District representative election in Vienna 2015

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Final result including the redial in the 2nd district
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50
40
30th
20th
10
0
35.92
(-5.35)
27.90
(+4.37)
11.96
(-3.62)
15.07
(-0.11)
5.51
( n. K. )
1.38
( n. K. )
0.87
( n. K. )
1.39
(-3.05)
2010

2015


The district representative elections in Vienna 2015 were carried out on October 11, 2015 and held together with the 2015 state and municipal council elections. On September 18, 2016, the constitutional court ruled that the election had to be repeated in the second district of Leopoldstadt .

Starting position

District council election 2010
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50
40
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10
0
41.27
(-6.41)
15.58
(-3.27)
15.18
(-0.55)
23.53
(+9.68)
4.44
(+0.55)
Otherwise.
2005

2010

Relative majority in the Vienna municipal districts 2010 (= entitlement to the district head)

Despite heavy losses of 6.4 percent compared to 2005, the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) was able to defend its majority in 16 district representations with 41.3 percent in the 2010 district council elections and also gain the majority in Wieden . As a result, the SPÖ provided 17 of the 23 district heads from 2010 , and in six of the seven remaining districts it also took second place, with the SPÖ each receiving a district leader deputy. The Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) was able to gain 9.7% after the heavy losses in 2005 and took second place with 23.5%. In 12 districts, the FPÖ was able to achieve second place and thus increase its entitlement from five to 12 district chairman deputy positions. As in all district council elections, the FPÖ was unable to win any district chairman. The Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) also posted heavy losses and, after a minus of 3.3%, only achieved 15.6%. In addition to losing the majority in the Wieden district, the ÖVP was able to recapture the majority in Josefstadt from the Greens. The ÖVP thus continued to provide five district heads. At the same time, however, the ÖVP lost all of its previous seven deputy district councilors. The Green Vienna stagnated in the election and had to accept a minus of 0.6% at district level. With 15.2%, however, they achieved their second-best result so far. After a split in the party, the Greens lost the post of district chairman in Josefstadt to the ÖVP, and the Greens also lost two district chairman deputies to the FPÖ, while they were able to gain this position in two other districts. The KPÖ won one of its previous two mandates and thus also moved into the district representation in the Landstrasse district. Of the other re-running parties, only the PRO Hetzendorf list in the Meidling district was able to defend its mandate. The list “Echt Grün” (Josefstadt, 5 mandates), the lists “ Wir für Floridsdorf ” ( Floridsdorf , 2 mandates) and the list “Wir im Ersten” ( Inner City , two mandates) were new in the district representatives .

Suffrage

All Austrian citizens who were born up to October 11, 1999 and who established their main residence in Vienna on the date of the election, August 4, 2015, are entitled to vote in the district council election. These persons are also entitled to vote in the state and municipal council elections that take place at the same time. Non-Austrian citizens of an EU country are also entitled to vote in the district council election, provided they were also born by October 11, 1999 and their main residence was in Vienna by August 4, 2015 at the latest. This increases the number of people entitled to vote by 184,235 from 1,143,076 to 1,327,311. Around 220,000 people of voting age who are resident in Vienna are not entitled to vote as third-country citizens.

In the case of district council elections, 1,142 mandates are awarded in the 23 district councils of Vienna, with the number varying between 40 and 60 mandates in the individual districts depending on the number of inhabitants. Due to the population growth in various districts, the number of seats in the district councils increased by 30 seats across Vienna compared to the last election in 2010 , with Simmering experiencing the highest increase with six seats. Meidling , Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus , Brigittenau and Liesing recorded an increase of four mandates each, Penzing , Ottakring and Döbling received two additional mandates. The district chairman is also indirectly determined with the election , as the party with the most votes in a district is entitled to elect this and his first deputy, while the second deputy is elected by the second strongest party.

The mandates of the district representatives are assigned to the campaigning parties according to the D'Hondt'schen procedure in a preliminary investigation. In contrast to the state and municipal council elections with a five percent hurdle in the second preliminary investigation, there is no threshold clause .

With 203,874 voting cards issued , this was the highest number ever in Viennese elections since postal voting was introduced in 2008.

Candidate parties

Official ballot for the district representation using the example of the Wieden district

The following campaigning parties are running for election in all districts:

The following campaigning parties are competing in one or more districts:

After the 2010 elections, the SPÖ, FPÖ, ÖVP and the Greens will be appointing mandates in all district representatives. The KPÖ, which joined the ANDAS electoral alliance in 2015, has one mandate each in the districts of Leopoldstadt , Landstrasse and Margareten . Pro Hetzendorf is represented with one seat in Meidling , WIFF with two in Floridsdorf , WIR in Erste with two in the inner city and ECHT with five in Josefstadt.

Starting point by district

There are no polls for the district council elections, but prior to the election the special media interest applies to those districts in which a change of majority seems possible. The districts of Innere Stadt , Wieden , Mariahilf , Josefstadt , Alsergrund , Simmering , Währing and Döbling in particular were referred to by the media as the " Swing State ".

Inner city

After the previous ÖVP district leader Ursula Stenzel was no longer elected by her party as first list for the district representative election, Stenzel switched to the FPÖ on September 1, 2015 as a non-party candidate. Political advisor Thomas Hofer predicted significant losses for the ÖVP due to their appearance on the first list position of the FPÖ as well as the appearance of the NEOS and the renewed candidacy of the bourgeois-economic list "Wir im Erste" . As a result, the SPÖ and the Greens could overtake the ÖVP in the 1st district, whereas Hofer gave the FPÖ little chance due to its low election result of only 10 percent in the 2010 election. The ÖVP started in 2015 with Leopold Figl's great-nephew , Markus Figl , and had to defend an election result of 38 percent. Figl advocates an “inhabited inner city” and called for the mobility of the residents to be ensured, the rededication of living space to office space to be made more difficult, more citizen participation, more local supply, a “cadastre” against the “wild growth of pub gardens” and a redesign of Stephansplatz and Schwedenplatz . The SPÖ, which came in at 30 percent in 2005 and dropped to 23 percent in 2010, set itself an election target of 28 to 29 percent in order to take first place. SPÖ top candidate Daniela Ecker-Stepp relies above all on traffic calming and more free space in public spaces. Other SPÖ goals include over-flattening Schwedenplatz, a pedestrian zone in Börsegasse and creating affordable apartments. The Greens, who were able to book 18 percent each in 2005 and 2010, act with entrepreneur Alexander Hirschenhauser primarily against real estate speculation. They are also planning more benches and trees for the inner city and an immediate project start for the redesign of Schwedenplatz. Ursula Stenzel herself named the prevention of red-green in the first district as an election target.

Wieden

In the district of Wieden between 1946 and 2010, the ÖVP provided the district chairman. In 2010, however, the SPÖ managed to overtake the ÖVP by just five votes ahead of the Greens. The SPÖ and Greens came in 2010 to 28.2 percent, the ÖVP to 28.1 percent. Due to the close result in the last district council election, the race between these three parties is completely open. The SPÖ enters the race with the previous district chairman, Leopold Plasch , who, among other things, calls for the construction of adjacent parking spaces. The Greens are again sending the translator Barbara Neuroth into the running, who is aiming for a meeting zone for Untere Favoritenstrasse, an opening of the Chamber of Commerce and Theresanium Park, and affordable living space. The meeting zone is rejected by both Plasch and the ÖVP top candidate Johannes Pasquali, who rather wants to create new parking spaces and take action against “party zones” in the district.

Mariahilf

In the Mariahilf district, a race between the SPÖ and the Greens is believed to be possible, with the SPÖ in the 2010 election with district leader Renate Kaufmann winning 37.1 percent and the Greens finishing second with a clear gap or 26.1 percent. However, Kaufmann will no longer run in the 2015 election. Her successor as district chairman and SPÖ top candidate Markus Rumelhart advocates calming traffic on Gumpendorfer Strasse and calls for the redevelopment of the Gumpendorfer Strasse U6 station. In addition, a new community building with a kindergarten and senior citizens' apartments is to be built in Stumpergasse. The former member of the state parliament, Susanne Jerusalem (GREEN), in turn advocates redesigning the flea market slab at the Naschmarkt into a “multi-purpose area”, for more “quality of stay” on Gumpendorfer Strasse and the creation of a public all-day school.

Josefstadt

In Josefstadt, the ÖVP provided the district chief between 1945 and 2005. In 2005, however, the Greens, under Heribert Rahdjian , managed to overtake the ÖVP. After a split in the party, the Greens lost the district chairman position again in 2010 to the ÖVP under Veronika Mickel-Göttfert , which achieved around 28 percent. The Greens came to 24 percent, the SPÖ to 23 percent. Since the group around the ex-Grün district leader Heribert Rahdjian "Echt Josefstadt" (previously "Echt Grün") is running again and the NEOS could cost the ÖVP votes, the race for the district leader is completely open before the election. While Mickl is campaigning for more adjacent parking spaces, more green space through the opening of parking areas and a new elementary school with after-school care center, the Greens, under district chairman Alexander Spritzendorfer, are redesigning public areas and creating a new park.

Alsergrund

At Alsergrund, the SPÖ was only 3.5 percentage points ahead of the Greens in 2010. District leader Martina Malyar (SPÖ) named the election goal for 2015 to expand or maintain the lead over the Greens. She appears in the election for a development of the former business university area with mainly apartments and an education campus. In addition to the redesign of the WU site, the Greens around top candidate Momo Kreuz are primarily committed to upgrading Alserbachstrasse and Liechtensteinstrasse with open spaces and green spaces and creating a meeting zone at Julius-Tandler-Platz. ÖVP candidate Gregor Eitler wants to achieve a generation house and sports facilities at the WU site, with the ÖVP, who temporarily governed the district, being given outsider opportunities. Eitler himself named second place as an election target.

Simmering

While FPÖ party manager Anton Mahdalik defined the conquest of the districts of Simmering, Floridsdorf, Donaustadt and Favoriten as an election target and party leader Heinz-Christian Strache also calculated opportunities in Liesing , the FPÖ was given the chance, especially in Simmering, to appoint a district head in Vienna for the first time . In 2010, the FPÖ achieved its best district result with 34 percent, but it was still well behind the SPÖ, which achieved 49 percent. Due to the high losses of 11.5 percent on the part of the SPÖ and the gains of the FPÖ of 16.1 percent, if this trend continues, the loss of the majority of the SPÖ, especially in the course of the refugee crisis in Europe, is considered possible. The SPÖ competes with district director Eva-Maria Hatzl , the FPÖ sends the long-standing, deputy district director Paul Stadler into the race.

Currency ring

In Währing, which has been ruled by the ÖVP since 1946, the ÖVP under long-term district chairman Karl Homole just took first place in the 2010 election with 30.6 percent. The SPÖ came to 27.0 percent, the Greens to 25.8 percent, which was the only one of the three parties to gain in the election. Homole, who is running again, could cost the post of district chairman in addition to the new NEOS candidates, in particular the negative national trend of the ÖVP. Among other things, he relies on local parking for the election and stands up against the parking sticker, which is demanded by the top candidate and deputy district chairman of the SPÖ Josef Eichinger as well as by the former state spokeswoman and top candidate of the Währingen Greens Silvia Nossek . In addition, the ÖVP advocates a one-way route for Währinger Strasse and a traffic light solution for Gersthofer Strasse. During the election campaign, the SPÖ is calling for an indoor playground in the office building, the construction of community apartments and a collective garage as well as the plating of the S45 route, the Greens rely on traffic calming on Gersthofer Straße, more green for the Kreuzgassenviertel and the attractiveness of Währinger Straße.

Dobling

In the 1978 district council election, Adolf Tiller was able to conquer the district, which had previously been dominated by the SPÖ, for the ÖVP. Since then, Tiller has served as district chairman in the 19th district. In the 2010 election, the ÖVP came in at 36 percent, the SPÖ was just four percent behind the ÖVP with 32 percent. Due to similar factors as in the neighboring district of Währing, the ÖVP could lose its leadership position in Döbling to the SPÖ. In the election campaign, Tiller relies on, among other things, a relief tunnel under the Vienna Woods to divert the through traffic of the Heurigen places, the upgrading of the Muthgasse through the establishment of a bio cluster and a university facility or the extension of the U4 to Klosterneuburg . On the other hand, the SPÖ, headed by deputy district chairman Anton Mandl, is advocating the establishment of an educational campus with an all-day primary school in Nussdorf, the expansion of leisure opportunities for children and the introduction of the parking sticker.

Results

Majorities at district level
Second strongest party at the district level

In the end, only two districts changed color: Simmering, which, with Paul Stadler, was given a free district head for the first time in the history of Vienna , and Währing, in which the Green Silvia Nossek replaced the long-time district head Karl Homole.

In all other districts, the parties that had previously provided the district head prevailed, but only just barely in the case of Favoriten, Floridsdorf and the Danube city.

The result in the inner city was also close, where Markus Figl from the ÖVP was able to prevail against Daniela Ecker-Stepp. The previous district leader Ursula Stenzel, who switched to the FPÖ, was knocked off third.

Overall result

Final result of the 2015 district council election
Results 2015 Results 2010 Differences
Eligible voters 1,327,311 1,252,877 +74,434
voter turnout 67.40% 63.39% + 4.01%
be right % Mand. be right % Mand. be right % Mand.
Votes cast 894.597 1144 794.165 1112 +100,432 +32
Invalid 23,653 2.64%   19,393 2.44%   +4,260 + 0.20%  
Valid 870.944 97.36% 774.772 97.56% +96.172 −0.20%
Political party
Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) 316.014 36.28% 415 319.719 41.27% 460 -3,705 −4.99% −45
Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) 241,700 27.75% 298 182,337 23.53% 240 +59,363 + 4.22% +58
Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) 103,442 11.88% 151 120,674 15.58% 198 -17,232 −3.70% −47
The Greens Vienna (Greens) 129,397 14.86% 203 117,621 15.18% 198 +11,776 −0.32% +5
NEOS - The New Austria and Liberal Forum (NEOS) 48,156 5.53% 62 nk nk nk +48,156 +5.53% +62
Vienna different (ANDAS) 12,453 1.43% 5 nk nk nk +12,453 +1.43% +5
Others 19,782 2.27% 10 34,421 4.44% 13 -14,639 −2.17% −3

Results by district

Note: The data relating to the Leopoldstadt district are based on the election of October 2015 that was repealed by the VfGH and have therefore been crossed out

Share of votes by district
district SPÖ FPÖ ÖVP Green NEOS Others
1. 24.2 18.7 25.7 16.0 9.5 6.0
2. 38.6 22.1 7.1 22.2 5.7 4.3
3. 37.9 20.8 11.4 19.3 7.3 3.3
4th 32.0 15.0 16.1 26.1 8.6 2.2
5. 38.8 19.9 8.1 22.8 6.2 4.2
6th 33.9 14.8 11.6 29.8 7.3 2.7
7th 24.7 13.5 10.2 41.0 8.1 2.5
8th. 19.7 10.0 30.6 27.2 6.0 6.6
9. 31.3 15.5 13.8 27.5 8.9 3.0
10. 40.4 38.2 6.7 7.1 3.4 4.2
11. 40.8 41.8 5.0 5.6 3.4 3.4
12. 38.8 29.8 8.3 12.7 4.7 5.7
13. 23.3 16.6 39.4 11.9 6.4 2.4
14th 35.2 27.2 13.6 15.2 6.2 2.6
15th 39.1 24.8 6.7 21.2 4.5 3.8
16. 38.7 26.5 8.8 17.0 4.9 4.0
17th 34.1 23.4 12.5 19.8 7.2 3.0
18th 22.2 13.3 27.3 28.1 7.5 1.7
19th 27.8 18.1 32.5 11.7 7.9 1.9
20th 41.7 30.1 5.7 13.3 4.5 4.7
21st 38.4 37.2 6.5 7.3 3.6 7.1
22nd 40.7 36.7 6.9 8.5 4.7 2.5
23. 39.2 31.8 10.9 9.7 6.1 2.3
Mandates by district
district total SPÖ FPÖ ÖVP Green NEOS TO THE Others
1. 40 10 8th 10 6th 4th - WE 2
2. 60 24 14th 4th 14th 3 1 -
3. 56 22nd 12 6th 11 4th 1 -
4th 40 13 6th 7th 11 3 - -
5. 40 16 8th 3 10 2 1 -
6th 40 14th 6th 5 12 3 - -
7th 40 10 5 4th 18th 3 - -
8th. 40 8th 4th 13 12 2 - REAL 1
9. 40 13 6th 6th 12 3 - -
10. 60 25th 24 4th 4th 2 - GfW 1
11. 60 25th 26th 3 3 2 - GfW 1
12. 58 24 18th 5 8th 2 - PRO H. 1
13. 40 10 7th 16 5 2 - -
14th 56 20th 16 8th 9 3 - -
15th 50 20th 13 3 11 2 1 -
16. 60 24 17th 5 10 3 1 -
17th 40 14th 10 5 8th 3 - -
18th 40 9 5 11 12 3 - -
19th 48 14th 9 16 5 4th - -
20th 56 25th 18th 3 7th 2 - GfW 1
21st 60 24 23 4th 4th 2 - WIFF 3
22nd 60 26th 23 4th 5 2 - -
23. 60 25th 20th 6th 6th 3 - -
total 1144 415 298 151 203 62 5 10

Redial in Leopoldstadt

In the district council election in Leopoldstadt , 82 absentee votes were missing after the first count; after a new count by the city electoral authority, there were 23 votes too many. According to the preliminary final result, the FPÖ was only 25 votes behind the second-placed Greens and hoped to achieve second place through a new count and thus be able to provide the deputy district head. After the votes were recounted, the FPÖ announced that it would go to the Constitutional Court . In June 2016, the Constitutional Court ruled that the election had to be repeated, as the inconsistencies found were due to a violation of the Vienna election regulations and thus to illegality that could have influenced the outcome of the election. The redial took place on September 18, 2016. Due to the low voter turnout of 35.0% (2015: 64.7%), the Greens were able to achieve first place thanks to good mobilization, and are now the district chairman in three Viennese districts.

Share of votes in the repeat election in the 2nd district
SPÖ FPÖ ÖVP Green NEOS Others
28.1 22.5 6.0 35.3 5.1 3.0
Mandates in the district council
total SPÖ FPÖ ÖVP Green NEOS TO THE
60 17th 14th 3 22nd 3 1

Footnotes and individual references

  1. ↑ wien.at: Vienna general district representative elections 2015. September 18, 2016, accessed on February 8, 2017 .
  2. ↑ wien.at: Vienna Election 2015: Preliminary number of eligible voters
  3. ^ Vienna election 2015: final number of eligible voters wien.at - apa ots
  4. ↑ ORF Vienna “Quarter of the Viennese are not allowed to vote”, from July 18, 2015.
  5. ^ Announcement about the announcement of the municipal council and district representative elections 2015 in the federal capital Vienna
  6. ^ ORF Vienna “More than 200,000 voting cards issued”, October 9, 2015.
  7. ^ Wien.at: Vienna municipal council and district council elections 2015 - parties
  8. ↑ a b c d ORF Vienna “Eight districts could“ turn ”, October 4, 2015
  9. ↑ a b c diepresse.com “Districts: The" Swing States "of the Vienna election”, September 17, 2015
  10. ↑ derstandard.at , "Stenzel candidate on the list of the FPÖ", September 1, 2015
  11. ↑ ORF Vienna "Parties fight for the" City "", October 3, 2015
  12. ↑ a b c d ORF Vienna “Districts: Tension within the Belt”, October 1, 2015
  13. ↑ vienna.at "Döbling district chief Adolf Tiller:" Reduce through traffic in the district ""
  14. ↑ mein district.at “Döbling: SPÖ election campaign kick-off”, August 25, 2015
  15. ^ City of Vienna: Vienna general district council elections 2015
  16. ↑ Number in party color = entitlement to district chairman,
    number in light party color = entitlement to 2nd district director deputy
  17. ↑ orf.at - voices disappeared: FPÖ prefers VfGH . Article dated October 21, 2015, accessed October 22, 2015.
  18. ^ Leopoldstadt: The election must be repeated on ORF Vienna on June 15, 2016, accessed on June 15, 2016.
  19. ↑ orf.at - Leopoldstadt: election date September 18 fixed . Article dated July 14, 2016, accessed July 14, 2016.
  20. ^ City of Vienna: Leopoldstadt Repetition of the 2015 district representative elections from September 18, 2016
  21. ↑ Number in party color = entitlement to district chairman,
    number in light party color = entitlement to 2nd district director deputy

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