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Berlin Spandau – Charlottenburg North is one of the 299 single member constituencies used for the German parliament, the Bundestag. Located in West Berlin, the constituency was created for the 2002 election, mostly replacing the former constituency of Berlin Spandau.
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The first two elections in 2002 and 2005 were won by the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) though the constituency was gained by the Christian Democratic Union candidate Kai Wegner at the 2009 election.
History and boundaries
The constituency, numbered constituency 79 by the German electoral authorities, contains the whole of the Berlin borough of Spandau. This area formed its own constituency until the 2002 election. For that election, as part of a wider reform which reduced the number of Bundestag constituencies, Berlin lost one of its thirteen seats. Consequently the Spandau constituency expanded to take in the neighbourhood of Charlottenburg-Nord, located in the borough of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf. Prior to 2002, Charlottenburg-Nord was part of the Berlin Tiergarten - Wedding - North Charlottenburg constituency.
The main predecessor constituency, Berlin Spandau had been won by the CDU in 1990 and 1994 and gained by the SPD in 1998.
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The number of residents with German citizenship was 87.0%, a figure just above the Berlin average of 86.6%. 26.0% of residents had qualifications which met the requirements for University entry.
Electoral system
Elections in Germany take place using the Additional Member 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 Spandau - Charlottenburg Nord constituency take place using the First past the post system.
2009 election
Out of a total electorate of 184,436, the total number of votes cast was 126,799 (68.7%) of which 3,098 votes were invalid.
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2005 election
Out of a total electorate of 184,180, the total number of votes cast was 140,504 (76.3%) of which 3,480 votes were invalid.
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2002 election
Out of a total electorate of 184,596, the total number of votes cast was 143,214 (77.6%) of which 2,515 votes were invalid.
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