| 29 Cuxhaven – Stade II | |
|---|---|
| Electoral district for theBundestag | |
Cuxhaven – Stade II in 2025 | |
| State | Lower Saxony |
| Population | 234,900 (2019) |
| Electorate | 188,602 (2021) |
| Major settlements | Cuxhaven Geestland |
| Area | 2,575.3 km2 |
| Current electoral district | |
| Created | 2009 |
| Party | CDU |
| Member | Christoph Frauenpreiß |
| Elected | 2025 |
Cuxhaven – Stade II is an electoral constituency (German:Wahlkreis) represented in theBundestag. It elects one member viafirst-past-the-post voting. Under the current constituency numbering system, it is designated as constituency 29. It is located in northernLower Saxony, comprising theCuxhaven district and the northern part of theStade district.[1]
Cuxhaven – Stade II was created for the2009 federal election. Since 2025, it has been represented byChristoph Frauenpreiß from theChristian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU). It was previously held byDaniel Schneider of theSocial Democratic Party (SPD).[2]
Cuxhaven – Stade II is located in northernLower Saxony. As of the 2021 federal election, it comprises the entirety of the district of Cuxhaven and the northern part of the district of Stade, specifically the municipality ofDrochtersen and theSamtgemeinden ofNordkehdingen andOldendorf-Himmelpforten.[1]
Cuxhaven – Stade II was created in 2009 and contained parts of the abolished constituencies ofCuxhaven – Osterholz andStade – Cuxhaven. In the 2009 election, it was constituency 30 in the numbering system. Since the 2013 election, it has been constituency 29. Its borders have not changed since its creation.
The constituency was first held byEnak Ferlemann of theChristian Democratic Union (CDU) from 2009 to 2021. Daniel Schneider won it for the Social Democratic Party (SPD) in 2021.
| Election | Member | Party | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Enak Ferlemann | CDU | 38.6 | |
| 2013 | 46.8 | |||
| 2017 | 42.7 | |||
| 2021 | Daniel Schneider | SPD | 36.8 | |
| 2025 | Christoph Frauenpreiß | CDU | 32.7 | |
| Federal election (2025): Cuxhaven – Stade II[3] | |||||||||
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| Notes: | Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. | ||||||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
| CDU | Christoph Frauenpreiß | 50,395 | 32.7 | 45,964 | 29.8 | ||||
| SPD | 46,915 | 30.5 | 37,040 | 24.0 | |||||
| AfD | Sebastian Sieg | 30,472 | 19.8 | 30,933 | 20.0 | ||||
| Greens | Christopher Jesse | 11,030 | 7.2 | 13,656 | 8.8 | ||||
| Left | Hilke Hochheiden | 7,968 | 5.2 | 9,280 | 6.0 | ||||
| FDP | Günter Wichert | 4,166 | 2.7 | 5,823 | 3.8 | ||||
| BSW | 5,729 | 3.7 | |||||||
| Tierschutzpartei | 2,095 | 1.4 | |||||||
| FW | Rüdiger Kurmann | 3,087 | 2.0 | 1,232 | 0.8 | ||||
| Volt | 967 | 0.6 | |||||||
| PARTEI | 635 | 0.4 | |||||||
| dieBasis | 530 | 0.3 | |||||||
| Pirates | 225 | 0.1 | |||||||
| BD | 190 | 0.1 | |||||||
| Humanists | 65 | 0.0 | |||||||
| MLPD | 24 | 0.0 | |||||||
| Informal votes | 1,143 | 788 | |||||||
| Total valid votes | 154,033 | 154,388 | |||||||
| Turnout | 155,176 | 82.9 | |||||||
| CDUgain fromSPD | Majority | 3,480 | 2.2 | ||||||
| Federal election (2021): Cuxhaven – Stade II[4] | |||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
| SPD | Daniel Schneider | 51,417 | 36.8 | 48,858 | 35.0 | ||||
| CDU | 42,085 | 30.1 | 36,586 | 26.2 | |||||
| Greens | Stefan Wenzel | 15,389 | 11.0 | 17,553 | 12.6 | ||||
| AfD | Hans Olaf Kappelt | 10,227 | 7.3 | 11,000 | 7.9 | ||||
| FDP | Günter Wichert | 9,622 | 6.9 | 14,052 | 10.1 | ||||
| Tierschutzpartei | Susanne Berghoff | 2,954 | 2.1 | 2,405 | 1.7 | ||||
| Left | Dietmar Buttler | 2,694 | 1.9 | 3,672 | 2.6 | ||||
| FW | Claudia Theis | 2,102 | 1.5 | 1,535 | 1.1 | ||||
| PARTEI | Dirk Sieling | 1,766 | 1.3 | 1,145 | 0.8 | ||||
| dieBasis | Peter Jens von der Geest | 1,416 | 1.0 | 1,418 | 1.0 | ||||
| Pirates | 433 | 0.3 | |||||||
| Team Todenhöfer | 231 | 0.2 | |||||||
| Volt | 225 | 0.2 | |||||||
| NPD | 180 | 0.1 | |||||||
| V-Partei3 | 100 | 0.1 | |||||||
| Humanists | 90 | 0.1 | |||||||
| ÖDP | 87 | 0.1 | |||||||
| du. | 79 | 0.1 | |||||||
| LKR | 31 | 0.0 | |||||||
| DKP | 20 | 0.0 | |||||||
| MLPD | 16 | 0.0 | |||||||
| Informal votes | 1,067 | 1,023 | |||||||
| Total valid votes | 139,672 | 139,716 | |||||||
| Turnout | 140,739 | 74.6 | |||||||
| SPDgain fromCDU | Majority | 9,332 | 6.7 | ||||||
| Federal election (2017): Cuxhaven – Stade II[5] | |||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
| CDU | 59,930 | 42.7 | 54,163 | 38.5 | |||||
| SPD | Susanne Puvogel | 43,077 | 30.7 | 38,923 | 27.7 | ||||
| AfD | Peter Würdig | 11,862 | 8.5 | 12,650 | 9.0 | ||||
| Greens | Marcel Duda | 8,491 | 6.1 | 9,709 | 6.9 | ||||
| Left | Nadije Memedi | 8,121 | 5.8 | 9,121 | 6.5 | ||||
| FDP | Marco Rützel | 6,984 | 5.0 | 11,483 | 8.2 | ||||
| FW | Lutz Mehrtens | 1,828 | 1.3 | 907 | 0.6 | ||||
| Tierschutzpartei | 1,338 | 1.0 | |||||||
| PARTEI | 890 | 0.6 | |||||||
| Pirates | 410 | 0.3 | |||||||
| NPD | 396 | 0.3 | |||||||
| DM | 181 | 0.1 | |||||||
| BGE | 163 | 0.1 | |||||||
| V-Partei³ | 133 | 0.1 | |||||||
| ÖDP | 106 | 0.1 | |||||||
| DiB | 100 | 0.1 | |||||||
| MLPD | 26 | 0.0 | |||||||
| DKP | 20 | 0.0 | |||||||
| Informal votes | 1,433 | 1,007 | |||||||
| Total valid votes | 140,293 | 140,719 | |||||||
| Turnout | 141,276 | 75.5 | |||||||
| CDUhold | Majority | 16,853 | 12.0 | ||||||
| Federal election (2013): Cuxhaven – Stade II[6] | |||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
| CDU | 63,431 | 46.8 | 59,699 | 43.9 | |||||
| SPD | Gunnar Wegener | 49,395 | 36.4 | 45,534 | 33.5 | ||||
| Greens | Eva Viehoff | 8,326 | 6.1 | 9,592 | 7.1 | ||||
| Left | Guido Hagelstede | 4,904 | 3.6 | 6,241 | 4.6 | ||||
| AfD | Bernhard Vogel | 4,034 | 3.0 | 4,753 | 3.5 | ||||
| FDP | Karl Behn | 1,872 | 1.4 | 4,924 | 3.6 | ||||
| Pirates | Christian Braun | 2,120 | 1.6 | 1,968 | 1.4 | ||||
| NPD | Andreas Haack | 1,306 | 1.0 | 1,270 | 0.9 | ||||
| Tierschutzpartei | 1,074 | 0.8 | |||||||
| FW | 586 | 0.4 | |||||||
| RRP | Gerald Lukas | 273 | 0.2 | ||||||
| PRO | 140 | 0.1 | |||||||
| PBC | 101 | 0.1 | |||||||
| REP | 43 | 0.0 | |||||||
| MLPD | 42 | 0.0 | |||||||
| Informal votes | 1,490 | 1,184 | |||||||
| Total valid votes | 135,661 | 135,967 | |||||||
| Turnout | 137,151 | 73.1 | |||||||
| CDUhold | Majority | 14,036 | 10.4 | ||||||
| Federal election (2009): Cuxhaven – Stade II[7] | |||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
| CDU | Enak Ferlemann | 51,654 | 38.6 | 46,707 | 34.8 | ||||
| SPD | Thurid Küber | 50,481 | 37.7 | 40,643 | 30.3 | ||||
| FDP | Frank Erkner | 10,426 | 7.8 | 17,146 | 12.8 | ||||
| Left | Ulrich Schröder | 10,307 | 7.7 | 11,920 | 8.9 | ||||
| Greens | Beate Adler | 8,379 | 6.3 | 11,885 | 8.9 | ||||
| Pirates | 1,938 | 1.4 | |||||||
| NPD | Helmut Walter | 1,828 | 1.4 | 1,567 | 1.3 | ||||
| Tierschutzpartei | 1,072 | 0.8 | |||||||
| RRP | 945 | 0.7 | |||||||
| Independent | Charlotte Didlap | 847 | 0.6 | ||||||
| DVU | 225 | 0.2 | |||||||
| ÖDP | 173 | 0.1 | |||||||
| MLPD | 28 | 0.0 | |||||||
| Informal votes | 1,902 | 1,575 | |||||||
| Total valid votes | 133,922 | 134,249 | |||||||
| Turnout | 135,824 | 71.8 | |||||||
| CDUwin new seat | Majority | 1,173 | 0.9 | ||||||