The constituency, numbered constituency 85 by the German electoral authorities, contains the whole of the Berlin borough of Treptow-Köpenick. This borough, a merger of two former boroughs, was created by the 2001 administrative reform. The Treptow and Köpenick areas were combined for the first time for the 1994 election, having previously been in the short lived constituencies of Berlin Friedrichshain – Treptow – Lichtenberg I and Berlin Köpenick – Lichtenberg II. Both predecessor constituencies were only used for the 1990 election and were won by the Social Democratic Party. In both the 1994 and 1998 elections, the SPD winning margin was 2.8% over the PDS. At the 2002 election, the SPD increased their lead to 9.2%. Under Germany's electoral system, a party must win either 3 constituency seats or poll more than 5% of the vote across Germany as a whole in order to be awarded list seats. The failure of the PDS to win a third constituency here or in other potential seats such as Berlin Pankow or Berlin Kreuzberg-Friedrichshain - Prenzlauer Berg East in 2002 proved crucial to the overall result as it meant the party missed out on 15 list MPs. The 2005 election saw the situation reversed, with the PDS beating the SPD by 7.2%. In the 2009 election, Gregor Gysi, the candidate of The Left, the successors to the PDS, increased his majority to 23.9%. The CDU took second place with the SPD slipping to third place.
Profile
The number of residents with German citizenship was 96.6%, a figure above the Berlin average of 86.6% and the highest figure for any Berlin constituency. 28.8% of residents had qualifications which met the requirements for University entry.
Electoral system
elections take place using the mixed member proportional system. Voters have two votes, one for a constituency MP and one for a regional list to elect representatives for the whole of Berlin city. Elections for the Treptow – Köpenick constituency take place using the first past the post system.
Results
2017 election
Out of a total electorate of 193,339, the total number of votes cast was 152,302 of which 2,498 votes were invalid.
2013 election
2009 election
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2005 election
Out of a total electorate of 193,339, the total number of votes cast was 152,302 of which 2,498 votes were invalid.
2002 election
Out of a total electorate of 189,307, the total number of votes cast was 147,762 of which 1,986 votes were invalid.
