Steinfurt III

Steinfurt III in North Rhine-Westphalia

Steinfurt III is one of the 299 single member constituencies (German: Wahlkreis) used for the German parliament, the Bundestag. It is one of sixty four electoral districts in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The constituency elects one representative under the mixed member proportional representation (MMP) system. Under the current constituency numbering system, it is designated as constituency 128. It consists of the municipalities of Emsdetten, Greven, Hörstel, Hopsten, Ibbenbüren, Ladbergen, Lengerich, Lienen, Lotte, Mettingen, Recke, Saerbeck, Tecklenburg and Westerkappeln, all located in the county of Steinfurt.^[1]

The constituency was created for the 2002 election, replacing the former Steinfurt II electoral district. The 2002 and 2005 elections were won by Reinhold Hemker of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). At the 2009 election he lost to the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) candidate Dieter Jasper. The CDU retained the seat at the 2013 election, with a new candidate, Anja Karliczek.^[2]

2013 election result

Party		Constituency results				List results
Party		Candidate	Votes	% share	+/-	Votes	% share	+/-
	Christian Democratic Union	Anja Karliczek	69,385	47.9	+4.7	62,729	43.3	+7.5
	Social Democratic Party of Germany	Jürgen Coße	52,786	36.5	-4.9	48,324	33.4	+2.8
	Alliance '90/The Greens	Hermann Stubbe	8,464	5.8	N/A	10,981	7.6	-1.8
	The Left	Kathrin Vogler	5,533	3.8	-2.6	6,765	4.7	-1.8
	Free Democratic Party	Christophe Lüttmann	2,603	1.8	-6.4	6,822	4.7	-9.3
	Alternative for Germany	Mario Mieruch	2,566	1.8	N/A	4,028	2.8	N/A
	Pirate Party	René Rottmann	2,356	1.6	N/A	2,504	1.7	+0.3
	National Democratic Party of Germany	Matthias Pohl	1,021	0.7	-0.1	940	0.6	-0.0
	Die PARTEI	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	465	0.3	N/A
	Others	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	1,196	0.9	N/A

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