Hamburg-Wandsbek (electoral district)

Hamburg-Wandsbek 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 22. It is located in northeastern Hamburg, comprising the southern part of the Wandsbek borough.

22 Hamburg-Wandsbek
Electoral district for the Bundestag
Hamburg-Wandsbek in 2025
State	Hamburg
Population	326,900 (2019)
Electorate	233,483 (2021)
Major settlements	Wandsbek
Area	78.8 km2
Current electoral district
Created	1949
Party	SPD
Member	Aydan Özoğuz
Elected	2013, 2017, 2021

Hamburg-Wandsbek was created for the inaugural 1949 federal election. Since 2013, it has been represented by Aydan Özoğuz of the Social Democratic Party (SPD).

Geography

Hamburg-Wandsbek is located in northeastern Hamburg. As of the 2021 federal election, it comprises the southern part of the Wandsbek borough, specifically the quarters of Bramfeld, Eilbek, Farmsen-Berne, Jenfeld, Marienthal, Rahlstedt, Steilshoop, Tonndorf, Volksdorf, and Wandsbek.

History

Hamburg-Wandsbek was created in 1949, then known as Hamburg V. In the 1949 election, it was Hamburg constituency 5. From 1953 through 1961, it was constituency 19; in the 1965 election it became constituency 17. In 1965 it was also renamed to Wandsbek, and acquired its current name in the 1976 election. In the 2002 through 2009 elections, it was constituency 23. It has been number 22 since the 2013 election.

Originally, the constituency comprised the entirety of Wandsbek borough without the quarter of Eilbek. From the 1965 election, the quarters of Marienthal, Jenfeld, and Tonndorf were transferred away from it. In the 1972 election, the quarter of Bramfeld was transferred away, but returned in the 1980 election. At the same time, it lost the quarters of Lemsahl-Mellingstedt, Duvenstedt, Wohldorf-Ohlstedt, and Bergstedt. In the 2002 election, the quarters of Marienthal, Jenfeld, and Tonndorf were returned. In the 2017 election, the constituency gained the quarter of Eilbek.

Election	No.	Name	Borders
1949	5	Hamburg V	Wandsbek borough (excluding Eilbek)
1953	19
1957
1961
1965	17	Wandsbek	Wandsbek borough (excluding Eilbek, Jenfeld, Marienthal, and Tonndorf quarters)
1969
1972			Wandsbek borough (excluding Bramfeld, Eilbek, Jenfeld, Marienthal, and Tonndorf quarters)
1976		Hamburg-Wandsbek
1980			Wandsbek borough (excluding Bergstedt, Duvenstedt, Eilbek, Jenfeld, Lemsahl-Mellingstedt, Marienthal, Tonndorf, and Wohldorf-Ohlstedt quarters)
1983
1987
1990
1994
1998
2002	23		Wandsbek borough (excluding Bergstedt, Duvenstedt, Eilbek, Lemsahl-Mellingstedt, and Wohldorf-Ohlstedt quarters)
2005
2009
2013	22
2017			Wandsbek borough (excluding Bergstedt, Duvenstedt, Lemsahl-Mellingstedt, and Wohldorf-Ohlstedt quarters)
2021
2025

Members

The constituency has been held by the Social Democratic Party (SPD) during all but two Bundestag terms since 1949; it returned a representative from the SPD in every federal election from 1957 through 2005. Its first representative was Irma Keilhack of the SPD, who served from 1949 to 1953. The German Party (DP) candidate Albert Walter won the constituency in 1953 and served for a single term. Former member Keilhack won it back in 1957, and served until 1965. Ilse Elsner served two terms from 1965 to 1972, followed by Alfons Pawelczyk until 1980. Eugen Glombig served a single term from 1980 to 1983. Peter Zumkley was representative from then until 2002. He was succeeded by former mayor of Hamburg Ortwin Runde. The constituency was won by the Christian Democratic Union (CDU)'s Jürgen Klimke in 2009, but returned to the SPD's Aydan Özoguz in 2013. She was re-elected in 2017 and 2021.

Election		Member	Party	%
	1949	Irma Keilhack	SPD	40.7
	1953	Albert Walter	DP	47.6
	1957	Irma Keilhack	SPD	46.3
	1961			46.2
	1965	Ilse Elsner	SPD	48.2
	1969			56.1
	1972	Alfons Pawelczyk	SPD	55.0
	1976			48.3
	1980			54.5
	1983	Eugen Glombig	SPD	50.2
	1987	Peter Zumkley	SPD	43.6
	1990			43.1
	1994			43.1
	1998			52.0
	2002	Ortwin Runde	SPD	53.0
	2005			49.6
	2009	Jürgen Klimke	CDU	36.5
	2013	Aydan Özoğuz	SPD	39.9
	2017			34.6
	2021			38.7

Election results

2021 election

Federal election (2021): Hamburg-Wandsbek
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 Aydan Özoğuz		66,616	38.7	4.1	59,298	34.3	7.7
	CDU	Franziska Hoppermann		33,085	19.2	10.5	29,103	16.8	12.0
	Greens	Daniel Alexander Grimm		26,599	15.4	8.3	32,134	18.6	8.2
	FDP	Wieland Schinnenburg		15,755	9.1	2.1	19,225	11.1	0.8
	AfD	Dietmar Wagner		11,490	6.7	2.8	11,290	6.5	3.2
	Left	Johan Graßhoff		10,629	6.2	3.0	8,852	5.1	4.7
	Tierschutzpartei						2,561	1.5	0.4
	dieBasis	Michael Stein		3,054	1.8		2,481	1.4
	Team Todenhöfer						1,871	1.1
	PARTEI						1,615	0.9	0.3
	FW						1,084	0.6	0.2
	Pirates	Arthur Kaiser		2,068	1.2		1,048	0.6
	Volt	Luca Beitz		1,834	1.1		812	0.5
	ÖDP	Matthias Deutsch		880	0.5		427	0.2	0.0
	Humanists						235	0.1
	V-Partei3						202	0.1	0.1
	du.						169	0.1
	NPD	Helmut Saß		209	0.1	0.1	169	0.1	0.2
	Bündnis 21						83	0.0
	DKP						69	0.0	0.0
	MLPD	Renate Dohrn		117	0.1		49	0.0	0.0
	LKR						44	0.0
Informal votes				1,678			1,192
Total valid votes				172,336			172,821
Turnout				174,014	74.5	1.3
	SPD hold		Majority	33,531	19.5	14.6

2017 election

Federal election (2017): Hamburg-Wandsbek
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 Aydan Özoğuz		59,086	34.6	5.3	45,542	26.6	7.9
	CDU	Eckhard Graage		50,822	29.7	7.0	49,482	28.9	5.6
	AfD	Dietmar Wagner		16,208	9.5	5.4	16,732	9.8	4.9
	Left	Cornelia Kerth		15,673	9.2	2.5	16,847	9.8	2.1
	Greens	Dennis Paustian-Döscher		12,112	7.1	0.2	17,773	10.4	1.3
	FDP	Wieland Schinnenburg		12,007	7.0	5.1	17,621	10.3	5.8
	PARTEI	Esther Isaak de Schmidt-Bohländer		3,026	1.8	1.7	2,096	1.2	0.8
	Tierschutzpartei						1,835	1.1
	FW	Christian Walbe		1,534	0.9	0.4	807	0.5	0.1
	BGE						689	0.4
	DiB						557	0.3
	ÖDP						436	0.3	0.1
	NPD	Helmut Saß		399	0.2	0.7	425	0.2	0.6
	V-Partei³						333	0.2
	MLPD						65	0.0	0.0
	DKP						61	0.0
Informal votes				1,707			1,273
Total valid votes				170,867			171,301
Turnout				172,574	73.3	5.7
	SPD hold		Majority	8,264	4.9	2.3

2013 election

Federal election (2013): Hamburg-Wandsbek
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	Aydan Özoğuz		58,029	40.0	5.2	50,339	34.6	5.8
	CDU	Frank Schira		54,002	37.2	0.7	50,641	34.8	4.7
	Left	Cornelia Kerth		9,594	6.6	2.9	11,078	7.6	3.3
	Greens	Katja Husen		9,320	6.4	3.0	12,667	8.7	3.1
	AfD	Joachim Körner		6,026	4.2		7,093	4.9
	Pirates	Katja Falkenbach		3,328	2.3		3,437	2.4	0.2
	FDP	Klaus-Dieter Abend		2,783	1.9	5.8	6,556	4.5	9.1
	NPD	Helmut Saß		1,374	0.9	0.4	1,336	0.9	0.2
	RENTNER						793	0.5	0.3
	FW	Ulf Ohms		737	0.5		560	0.4
	PARTEI						592	0.4
	ÖDP						229	0.2	0.2
	MLPD						37	0.0	0.0
Informal votes				1,960			1,795
Total valid votes				145,193			145,358
Turnout				147,153	67.3	1.8
	SPD gain from CDU		Majority	4,027	2.8

2009 election

Federal election (2009): Hamburg-Wandsbek
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	Jürgen Klimke		53,958	36.5	0.8	44,770	30.2	0.4
	SPD	Ingo Egloff		51,460	34.8	14.8	42,705	28.8	11.6
	Left	Vasco Schultz		14,021	9.5	4.8	16,205	10.9	4.8
	Greens	Anjes Tjarks		13,914	9.4	4.3	17,518	11.8	0.8
	FDP	Jan Christopher Witt		11,408	7.7	4.2	20,181	13.6	4.6
	Pirates						3,158	2.1
	NPD	Helmut Saß		1,972	1.3	0.1	1,674	1.1	0.2
	RENTNER						1,314	0.9
	ÖDP	David Perteck		1,190	0.8		527	0.4
	DVU						261	0.2
	MLPD						50	0.0	0.0
Informal votes				2,126			1,686
Total valid votes				147,923			148,363
Turnout				150,049	69.1	7.2
	CDU gain from SPD		Majority	2,498	1.7