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.

Wahlkreis 19: Hamburg-Altona
Electoral district for the Bundestag
Hamburg-Altona in 2025
State	Hamburg
Population	267,900 (2019)
Electorate	187,705 (2021)
Major settlements	Altona
Area	77.9 km2
Current electoral district
Created	1949
Party	GRÜNE
Member	Linda Heitmann
Elected	2021

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
1957
1961
1965	13	Altona	Altona borough (excluding Altona-Altstadt/Süd Ortsteil)
1969
1972
1976
1980		Hamburg-Altona	Altona borough
1983
1987
1990
1994
1998
2002	20
2005
2009			Altona borough (excluding Sternschanze)
2013	19		Altona borough
2017
2021
2025

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	%
	1949	Hugo Scharnberg	CDU	41.3
	1953			55.6
	1957	Karl-Wilhelm Berkhan	SPD	42.9
	1961			43.5
	1965			46.7
	1969			55.3
	1972			57.3
	1976	Horst Gobrecht	SPD	50.1
	1980			50.4
	1983			47.4
	1987	Jürgen Echternach	CDU	42.0
	1990	Marliese Dobberthien	SPD	41.8
	1994			40.5
	1998	Olaf Scholz	SPD	48.1
	2002			49.4
	2005			45.9
	2009			36.1
	2013	Matthias Bartke	SPD	34.9
	2017			28.9
	2021	Linda Heitmann	GRÜNE	29.7

Election results

2021 election

Federal election (2021): Hamburg-Altona
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	%	±%
	Greens	Linda Heitmann		45,063	29.7	15.3	46,162	30.4	12.4
	SPD	N Matthias Bartke		43,427	28.6	0.4	38,865	25.6	5.1
	CDU	Marcus Weinberg		25,441	16.8	9.2	22,478	14.8	10.1
	Left	Cansu Özdemir		14,716	9.7	3.9	13,667	9.0	6.7
	FDP	Fabrice Hernicl		12,380	8.2	0.5	16,543	10.9	0.4
	AfD	Bernd Baumann		5,191	3.4	1.7	5,036	3.3	2.2
	dieBasis	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		1,351	0.9		571	0.4
	FW	Daniel Meincke		756	0.5	0.2	524	0.3	0.1
	ÖDP	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		209	0.1	0.0	84	0.1	0.0
	Independent	Bérangère Bultheel		159	0.1
	NPD						56	0.0	0.1
	Bündnis 21						55	0.0
	LKR						24	0.0
Informal votes				837			625
Total valid votes				151,883			152,095
Turnout				152,720	81.4	2.8
	Greens gain from SPD		Majority	1,636	1.1

2017 election

Federal election (2017): Hamburg-Altona
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	Y Matthias Bartke		41,947	28.9	6.0	29,680	20.4	9.3
	CDU	Marcus Weinberg		37,575	25.9	6.5	36,139	24.9	4.6
	Greens	Filiz Demirel		20,817	14.4	0.7	26,036	17.9	1.4
	Left	Robert Jarowoy		19,704	13.6	3.4	22,766	15.7	4.9
	FDP	Katja Suding		12,482	8.6	6.7	16,306	11.2	5.8
	AfD	Bernd Baumann		7,425	5.1	2.8	8,028	5.5	2.3
	PARTEI	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		490	0.3	0.0	341	0.2	0.1
	Independent	Bérangère Bultheel		320	0.2
	Independent	Frank Hofer		286	0.2
	ÖDP						284	0.2
	V-Partei³						284	0.2
	MLPD	Narziss Nianur		256	0.2	0.1	149	0.1	0.0
	Independent	Brigitte Vollmer		156	0.1
	NPD						150	0.1	0.3
	DKP						87	0.1
Informal votes				1,161			864
Total valid votes				144,929			145,226
Turnout				146,090	78.6	4.2
	SPD hold		Majority	4,372	3.0	0.6

2013 election

Federal election (2013): Hamburg-Altona
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	Matthias Bartke		46,918	34.9	0.9	40,009	29.8	4.6
	CDU	Marcus Weinberg		43,609	32.4	2.7	39,581	29.4	3.6
	Greens	Anjes Tjarks		18,380	13.7	0.6	22,167	16.5	2.8
	Left	Jan van Aken		13,759	10.2	0.2	14,525	10.8	1.5
	AfD	Ralf Kettnaker		3,094	2.3		4,321	3.2
	Pirates	Thembi Gräntzdörffer		3,005	2.2		3.630	2.7	0.0
	FDP	Lorenz Flemming		2,627	2.0	6.1	7,353	5.5	7.6
	PARTEI	Beatrice Winkler		1,359	1.0		1,089	0.8
	NPD	Peter Adler		515	0.4	0.2	528	0.4	0.2
	Independent	Joachim Fiedler		505	0.4
	FW	Wolf Achim Wiegand		497	0.4		384	0.3
	RENTNER						420	0.3
	ÖDP						334	0.2	0.2
	MLPD	Jürgen Bader		135	0.1	0.0	123	0.1	0.0
Informal votes				1,454			1,393
Total valid votes				134,403			134,464
Turnout				135,857	74.3	0.6
	SPD hold		Majority	3,309	2.5	3.3

2009 election

Federal election (2009): Hamburg-Altona
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	Y Olaf Scholz		46,522	36.0	9.9	32,633	25.2	10.0
	CDU	Marcus Weinberg		38,969	30.2	3.6	33,916	26.2	2.2
	Greens	Katharina Fegebank		17,799	13.8	2.3	24,462	18.9	0.1
	Left	Bernhard Müller		12,605	9.8	4.9	15,670	12.1	5.5
	FDP	Katja Suding		10,517	8.1	4.8	17,028	13.2	4.1
	Pirates						3,344	2.6
	Independent	Ronald Saß		954	0.7
	NPD	Ursula Winkler		771	0.6	0.1	795	0.6	0.1
	RENTNER						755	0.6
	ÖDP	Karl-Peter Grube		709	0.5		545	0.4
	MLPD	Jürgen Bader		158	0.1		84	0.1	0.0
	BüSo			150	0.1
	DVU						104	0.1
Informal votes				1,475			1,294
Total valid votes				129,155			129,336
Turnout				130,630	75.1	4.7
	SPD hold		Majority	7,553	5.8	6.3