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Hildesheim is a district (Landkreis) in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the districts of Hanover, Peine, Wolfenbüttel, Goslar, Northeim, Holzminden and Hamelin-Pyrmont.
Hildesheim is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany with almost 100,000 inhabitants. It is located in the district of Hildesheim, about 30 km southeast of Hanover on the banks of the Innerste River, which is a small tributary of the Leine River.
Hildesheim is one of the 299 single member constituencies ( German: Wahlkreis) used for the German parliament, the Bundestag. One of thirty constituencies in the state of Lower Saxony, it is coterminous with the county of Hildesheim. The constituency elects one representative under the mixed member proportional representation (MMP) system. Under the current constituency numbering system, it is designated as constituency 48.
The constituency was created as Hildesheim-Stadt und Land for the 1949 election, the first election in West Germany after World War II. It assumed its current name for the 1965 election. After wins for the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in the early elections, it was gained by the Social Democratic Party (SPD) at the 1969 election. At the 2013 election, the CDU candidate Ute Bertram gained the constituency. This was the CDU's first win in the constituency since 1965.