Cloppenburg – Vechta

The constituency Cloppenburg - Vechta ( Constituency 32) is a federal electoral district in Lower Saxony. It covers the area of the counties of Cloppenburg and Vechta. The constituency is considered CDU stronghold.

Bundestag election in 2013

This took place on 22 September 2013. It 9 direct candidates and 14 state lists were approved.

Result of the 2009 federal election

The parliamentary elections in 2009 had the following result:

History

The constituency was number 9 of the Lower Saxon constituencies in the general election in 1949. After he received the nationwide constituency number 31 for the general elections from 1965 to 1998, he had the number 27, 2002 and 2009, the number 33 and since the 2013 election, he wears the number 32 In the federal elections from 1949 to 1961 the constituency Vechta was - Cloppenburg and thereafter up to and including the 1976 Bundestag elections Cloppenburg. The constituency is considered a stronghold of the CDU. The direct mandate could always be won by the CDU candidate since 1953 with more than 60.0%, in the years 1953 to 1990 even more than 70 % of the votes first votes.

Originally comprised the constituency, as well as today, the area of the counties of Cloppenburg and Vechta. Before the general election in 1965 came from the Oldenburg district must be added the communities Großenkneten, Hatten, Wardenburg and Wüsting. Despite the regional reforms made ​​1 July 1972 were in the general election in 1972, he turned the my finished by Hude Wüsting and turned my finished after Quakenbruck former municipality Hengelage part of the community Essen (Oldenburg ) for the constituency of Cloppenburg. Since the general election in 1976 the constituency is again only from the counties of Cloppenburg and Vechta.

Previous MPs

Directly elected MP for the constituency were: