Municipal council elections in Styria 2020

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Municipal council elections in Styria 2020
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2020


The municipal council elections in Styria 2020 were originally supposed to take place on March 22, 2020. An early voting took place on March 13, 2020. The original election date was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic on March 12, 2020 and the elections were postponed indefinitely. However, the early election date on March 13, 2020 was kept, although interest turned out to be less than last.

June 28, 2020 has been set as an alternative date. As a result of the postponement, first-time voters lose their right to vote in some cases after the deadline (6 January 2020) for the voter register remains unchanged. The votes already cast in the early voting remain valid. Due to the COVID pandemic, hygiene rules such as mask compulsory in the voting buildings, the use of one's own writing instrument or disposable writing instrument, as well as regular disinfection of the desk and standing desk areas in the voting booth have been established.

Over 173,000 voting cards were issued for the election, more than three times the number compared to 2015. In 2020, 804,095 people are entitled to vote, in 2015 this was 800,811.

Starting position

The last elections took place on March 22, 2015. The final deadline for submitting the municipal election proposals was February 14, 2020; the municipal election proposals were published on February 20, 2020.

A total of 285 municipalities are elected. The provincial capital Graz , where a municipal council election last took place on February 5, 2017, is excluded from this election . In the Styrian municipalities, the mayor is elected by the respective municipal council at the constituent meeting of the municipal council. In the municipalities of Styria, the municipal council consists of 9 members with up to 1,000 inhabitants, 15 over 1,000 inhabitants, 21 over 3,000 inhabitants, 25 over 5,000 inhabitants and 31 over 10,000 inhabitants.

The KPÖ runs in 37 of the 285 municipalities, the Greens in 102 and NEOS in 30. The SPÖ runs in 278 municipalities, the FPÖ in 233 municipalities. The ÖVP is the only party running in all municipalities. In addition to the parties represented in the Styrian Landtag , a total of 80 lists of citizens also compete. A total of 1045 lists applied for the 5051 seats in the municipal councils.

In fourteen Styrian municipalities, the number of municipal councils changes after the election. In the five municipalities of Lieboch , Hart bei Graz and Hausmannstätten , St. Ruprecht an der Raab and Gröbming, there are more municipal councils after they had gained residents in recent years. There was a decrease in the number of inhabitants and thus fewer municipal councils in the nine municipalities of Köflach , Judenburg , Pöls , Neumarkt , Oberwölz , Birkfeld , St. Peter am Ottersbach , Arnfels and Kalwang .

Results

The ÖVP was able to gain around 4.5 percentage points compared to 2015 and comes to 47.2 percent. This is the second best result in municipal elections in Styria after 1975. The ÖVP won an absolute majority in the traditionally red municipality of Selzthal. In Mariazell the absolute majority was brought back by the SPÖ, in Admont the People's Party also won the absolute majority from the SPÖ. In Rottenmann, too, the ÖVP achieved an absolute majority and thus overtook the SPÖ. In Eisenerz, the ÖVP achieved a relative majority for the first time. The ÖVP was able to win an absolute or relative majority in two municipalities more than in 2015. For example, it lost Schladming and Haus im Ennstal to citizen lists. The ÖVP in Lassing achieved the strongest result with 100%, but there was no other list. The result from Schäffern is more meaningful, where the ÖVP got 92.8 percent of the vote.

The SPÖ was able to grow slightly overall, by 0.3 percentage points to 31.9 percent. It won in most of Upper Styria's industrial cities, such as Kapfenberg or Bruck / Mur. In some, she was able to regain the absolute majorities that had been lost, mainly in 2015. For example, it won the Eibiswald municipality from the ÖVP, but lost a total of 7 municipalities to the ÖVP or citizen lists. The SPÖ achieved the best result in Voitsberg with 81.4 percent of the vote.

The FPÖ lost a lot compared to 2015, but was still able to achieve a better result than in the local council elections in 2010. The only municipality in which the FPÖ had a relative majority so far, Neumarkt in Styria, was able to recapture the ÖVP. The FPÖ did best in Bad Blumau with 37.9 percent of the vote.

The Greens were able to improve their result by 1.42 percent to 4.75 percent, the Greens achieved the best result in Weiz with 29.1 percent. The KPÖ achieved around 0.1 percentage points more than in 2015, and achieved the best result in Trofaiach with 21.5 percent of the vote. NEOS were able to improve by 0.2%, in Ramsau am Dachstein they performed best with 11.3 percent.

After the election, the state electoral authority received a total of eleven contestations from ten municipalities, including Mürzzuschlag, Frohnleiten, Mortantsch, Wildon and Leibnitz.

Gains and losses

ÖVP:

Highest profit in Arnfels (+ 48.5%), highest loss in Altaussee (-32.6%)

SPÖ:

Highest profit in Bad Mitterndorf (+ 45.3%), highest loss in Mureck (-45.7%)

FPÖ:

Highest profit in Sankt Jakob im Walde (+ 23.8%), highest loss in Neumark in Styria (-32.9%)

Greens:

Highest profit in Eggersdorf near Graz (+ 13.4%), highest loss in Gutenberg-Stenzengreith (-6.8%)

KPÖ:

Highest profit in Rottenmann (+ 5.9%), highest loss in iron ore (-5.8%)

NEOS:

Highest profit in Ramsau am Dachstein (+ 11.3%), highest loss in Hart bei Graz (-0.7%)

Web links

Individual evidence

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