Delmenhorst – Wesermarsch – Oldenburg-Land

28 Delmenhorst – Wesermarsch – Oldenburg-Land
Electoral district for the Bundestag
Delmenhorst – Wesermarsch – Oldenburg-Land in 2025
State	Lower Saxony
Population	297,000 (2019)
Electorate	226,827 (2021)
Major settlements	Delmenhorst Wildeshausen Brake
Area	1,952.1 km2
Current electoral district
Created	1949
Party	SPD
Member	Susanne Mittag
Elected	2021

Delmenhorst – Wesermarsch – Oldenburg-Land 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 28. It is located in northwestern Lower Saxony, comprising the city of Delmenhorst and the districts of Wesermarsch and Landkreis Oldenburg.^[1]

Delmenhorst – Wesermarsch – Oldenburg-Land was created for the inaugural 1949 federal election. Since 2021, it has been represented by Susanne Mittag of the Social Democratic Party (SPD).^[2]

Delmenhorst – Wesermarsch – Oldenburg-Land is located in northwestern Lower Saxony. As of the 2021 federal election, it comprises the independent city of Delmenhorst and the entirety of the districts of Wesermarsch and Landkreis Oldenburg.^[1]

Delmenhorst – Wesermarsch – Oldenburg-Land was created in 1949. In the 1949 election, it was Lower Saxony constituency 7. For the 1953 through 1961 elections, it was constituency 29 in the numbering system. From 1965 through 1998, it was constituency 23; from 2002 through 2009, it was constituency 29. Since the 2013 election, it has been constituency 28.

Originally, it comprised the city of Oldenburg, the district of Wesermarsch, and the municipalities of Dötlingen, Ganderkesee, Hasbergen, Hude, Schönemoor, Stuhr and Wildeshausen from Landkreis Oldenburg. At this time, it was named Delmenhorst – Wesermarsch. Due to administrative reforms, in the 1976 election, it gained the former municipality of Wüsting. In the 1980 election, the constituency gained the entirety of Landkreis Oldenburg. In the 1987 election, it was renamed to Delmenhorst – Wesermarsch – Oldenburg-Land.

The constituency was held by the Social Democratic Party (SPD) from its creation in 1949 until 1953, during which time it was represented by Fritz Ohlig. It was won by the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in 1957, and represented by Hermann Ehlers (until 1957) and then J. Hermann Siemer. In 1961, it was won by the SPD candidate Heinrich Müller, who served for one term. Siemer won the constituency back for the CDU in the following election, but Müller returned again in 1969 and served three terms. He was succeeded in 1980 by fellow SPD candidate Margitta Terborg, who served until 1998. Holger Ortel then held the constituency for the SPD until 2009. CDU candidate Astrid Grotelüschen won in 2009, and was re-elected in 2013 and 2017. Susanne Mittag regained it for the SPD in 2021.

Federal election (2021): Delmenhorst – Wesermarsch – Oldenburg-Land[3]
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	Susanne Mittag		59,377	36.7	3.8	55,621	34.3	6.1
	CDU	Philipp Albrecht		40,410	24.9	9.2	36,649	22.6	10.9
	Greens	Christina-Johanne Schröder		21,202	13.1	5.4	23,973	14.8	6.8
	FDP	Christian Dürr		17,278	10.7	1.6	18,571	11.5	1.3
	AfD	Adam Golkontt		11,999	7.4	1.6	12,987	8.0	1.7
	Left	Christian Suhr		4,931	3.0	3.1	5,046	3.1	3.7
	Human Environment Animal Protection						2,310	1.4	0.5
	PARTEI	Kevin Laukenings		2,600	1.6		1,545	1.0	0.2
	FW	Dieter Holsten		2,165	1.3	0.2	1,555	1.0	0.3
	dieBasis	Frank-Rüdiger Halt		1,905	1.2		1,698	1.0
	Pirates						598	0.4	0.0
	Team Todenhöfer						590	0.4
	Volt						347	0.2
	NPD						150	0.1	0.2
	Humanists						134	0.1
	V-Partei3						108	0.1	0.1
	ÖDP						87	0.1	0.0
	du.						83	0.1
	LKR	Thomas Rappers		105	0.1		57	0.0
	DKP						26	0.0	0.0
	MLPD						23	0.0	0.0
Informal votes				1,781			1,595
Total valid votes				161,972			162,158
Turnout				163,753	72.2	2.6
	SPD gain from CDU		Majority	18,967	11.8

Federal election (2017): Delmenhorst – Wesermarsch – Oldenburg-Land[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. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	CDU	Y Astrid Grotelüschen		57,390	34.1	5.6	56,526	33.5	5.5
	SPD	Susanne Mittag		55,326	32.9	6.5	47,622	28.2	5.9
	FDP	Christian Dürr		15,208	9.0	5.8	17,076	10.1	5.1
	AfD	Herbert Sobierei		15,122	9.0	5.7	16,392	9.7	5.8
	Greens	Christina-Johanne Schröder		12,933	7.7	1.6	13,525	8.0	0.1
	Left	Manuel Paschke		10,262	6.1	1.6	11,567	6.9	1.4
	FW	Johann Holsten		1,987	1.2	0.4	1,094	0.6	0.0
	Human Environment Animal Protection						1,498	0.9	0.0
	PARTEI						1,302	0.8
	Pirates						605	0.4	1.2
	NPD						449	0.3	0.7
	DM						308	0.2
	BGE						235	0.1
	V-Partei³						227	0.1
	DiB						157	0.1
	ÖDP						154	0.1
	MLPD						46	0.0	0.0
	DKP						36	0.0
Informal votes				1,966			1,375
Total valid votes				168,228			168,819
Turnout				170,194	74.7	3.3
	CDU hold		Majority	2,064	1.2	0.9

Federal election (2013): Delmenhorst – Wesermarsch – Oldenburg-Land[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. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	CDU	Y Astrid Grotelüschen		63,832	39.7	4.5	62,620	38.9	7.8
	SPD	Susanne Mittag		63,256	39.4	4.7	54,848	34.1	5.4
	Greens	Dragos Pancescu		9,784	6.1	3.0	13,059	8.1	2.4
	Left	Thomas Bartsch		7,273	4.5	4.1	8,814	5.5	4.5
	AfD	Christian Pothin		5,292	3.3		6,359	4.0
	FDP	Angelika Brunkhorst		5,263	3.3	6.9	8,035	5.0	9.5
	Pirates	Andreas Neugebauer		2,747	1.7		2,577	1.6	0.2
	NPD	Dennis Dormuth		1,655	1.0	0.4	1,612	1.0	0.3
	Human Environment Animal Protection						1,390	0.9	0.1
	FW	Arnold Hansen		1,299	0.8		1,072	0.7
	RRP	Harry Kowitz		238	0.1	0.6
	PRO						183	0.1
	REP						97	0.1
	PBC						80	0.0
	MLPD						41	0.0	0.0
Informal votes				2,059			1,911
Total valid votes				160,639			160,787
Turnout				162,698	71.4	0.1
	CDU hold		Majority	576	0.3	0.3

Federal election (2009): Delmenhorst – Wesermarsch – Oldenburg-Land[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. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	CDU	Astrid Grotelüschen		56,273	35.3	0.9	49,810	31.2	2.4
	SPD	N Holger Ortel		55,374	34.7	15.4	45,895	28.7	17.5
	FDP	Angelika Brunkhorst		16,163	10.1	5.1	23,109	14.5	4.1
	Greens	Werner Köhler		14,446	9.1	4.3	16,731	10.5	3.3
	Left	Edgar di Benedetto		13,751	8.6	4.6	15,906	10.0	5.1
	Pirates						2,879	1.8
	NPD	Florian Cordes		2,346	1.5	0.2	2,009	1.3	0.0
	Human Environment Animal Protection						1,519	1.0	0.3
	RRP	Brigitte Ottilie Kaiser		1,261	0.8		1,506	0.9
	ÖDP						179	0.1
	DVU						171	0.1
	MLPD						49	0.0	0.0
Informal votes				1,970			1,821
Total valid votes				159,614			159,763
Turnout				161,584	71.4	6.7
	CDU gain from SPD		Majority	899	0.6