title: Hamburg-Altona (electoral district)
text: # Hamburg-Altona (electoral district)
  
  Hamburg-Altona 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 19. It is located in western Hamburg, comprising the Altona borough.
  
  Hamburg-Altona was created for the inaugural 1949 federal election. Since 2021, it has been represented by Linda Heitmann of the Alliance 90/The Greens.
  
  ## Geography
  
  Hamburg-Altona is located in western Hamburg. As of the 2021 federal election, it is coterminous with the borough of Altona.
  
  ## History
  
  Hamburg-Altona was created in 1949, then known as Hamburg II. From 1965 to 1980, it was simply named Altona. It acquired its current name in the 1980 election. In the inaugural Bundestag election, it was constituency 7 in the numbering system. From 1953 through 1961, it was number 16. From 1965 through 1998, it was number 13. From 2002 through 2009, it was number 20. Since 2013, it has been constituency 19.
  
  Originally, it comprised the entirety of the Altona borough with the exception of the quarters of Altona-Altstadt and the Ortsteil of Altona-Nord/Süd from Altona-Nord. From 1965, it gained the Ortsteil of Altona-Altstadt/Nord, but lost the remainder of Altona-Nord. Since the 1980 election, it has been coterminous with the Altona borough, with a brief exception from 2009–2013 when the newly-created quarter of Sternschanze, administratively part of the Altona borough, remained within the Hamburg Mitte constituency; it was transferred to Hamburg-Altona in the 2013 election.
  
  | Election | No. | Name | Borders |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | 1949 | 7 | Hamburg II | Altona borough (excluding Altona-Altstadt quarter and Altona-Nord/Süd Ortsteil) |
  | 1953 | 16 | Hamburg II | Altona borough (excluding Altona-Altstadt quarter and Altona-Nord/Süd Ortsteil) |
  | 1957 | 16 | Hamburg II | Altona borough (excluding Altona-Altstadt quarter and Altona-Nord/Süd Ortsteil) |
  | 1961 | 16 | Hamburg II | Altona borough (excluding Altona-Altstadt quarter and Altona-Nord/Süd Ortsteil) |
  | 1965 | 13 | Altona | Altona borough (excluding Altona-Altstadt/Süd Ortsteil) |
  | 1969 | 13 | Altona | Altona borough (excluding Altona-Altstadt/Süd Ortsteil) |
  | 1972 | 13 | Altona | Altona borough (excluding Altona-Altstadt/Süd Ortsteil) |
  | 1976 | 13 | Altona | Altona borough (excluding Altona-Altstadt/Süd Ortsteil) |
  | 1980 | 13 | Hamburg-Altona | Altona borough |
  | 1983 | 13 | Hamburg-Altona | Altona borough |
  | 1987 | 13 | Hamburg-Altona | Altona borough |
  | 1990 | 13 | Hamburg-Altona | Altona borough |
  | 1994 | 13 | Hamburg-Altona | Altona borough |
  | 1998 | 13 | Hamburg-Altona | Altona borough |
  | 2002 | 20 | Hamburg-Altona | Altona borough |
  | 2005 | 20 | Hamburg-Altona | Altona borough |
  | 2009 | 20 | Hamburg-Altona | Altona borough (excluding Sternschanze) |
  | 2013 | 19 | Hamburg-Altona | Altona borough |
  | 2017 | 19 | Hamburg-Altona | Altona borough |
  | 2021 | 19 | Hamburg-Altona | Altona borough |
  
  ## Members
  
  The constituency has been held by the Social Democratic Party (SPD) during all but four Bundestag terms since 1949; it returned a representative from the SPD in every federal election from 1957 to 2021 with the exception of 1987. Its first representative was Hugo Scharnberg of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), who served from 1949 to 1957. The SPD's Karl-Wilhelm Berkhan won the constituency in 1957 and served until 1976, when he was succeeded by Horst Gobrecht. The CDU held it for a single term in 1987 under representative Jürgen Echternach; it returned to the SPD's candidate Marliese Dobberthien in 1990. Future Federal Chancellor of Germany Olaf Scholz represented the constituency from 1998 to 2001, when he resigned to become Senator for the Interior of Hamburg. He was elected again in 2002 and was re-elected two times before resigned to take office as First Mayor of Hamburg. In the 2013 election, Matthias Bartke was elected as his successor. In 2021, the constituency was won Linda Heltmann by the Greens.
  
  | Election | Member | Party | % |
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  | 1949 | Hugo Scharnberg | CDU | 41.3 |
  | 1953 | Hugo Scharnberg | CDU | 55.6 |
  | 1957 | Karl-Wilhelm Berkhan | SPD | 42.9 |
  | 1961 | Karl-Wilhelm Berkhan | SPD | 43.5 |
  | 1965 | Karl-Wilhelm Berkhan | SPD | 46.7 |
  | 1969 | Karl-Wilhelm Berkhan | SPD | 55.3 |
  | 1972 | Karl-Wilhelm Berkhan | SPD | 57.3 |
  | 1976 | Horst Gobrecht | SPD | 50.1 |
  | 1980 | Horst Gobrecht | SPD | 50.4 |
  | 1983 | Horst Gobrecht | SPD | 47.4 |
  | 1987 | Jürgen Echternach | CDU | 42.0 |
  | 1990 | Marliese Dobberthien | SPD | 41.8 |
  | 1994 | Marliese Dobberthien | SPD | 40.5 |
  | 1998 | Olaf Scholz | SPD | 48.1 |
  | 2002 | Olaf Scholz | SPD | 49.4 |
  | 2005 | Olaf Scholz | SPD | 45.9 |
  | 2009 | Olaf Scholz | SPD | 36.1 |
  | 2013 | Matthias Bartke | SPD | 34.9 |
  | 2017 | Matthias Bartke | SPD | 28.9 |
  | 2021 | Linda Heitmann | GRÜNE | 29.7 |
  
  ## Election results
  
  ### 2021 election
  
  Federal election (2021): Hamburg-Altona :
  
  | Notes: | 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. | 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. | 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. | 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. | 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. | 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. | 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. | 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. |
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  | Party | Party | Candidate | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% |
  | | Greens | Linda Heitmann | Linda Heitmann | 45,063 | 29.7 | 15.3 | 46,162 | 30.4 | 12.4 |
  | | SPD | N Matthias Bartke | N Matthias Bartke | 43,427 | 28.6 | 0.4 | 38,865 | 25.6 | 5.1 |
  | | CDU | Marcus Weinberg | Marcus Weinberg | 25,441 | 16.8 | 9.2 | 22,478 | 14.8 | 10.1 |
  | | Left | Cansu Özdemir | Cansu Özdemir | 14,716 | 9.7 | 3.9 | 13,667 | 9.0 | 6.7 |
  | | FDP | Fabrice Hernicl | Fabrice Hernicl | 12,380 | 8.2 | 0.5 | 16,543 | 10.9 | 0.4 |
  | | AfD | Bernd Baumann | Bernd Baumann | 5,191 | 3.4 | 1.7 | 5,036 | 3.3 | 2.2 |
  | | dieBasis | Ulrike Zens | Ulrike Zens | 2,619 | 1.7 | | 2,237 | 1.5 | |
  | | PARTEI | | | | | | 1,593 | 1.0 | 0.6 |
  | | Tierschutzpartei | | | | | | 1,405 | 0.9 | 0.2 |
  | | Team Todenhöfer | | | | | | 1,054 | 0.7 | |
  | | Volt | | | | | | 886 | 0.6 | |
  | | Pirates | Frieder Kirsch | Frieder Kirsch | 1,351 | 0.9 | | 571 | 0.4 | |
  | | FW | Daniel Meincke | Daniel Meincke | 756 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 524 | 0.3 | 0.1 |
  | | ÖDP | Kalotta Ahrens | Kalotta Ahrens | 571 | 0.4 | | 246 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
  | | du. | | | | | | 228 | 0.1 | |
  | | V-Partei3 | | | | | | 160 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
  | | Humanists | | | | | | 129 | 0.1 | |
  | | DKP | | | | | | 92 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
  | | MLPD | Christian Kölle | Christian Kölle | 209 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 84 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
  | | Independent | Bérangère Bultheel | Bérangère Bultheel | 159 | 0.1 | | | | |
  | | NPD | | | | | | 56 | 0.0 | 0.1 |
  | | Bündnis 21 | | | | | | 55 | 0.0 | |
  | | LKR | | | | | | 24 | 0.0 | |
  | Informal votes | Informal votes | Informal votes | Informal votes | 837 | | | 625 | | |
  | Total Valid votes | Total Valid votes | Total Valid votes | Total Valid votes | 151,883 | | | 152,095 | | |
  | Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 152,720 | 81.4 | 2.8 | | | |
  | | Greens gain from SPD | Greens gain from SPD | Majority | 1,636 | 1.1 | | | | |
  
  ### 2017 election
  
  Federal election (2017): Hamburg-Altona :
  
  | Notes: | 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. | 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. | 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. | 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. | 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. | 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. | 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. | 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. |
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  | Party | Party | Candidate | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% |
  | | SPD | Y Matthias Bartke | Y Matthias Bartke | 41,947 | 28.9 | 6.0 | 29,680 | 20.4 | 9.3 |
  | | CDU | Marcus Weinberg | Marcus Weinberg | 37,575 | 25.9 | 6.5 | 36,139 | 24.9 | 4.6 |
  | | Greens | Filiz Demirel | Filiz Demirel | 20,817 | 14.4 | 0.7 | 26,036 | 17.9 | 1.4 |
  | | Left | Robert Jarowoy | Robert Jarowoy | 19,704 | 13.6 | 3.4 | 22,766 | 15.7 | 4.9 |
  | | FDP | Katja Suding | Katja Suding | 12,482 | 8.6 | 6.7 | 16,306 | 11.2 | 5.8 |
  | | AfD | Bernd Baumann | Bernd Baumann | 7,425 | 5.1 | 2.8 | 8,028 | 5.5 | 2.3 |
  | | PARTEI | Alexander Grupe | Alexander Grupe | 3,471 | 2.4 | 1.4 | 2,374 | 1.6 | 0.8 |
  | | Tierschutzpartei | | | | | | 1,093 | 0.8 | |
  | | BGE | | | | | | 787 | 0.5 | |
  | | DiB | | | | | | 722 | 0.5 | |
  | | FW | Daniel Meincke | Daniel Meincke | 490 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 341 | 0.2 | 0.1 |
  | | Independent | Bérangère Bultheel | Bérangère Bultheel | 320 | 0.2 | | | | |
  | | Independent | Frank Hofer | Frank Hofer | 286 | 0.2 | | | | |
  | | ÖDP | | | | | | 284 | 0.2 | |
  | | V-Partei³ | | | | | | 284 | 0.2 | |
  | | MLPD | Narziss Nianur | Narziss Nianur | 256 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 149 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
  | | Independent | Brigitte Vollmer | Brigitte Vollmer | 156 | 0.1 | | | | |
  | | NPD | | | | | | 150 | 0.1 | 0.3 |
  | | DKP | | | | | | 87 | 0.1 | |
  | Informal votes | Informal votes | Informal votes | Informal votes | 1,161 | | | 864 | | |
  | Total Valid votes | Total Valid votes | Total Valid votes | Total Valid votes | 144,929 | | | 145,226 | | |
  | Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 146,090 | 78.6 | 4.2 | | | |
  | | SPD hold | SPD hold | Majority | 4,372 | 3.0 | 0.6 | | | |
  
  ### 2013 election
  
  Federal election (2013): Hamburg-Altona :
  
  | Notes: | 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. | 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. | 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. | 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. | 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. | 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. | 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. | 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. |
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  | Party | Party | Candidate | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% |
  | | SPD | Matthias Bartke | Matthias Bartke | 46,918 | 34.9 | 0.9 | 40,009 | 29.8 | 4.6 |
  | | CDU | Marcus Weinberg | Marcus Weinberg | 43,609 | 32.4 | 2.7 | 39,581 | 29.4 | 3.6 |
  | | Greens | Anjes Tjarks | Anjes Tjarks | 18,380 | 13.7 | 0.6 | 22,167 | 16.5 | 2.8 |
  | | Left | Jan van Aken | Jan van Aken | 13,759 | 10.2 | 0.2 | 14,525 | 10.8 | 1.5 |
  | | AfD | Ralf Kettnaker | Ralf Kettnaker | 3,094 | 2.3 | | 4,321 | 3.2 | |
  | | Pirates | Thembi Gräntzdörffer | Thembi Gräntzdörffer | 3,005 | 2.2 | | 3.630 | 2.7 | 0.0 |
  | | FDP | Lorenz Flemming | Lorenz Flemming | 2,627 | 2.0 | 6.1 | 7,353 | 5.5 | 7.6 |
  | | PARTEI | Beatrice Winkler | Beatrice Winkler | 1,359 | 1.0 | | 1,089 | 0.8 | |
  | | NPD | Peter Adler | Peter Adler | 515 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 528 | 0.4 | 0.2 |
  | | Independent | Joachim Fiedler | Joachim Fiedler | 505 | 0.4 | | | | |
  | | FW | Wolf Achim Wiegand | Wolf Achim Wiegand | 497 | 0.4 | | 384 | 0.3 | |
  | | RENTNER | | | | | | 420 | 0.3 | |
  | | ÖDP | | | | | | 334 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
  | | MLPD | Jürgen Bader | Jürgen Bader | 135 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 123 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
  | Informal votes | Informal votes | Informal votes | Informal votes | 1,454 | | | 1,393 | | |
  | Total Valid votes | Total Valid votes | Total Valid votes | Total Valid votes | 134,403 | | | 134,464 | | |
  | Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 135,857 | 74.3 | 0.6 | | | |
  | | SPD hold | SPD hold | Majority | 3,309 | 2.5 | 3.3 | | | |
  
  ### 2009 election
  
  Federal election (2009): Hamburg-Altona :
  
  | Notes: | 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. | 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. | 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. | 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. | 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. | 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. | 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. | 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. |
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  | Party | Party | Candidate | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% |
  | | SPD | Y Olaf Scholz | Y Olaf Scholz | 46,522 | 36.0 | 9.9 | 32,633 | 25.2 | 10.0 |
  | | CDU | Marcus Weinberg | Marcus Weinberg | 38,969 | 30.2 | 3.6 | 33,916 | 26.2 | 2.2 |
  | | Greens | Katharina Fegebank | Katharina Fegebank | 17,799 | 13.8 | 2.3 | 24,462 | 18.9 | 0.1 |
  | | Left | Bernhard Müller | Bernhard Müller | 12,605 | 9.8 | 4.9 | 15,670 | 12.1 | 5.5 |
  | | FDP | Katja Suding | Katja Suding | 10,517 | 8.1 | 4.8 | 17,028 | 13.2 | 4.1 |
  | | Pirates | | | | | | 3,344 | 2.6 | |
  | | Independent | Ronald Saß | Ronald Saß | 954 | 0.7 | | | | |
  | | NPD | Ursula Winkler | Ursula Winkler | 771 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 795 | 0.6 | 0.1 |
  | | RENTNER | | | | | | 755 | 0.6 | |
  | | ÖDP | Karl-Peter Grube | Karl-Peter Grube | 709 | 0.5 | | 545 | 0.4 | |
  | | MLPD | Jürgen Bader | Jürgen Bader | 158 | 0.1 | | 84 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
  | | BüSo | | | 150 | 0.1 | | | | |
  | | DVU | | | | | | 104 | 0.1 | |
  | Informal votes | Informal votes | Informal votes | Informal votes | 1,475 | | | 1,294 | | |
  | Total Valid votes | Total Valid votes | Total Valid votes | Total Valid votes | 129,155 | | | 129,336 | | |
  | Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 130,630 | 75.1 | 4.7 | | | |
  | | SPD hold | SPD hold | Majority | 7,553 | 5.8 | 6.3 | | | |
  