243 Nuremberg North
Electoral district for the Bundestag
Nuremberg North in 2025
State	Bavaria
Population	290,300 (2019)
Electorate	187,178 (2025)
Major settlements	Nuremberg (partial)
Area	85.8 km2
Current electoral district
Created	1965
Member	Vacant
Elected	2025

Nuremberg North (German: Nürnberg-Nord) 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 243. It is located in northern Bavaria, comprising the northern part of the city of Nuremberg.^[1]

Nuremberg North was created for the 1965 federal election. Whilst the Christian Social Union won the plurality in the 2025 election, under the new voting system, their candidate did not actually win a seat in the Bundestag. This was due to the distribution of seats won by the CSU being decided by the first (direct) vote percentage of each winning CSU candidate, determining who took the seats. As the CSU candidate got a low vote of 30.2%, the seat will remain vacant throughout the 21st Bundestag.^[2]

Nuremberg North is located in northern Bavaria. As of the 2021 federal election, it comprises the Stadtbezirke 01 through 13, 22 through 30, 64, 65, 70 through 87, and 90 through 95 from the independent city of Nuremberg North.^[1]

Nuremberg North was created in 1965. In the 1965 through 1998 elections, it was constituency 230 in the numbering system. In the 2002 and 2005 elections, it was number 245. In the 2009 through 2021 elections, it was number 244. From the 2025 election, it has been number 243.

Originally, the constituency comprised the northern half of the city of Nuremberg. It acquired its current borders in the 2002 election.

The constituency was first represented by Georg Kurlbaum [de] of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) from 1965 to 1969, followed by fellow SPD member Hans Batz [de] until 1980. Renate Schmidt of the SPD served one term from 1980 to 1983. [[Oscar Schneider|Oscar Schneider]] of the Christian Social Union (CSU) was elected in 1983 and was representative until 1990, when former member Renate Schmidt regained it for the SPD and served another term. Dagmar Wöhrl of the CSU won it in 1994. Günter Gloser [de] of the SPD was elected in 1998. Former member Wöhrl was then re-elected in 2002, and served until 2017. Sebastian Brehm was elected in 2017 and re-elected in 2021. The seat became vacant as a result of the 2025 election.

Under the new voting system implemented for the 2025 election, although the CSU candidate won the most votes in this constituency, due to the low winning percentage, the constituency seat will remain vacant as not enough second (party) votes were won to be allocated this seat.

Federal election (2025): Nuremberg North[3]
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.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	CSU	N Sebastian Brehm		45,420	30.2	1.7	41,084	27.3	3.5
	Greens	Rebecca Lenhard		32,432	21.6	1.0	29,683	19.7	3.9
	SPD	Gabriela Heinrich		26,739	17.8	4.2	23,568	15.6	5.3
	AfD	Roland Alexander Hübscher		18,093	12.0	6.1	18,303	12.1	6.0
	Left	Titus Schüller		14,697	9.8	4.4	19,233	12.8	6.8
	FDP	Katja Hessel		4,976	3.3	4.2	6,530	4.3	5.8
	BSW						5,622	3.7
	FW	Dr. Robert Franz Mahler		2,962	2.0	1.0	1,761	1.2	1.3
	Volt	Christian Penninger		2,243	1.5	0.9	1,582	1.0	0.6
	APT						1,291	0.9	0.3
	PARTEI	Jörg Knapp		1,597	1.1		748	0.5	0.5
	ÖDP	Inga Hager		984	0.7	0.6	488	0.3	0.3
	dieBasis						414	0.3	1.3
	Humanists						158	0.1
	BD						139	0.1
	MLPD	Karin Angelika Podufal		346	0.2	0.1	83	0.1
	BP						56	0.0
Informal votes				889			635
Total valid votes				150,489			150,743
Turnout				151,378	80.9	3.7
	Vacant gain from CSU		Majority

Federal election (2021): Nuremberg North[4]
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.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	CSU	Y Sebastian Brehm		41,027	28.5	2.8	34,349	23.8	3.8
	Greens	Tessa Ganserer		32,541	22.6	9.8	34,055	23.6	8.5
	SPD	Gabriela Heinrich		31,616	21.9	3.7	30,232	20.9	2.7
	FDP	Katja Hessel		10,882	7.5	0.4	14,692	10.2	0.4
	AfD	Martin Sichert		8,485	5.9	3.4	8,887	6.2	3.8
	Left	Titus Schüller		7,726	5.4	4.7	8,627	6.0	5.7
	FW	Thomas Estrada		4,286	3.0	0.9	3,621	2.5	1.3
	dieBasis	Klaus Kinzel		2,777	1.9		2,310	1.6
	Tierschutzpartei						1,662	1.2	0.1
	PARTEI						1,462	1.0	0.4
	Team Todenhöfer						887	0.6
	Pirates	Lukas Küffner		1,849	1.3		784	0.5	0.0
	ÖDP	Christian Rechholz		1,813	1.3	0.4	830	0.6	0.3
	Volt	Christian Penninger		856	0.6		656	0.4
	Humanists						217	0.2
	Unabhängige						204	0.1
	Independent	Markus Eppel		199	0.1
	V-Partei3						192	0.1	0.1
	Gesundheitsforschung						165	0.1	0.0
	BP						125	0.1	0.1
	Bündnis C						118	0.1
	du.						119	0.1
	DKP						88	0.1	0.0
	The Homeland						78	0.1	0.2
	MLPD	Michel Barimis		149	0.1	0.1	56	0.0	0.0
	The III. Path						39	0.0
	LKR						31	0.0
Informal votes				1,006			726
Total valid votes				144,206			144,486
Turnout				145,212	77.1	1.1
	CSU hold		Majority	8,486	5.9	0.2

Federal election (2017): Nuremberg North[5]
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.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	CSU	Sebastian Brehm		45,340	31.3	8.1	40,106	27.6	7.1
	SPD	Gabriela Heinrich		37,068	25.6	6.1	26,456	18.2	8.6
	Greens	Britta Walthelm		18,463	12.7	2.6	21,909	15.1	1.8
	Left	Titus Schüller		14,511	10.0	3.9	16,962	11.7	4.6
	AfD	Martin Sichert		13,398	9.2	5.9	14,503	10.0	5.5
	FDP	Katja Hessel		10,379	7.2	4.5	15,412	10.6	5.2
	PARTEI						2,076	1.4
	FW	Jürgen Horst Dörfler		3,058	2.1	0.5	1,824	1.3	0.2
	Tierschutzpartei						1,595	1.1	0.3
	ÖDP	Manuela Forster		2,342	1.6		1,254	0.9	0.1
	Pirates						809	0.6	2.6
	DiB						448	0.3
	BGE						353	0.2
	V-Partei³						328	0.2
	The Homeland						311	0.2	0.6
	DM						253	0.2
	BP						251	0.2	0.1
	Gesundheitsforschung						203	0.1
	MLPD	Johannes Rupprecht		364	0.3	0.2	124	0.1	0.0
	DKP						108	0.1
	BüSo						18	0.0	0.0
Informal votes				1,282			902
Total valid votes				144,923			145,303
Turnout				146,205	76.1	7.3
	CSU hold		Majority	8,272	5.7	2.0

Federal election (2013): Nuremberg North[6]
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.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	CSU	Y Dagmar Wöhrl		51,829	39.4	2.7	45,748	34.8	4.8
	SPD	Gabriela Heinrich		41,666	31.7	0.8	35,310	26.8	4.6
	Greens	Harald Fuchs		13,336	10.1	1.1	17,444	13.3	2.4
	Left	Harald Weinberg		8,099	6.2	2.0	9,311	7.1	2.3
	AfD	Marcel Claus		4,417	3.4		5,906	4.5
	Pirates	Emanuel Kotzian		4,055	3.1	0.1	4,221	3.2	0.5
	FDP	Tilman Schürer		3,556	2.7	5.3	7,150	5.4	8.4
	FW	Gerhard Emmert		2,134	1.6		1,909	1.5
	The Homeland	Christine Rorich		1,341	1.0	0.7	1,061	0.8	0.6
	Tierschutzpartei						1,032	0.8	0.1
	ÖDP						940	0.7	0.1
	PARTEI	Klaus Hammerlindl		873	0.7
	REP						409	0.3	0.1
	BP						337	0.3	0.1
	DIE FRAUEN						244	0.2
	Independent	Walter Pfleiderer		193	0.1
	DIE VIOLETTEN						165	0.1	0.1
	MLPD	Johannes Rupprecht		122	0.1	0.0	149	0.1	0.0
	Party of Reason						147	0.1
	PRO						81	0.1
	RRP						57	0.0	0.8
	BüSo						26	0.0	0.0
Informal votes				1,053			1,027
Total valid votes				131,621			131,647
Turnout				132,674	68.7	2.5
	CSU hold		Majority	10,163	7.7	2.0

Federal election (2009): Nuremberg North[7]
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.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	CSU	Y Dagmar Wöhrl		48,943	36.6	5.3	40,094	29.9	6.0
	SPD	Günter Gloser		41,246	30.9	9.0	29,751	22.2	11.4
	Greens	Michael Hauck		15,043	11.3	4.1	20,934	15.6	3.2
	Left	Harald Weinberg		10,923	8.2	4.0	12,554	9.4	4.2
	FDP	Andreas Neuner		10,652	8.0	4.1	18,528	13.8	4.8
	Pirates	Emanuel Kotzian		4,268	3.2		4,940	3.7
	The Homeland	Gerhard Schelle		2,320	1.7	0.1	1,835	1.4	0.0
	Tierschutzpartei						1,129	0.8
	RRP						1,081	0.8
	ÖDP						847	0.6
	FAMILIE						620	0.5	0.1
	REP						611	0.5	0.0
	DIE VIOLETTEN						313	0.2
	BP						233	0.2	0.1
	PBC						168	0.1	0.2
	MLPD	Johannes Rupprecht		187	0.1	0.0	106	0.1	0.0
	CM						89	0.1
	DVU						79	0.1
	BüSo						52	0.0	0.0
Informal votes				1,572			1,190
Total valid votes				133,582			133,964
Turnout				135,154	71.2	4.8
	CSU hold		Majority	7,697	5.7	3.6