49 Salzgitter – Wolfenbüttel
Electoral district for the Bundestag
Salzgitter – Wolfenbüttel in 2013
State	Lower Saxony
Population	266,200 (2019)
Electorate	200,922 (2021)
Major settlements	Salzgitter Wolfenbüttel
Area	1,238.4 km2
Current electoral district
Created	1949
Party	SPD
Member	Dunja Kreiser
Elected	2021

Salzgitter – Wolfenbüttel 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 49. It is located in southeastern Lower Saxony, comprising the city of Salzgitter, the district of Wolfenbüttel, and northern parts of the district of Goslar.^[1]

Salzgitter – Wolfenbüttel was created for the inaugural 1949 federal election. Since 2021, it has been represented by Dunja Kreiser of the Social Democratic Party (SPD).^[2]

Geography

Salzgitter – Wolfenbüttel is located in southeastern Lower Saxony. As of the 2021 federal election, it comprises the independent city of Salzgitter, the entirety of the district of Wolfenbüttel, and the Samtgemeinde of Lutter am Barenberge and municipalities of Langelsheim, Liebenburg, and Seesen from the district of Goslar.^[1]

History

Salzgitter – Wolfenbüttel was created in 1949, then known as Gandersheim – Salzgitter. In the 1965 through 1976 elections, it was named Salzgitter. It acquired its current name in the 1980 election. In the inaugural Bundestag election, it was Lower Saxony constituency 27 in the numbering system. From 1953 through 1961, it was number 49. From 1965 through 1998, it was number 44. In the 2002 and 2005 elections, it was number 49. In the 2009 election, it was number 50. Since the 2013 election, it has been number 49.

Originally, the constituency comprised the independent city of Salzgitter, the district of Gandersheim, and the Samtgemeinde of Baddeckenstedt from the Wolfenbüttel district. In the 1980 through 1998 elections, it comprised the independent city of Salzgitter and district of Wolfenbüttel. It acquired its current borders in the 2002 election.

Members

The constituency has been held by the Social Democratic Party (SPD) during all but two Bundestag terms since 1949. Its first representative was Karl Bielig of the SPD, who served from 1949 to 1953. Wilhelm Höck of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) won the constituency in 1953 and was re-elected in 1957. In 1961, Hans-Jürgen Junghans of the SPD was elected. He was succeeded in 1987 by Wilhelm Schmidt, who served until 2005. Sigmar Gabriel has served as representative since 2005; Gabriel served as Vice-Chancellor of Germany from 2013 to 2018. He was succeeded as representative by Dunja Kreiser in 2021.

Election results

2021 election

Federal election (2021): Salzgitter – Wolfenbüttel[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	%	±%
	SPD	Dunja Kreiser		56,157	38.6	4.2	53,411	36.7	4.2
	CDU	Holger Bormann		39,541	27.2	2.0	33,453	23.0	6.6
	Greens	Claudia Bei der Wieden		15,353	10.6	6.3	18,105	12.4	5.9
	AfD	Thomas Günther		14,331	9.9	2.1	14,415	9.9	2.4
	FDP	Max Weitemeier		9,544	6.6	1.9	13,463	9.2	1.2
	Left	Victor Perli		5,675	3.9	2.1	4,478	3.1	4.2
	Tierschutzpartei						2,156	1.5	0.5
	FW	Günter Karl-Heinz Gehmert		1,651	1.1		1,317	0.9	0.6
	dieBasis	Volker Eyssen		1,599	1.1		1,362	0.9
	PARTEI						1,274	0.9	0.1
	Team Todenhöfer						743	0.5
	Pirates	Jens Golland		1,220	0.8	0.0	598	0.4	0.0
	Independent	Christiane Jagau		282	0.2
	Volt						260	0.2
	NPD						240	0.2	0.2
	V-Partei3						100	0.1	0.0
	Humanists						94	0.1
	ÖDP						86	0.1	0.0
	du.						86	0.1
	Independent	Paul Deutsch		71	0.0
	LKR						39	0.0
	MLPD						23	0.0	0.0
	DKP						19	0.0	0.0
Informal votes				1,794			1,496
Total Valid votes				145,424			145,722
Turnout				147,218	73.3	2.9
	SPD hold		Majority	16,616	11.4	2.3

2017 election

Federal election (2017): Salzgitter – Wolfenbüttel[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	%	±%
	SPD	Y Sigmar Gabriel		66,587	42.8	3.8	50,482	32.4	6.8
	CDU	Uwe Lagosky		45,310	29.1	7.9	45,985	29.5	6.2
	AfD	Manfred Wolfrum		18,564	11.9	8.9	19,115	12.3	8.2
	Left	Victor Perli		9,290	6.0	1.6	11,266	7.2	1.6
	FDP	Jens Henry Neubert		7,268	4.7	3.6	12,450	8.0	4.6
	Greens	Ghali El Boustami		6,680	4.3	0.1	10,213	6.6	0.8
	Tierschutzpartei						1,591	1.0	0.2
	PARTEI						1,557	1.0
	Pirates	Jens Golland		1,335	0.9	0.6	684	0.4	1.0
	NPD						606	0.4	0.8
	FW						531	0.3	0.4
	DM						430	0.3
	Independent	Christiane Jagau		283	0.2
	BGE						207	0.1
	DiB						197	0.1
	V-Partei³						183	0.1
	Independent	Niels Salveter		162	0.1
	ÖDP						117	0.1
	MLPD						74	0.0	0.0
	DKP						31	0.0
Informal votes				1,567			1,327
Total Valid votes				155,479			155,719
Turnout				157,046	76.2	3.2
	SPD hold		Majority	21,277	13.7	4.1

2013 election

Federal election (2013): Salzgitter – Wolfenbüttel[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	%	±%
	SPD	Y Sigmar Gabriel		70,080	46.6	1.7	58,881	39.3	5.1
	CDU	Uwe Lagosky		55,720	37.1	4.5	53,593	35.7	5.0
	Greens	Sascha Pitkamin		6,630	4.4	1.4	11,013	7.3	1.5
	Left	Dorothée Menzner		6,524	4.3	3.7	8,461	5.6	4.4
	AfD	Axel Steinkampf-Sommer		4,548	3.0		5,938	4.0
	Pirates	Arne Hattendorf		2,119	1.4		2,228	1.5	0.3
	NPD	Adolf Preuß		1,940	1.3	0.5	1,796	1.2	0.4
	FDP	Dirk Michaelis		1,582	1.1	5.0	5,142	3.4	7.2
	Tierschutzpartei						1,286	0.9	0.0
	FW	Anke Bastian		1,248	0.8		1,046	0.7
	REP						208	0.1
	PRO						183	0.1
	PBC						167	0.1
	MLPD						39	0.0	0.0
Informal votes				2,208			2,618
Total Valid votes				150,391			149,981
Turnout				152,599	73.0	0.9
	SPD hold		Majority	14,360	9.5	2.8

2009 election

Federal election (2009): Salzgitter – Wolfenbüttel[6]
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 Sigmar Gabriel		69,631	44.9	7.4	53,144	34.2	13.5
	CDU	Jochen-Konrad Fromme		50,519	32.6	3.1	47,719	30.7	0.6
	Left	Hermann Fleischer		12,538	8.1	4.0	15,569	10.0	5.0
	FDP	Thomas Keller		9,436	6.1	3.5	16,479	10.6	3.2
	Greens	Jürgen Selke-Witzel		9,032	5.8	2.5	13,744	8.8	3.4
	Pirates						2,812	1.8
	NPD	Friedrich-Werner Schulenburg		2,791	1.8	0.2	2,490	1.6	0.0
	Tierschutzpartei						1,334	0.9	0.2
	RRP	Rolf Vorberger		1,163	0.7		1,771	1.1
	ÖDP						129	0.1
	DVU						186	0.1
	MLPD						34	0.0	0.0
Informal votes				2,468			2,167
Total Valid votes				155,110			155,411
Turnout				157,578	73.9	5.6
	SPD hold		Majority	19,112	12.3	4.3

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