Celle – Uelzen

44 Celle – Uelzen
Electoral district for the Bundestag
Celle – Uelzen in 2025
State	Lower Saxony
Population	271,400 (2019)
Electorate	214,482 (2021)
Major settlements	Celle Uelzen
Area	3,013.4 km2
Current electoral district
Created	1949
Party	CDU
Member	Henning Otte
Elected	2009, 2013, 2017, 2021

Celle – Uelzen 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 44. It is located in eastern Lower Saxony, comprising the districts of Celle and Uelzen.

Celle – Uelzen was created for the inaugural 1949 federal election. Since 2009, it has been represented by Henning Otte of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).

Geography

Celle – Uelzen is located in eastern Lower Saxony. As of the 2021 federal election, it comprises the entirety of the districts of Celle and Uelzen.

History

Celle – Uelzen was created in 1949, then known as Celle. It acquired its current name in the 1980 election. In the inaugural Bundestag election, it was Lower Saxony constituency 16 in the numbering system. From 1953 through 1961, it was number 38. From 1965 through 1998, it was number 39. In the 2002 and 2005 elections, it was number 44. In the 2009 election, it was number 45. Since the 2013 election, it has been number 44.

Originally, the constituency comprised the independent city of Celle, the district of Celle, and the municipalities of Burgdorf and Uetze from the Burgdorf district. In the 1965 election, it lost the Uetze municipality while acquiring the rest of the Burgdorf district. For the 1976 election, it comprised the Celle district and the municipalities of Burgdorf, Burgwedel, Isernhagen, Lehrte, Sehnde, and Wedemark from the Landkreis Hannover district. It acquired its current borders in the 1980 election.

Election	No.	Name	Borders
1949	16	Celle	Celle city Celle district Burgdorf district (only Burgdorf and Uetze municipalities)
1953	38
1957
1961
1965	39		Celle city Celle district Burgdorf district (excluding Uetze municipality)
1969
1972
1976			Celle district Landkreis Hannover district (only Burgdorf, Burgwedel, Isernhagen, Lehrte, Sehnde, and Wedemark municipalities)
1980		Celle – Uelzen	Celle district Uelzen district
1983
1987
1990
1994
1998
2002	44
2005
2009	45
2013	44
2017
2021
2025

Members

The constituency was first held by Lisa Korspeter of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), who served from 1949 to 1957. Margot Kalinke of the German Party (DP) won in 1957 and served a single term. She was succeeded by Wilhelm Brese of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), who served 1961 to 1969. Party fellow Hans Hubrig served from 1969 to 1972, when the SPD won the constituency. Klaus-Jürgen Hedrich served from 1972 to 1976, when Hubrig again won. He served until 1983. Olaf Sund of the CDU served from then until 1998, when the SPD's Peter Struck won the constituency. In 2009, Henning Otte of the CDU was elected representative. He was re-elected in 2013, 2017, and 2021.

Election		Member	Party	%
	1949	Lisa Korspeter	SPD	27.9
	1953			25.5
	1957	Margot Kalinke	DP	39.4
	1961	Wilhelm Brese	CDU	42.4
	1965			49.3
	1969	Hans Hubrig	CDU	48.3
	1972	Olaf Sund	SPD	47.6
	1976	Hans Hubrig	CDU	49.2
	1980			46.9
	1983	Klaus-Jürgen Hedrich	CDU	53.3
	1987			49.4
	1990			51.3
	1994			49.5
	1998	Peter Struck	SPD	48.6
	2002			50.1
	2005			46.7
	2009	Henning Otte	CDU	44.2
	2013			48.5
	2017			42.7
	2021			32.9

Election results

2021 election

Federal election (2021): Celle – Uelzen
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 Henning Otte		51,504	32.9	9.8	40,993	26.1	10.4
	SPD	Dirk-Ulrich Mende		50,635	32.3	2.4	48,332	30.8	5.4
	Greens	Markus Jordan		18,773	12.0	6.2	21,882	14.0	6.2
	AfD	Thomas Ehrhorn		14,498	9.3	0.8	14,423	9.2	1.7
	FDP	Anja Schulz		13,412	8.6	3.1	17,990	11.5	1.3
	Left	Christoph Podstawa		4,357	2.8	2.1	4,680	3.0	2.8
	Human Environment Animal Protection						2,169	1.4	0.5
	dieBasis						1,592	1.0
	FW	Philip Siebold		3,399	2.2	1.1	1,578	1.0	0.5
	PARTEI						1,454	0.9	0.1
	Pirates						566	0.4	0.1
	Volt						266	0.2
	Team Todenhöfer						225	0.1
	NPD						176	0.1	0.2
	ÖDP						128	0.1	0.0
	V-Partei3						124	0.1	0.0
	Humanists						99	0.1
	du.						75	0.0
	Independent	Andrew Schlüter		56	0.0
	DKP						34	0.0	0.0
	LKR						28	0.0
	MLPD						16	0.0	0.0
Informal votes				1,388			1,192
Total valid votes				156,634			156,830
Turnout				158,022	73.7	1.9
	CDU hold		Majority	869	0.6	12.1

2017 election

Federal election (2017): Celle – Uelzen
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 Henning Otte		68,655	42.7	5.8	58,858	36.6	7.5
	SPD	Kirsten Lühmann		48,189	30.0	4.3	40,899	25.4	4.7
	AfD	Thomas Ehrhorn		16,199	10.1	5.8	17,554	10.9	5.9
	Greens	Heiko Wundram		9,266	5.8	0.4	12,478	7.8	0.0
	FDP	Anja Schulz		8,830	5.5	4.1	16,334	10.1	6.0
	Left	Paul Stern		7,901	4.9	1.3	9,297	5.8	1.2
	FW			1,756	1.1	0.2	888	0.6	0.1
	Human Environment Animal Protection						1,436	0.9	0.1
	PARTEI						1,331	0.8
	Pirates						476	0.3	1.4
	NPD						438	0.3	0.7
	DM						232	0.1
	BGE						217	0.1
	DiB						176	0.1
	V-Partei³						176	0.1
	ÖDP						145	0.1
	MLPD						49	0.0	0.0
	DKP						22	0.0
Informal votes				1,349			1,139
Total valid votes				160,796			161,006
Turnout				162,145	75.6	2.6
	CDU hold		Majority	20,466	12.7	1.6

2013 election

Federal election (2013): Celle – Uelzen
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 Henning Otte		75,369	48.5	4.3	68,568	44.0	8.4
	SPD	Kirsten Lühmann		53,237	34.2	1.9	46,931	30.1	2.9
	Greens	Bernd Ebeling		9,563	6.1	0.8	12,071	7.8	1.7
	AfD	Thomas Ehrhorn		6,591	4.2		7,722	5.0
	Left	Behiye Uca		5,655	3.6	2.9	7,085	4.6	3.0
	FDP	Ralf Josef Überheim		2,091	1.3	6.0	6,478	4.2	10.2
	Pirates						2,673	1.7	0.2
	NPD	Joachim Nahtz		1,677	1.1	0.5	1,511	1.0	0.5
	FW	Klaus Prigge		1,313	0.8		982	0.6
	Human Environment Animal Protection						1,173	0.8	0.0
	PBC						183	0.1
	PRO						144	0.1
	REP						149	0.1
	MLPD						27	0.0	0.0
Informal votes				1,562			1,361
Total valid votes				155,496			155,697
Turnout				157,058	73.0	0.6
	CDU hold		Majority	22,132	14.3	2.4

2009 election

Federal election (2009): Celle – Uelzen
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	Henning Otte		68,572	44.2	2.7	55,393	35.6	0.7
	SPD	Kirsten Lühmann		50,107	32.3	14.4	42,402	27.3	13.3
	FDP	Ralf Überheim		11,351	7.3	3.7	22,295	14.3	4.8
	Greens	Sabine Brunke-Reubold		10,801	7.0	3.9	14,770	9.5	3.0
	Left	Enrico Schülbe		10,130	6.5	3.3	11,765	7.6	3.4
	Pirates						2,957	1.9
	NPD	Manfred Börm		2,501	1.6	0.1	2,291	1.5	0.1
	RRP	Margarete Rose		1,684	1.1		2,023	1.3
	Human Environment Animal Protection						1,130	0.7	0.1
	ÖDP						190	0.1
	DVU						180	0.1
	MLPD						40	0.0	0.0
Informal votes				1,991			1,701
Total valid votes				155,146			155,436
Turnout				157,137	72.3	6.7
	CDU gain from SPD		Majority	18,465	11.9