Essen III

119 Essen III
119 Essen III
Electoral district; for the Bundestag
	Essen III in 2025
State	North Rhine-Westphalia
Population	253,600 (2019)
Electorate	190,335 (2021)
Major settlements	Essen (partial)
Area	118.1 km2
Current electoral district
Created	1949
Party	CDU
Member	Matthias Hauer
Elected	2013, 2017, 2021, 2025

StateNorth Rhine-Westphalia

Population253,600 (2019)

Electorate190,335 (2021)

Major settlementsEssen (partial)

Essen III 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 119. It is located in the Ruhr region of North Rhine-Westphalia, comprising the southern part of the city of Essen.^[1]

Essen III was created for the inaugural 1949 federal election. Since 2013, it has been represented by Matthias Hauer of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).^[2]

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Election	No.	Name	Borders
1949	32	Essen III	Essen city (only southern parts)
1953	91
1957
1961
1965	89
1969
1972
1976
1980	90		Essen city (only I (Stadtmitte/Frillendorf), II (Rüttenscheid/Bergerhausen), VIII (Essen-Ruhrhalbinsel), and IX (Werden/Kettwig/Bredeney) Stadtbezirke)
1983
1987
1990
1994
1998
2002	121		Essen city (only II (Rüttenscheid/Bergerhausen), III (Essen-West), VIII (Essen-Ruhrhalbinsel), and IX (Werden/Kettwig/Bredeney) Stadtbezirke)
2005
2009
2013	120
2017
2021
2025	119

	Member	Party	%
1949	Jakob Kaiser	CDU	32.4
1953	Jakob Kaiser	CDU	53.5
1957	Hans Toussaint	CDU	56.3
1961			48.7
1965			48.6
1969	Antje Huber	SPD	49.8
1972			53.1
1976			47.7
1980			49.1
1983	Paul Hoffacker	CDU	46.2
1987	Ingrid Becker-Inglau	SPD	44.9
1990			41.3
1994			44.9
1998			49.9
2002	Hans-Günter Bruckmann	SPD	49.8
2005	Petra Hinz	SPD	48.1
2009	Petra Hinz	SPD	38.6
2013	Matthias Hauer	CDU	39.6
2017			37.1
2021			30.7
2025			35.7

Federal election (2025): Essen III^[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	%	±%
	CDU	Y Matthias Hauer		55,807	35.7	5.0	46,387	29.6	5.2
	SPD	Albert Ritter		38,546	24.7	5.4	33,184	21.2	6.9
	Greens	Stephan Neumann		24,617	15.8	3.2	25,317	16.1	4.1
	AfD	Stefan Keuter		18,563	11.9	6.5	19,029	12.1	6.6
	Left	Tobias Umbreit		11,667	7.5	4.2	14,179	9.0	5.0
	BSW						5,416	3.5
	FDP	Rüdiger König		4,835	3.1	4.1	7,710	4.9	6.9
	Tierschutzpartei						1,841	1.2	0.1
	FW	Boris Vorholt		1,751	1.1	0.0	516	0.3	0.2
	Volt						1,284	0.8	0.5
	PARTEI					1.9	989	0.6	0.5
	MLPD	Roland Meister		380	0.2	0.2	105	0.1	0.0
	PdF						265	0.2	0.1
	dieBasis					1.1	219	0.1	0.9
	Team Todenhöfer						208	0.1	0.4
	BD						125	0.1
	MERA25						60	0.0
	Values						59	0.0
	Pirates								0.3
	Humanists								0.1
	Gesundheitsforschung								0.1
	ÖDP								0.1
	Bündnis C								0.1
	SGP							0.0	0.0
Informal votes				1,400			673
Total valid votes				156,166			156,893
Turnout				157,566	84.5	4.2
	CDU hold		Majority	17,261	11.0

Federal election (2021): Essen III^[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	%	±%
	CDU	Y Matthias Hauer		46,635	30.7	6.4	37,053	24.4	5.7
	SPD	Gereon Wolters		45,612	30.0	0.8	42,629	28.0	3.3
	Greens	Kai Gehring		28,745	18.9	10.7	30,764	20.2	10.8
	FDP	Rüdiger König		10,871	7.2	1.2	17,995	11.8	3.3
	AfD	Stefan Keuter		8,225	5.4	2.7	8,398	5.5	2.8
	Left	Ezgi Güyildar		5,030	3.3	3.2	6,117	4.0	4.2
	Tierschutzpartei						2,005	1.3	0.4
	PARTEI	Martin O. Lange		2,931	1.9		1,718	1.1	0.0
	dieBasis	Volker Wild		1,695	1.1		1,521	1.0
	Team Todenhöfer						852	0.6
	FW	Kai Hemsteeg		1,685	1.1		845	0.6	0.4
	Volt						504	0.3
	Pirates						443	0.3	0.1
	LIEBE						151	0.1
	Humanists						137	0.1	0.0
	Gesundheitsforschung						129	0.1	0.0
	V-Partei3						116	0.1	0.1
	LfK						99	0.1
	NPD						90	0.1	0.1
	ÖDP						89	0.1	0.1
	DKP	Diana Kummer		172	0.1	0.0	90	0.1	0.0
	Bündnis C						78	0.1
	MLPD	Dirk Willing		109	0.1	0.1	64	0.0	0.0
	du.						61	0.0
	LKR	Dirk Schmidt		137	0.1		60	0.0
	PdF						40	0.0
	SGP						15	0.0	0.0
Informal votes				1,013			797
Total valid votes				151,847			152,063
Turnout				152,860	80.3	0.8
	CDU hold		Majority	1,023	0.7	5.6

Federal election (2017): Essen III^[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	%	±%
	CDU	Y Matthias Hauer		56,393	37.1	2.5	45,826	30.1	6.2
	SPD	Gereon Wolters		46,829	30.8	8.7	37,699	24.7	8.4
	FDP	Tim Wortmann		12,639	8.3	6.3	23,068	15.1	9.4
	Greens	Kai Gehring		12,511	8.2	0.5	14,312	9.4	0.3
	AfD	Stefan Keuter		12,306	8.1	5.4	12,735	8.4	4.5
	Left	Ayten Kaplan		9,846	6.5	1.6	12,574	8.3	1.7
	PARTEI						1,791	1.2	0.7
	Tierschutzpartei						1,356	0.9
	Independent	Serge Menga Nsibu		1,175	0.8
	Pirates						554	0.4	1.7
	AD-DEMOKRATEN						364	0.2
	FW						292	0.2	0.0
	NPD						259	0.2	0.7
	V-Partei³						251	0.2
	DiB						249	0.2
	BGE						173	0.1
	ÖDP						173	0.1	0.0
	Volksabstimmung						151	0.1	0.0
	Gesundheitsforschung						134	0.1
	MLPD	Martina Stalleicken		208	0.1		134	0.1	0.0
	DM						115	0.1
	Die Humanisten						97	0.1
	DKP	Diana Kummer		197	0.1		89	0.1
	SGP						13	0.0	0.0
Informal votes				1,232			927
Total valid votes				152,104			152,409
Turnout				153,336	79.5	2.3
	CDU hold		Majority	9,564	6.3	6.2

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119 Essen III
Electoral district for the Bundestag
Essen III in 2025
State	North Rhine-Westphalia
Population	253,600 (2019)
Electorate	190,335 (2021)
Major settlements	Essen (partial)
Area	118.1 km²
Current electoral district
Created	1949
Party	CDU
Member	Matthias Hauer
Elected	2013, 2017, 2021, 2025

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