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Five elections, five direct mandates

Bärbel Bas has stood in one constituency only — Duisburg I — and has won it with the most first votes at every federal election since 2009. The constituency number has changed with redistricting; the name has not.

First-vote results, Duisburg I

Erststimmen share of Bärbel Bas (SPD). 2013–2025: The Federal Returning Officer. 2009: City of Duisburg statistics as reported in secondary sources; the federal 2009 page could not be retrieved.
Election	Constituency no.	First-vote share	Result	Source
27 Sep 2009	116	42.2%	Won · first election	City of Duisburg (secondary)
22 Sep 2013	115	46.6%	Won	Federal Returning Officer
24 Sep 2017	115	38.3%	Won	Federal Returning Officer
26 Sep 2021	115	40.3%	Won	Federal Returning Officer
23 Feb 2025	114	39.0%	Won	Federal Returning Officer

Bärbel Bas smiling in a red jacket with a black collar, photographed outdoors — CandidateBärbel Bas, Member of the Bundestag for Duisburg I since 2009.

§Context

Each election in its setting

2009A win in the SPD’s worst yearNationally the SPD fell to 23.0 per cent after the grand coalition. Bas entered Parliament as the party went into opposition.

2013Her highest share46.6 per cent; the SPD joined a grand coalition and she became Parliamentary Executive Director.

2017Her lowest share38.3 per cent as the SPD fell to 20.5 per cent nationally and the AfD entered the Bundestag.

2021SPD the largest party40.3 per cent in Duisburg I; the SPD became the strongest party nationally, which led to her nomination as Bundestag President.

2025Holding the seat in a defeat39.0 per cent in the renumbered constituency 114 while the SPD fell to 16.4 per cent nationally.

Significance. Under the 2023 electoral reform, applied for the first time in 2025, a constituency winner only receives a seat if it is covered by the party’s second-vote result in the Land. Bas’s mandate was covered. Second-vote results and other candidates’ shares are available on the linked pages of the Federal Returning Officer.