electorate of 189,307, the total number of votes cast was 147,762 (78.1%) of which 1,986 votes were invalid.