53 Göttingen I
Electoral district for theBundestag
Göttingen in 2025
State	Lower Saxony
Population	284,700 (2019)
Electorate	214,542 (2021)
Major settlements	Göttingen Hann. Münden Duderstadt
Area	1,265.2 km2
Current electoral district
Created	1949
Party	CDU
Member	Fritz Güntzler
Elected	2025

Göttingen I 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 53. It is located in southernLower Saxony, comprising most of theGöttingen district.^[1]

Göttingen was created for the inaugural1949 federal election. Since 2021, it has been represented byAndreas Philippi of theSocial Democratic Party (SPD).^[2]

At the2025 German federal election, the constituency will be renamedGöttingen I.^[3]

Göttingen is located in southernLower Saxony. As of the 2021 federal election, it comprises the district of Göttingen excluding the municipalities ofBad Grund,Osterode am Harz, andWalkenried, theSamtgemeinde ofHattorf am Harz, and theHarz area.^[1]

Göttingen was created in 1949, then known asGöttingen – Münden. It acquired its current name in the 1965 election. In the inaugural Bundestag election, it was Lower Saxony constituency 34 in the numbering system. From 1953 through 1961, it was number 56. From 1965 through 1998, it was number 49. In the 2002 and 2005 elections, it was number 53. In the 2009 election, it was number 54. Since the 2013 election, it has been number 53.

Originally, the constituency comprised the independent city ofGöttingen and the districts of Göttingen and Münden. In the 1965 through 1972 elections, it comprised the districts of Göttingen, Münden, and Duderstadt, and the municipality of Fürstenhagen from theNortheim district. In the 1976 election, it comprised the Göttingen and the municipality of Fürstenhagen from the Northeim district. In the 1980 through 1998 elections, it comprised only the district of Göttingen. In the 2002 though 2013 elections, it comprised the district of Göttingen and the municipalities of Bad Lauterberg, Bad Sachsa, and Herzberg am Harz from the district of Osterode. Osterode district was merged into Göttingen ahead of the 2017 election, but the constituency's borders did not change.

The constituency was first held byArno Hennig of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), who served from 1949 to 1953.Walter Drechsel of theFree Democratic Party (FDP) was elected in 1953 and served a single term.Franz Blücher,Vice-Chancellor of Germany and former chairman of the FDP, was elected as candidate for theGerman Party in 1957. He died in 1959, and was succeeded byGünter Frede of the SPD in the 1961 election. TheChristian Democratic Union (CDU) won the constituency in 1965, andWilly Steinmetz served a single term as representative.Günter Wichert was elected in 1969 and served two terms. Fellow SPD memberLothar Curdt served from 1976 to 1983. In 1983,Hans Hugo Klein won the constituency for the CDU, and was succeeded in 1987 byRita Süssmuth, also of the CDU. Süssmuth served asPresident of the Bundestag from 1988 to 1998. The SPD regained the constituency with candidateInge Wettig-Danielmeier in 1998. In 2005,Thomas Oppermann was elected representative. He was re-elected in 2009, 2013, and 2017. Oppermann died in October 2020.Andreas Philippi was elected as his successor in 2021.

Federal election (2025): Göttingen[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. AY orN denotes status of anyincumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	CDU	Fritz Güntzler		50,738	29.1	2.2	44,788	25.6	4.1
	SPD	Thorsten Heinze		44,620	25.6	6.6	38,345	22.0	10.0
	Greens	Viola von Cramon-Taubadel		26,770	15.4	7.9	27,390	15.7	4.6
	AfD	Erik Heß		24,752	14.2		25,266	14.5	8.4
	Left	Thomas Goes		15,937	9.1	4.1	19,429	11.1	6.1
	BSW						6,601	3.8
	FDP	Konstantin Kuhle		6,320	3.6	5.9	6,911	4.0	5.8
	Volt	Tarek Zaibi		2,557	1.5		1,199	0.7	0.4
	FW	Dirk Kaitschick		2,217	1.3		1,126	0.6	0.1
	Tierschutzpartei						1,864	1.1	0.0
	PARTEI						756	0.4	0.6
	dieBasis					2.1	300	0.2	0.8
	MLPD	Kay Langemeier		292	0.1	0.0	84	0.0	0.0
	Pirates						262	0.2	0.2
	BD						179	0.1
	Humanists						127	0.1	0.0
	Team Todenhöfer								0.2
	ÖDP								0.1
Informal votes				1,341			917
Total valid votes				174,203			174,627
Turnout				175,544	83.5	8.1
	CDUgain fromSPD		Majority	6,118	3.5	8.8

Federal election (2021): Göttingen[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. AY orN denotes status of anyincumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	SPD	Andreas Philippi		51,385	32.2	2.7	51,180	31.9	3.7
	CDU	Fritz Güntzler		42,958	26.9	6.3	34,588	21.6	8.6
	Greens	Jürgen Trittin		37,060	23.2	11.9	32,448	20.2	8.6
	FDP	Konstantin Kuhle		15,261	9.6	5.0	15,638	9.8	0.6
	AfD						9,785	6.1	1.8
	Left	Thomas Goes		8,057	5.1	0.8	8,132	5.1	3.6
	Tierschutzpartei						1,713	1.1	0.2
	PARTEI						1,625	1.0	0.0
	dieBasis	Gabriele Winkel		3,428	2.1		1,570	1.0
	FW						1,259	0.8	0.2
	Pirates						569	0.4	0.1
	Volt						512	0.3
	Team Todenhöfer						379	0.2
	NPD						174	0.1	0.1
	Humanists						164	0.1
	ÖDP						136	0.1	0.0
	V-Partei3						125	0.1	0.1
	du.						111	0.1
	LKR	Olaf Töpperwien		767	0.5		78	0.0
	DKP	Manfred Sohn		329	0.2		73	0.0	0.0
	MLPD	Kay Langemeier		232	0.1	0.0	46	0.0	0.0
Informal votes				2,399			1,571
Total valid votes				159,477			160,305
Turnout				161,876	75.5	1.9
	SPDhold		Majority	8,427	5.3	3.7

Federal election (2017): Göttingen[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. AY orN denotes status of anyincumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	SPD	YThomas Oppermann		59,032	34.9	5.5	47,871	28.3	4.8
	CDU	Fritz Güntzler		56,250	33.3	4.9	51,177	30.2	5.7
	Greens	Jürgen Trittin		19,131	11.3	1.1	19,676	11.6	0.6
	AfD	Pierre Hillebrecht		11,870	7.0		13,446	7.9	4.2
	Left	Konrad Kelm		9,905	5.9	0.6	14,748	8.7	2.4
	FDP	Konstantin Kuhle		7,734	4.6	3.0	15,421	9.1	5.0
	PARTEI	Christian Prachar		2,159	1.3		1,776	1.0
	Tierschutzpartei						1,434	0.8	0.1
	FW	Rainer Nowak		1,458	0.9	0.5	1,063	0.6	0.2
	Pirates	Dana Maria Rotter		1,400	0.8	1.1	785	0.5	1.5
	NPD						423	0.2	0.5
	BGE						401	0.2
	DiB						315	0.2
	DM						253	0.1
	V-Partei³						224	0.1
	ÖDP						163	0.1
	MLPD	Kay Langemeier		169	0.1		76	0.0	0.0
	DKP						72	0.0
Informal votes				1,439			1,223
Total valid votes				169,108			169,324
Turnout				170,547	77.4	2.7
	SPDhold		Majority	2,782	1.6	0.6

Federal election (2013): Göttingen[7]
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. AY orN denotes status of anyincumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	SPD	YThomas Oppermann		66,192	40.4	3.6	54,410	33.1	3.5
	CDU	Fritz Güntzler		62,558	38.2	3.8	59,000	35.9	7.1
	Greens	Jürgen Trittin		16,740	10.2	2.8	20,076	12.2	2.2
	Left	Gerhard Nier		8,581	5.2	2.4	10,432	6.3	2.5
	AfD						6,121	3.7
	Pirates	Niels-Arne Münch		3,219	2.0		3,173	1.9	0.3
	FDP	Lutz Knopek		2,633	1.6	4.9	6,667	4.1	9.4
	FW	Theodor Sommer		2,187	1.3		1,427	0.9
	NPD	Marco Borrmann		1,730	1.1	0.4	1,280	0.8	0.5
	Tierschutzpartei						1,178	0.7	0.0
	PRO						234	0.1
	PBC						145	0.1
	REP						93	0.1
	MLPD						67	0.0	0.0
Informal votes				1,974			1,511
Total valid votes				163,840			164,303
Turnout				165,814	74.7	0.5
	SPDhold		Majority	3,634	2.2	0.2

Federal election (2009): Göttingen[8]
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. AY orN denotes status of anyincumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	SPD	YThomas Oppermann		60,483	36.8	10.0	48,788	29.6	12.5
	CDU	Hartwig Fischer		56,503	34.4	1.3	47,343	28.8	1.7
	Greens	Jürgen Trittin		21,360	13.0	5.2	23,708	14.4	3.7
	Left	Gerd Nier		12,493	7.6	3.3	14,635	8.9	3.7
	FDP	Lutz Knopek		10,765	6.6	3.0	22,086	13.4	4.5
	Pirates						3,707	2.3
	NPD	Michael Hahn		2,323	1.4	0.1	2,072	1.3	0.1
	Tierschutzpartei						1,176	0.7	0.2
	RRP						724	0.4
	Independent	Bayram Kurnaz		361	0.2
	ÖDP						195	0.1
	DVU						115	0.1
	MLPD						58	0.0	0.0
Informal votes				2,227			1,908
Total valid votes				164,288			164,607
Turnout				166,515	74.2	5.6
	SPDhold		Majority	3,980	2.4	8.7

Federal election (2005):Göttingen[9]
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. AY orN denotes status of anyincumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	SPD	Thomas Oppermann		83,493	46.8	0.6	75,126	42.1	4.1
	CDU	Hartwig Fischer		63,639	35.7	0.1	54,431	30.5	2.1
	Greens	Jürgen Trittin		13,854	7.8	1.9	19,066	10.7	0.2
	Left	Sabine Lösing		7,624	4.3	2.8	9,267	5.2	3.5
	FDP	Norbert Ullrich		6,324	3.5	0.9	15,980	9.0	2.3
	NPD	Daniel Hubert		2,356	1.3	0.6	2,353	1.3	0.8
	Tierschutzpartei						941	0.5	0.2
	GRAUEN						762	0.4	0.2
	Independent	Helga Bürmann-Hackbarth		673	0.4
	Independent	Al-Masri Mansour		309	0.2
	PBC						232	0.1	0.0
	Pro German Center – Pro D-Mark Initiative						142	0.1
	BüSo						94	0.1	0.0
	MLPD						85	0.0
Informal votes				2,425			2,218
Total valid votes				178,272			178,479
Turnout				180,697	79.8	1.4
	SPDhold		Majority	19,854	11.1

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