Lahn-Dill

Template:Short description Template:Infobox constituency Lahn-Dill 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 171. It is located in western Hesse, comprising the Lahn-Dill-Kreis district and a small part of the Gießen district.

Lahn-Dill was created for the inaugural 1949 federal election. From 2021 to 2025, it has been represented by Dagmar Schmidt of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). Since 2025 it is represented by Johannes Volkmann of the CDU.

Geography

Lahn-Dill is located in western Hesse. As of the 2021 federal election, it comprises the Lahn-Dill-Kreis district and the municipalities of Biebertal and Wettenberg from the Gießen district.

History

Lahn-Dill was created in 1949, then known as Wetzlar. It acquired its current name in the 1980 election. In the 1949 election, it was Hesse constituency 7 in the numbering system. In the 1953 through 1976 elections, it was number 132. From 1980 through 1998, it was number 130. In 2002 and 2005, it was number 174. In the 2009 election, it was number 173. In the 2013 through 2021 elections, it was number 172. From the 2025 election, it has been number 171.

Originally, the constituency comprised the districts of Wetzlar and Dillkreis. In the 1980 through 1998 elections, it comprised the Lahn-Dill-Kreis district as well as, from the Gießen district, the municipalities of Biebertal and Wettenberg and the Stadtteil of Lützellinden from Gießen municipality. In the 2002 election, it lost the Stadtteil of Lützellinden.

Election	No.	Name	Borders
1949	7	Wetzlar	Wetzlar district Dillkreis district
1953	132
1957
1961
1965
1969
1972
1976
1980	130	Lahn-Dill	Lahn-Dill-Kreis district Gießen district (only Biebertal, Gießen (only Lützellinden Stadtteil), and Wettenberg municipalities)
1983
1987
1990
1994
1998
2002	174		Lahn-Dill-Kreis district Gießen district (only Biebertal and Wettenberg municipalities)
2005
2009	173
2013	172
2017
2021
2025	171

Members

The constituency was first represented by Karl Gaul of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) from 1949 to 1953. Wilhelm Reitz of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) was elected in 1953 and served until 1969. He was succeeded by fellow SPD members Helmut Kater until 1976 and Klaus Daubertshäuser until 1983. Christian Lenzer of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) was elected in 1983, but former member Daubertshäuser regained the constituency in 1987 and served a further two terms. He was succeeded by fellow party member Erika Lotz in 1994, who served until 2002. Helga Lopez of the SPD served from 2005 to 2009, when Sibylle Pfeiffer of the CDU won the constituency. She was succeeded by Hans-Jürgen Irmer in 2017. Dagmar Schmidt regained it for the SPD in 2021.

Election		Member	Party	%
bgcolor=Template:Party color|	1949	Karl Gaul	FDP	29.8
rowspan=4 bgcolor=Template:Party color|	1953	Wilhelm Reitz	SPD	30.6
1957	37.8
1961	45.2
1965	47.8
rowspan=2 bgcolor=Template:Party color|	1969	Helmut Kater	SPD	49.9
1972	55.0
rowspan=2 bgcolor=Template:Party color|	1976	Klaus Daubertshäuser	SPD	47.2
1980	51.5
bgcolor=Template:Party color|	1983	Christian Lenzer	CDU	47.3
rowspan=2 bgcolor=Template:Party color|	1987	Klaus Daubertshäuser	SPD	47.3
1990	45.6
rowspan=3 bgcolor=Template:Party color|	1994	Erika Lotz	SPD	44.8
1998	48.5
2002	46.9
bgcolor=Template:Party color|	2005	Helga Lopez	SPD	42.2
rowspan=2 bgcolor=Template:Party color|	2009	Sibylle Pfeiffer	CDU	41.6
2013	48.1
bgcolor=Template:Party color|	2017	Hans-Jürgen Irmer	CDU	38.3
bgcolor=Template:Party color|	2021	Dagmar Schmidt	SPD	33.1
bgcolor=Template:Party color|	2025	Johannes Volkmann	CDU	34.3

Election results

2025 election

Federal election (2025): Lahn-Dill
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 Green tickY or Red XN denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
		Johannes Volkmann		56,420	34.3	Increase 4.2	49,667	30.2	Increase 5.2
		Red XN Dagmar Schmidt		39,556	24.1	Decrease 9.0	31,086	18.9	Decrease 10.5
		Klaus Niggemann		37,997	23.1	Increase 12.6	37,483	22.8	Increase 11.2
		Jan Marien		11,202	6.8	Decrease 2.3	14,492	8.8	Decrease 2.4
		Tim-Christopher Sinkel		8,678	5.3	Increase 2.1	10,932	6.6	Increase 3.3
							7,007	4.3	New
		Carsten Seelmeyer		4,544	2.8	Decrease 5.2	6,699	4.1	Decrease 7.4
		Felix Müller		3,807	2.3	Decrease 0.7	2,415	1.5	Decrease 0.5
							2,252	1.4	Decrease 0.1
		Dominik Göwel		2,210	1.3	New	1,178	0.7	Increase 0.5
							1,023	0.6	Decrease 0.5
							277	0.2	New
							123	0.1	Steady 0.0
							64	<0.1	Steady 0.0
Informal votes				1,682			1,398
Total valid votes				164,414			164,698
Turnout				166,096	81.6	Increase 7.3
	gain from		Majority	16,864	10.2	N/A

2021 election

Federal election (2021): Lahn-Dill
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 Green tickY or Red XN denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
		Dagmar Schmidt		49,923	33.1	Increase 3.3	44,546	29.4	Increase 4.7
		Red XN Hans-Jürgen Irmer		45,441	30.1	Decrease 8.2	37,725	24.9	Decrease 8.5
		Willi Wagner		15,816	10.5	Decrease 1.2	17,513	11.6	Decrease 2.1
		Caroline Krohn		13,754	9.1	Increase 3.3	16,957	11.2	Increase 4.2
		Carsten Seelmeyer		12,060	8.0	Increase 1.7	17,327	11.4	Increase 1.7
		Christiane Ohnacker		4,756	3.1	Decrease 1.5	5,102	3.4	Decrease 3.3
		Karsten Stahl		4,579	3.0	Increase 1.9	3,051	2.0	Increase 1.0
							2,240	1.5	Increase 0.5
		Niklas Hartmann		2,417	1.6	Increase 0.3	1,636	1.1	Increase 0.1
		Heiko Schuster		2,040	1.4		1,946	1.3
							720	0.5
							524	0.3
							449	0.3	Decrease 0.1
							399	0.3
							382	0.3	Decrease 0.3
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color |	Independent	Manuel Haunsner		259	0.2
							239	0.2
							238	0.2	Decrease 0.1
							119	0.1
							118	0.1	Steady 0.0
							74	0.0	Steady 0.0
	Bündnis 21						39	0.0
							39	0.0
							17	0.0	Steady 0.0
Informal votes				2,349			1,984
Total valid votes				151,045			151,400
Turnout				153,384	74.3	Steady 0.0
	gain from		Majority	4,482	3.0

2017 election

Federal election (2017): Lahn-Dill
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 Green tickY or Red XN denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
		Hans-Jürgen Irmer		58,417	38.3	Decrease 9.8	51,125	33.5	Decrease 8.3
		Dagmar Schmidt		45,375	29.7	Decrease 4.7	37,794	24.7	Decrease 5.6
		Willi Wagner		17,874	11.7		20,931	13.7	Increase 7.9
		Carsten Seelmeyer		9,590	6.3	Increase 4.2	14,821	9.7	Increase 5.3
		Thorben Sämann		8,909	5.8	Decrease 0.2	10,768	7.0	Decrease 0.4
		Tamina Veit		7,116	4.7	Steady 0.0	10,210	6.7	Increase 1.5
		Dominic Harapat		2,024	1.3		1,429	0.9	Increase 0.5
		Engin Eroglu		1,789	1.2		1,564	1.0	Increase 0.2
							1,437	0.9
		Thomas Hantusch		773	0.5	Decrease 1.5	897	0.6	Decrease 1.0
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color |	Independent	Hans-Odo Sattler		687	0.5
							534	0.3	Decrease 1.4
	DM						399	0.3
							361	0.2
							234	0.2
	V-Partei³						173	0.1
							53	0.0
							40	0.0	Steady 0.0
	BüSo						31	0.0	Steady 0.0
Informal votes				2,448			2,201
Total valid votes				152,554			152,801
Turnout				155,002	74.3	Increase 4.6
	hold		Majority	13,042	8.6	Decrease 5.0

2013 election

Federal election (2013): Lahn-Dill
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 Green tickY or Red XN denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
		Green tickY Sibylle Pfeiffer		68,666	48.1	Increase 6.5	59,760	41.8	Increase 7.1
		Dagmar Schmidt		49,213	34.5	Increase 1.4	43,406	30.3	Increase 2.5
		Priska Hinz		8,647	6.1	Decrease 1.6	10,600	7.4	Decrease 1.8
							8,315	5.8
		Hans-Horst Knies		6,603	4.6	Decrease 2.2	7,433	5.2	Decrease 3.2
		Horst Weintraut		3,265	2.3		2,533	1.8	Decrease 0.3
		Wolfgang Berns		3,033	2.1	Decrease 6.8	6,323	4.4	Decrease 10.1
		Thomas Hantusch		2,867	2.0	Steady 0.0	2,253	1.6	Steady 0.0
							1,250	0.9
							566	0.4
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color |	Independent	Andreas Rentzos		541	0.4
							288	0.2	Decrease 0.3
	PRO						213	0.1
	BüSo						63	0.0	Decrease 0.1
							63	0.0
							37	0.0	Steady 0.0
Informal votes				4,108			3,840
Total valid votes				142,835			143,103
Turnout				146,943	69.7	Increase 0.1
	hold		Majority	19,453	13.6	Increase 5.1

2009 election

Federal election (2009): Lahn-Dill
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 Green tickY or Red XN denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
		Sibylle Pfeiffer		60,214	41.6	Increase 1.0	50,391	34.7	Increase 0.2
		Dagmar Schmidt		47,897	33.1	Decrease 9.1	40,485	27.9	Decrease 9.4
		Wolfgang Berns		12,968	9.0	Increase 4.4	21,137	14.6	Increase 3.8
		Priska Hinz		11,032	7.6	Increase 3.2	13,382	9.2	Increase 1.7
		Nerman Göktas		9,815	6.8	Increase 2.1	12,133	8.4	Increase 2.6
							2,972	2.0
		Thorsten Groß		2,922	2.0	Decrease 0.3	2,236	1.5	Decrease 0.4
							1,431	1.0	Increase 0.2
							741	0.5	Decrease 0.4
	BüSo						147	0.1	Steady 0.0
							127	0.1
							40	0.0	Steady 0.0
Informal votes				3,104			2,730
Total valid votes				144,848			145,222
Turnout				147,952	69.6	Decrease 6.1
	gain from		Majority	12,317	8.5