| 148 Olpe – Märkischer Kreis I | |
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| Electoral district for theBundestag | |
Olpe – Märkischer Kreis I in 2025 | |
| State | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Population | 276,100 (2019) |
| Electorate | 203,350 (2021) |
| Major settlements | Lüdenscheid Lennestadt Olpe |
| Area | 1,161.5 km2 |
| Current electoral district | |
| Created | 1980 |
| Party | CDU |
| Member | Florian Müller |
| Elected | 2021,2025 |
Olpe – Märkischer Kreis 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 148. It is located in southernNorth Rhine-Westphalia, comprising theOlpe district and the southern part of theMärkischer Kreis district.[1]
Olpe – Märkischer Kreis I was created for the1980 federal election. Since 2021, it has been represented byFlorian Müller of theChristian Democratic Union (CDU).[2]
Olpe – Märkischer Kreis I is located in southernNorth Rhine-Westphalia. As of the 2021 federal election, it comprises the entirety of the Olpe district and the municipalities ofHalver,Herscheid,Kierspe,Lüdenscheid,Meinerzhagen, andSchalksmühle from the Märkischer Kreis district.[1]
Olpe – Märkischer Kreis I was created in 1980, then known asOlpe – Siegen-Wittgenstein II. It acquired its current name in the 2002 election. In the 1980 through 1998 elections, it was constituency 121 in the numbering system. From 2002 through 2009, it was number 150. In the 2013 through 2021 elections, it was number 149. From the 2025 election, it has been number 148.
Originally, the constituency comprised the Olpe district and the municipalities ofFreudenberg,Hilchenbach, andKreuztal from theSiegen-Wittgenstein district. It acquired its current borders in the 2002 election.
| Election | No. | Name | Borders |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 121 | Olpe – Siegen-Wittgenstein II |
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| 1983 | |||
| 1987 | |||
| 1990 | |||
| 1994 | |||
| 1998 | |||
| 2002 | 150 | Olpe – Märkischer Kreis I |
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| 2005 | |||
| 2009 | |||
| 2013 | 149 | ||
| 2017 | |||
| 2021 | |||
| 2025 | 148 |
The constituency has been held by the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) since its creation. It was first represented byWilli Weiskirch from 1980 to 1987, followed byJoachim Grünewald from 1987 to 1994.Hartmut Schauerte became representative in 1994 and served until 2009.Matthias Heider was elected in 2009, and re-elected in 2013 and 2017. He was succeeded by Florian Müller in 2021, and re-elected in 2025.
| Election | Member | Party | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | Willi Weiskirch | CDU | 54.8 | |
| 1983 | 61.1 | |||
| 1987 | Joachim Grünewald | CDU | 57.0 | |
| 1990 | 56.2 | |||
| 1994 | Hartmut Schauerte | CDU | 52.1 | |
| 1998 | 49.9 | |||
| 2002 | 48.2 | |||
| 2005 | 50.8 | |||
| 2009 | Matthias Heider | CDU | 47.4 | |
| 2013 | 51.7 | |||
| 2017 | 47.9 | |||
| 2021 | Florian Müller | CDU | 37.1 | |
| 2025 | 42.1 | |||
| Federal election (2025): Olpe – Märkischer Kreis I[3] | |||||||||
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| Notes: | Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. | ||||||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
| CDU | Florian Müller | 68,241 | 42.1 | 63,117 | 38.9 | ||||
| SPD | Nezahat Baradari | 33,640 | 20.8 | 26,688 | 16.4 | ||||
| AfD | Horst Karpinsky | 32,358 | 20.0 | 33,289 | 20.5 | ||||
| Greens | Matthias Koch | 10,191 | 6.3 | 11,717 | 7.2 | ||||
| Left | Otto Ersching | 8,231 | 5.1 | 8,900 | 5.5 | ||||
| BSW | 6,617 | 4.1 | |||||||
| FDP | Johannes Vogel | 5,650 | 3.5 | 6,416 | 4.0 | ||||
| FW | Marion Linde | 2,102 | 1.3 | 998 | 0.6 | ||||
| Tierschutzpartei | 1,897 | 1.2 | |||||||
| Independent | Axel Turck | 1,519 | 0.9 | ||||||
| PARTEI | 708 | 0.4 | |||||||
| Volt | 591 | 0.4 | |||||||
| dieBasis | 411 | 0.3 | |||||||
| Team Todenhöfer | 253 | 0.2 | |||||||
| 250 | 0.2 | ||||||||
| BD | 243 | 0.1 | |||||||
| Values | 133 | 0.1 | |||||||
| MERA25 | 46 | 0.0 | |||||||
| MLPD | 33 | 0.0 | |||||||
| Pirates | |||||||||
| Bündnis C | |||||||||
| ÖDP | |||||||||
| Gesundheitsforschung | |||||||||
| Humanists | |||||||||
| SGP | 0.0 | ||||||||
| Informal votes | 1,410 | 1,035 | |||||||
| Total valid votes | 161,932 | 162,307 | |||||||
| Turnout | 163,342 | 82.4 | |||||||
| CDUhold | Majority | 34,601 | 21.3 | ||||||
| Federal election (2021): Olpe – Märkischer Kreis I[4] | |||||||||
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| Notes: | Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. | ||||||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
| CDU | Florian Müller | 56,879 | 37.1 | 50,364 | 32.8 | ||||
| SPD | Nezahat Baradari | 45,366 | 29.6 | 42,362 | 27.6 | ||||
| FDP | Johannes Vogel | 15,944 | 10.4 | 19,227 | 12.5 | ||||
| Greens | Holger Thamm | 13,645 | 8.9 | 15,243 | 9.9 | ||||
| AfD | Klaus Heger | 13,104 | 8.5 | 13,100 | 8.5 | ||||
| Left | Otto Ersching | 3,935 | 2.6 | 4,150 | 2.7 | ||||
| Tierschutzpartei | 1,899 | 1.2 | |||||||
| FW | Sabrina Dieckmann | 2,269 | 1.5 | 1,251 | 0.8 | ||||
| dieBasis | Dagmar Welz | 2,021 | 1.3 | 1,676 | 1.1 | ||||
| PARTEI | 1,213 | 0.8 | |||||||
| Team Todenhöfer | 691 | 0.4 | |||||||
| Pirates | 511 | 0.3 | |||||||
| Bündnis C | 326 | 0.2 | |||||||
| Volt | 278 | 0.2 | |||||||
| ÖDP | 265 | 0.2 | |||||||
| LIEBE | 211 | 0.1 | |||||||
| Gesundheitsforschung | 190 | 0.1 | |||||||
| NPD | 181 | 0.1 | |||||||
| LfK | 128 | 0.1 | |||||||
| Humanists | 87 | 0.1 | |||||||
| V-Partei3 | 78 | 0.1 | |||||||
| du. | 69 | 0.0 | |||||||
| DKP | Engelbert Prevorcic | 221 | 0.1 | 60 | 0.0 | ||||
| 46 | 0.0 | ||||||||
| LKR | 27 | 0.0 | |||||||
| MLPD | 26 | 0.0 | |||||||
| SGP | 12 | 0.0 | |||||||
| Informal votes | 1,446 | 1,159 | |||||||
| Total valid votes | 153,384 | 153,671 | |||||||
| Turnout | 154,830 | 76.1 | |||||||
| CDUhold | Majority | 11,513 | 7.5 | ||||||
| Federal election (2017): Olpe – Märkischer Kreis I[5] | |||||||||
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| Notes: | Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. | ||||||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
| CDU | 72,158 | 47.9 | 61,394 | 40.6 | |||||
| SPD | Nezahat Baradari[a] | 39,699 | 26.3 | 35,269 | 23.3 | ||||
| AfD | Klaus Heger | 13,306 | 8.8 | 13,847 | 9.2 | ||||
| FDP | Johannes Vogel | 13,230 | 8.8 | 20,758 | 13.7 | ||||
| Left | Ingeborg Mohr-Simeonidis | 7,197 | 4.8 | 8,205 | 5.4 | ||||
| Greens | Christian Hohn | 5,170 | 3.4 | 6,866 | 4.5 | ||||
| Tierschutzpartei | 975 | 0.6 | |||||||
| PARTEI | 828 | 0.5 | |||||||
| Pirates | 631 | 0.4 | |||||||
| AD-DEMOKRATEN | 482 | 0.3 | |||||||
| NPD | 417 | 0.3 | |||||||
| FW | 371 | 0.2 | |||||||
| ÖDP | 319 | 0.2 | |||||||
| Gesundheitsforschung | 151 | 0.1 | |||||||
| Volksabstimmung | 140 | 0.1 | |||||||
| DM | 139 | 0.1 | |||||||
| DiB | 128 | 0.1 | |||||||
| V-Partei³ | 127 | 0.1 | |||||||
| BGE | 101 | 0.1 | |||||||
| Die Humanisten | 61 | 0.0 | |||||||
| MLPD | 40 | 0.0 | |||||||
| DKP | 27 | 0.0 | |||||||
| SGP | 13 | 0.0 | |||||||
| Informal votes | 1,782 | 1,253 | |||||||
| Total valid votes | 150,760 | 151,289 | |||||||
| Turnout | 152,542 | 73.8 | |||||||
| CDUhold | Majority | 32,459 | 21.6 | ||||||
| Federal election (2013): Olpe – Märkischer Kreis I[6] | |||||||||
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| Notes: | Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. | ||||||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
| CDU | 76,911 | 51.7 | 71,437 | 48.0 | |||||
| SPD | Petra Crone | 48,711 | 32.7 | 42,002 | 28.2 | ||||
| Left | Wolfgang Hoffmann | 5,635 | 3.8 | 7,113 | 4.8 | ||||
| Greens | Kai Bitzer | 5,132 | 3.4 | 7,726 | 5.2 | ||||
| AfD | Hasso Simon | 3,931 | 2.6 | 6,151 | 4.1 | ||||
| FDP | Johannes Vogel | 3,586 | 2.4 | 7,694 | 5.2 | ||||
| Pirates | Bastian Halbe | 2,694 | 1.8 | 2,708 | 1.8 | ||||
| NPD | 1,692 | 1.1 | 1,574 | 1.1 | |||||
| FW | 545 | 0.4 | 505 | 0.3 | |||||
| PARTEI | 488 | 0.3 | |||||||
| Volksabstimmung | 312 | 0.2 | |||||||
| PRO | 275 | 0.2 | |||||||
| ÖDP | 193 | 0.1 | |||||||
| REP | 188 | 0.1 | |||||||
| Nichtwahler | 134 | 0.1 | |||||||
| BIG | 117 | 0.1 | |||||||
| Party of Reason | 101 | 0.1 | |||||||
| RRP | 84 | 0.1 | |||||||
| PSG | 44 | 0.0 | |||||||
| BüSo | 27 | 0.0 | |||||||
| MLPD | 22 | 0.0 | |||||||
| Die Rechte | 20 | 0.0 | |||||||
| Informal votes | 1,632 | 1,554 | |||||||
| Total valid votes | 148,837 | 148,915 | |||||||
| Turnout | 150,469 | 71.4 | |||||||
| CDUhold | Majority | 28,200 | 19.0 | ||||||
| Federal election (2009): Olpe – Märkischer Kreis I[7] | |||||||||
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| Notes: | Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. | ||||||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
| CDU | Matthias Heider | 70,705 | 47.4 | 59,358 | 39.7 | ||||
| SPD | Petra Crone | 42,273 | 28.3 | 36,470 | 24.4 | ||||
| FDP | Johannes Vogel | 15,568 | 10.4 | 25,021 | 16.7 | ||||
| Left | Josef Filippek | 10,100 | 6.8 | 10,797 | 7.2 | ||||
| Greens | Christian Röner | 8,476 | 5.7 | 10,379 | 6.9 | ||||
| Pirates | 1,901 | 1.3 | |||||||
| NPD | Stephan Haase | 2,064 | 1.4 | 1,564 | 1.0 | ||||
| Tierschutzpartei | 978 | 0.7 | |||||||
| FAMILIE | 879 | 0.6 | |||||||
| RENTNER | 673 | 0.5 | |||||||
| REP | 503 | 0.3 | |||||||
| RRP | 281 | 0.2 | |||||||
| Volksabstimmung | 151 | 0.1 | |||||||
| DVU | 119 | 0.1 | |||||||
| Centre | 115 | 0.1 | |||||||
| ÖDP | 108 | 0.1 | |||||||
| MLPD | 40 | 0.0 | |||||||
| PSG | 37 | 0.0 | |||||||
| BüSo | 20 | 0.0 | |||||||
| Informal votes | 1,941 | 1,733 | |||||||
| Total valid votes | 149,186 | 149,394 | |||||||
| Turnout | 151,127 | 70.6 | |||||||
| CDUhold | Majority | 28,432 | 19.1 | ||||||
| Federal election (2005): Olpe – Märkischer Kreis I[8] | |||||||||
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| Notes: | Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. | ||||||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
| CDU | 83,289 | 50.8 | 70,002 | 42.6 | |||||
| SPD | Uwe Beul | 61,628 | 37.6 | 56,319 | 34.3 | ||||
| FDP | Armin Jung | 6,322 | 3.9 | 17,658 | 10.8 | ||||
| Left | Josef Filippek | 6,198 | 3.8 | 7,210 | 4.4 | ||||
| Greens | Fred Hansen | 4,665 | 2.8 | 8,047 | 4.9 | ||||
| NPD | Stephan Haase | 1,823 | 1.1 | 1,414 | 0.9 | ||||
| REP | 805 | 0.5 | |||||||
| Tierschutzpartei | 774 | 0.5 | |||||||
| Familie | 700 | 0.4 | |||||||
| GRAUEN | 441 | 0.3 | |||||||
| PBC | 402 | 0.2 | |||||||
| From Now on... Democracy Through Referendum | 210 | 0.1 | |||||||
| Centre | 61 | 0.0 | |||||||
| MLPD | 60 | 0.0 | |||||||
| Socialist Equality Party | 65 | 0.0 | |||||||
| BüSo | 25 | 0.0 | |||||||
| Informal votes | 2,464 | 2,196 | |||||||
| Total valid votes | 163,925 | 164,193 | |||||||
| Turnout | 166,389 | 77.4 | |||||||
| CDUhold | Majority | 21,661 | 13.2 | ||||||