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Schwalm-Eder 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 169. It is located in northern Hesse, comprising the Schwalm-Eder-Kreis district and the southern part of the Waldeck-Frankenberg district.[1]
169 Schwalm-Eder | |
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Electoral district for the Bundestag | |
![]() Schwalm-Eder in 2025 | |
State | Hesse |
Population | 235,900 (2019) |
Electorate | 185,944 (2021) |
Major settlements | Schwalmstadt Frankenberg Fritzlar |
Area | 2,263.0 km2 |
Current electoral district | |
Created | 1949 |
Party | SPD |
Member | Edgar Franke |
Elected | 2009, 2013, 2017, 2021 |
Schwalm-Eder was created for the inaugural 1949 federal election. Since 2009, it has been represented by Edgar Franke of the Social Democratic Party (SPD).[2]
Schwalm-Eder is located in northern Hesse. As of the 2021 federal election, it comprises the entirety of the Schwalm-Eder-Kreis district and the municipalities of Allendorf (Eder), Battenberg (Eder), Bromskirchen, Burgwald, Frankenau, Frankenberg, Gemünden (Wohra), Haina, Hatzfeld, Rosenthal, and Vöhl from the Waldeck-Frankenberg district.[1]
Schwalm-Eder was created in 1949, then known as Fritzlar-Homberg. In the 1976 election, it was named Fritzlar. It acquired its current name in the 1980 election. In the 1949 election, it was Hesse constituency 4 in the numbering system. In the 1953 through 1976 elections, it was number 129. From 1980 through 1998, it was number 127. In 2002 and 2005, it was number 172. In the 2009 election, it was number 171. In the 2013 through 2021 elections, it was number 170. From the 2025 election, it has been number 169.
Originally, the constituency comprised the districts of Frankenberg, Fritzlar-Homberg, and Ziegenhain. In the 1965 and 1969 elections, it also contained the municipality of Schiffelbach from the Landkreis Marburg district. In the 1972 election, it comprised the districts of Frankenberg and Fritzlar-Homberg, the municipality of Breitenbach am Herzberg from the Hersfeld-Rotenburg district, the municipality of Schiffelbach from the Landkreis Marburg district, and the Ortsteile of Berfa, Hattendorf, and Lingelbach in Alsfeld municipality from the Vogelsbergkreis district. In the 1976 election, it acquired borders similar to its current configuration, but excluding the municipalities of Felsberg, Guxhagen, Körle, Malsfeld, Melsungen, Morschen, and Spangenberg from Schwalm-Eder-Kreis. It acquired its current borders in the 2002 election.
Election | No. | Name | Borders |
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1949 | 4 | Fritzlar-Homberg |
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1953 | 129 | ||
1957 | |||
1961 | |||
1965 |
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1969 | |||
1972 |
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1976 | Fritzlar |
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1980 | 127 | Schwalm-Eder | |
1983 | |||
1987 | |||
1990 | |||
1994 | |||
1998 | |||
2002 | 172 |
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2005 | |||
2009 | 171 | ||
2013 | 170 | ||
2017 | |||
2021 | |||
2025 | 169 |
The constituency has been held by the Social Democratic Party (SPD) during all but three Bundestag terms since its creation. It was first represented by August-Martin Euler of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) from 1949 to 1957, followed by Kurt Wittmer-Eigenbrodt of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) until 1961. Harri Bading of the SPD was elected in 1961 and served two terms. He was succeeded by Heinz Kreutzmann, who served from 1969 to 1983. Albert Pfuhl was then representative from 1983 to 1994, followed by Gerd Höfer until 2009. Edgar Franke was elected in 2009, and re-elected in 2013, 2017, and 2021.
Election | Member | Party | % | |
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1949 | August-Martin Euler | FDP | 35.5 | |
1953 | 42.8 | |||
1957 | Kurt Wittmer-Eigenbrodt | CDU | 37.6 | |
1961 | Harri Bading | SPD | 42.6 | |
1965 | 45.7 | |||
1969 | Heinz Kreutzmann | SPD | 48.9 | |
1972 | 54.0 | |||
1976 | 50.5 | |||
1980 | 52.2 | |||
1983 | Albert Pfuhl | SPD | 48.1 | |
1987 | 49.3 | |||
1990 | 47.8 | |||
1994 | Gerd Höfer | SPD | 48.1 | |
1998 | 52.3 | |||
2002 | 52.3 | |||
2005 | 50.1 | |||
2009 | Edgar Franke | SPD | 40.3 | |
2013 | 42.3 | |||
2017 | 37.7 | |||
2021 | 39.3 |
Federal election (2021): Schwalm-Eder[3] | |||||||||
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Notes: |
Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
SPD | ![]() |
54,792 | 39.3 | ![]() |
50,100 | 36.0 | ![]() | ||
CDU | Anna-Maria Bischof | 33,443 | 24.0 | ![]() |
29,913 | 21.5 | ![]() | ||
AfD | Albrecht Glaser | 14,380 | 10.3 | ![]() |
15,047 | 10.8 | ![]() | ||
Greens | Bettina Hoffmann | 12,360 | 8.9 | ![]() |
14,089 | 10.1 | ![]() | ||
FDP | Bastian Belz | 12,234 | 8.8 | ![]() |
15,422 | 11.1 | ![]() | ||
FW | Markus Rainer Lappe | 4,112 | 3.0 | ![]() |
3,440 | 2.5 | ![]() | ||
Left | Heidemarie Scheuch-Paschkewitz | 3,761 | 2.7 | ![]() |
4,411 | 3.2 | ![]() | ||
Human Environment Animal Protection | 1,996 | 1.4 | ![]() | ||||||
PARTEI | Clara Luisa Baumann | 2,024 | 1.5 | 1,209 | 0.9 | ![]() | |||
dieBasis | Hermann-Theodor Ploppa | 1,451 | 1.0 | 1,396 | 1.0 | ||||
Pirates | 504 | 0.4 | ![]() | ||||||
Independent | Alexander Klement | 435 | 0.3 | ||||||
Team Todenhöfer | 270 | 0.2 | |||||||
Gesundheitsforschung | 251 | 0.2 | |||||||
NPD | 244 | 0.2 | ![]() | ||||||
Bündnis C | Alfred Härtzsch | 262 | 0.2 | 233 | 0.2 | ||||
Volt | 215 | 0.2 | |||||||
ÖDP | 126 | 0.1 | ![]() | ||||||
Humanists | 92 | 0.1 | |||||||
V-Partei3 | 73 | 0.1 | ![]() | ||||||
Bündnis 21 | 48 | 0.0 | |||||||
DKP | 43 | 0.0 | ![]() | ||||||
LKR | 34 | 0.0 | |||||||
MLPD | 15 | 0.0 | ![]() | ||||||
Informal votes | 2,240 | 2,323 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 139,254 | 139,171 | |||||||
Turnout | 141,494 | 76.1 | ![]() |
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SPD hold | Majority | 21,349 | 15.3 | ![]() |
Federal election (2017): Schwalm-Eder[4] | |||||||||
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Notes: |
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
SPD | ![]() |
53,892 | 37.7 | ![]() |
44,847 | 31.4 | ![]() | ||
CDU | Bernd Siebert[lower-alpha 1] | 43,514 | 30.4 | ![]() |
41,795 | 29.2 | ![]() | ||
AfD | Albrecht Glaser | 17,198 | 12.0 | 18,504 | 12.9 | ![]() | |||
FDP | Elias Knell | 9,298 | 6.5 | ![]() |
13,118 | 9.2 | ![]() | ||
Greens | Bettina Hoffmann | 8,003 | 5.6 | ![]() |
9,436 | 6.6 | ![]() | ||
Left | Heidemarie Scheuch-Paschkewitz | 7,852 | 5.5 | ![]() |
9,270 | 6.5 | ![]() | ||
FW | Matthias Köhler | 3,330 | 2.3 | ![]() |
1,968 | 1.4 | ![]() | ||
Human Environment Animal Protection | 1,287 | 0.9 | |||||||
PARTEI | 935 | 0.7 | ![]() | ||||||
NPD | 652 | 0.5 | ![]() | ||||||
Pirates | 519 | 0.4 | ![]() | ||||||
BGE | 180 | 0.1 | |||||||
DM | 173 | 0.1 | |||||||
V-Partei³ | 161 | 0.1 | |||||||
ÖDP | 128 | 0.1 | |||||||
DKP | 33 | 0.0 | |||||||
MLPD | 26 | 0.0 | ![]() | ||||||
BüSo | 20 | 0.0 | ![]() | ||||||
Informal votes | 2,656 | 2,691 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 143,087 | 143,052 | |||||||
Turnout | 145,743 | 77.5 | ![]() |
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SPD hold | Majority | 10,378 | 7.3 | ![]() |
Federal election (2013): Schwalm-Eder[5] | |||||||||
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Notes: |
Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
SPD | ![]() |
57,944 | 42.3 | ![]() |
50,052 | 36.5 | ![]() | ||
CDU | Bernd Siebert | 54,162 | 39.6 | ![]() |
48,747 | 35.6 | ![]() | ||
Greens | Hermann Häusling | 7,884 | 5.8 | ![]() |
10,498 | 7.7 | ![]() | ||
Left | Heidemarie Scheuch-Paschkewitz | 6,890 | 5.0 | ![]() |
7,442 | 5.4 | ![]() | ||
AfD | 7,394 | 5.4 | |||||||
FDP | Dennis Majewski | 3,005 | 2.2 | ![]() |
6,362 | 4.6 | ![]() | ||
Pirates | Alexander Kaufmann | 2,771 | 2.0 | 2,306 | 1.7 | ![]() | |||
FW | Engin Eroglu | 2,154 | 1.6 | 1,592 | 1.2 | ||||
NPD | Martin Braun | 2,019 | 1.5 | ![]() |
1,532 | 1.1 | ![]() | ||
PARTEI | 529 | 0.4 | |||||||
REP | 229 | 0.2 | ![]() | ||||||
PRO | 162 | 0.1 | |||||||
SGP | 58 | 0.0 | |||||||
BüSo | 46 | 0.0 | ![]() | ||||||
MLPD | 32 | 0.0 | ![]() | ||||||
Informal votes | 4,836 | 4,684 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 136,829 | 136,981 | |||||||
Turnout | 141,665 | 74.0 | ![]() |
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SPD hold | Majority | 3,782 | 2.7 | ![]() |
Federal election (2009): Schwalm-Eder[6] | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
SPD | Edgar Franke | 56,519 | 40.3 | ![]() |
47,585 | 33.9 | ![]() | ||
CDU | Bernd Siebert[lower-alpha 2] | 47,053 | 33.6 | ![]() |
40,592 | 28.9 | ![]() | ||
FDP | Nils Weigand | 13,487 | 9.6 | ![]() |
19,854 | 14.2 | ![]() | ||
Left | Heidemarie Scheuch-Paschkewitz | 11,395 | 8.1 | ![]() |
12,958 | 9.2 | ![]() | ||
Greens | Engin Eroglu | 9,370 | 6.7 | ![]() |
12,935 | 9.2 | ![]() | ||
Pirates | 2,382 | 1.7 | |||||||
NPD | Frank Körner | 2,275 | 1.6 | ![]() |
1,813 | 1.3 | ![]() | ||
Human Environment Animal Protection | 1,256 | 0.9 | ![]() | ||||||
REP | 556 | 0.4 | ![]() | ||||||
DVU | 128 | 0.1 | |||||||
BüSo | 119 | 0.1 | ![]() | ||||||
MLPD | 37 | 0.0 | ![]() | ||||||
Informal votes | 4,391 | 4,275 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 140,099 | 140,215 | |||||||
Turnout | 144,490 | 74.2 | ![]() |
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SPD hold | Majority | 9,466 | 6.7 | ![]() |
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