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Constituencies

The territory of the Federal Republic of Germany is currently subdivided into a total of 299 constituencies for Bundestag elections. The legislator drew upon the figures of the German population as at 30 September 2011 to delimit the constituencies for the Election to the 18th German Bundestag. Using the Sainte-Laguë/Schepers calculation method, constituencies were distributed among the Länder in the 2013 Bundestag Election as shown in the table below. The average number of German people per constituency was around 250,000 on 30 September 2011.

Land
Number
Numbering
Schleswig-Holstein
11
1 - 11
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
6
12 - 17
Hamburg
6
18 - 23
Niedersachsen
30
24 - 53
Bremen
2
54 - 55
Brandenburg
10
56 - 65
Sachsen-Anhalt
9
66 - 74
Berlin
12
75 - 86
Nordrhein-Westfalen
64
87 - 150
Sachsen
16
151 - 166
Hessen
22
167 - 188
Thüringen
9
189 - 197
Rheinland-Pfalz
15
198 - 212
Bayern
45
213 - 257
Baden-Württemberg
38
258 - 295
Saarland
4
296 - 299



 

Pursuant to Section 3 of the Federal Elections Act, the population of a constituency should not deviate from the average population of all constituencies by more than 15 per cent in either direction; where the deviation is greater than 25 per cent, the boundaries shall be redrawn.

Distribution of Bundestag constituencies among Länder since 1949
 
     Number of constituencies 1)
Land
1949
-
1953
1957
-
1961
1965
-
1976
1980
-
1987
1990
-
1998
2002
2005
2009
 2013
Baden-Württemberg
33 2)
33
36
37
37
37
37
 38
 38
Bayern
47
47
44
45
45
44
45
 45
 45
Berlin
-
-
-
-
13
12
12
 12
 12
Brandenburg
-
-
-
-
12
10
10
 10
 10
Bremen
3
3
3
3
3
2
2
 2
 2
Hamburg
8
8
8
7
7
6
6
 6
 6
Hessen
22
22
22
22
22
21
21
 21
 22
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
-
-
-
-
9
7
7
 7
 6
Niedersachsen
34
34
30
31
31
29
29
 30
 30
Nordrhein-Westfalen
66
66
73
71
71
64
64
 64
 64
Rheinland-Pfalz
15
15
16
16
16
15
15
 15
 15
Saarland
-
5
5
5
5
4
4
 4
 4
Sachsen
-
-
-
-
21
17
17
 16
 16
Sachsen-Anhalt
-
-
-
-
13
10
10
 9
 9
Schleswig-Holstein
14
14
11
11
11
11
11
 11
 11
Thüringen
-
-
-
-
12
10
9
 9
 9
Total
242
247
248
248
328
299
299
 299
 299



 


1) From 1990, according to the territory as of 3 October 1990. - 2) 1949: Of which Baden-Württemberg 20, Baden 7, Württemberg-Hohenzollern 6.

Legal basis
Section 3 of the Federal Elections Act (BWG)

Last update: April 2012

 

See also: ©2012 The Federal Returning Officer