Berlin-Marzahn – Hellersdorf
# Berlin-Marzahn – Hellersdorf

Berlin-Marzahn-Hellersdorf 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 85. It is located in eastern Berlin, comprising the Marzahn-Hellersdorf borough.

Berlin-Marzahn-Hellersdorf was created for the inaugural 1990 federal election after German reunification. Since 2021, it has been represented by Mario Czaja of Christian Democratic Union (CDU).

## Geography

Berlin-Marzahn-Hellersdorf is located in eastern Berlin. As of the 2021 federal election, it is coterminous with the Marzahn-Hellersdorf borough.

## History

Berlin-Marzahn-Hellersdorf was created after German reunification in 1990. Until 2002, it was named Berlin-Hellersdorf-Marzahn. In the 1990 election, it was constituency 261 in the numbering system. In the 1994 and 1998 elections, it was number 260. In the 2002 through 2009 elections, it was number 86. Since the 2013 election, it has been number 85. Its borders have not changed since its creation.

## Members

Berlin-Marzahn – Hellersdorf was considered a safe seat for The Left and its predecessor Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS), which won the constituency in every election since 1990 and even in the 2002 German federal election, where it was only one of two seats the then-PDS won nationwide. However, Petra Pau, who first won the seat in 2002 following the retirement of incumbent member Gregor Gysi, lost re-election in the 2021 German federal election. She lost by nearly eight percentage points to Mario Czaja (CDU), who had previously won a Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin constituency entirely within the borough (Marzahn-Hellersdorf 5) multiple times by large margins.

| Election | Member | Party | % |
| - | - | - | - |
| 1990 | Gregor Gysi | PDS | 31.7 |
| 1994 | Gregor Gysi | PDS | 48.9 |
| 1998 | Gregor Gysi | PDS | 46.7 |
| 2002 | Petra Pau | PDS | 37.7 |
| 2005 | Petra Pau | LINKE | 42.6 |
| 2009 | Petra Pau | LINKE | 47.6 |
| 2013 | Petra Pau | LINKE | 38.9 |
| 2017 | Petra Pau | LINKE | 34.2 |
| 2021 | Mario Czaja | CDU | 29.4 |

## Election results

### 2021 election

Federal election (2021): Berlin-Marzahn-Hellersdorf :

| 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 | % | ±% |
| | CDU | Mario Czaja | Mario Czaja | 39,543 | 29.4 | 7.1 | 21,954 | 16.4 | 4.5 |
| | Left | N Petra Pau | N Petra Pau | 29,388 | 21.9 | 12.3 | 21,280 | 15.9 | 10.2 |
| | AfD | Thomas Braun | Thomas Braun | 20,910 | 15.6 | 5.0 | 22,596 | 16.8 | 4.8 |
| | SPD | Enrico Bloch | Enrico Bloch | 19,892 | 14.8 | 2.3 | 31,463 | 23.5 | 9.0 |
| | Greens | Anne Thiel-Klein | Anne Thiel-Klein | 8,316 | 6.2 | 2.9 | 11,487 | 8.6 | 4.5 |
| | FDP | Alice Schmidt | Alice Schmidt | 6,180 | 4.6 | 1.1 | 9,804 | 7.3 | 2.0 |
| | Tierschutzpartei | Ina Seidel-Grothe | Ina Seidel-Grothe | 5,539 | 4.1 | | 5,102 | 3.8 | 2.1 |
| | Die Grauen | | | | | | 2,550 | 1.9 | 0.9 |
| | PARTEI | Andrea Schulteisz | Andrea Schulteisz | 2,780 | 2.1 | | 2,196 | 1.6 | 0.0 |
| | dieBasis | Dietmar Lucas | Dietmar Lucas | 1,503 | 1.1 | | | | |
| | FW | | | | | | 1,369 | 1.0 | 0.4 |
| | Gesundheitsforschung | | | | | | 762 | 0.6 | 0.1 |
| | Volt | | | | | | 626 | 0.5 | |
| | Pirates | | | | | | 574 | 0.4 | 0.1 |
| | Team Todenhöfer | | | | | | 526 | 0.4 | |
| | NPD | | | | | | 434 | 0.3 | |
| | DKP | | | | | | 308 | 0.2 | 0.1 |
| | Humanists | | | | | | 288 | 0.2 | |
| | du. | | | | | | 190 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
| | ÖDP | | | | | | 145 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
| | LKR | Axel Scherka | Axel Scherka | 158 | 0.1 | | 141 | 0.1 | |
| | BüSo | | | | | | 104 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
| | V-Partei3 | | | | | | 88 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
| | MLPD | Christa Wolfer | Christa Wolfer | 141 | 0.1 | | 82 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
| | PSG | | | | | | 47 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Informal votes | Informal votes | Informal votes | Informal votes | 2,783 | | | 3,017 | | |
| Total Valid votes | Total Valid votes | Total Valid votes | Total Valid votes | 134,350 | | | 134,116 | | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 137,133 | 69.3 | 0.0 | | | |
| | CDU gain from Left | CDU gain from Left | Majority | 10,155 | 7.5 | | | | |

### 2017 election

Federal election (2017): Berlin-Marzahn-Hellersdorf :

| 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 | % | ±% |
| | Left | Y Petra Pau | Y Petra Pau | 46,782 | 34.2 | 4.7 | 35,698 | 26.1 | 6.8 |
| | CDU | Monika Grütters | Monika Grütters | 30,480 | 22.3 | 3.4 | 28,620 | 20.9 | 5.1 |
| | AfD | Jeannette Auricht | Jeannette Auricht | 28,167 | 20.6 | 15.7 | 29,618 | 21.6 | 15.3 |
| | SPD | Dmitri Geidel | Dmitri Geidel | 17,172 | 12.6 | 4.5 | 19,797 | 14.5 | 5.7 |
| | FDP | Roman-Francesco Rogat | Roman-Francesco Rogat | 4,852 | 3.5 | 2.8 | 7,290 | 5.3 | 3.6 |
| | Greens | Inka Seidel-Grothe | Inka Seidel-Grothe | 4,440 | 3.2 | 0.1 | 5,621 | 4.1 | 0.2 |
| | Tierschutzpartei | | | | | | 2,378 | 1.7 | |
| | PARTEI | | | | | | 2,216 | 1.6 | |
| | FW | Detlef Zelinski | Detlef Zelinski | 2,010 | 1.5 | 0.9 | 899 | 0.7 | 0.1 |
| | Die Grauen | Marianne Seipp | Marianne Seipp | 1,470 | 1.1 | | 1,398 | 1.0 | |
| | MIETERPARTEI | Steffen Doebert | Steffen Doebert | 716 | 0.5 | | | | |
| | Pirates | | | | | | 693 | 0.5 | 2.6 |
| | NPD | Andreas Käfer | Andreas Käfer | 595 | 0.5 | 3.7 | | | |
| | Gesundheitsforschung | | | | | | 577 | 0.4 | |
| | DM | | | | | | 336 | 0.2 | |
| | DiB | | | | | | 328 | 0.2 | |
| | BGE | | | | | | 320 | 0.2 | |
| | Menschliche Welt | | | | | | 227 | 0.2 | |
| | DKP | | | | | | 197 | 0.1 | |
| | ÖDP | | | | | | 160 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
| | du. | | | | | | 156 | 0.1 | |
| | V-Partei³ | | | | | | 146 | 0.1 | |
| | MLPD | | | | | | 106 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
| | BüSo | | | | | | 95 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| | SGP | | | | | | 43 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| | B* | | | | | | 20 | 0.0 | |
| Informal votes | Informal votes | Informal votes | Informal votes | 2,207 | | | 2,053 | | |
| Total Valid votes | Total Valid votes | Total Valid votes | Total Valid votes | 136,785 | | | 136,939 | | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 138,992 | 69.3 | 4.1 | | | |
| | Left hold | Left hold | Majority | 16,302 | 11.9 | 1.3 | | | |

### 2013 election

Federal election (2013): Berlin-Marzahn-Hellersdorf :

| 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 | % | ±% |
| | Left | Y Petra Pau | Y Petra Pau | 50,866 | 38.9 | 8.7 | 43,026 | 32.9 | 7.9 |
| | CDU | Monika Grütters | Monika Grütters | 33,552 | 25.7 | 6.2 | 33,947 | 26.0 | 7.9 |
| | SPD | Iris Spranger | Iris Spranger | 22,341 | 17.1 | 1.0 | 25,103 | 19.2 | 2.7 |
| | AfD | Robin Ebser | Robin Ebser | 6,347 | 4.9 | | 8,319 | 6.4 | |
| | NPD | Fritz Liebenow | Fritz Liebenow | 5,540 | 4.2 | 0.5 | 5,101 | 3.9 | 0.9 |
| | Greens | Stefan Ziller | Stefan Ziller | 4,071 | 3.1 | 2.6 | 5,068 | 3.9 | 3.1 |
| | Pirates | Björn Glienke | Björn Glienke | 3,668 | 2.8 | | 3,996 | 3.1 | 0.3 |
| | FDP | Tom Wesener | Tom Wesener | 938 | 0.7 | 4.8 | 2,278 | 1.7 | 5.9 |
| | PRO | Manfred Rouhs | Manfred Rouhs | 1,101 | 0.8 | | 1,116 | 0.9 | |
| | PARTEI | Lea Joy Friedel | Lea Joy Friedel | 860 | 0.7 | | 1,114 | 0.9 | |
| | FW | Matthias Schmidt | Matthias Schmidt | 717 | 0.5 | | 752 | 0.6 | |
| | Independent | André Otto | André Otto | 499 | 0.4 | | | | |
| | REP | | | | | | 243 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
| | ÖDP | | | | | | 202 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
| | BüSo | Stefan Tolksdorf | Stefan Tolksdorf | 239 | 0.2 | 1.1 | 181 | 0.1 | 0.3 |
| | MLPD | | | | | | 111 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
| | PSG | | | | | | 102 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
| | BIG | | | | | | 73 | 0.1 | |
| Informal votes | Informal votes | Informal votes | Informal votes | 2,078 | | | 2,085 | | |
| Total Valid votes | Total Valid votes | Total Valid votes | Total Valid votes | 130,739 | | | 130,732 | | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 132,817 | 65.1 | 1.8 | | | |
| | Left hold | Left hold | Majority | 17,314 | 13.2 | 15.0 | | | |

### 2009 election

Federal election (2009): Berlin-Marzahn-Hellersdorf :

| 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 | % | ±% |
| | Left | Y Petra Pau | Y Petra Pau | 60,236 | 47.7 | 5.0 | 51,662 | 40.8 | 6.4 |
| | CDU | Monika Grütters | Monika Grütters | 24,563 | 19.4 | 3.3 | 22,875 | 18.1 | 4.0 |
| | SPD | Rudolf Kujath | Rudolf Kujath | 20,336 | 16.1 | 13.0 | 20,906 | 16.5 | 17.6 |
| | Greens | Stefan Ziller | Stefan Ziller | 7,242 | 5.7 | 2.0 | 8,847 | 7.0 | 1.8 |
| | FDP | Klaus Große | Klaus Große | 6,969 | 5.5 | 2.5 | 9,741 | 7.7 | 2.7 |
| | Pirates | | | | | | 4,274 | 3.4 | |
| | NPD | Matthias Wichmann | Matthias Wichmann | 4,725 | 3.7 | 0.0 | 3,832 | 3.0 | 0.2 |
| | Tierschutzpartei | | | | | | 2,189 | 1.7 | |
| | BüSo | Stefan Tolksdorf | Stefan Tolksdorf | 1,564 | 1.2 | 0.3 | 579 | 0.5 | 0.1 |
| | Independent | Jürgen Beck | Jürgen Beck | 766 | 0.6 | | | | |
| | REP | | | | | | 456 | 0.4 | 0.1 |
| | DVU | | | | | | 356 | 0.3 | |
| | DIE VIOLETTEN | | | | | | 249 | 0.2 | |
| | DKP | | | | | | 235 | 0.2 | |
| | ÖDP | | | | | | 189 | 0.1 | |
| | PSG | | | | | | 156 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
| | MLPD | | | | | | 127 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
| Informal votes | Informal votes | Informal votes | Informal votes | 2,496 | | | 2,224 | | |
| Total Valid votes | Total Valid votes | Total Valid votes | Total Valid votes | 126,401 | | | 126,673 | | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 128,897 | 63.4 | 10.1 | | | |
| | Left hold | Left hold | Majority | 35,673 | 28.3 | 14.7 | | | |
