Hamburg-Eimsbüttel (electoral district)

Hamburg-Eimsbüttel 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 20. It is located in northwestern Hamburg, comprising the Eimsbüttel borough.

20 Hamburg-Eimsbüttel
Electoral district for the Bundestag
Hamburg-Eimsbüttel in 2025
State	Hamburg
Population	260,300 (2019)
Electorate	193,823 (2021)
Major settlements	Eimsbüttel
Area	49.6 km2
Current electoral district
Created	1949
Party	GRÜNE
Member	Till Steffen
Elected	2021

Hamburg-Eimsbüttel was created for the inaugural 1949 federal election. Since 2021, it has been represented by Till Steffen of the Alliance 90/The Greens.

Geography

Hamburg-Eimsbüttel is located in northwestern Hamburg. As of the 2021 federal election, it is coterminous with the borough of Eimsbüttel.

History

Hamburg-Eimsbüttel was created in 1949, then known as Hamburg III. From 1965 through 1976, it was simply named Eimsbüttel. It acquired its current name in the 1980 election. In the inaugural Bundestag election, it was Hamburg constituency 1 in the numbering system. From 1953 through 1961, it was number 17. From 1965 through 1998, it was number 14. From 2002 through 2009, it was number 21. Since 2013, it has been constituency 20.

Originally, it comprised the entirety of the Eimsbüttel borough with the exception of the quarters of Rotherbaum, Harvestehude, and Hoheluft-West, and with the Ortsteile of Altona-Nord/Ost und Altona-Nord/Nord from the quarter of Altona-Nord. Since the 1965 election, it has been coterminous with the Eimsbüttel borough.

Election	No.	Name	Borders
1949	1	Hamburg III	Eimsbüttel borough (excluding Rotherbaum, Harvestehude, and Hoheluft-West quarters) Altona borough (only Altona-Nord/Ost and Altona-Nord/Nord Ortsteile)
1953	17
1957
1961
1965	14	Eimsbüttel	Eimsbüttel borough
1969
1972
1976
1980		Hamburg-Eimsbüttel
1983
1987
1990
1994
1998
2002	21
2005
2009
2013	20
2017
2021
2025

Members

The constituency has been held by the Social Democratic Party (SPD) during all but three Bundestag terms since 1949; it returned a representative from the SPD in every federal election from 1957 until 2009. Its first representative was Peter Blachstein of the SPD. In 1953, the constituency was won by Fritz Becker of the German Party (DP), who served for a single term. Blachstein won the constituency back for the SPD in 1957. In 1969, he was succeeded by Wilhelm Nölling, who was in turn succeeded in 1976 by Peter Paterna, who served until 1994, and then by Angelika Mertens until 2002. Niels Annen won the constituency in 2005. In 2009, Rüdiger Kruse of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) became the first non-SPD member since 1953; he was defeated in 2013 by Niels Annen, who was re-elected in 2017. In 2021, Till Steffen of the Greens won the constituency.

Election		Member	Party	%
	1949	Peter Blachstein	SPD	39.9
	1953	Fritz Becker	DP	47.7
	1957	Peter Blachstein	SPD	47.6
	1961			47.9
	1965			47.1
	1969	Wilhelm Nölling	SPD	55.9
	1972			58.7
	1976	Peter Paterna	SPD	52.2
	1980			52.5
	1983			49.2
	1987			41.5
	1990			43.5
	1994	Angelika Mertens	SPD	40.9
	1998			50.0
	2002			51.3
	2005	Niels Annen	SPD	45.1
	2009	Rüdiger Kruse	CDU	31.1
	2013	Niels Annen	SPD	37.5
	2017			31.6
	2021	Till Steffen	GRÜNE	29.8

Election results

2021 election

Federal election (2021): Hamburg-Eimsbüttel
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	%	±%
	Greens	Till Steffen		47,734	29.8	14.8	47,983	29.9	12.9
	SPD	N Niels Annen		47,375	29.6	2.0	44,911	28.0	5.7
	CDU	Rüdiger Kruse		27,462	17.2	11.5	23,843	14.9	12.1
	FDP	Carolin Hümpel		12,957	8.1	1.3	18,190	11.3	0.1
	Left	Żaklin Nastić		11,351	7.1	3.3	10,847	6.8	5.7
	AfD	Marc Cremer-Thursby		5,450	3.4	2.3	5,662	3.5	2.4
	dieBasis	Inke Meyer		2,400	1.5		1,895	1.2
	Human Environment Animal Protection						1,682	1.0	0.2
	PARTEI	Martin Sommer		2,334	1.5		1,358	0.8	0.7
	Volt	Sören Horn		1,391	0.9		906	0.6
	Team Todenhöfer						850	0.5
	FW	Alexander Feltz		998	0.6		761	0.5	0.3
	Pirates						500	0.3
	ÖDP	Hannes Lincke		450	0.3	0.4	235	0.1	0.1
	du.						188	0.1
	Humanists						149	0.1
	V-Partei3						139	0.1	0.1
	DKP						100	0.1	0.0
	NPD						53	0.0	0.1
	MLPD	Uwe Wagner		137	0.1	0.1	47	0.0	0.1
	Bündnis 21						42	0.0
	LKR						24	0.0
Informal votes				931			605
Total valid votes				160,039			160,365
Turnout				160,970	83.0	2.0
	Greens gain from SPD		Majority	359	0.2

2017 election

Federal election (2017): Hamburg-Eimsbüttel
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 Niels Annen		48,920	31.6	5.9	34,575	22.3	9.1
	CDU	Rüdiger Kruse		44,416	28.7	4.6	41,826	26.9	4.1
	Greens	Anna Gallina		23,220	15.0	2.0	26,372	17.0	1.4
	Left	Żaklin Nastić		16,123	10.4	3.5	19,290	12.4	3.9
	FDP	Ria Schröder		10,537	6.8	4.5	17,463	11.3	6.1
	AfD	Herbert Wolf		8,777	5.7	2.8	9,138	5.9	2.2
	PARTEI						2,427	1.6	0.9
	Independent	Marco Scheffler		1,457	0.9
	Human Environment Animal Protection						1,262	0.8
	ÖDP	Benjamin Krohn		983	0.6		442	0.3	0.1
	DiB						738	0.5
	BGE						605	0.4
	V-Partei³						336	0.2
	FW						327	0.2	0.1
	MLPD	Mustafa Kurt		297	0.2		126	0.1	0.0
	NPD						184	0.1	0.3
	DKP						92	0.1
Informal votes				1,283			810
Total valid votes				154,730			155,203
Turnout				156,013	81.1	5.7
	SPD hold		Majority	4,504	2.9	1.3

2013 election

Federal election (2013): Hamburg-Eimsbüttel
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	Niels Annen		53,105	37.5	13.7	44,492	31.4	4.6
	CDU	N Rüdiger Kruse		47,112	33.3	2.1	43,989	31.1	4.2
	Greens	Anna Gallina		18,399	13.0	13.0	22,074	15.6	2.7
	Left	Kersten Artus		9,728	6.9	2.1	12,137	8.6	1.9
	AfD	Günther Siegert		4,034	2.9		5,197	3.7
	Pirates	Anne Alter		3,352	2.4		3,751	2.6	0.1
	FDP	Burkhardt Müller-Sönksen		3,264	2.3	6.1	9,138	5.9	8.3
	Independent	Marco Scheffler		1,469	1.0
	PARTEI						870	0.6
	NPD	Wolfgang Möller		548	0.4	0.3	551	0.4	0.2
	RENTNER						525	0.4	0.3
	FW	Gregor Voht		427	0.3		397	0.3
	ÖDP						293	0.2	0.1
	MLPD						56	0.0	0.0
Informal votes				1,646			1,444
Total valid votes				141,438			141,640
Turnout				143,084	75.4	0.8
	SPD gain from CDU		Majority	5,993	4.2

2009 election

Federal election (2009): Hamburg-Eimsbüttel
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	Rüdiger Kruse		43,714	31.2	2.5	37,695	26.8	0.6
	Greens	Krista Sager		36,518	26.1	13.5	25,819	18.3	0.4
	SPD	Danial Ilkhanipour		33,364	23.8	21.2	37,722	26.8	10.5
	Left	Herbert Schulz		12,540	8.9	4.6	14,732	10.5	4.3
	FDP	Burkhardt Müller-Sönksen		11,732	8.4	4.7	18,851	13.4	3.9
	Pirates						3,531	2.5
	Independent	Marco Scheffler		1,295	0.9
	NPD	Thorsten Schuster		969	0.7	0.0	799	0.6	0.1
	RENTNER						934	0.7
	ÖDP						428	0.3
	DVU						144	0.1
	MLPD						70	0.0	0.0
Informal votes				1,891			1,298
Total valid votes				140,132			140,725
Turnout				142,023	76.2	4.8
	CDU gain from SPD		Majority	7,196	5.1