Results of the local elections in Graz

Local council election 2017

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20th

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37.8%
(+ 4.1  % p )

20.3%
(+ 0.4  % p )

15.9%
(+ 2.1  % p )

10.5%
(-1.6  % p )

10.0%
(-5.3  % p )

3.9%
( n.k. )

1.6%
(-3.6  % p )

ÖVP

KPÖ

FPÖ

GREEN

SPÖ

NEOS

Otherwise.

2012



2017



Municipal council elections in Graz from 1945 to 2017

The results of the municipal elections in Graz are listed in the following lists . The first part shows the results of the municipal council elections from 1945 onwards. The second part contains the results of the district council elections from 1998.

The field of the party that received the most votes or seats in the respective election is marked in color.

Parties

• BZÖ: Alliance Future Austria
• FPÖ: Freedom Party of Austria
  • until 1953: WdU
• Greens: The Greens - The Green Alternative
  • 1998: ALG and Green
  • 1998 in the district council elections: ALG (unless otherwise stated)
• KPÖ: Communist Party of Austria
• LiF: Liberal Forum
• NEOS: NEOS - The New Austria and Liberal Forum
  • 1998: LiF
  • 2017: NEOS
• ÖABP: Austrian motorists and citizens' party
• ÖVP: Austrian People's Party
• PIRATE: Austrian pirate party
• SPÖ: Social Democratic Party of Austria
• WdU: Electoral party of the Independent → FPÖ

Groups of voters

• ALG: Alternative List Graz → Greens
• Green: Green Graz → Green

Municipal council elections

Share of votes of the parties in percent

year	ÖVP	KPÖ	FPÖ	Green 1	SPÖ	NEOS 2
1945	41.8	6.7			51.5
1949	31.7	5.7	19.8		41.0
1953	32.8	5.8	18.3		42.7
1958	37.4	3.9	11.9		46.9
1963	34.6	3.5	14.6		46.5
1968	31.7	2.8	13.1		52.2
1973	35.5	3.0	16.9		44.2
1978	31.4	2.0	24.9		41.3
1983	32.4	1.8	15.4	7.0	42.0
1988	31.9	3.1	11.8	4.9	42.5
1993	26.1	4.2	20.1	7.2	34.7
1998	23.2	7.9	26.8	6.7	30.9	2.6
2003	36.1	20.8	8.0	8.3	25.9
32008 3	38.4	11.2	10.8	14.6	19.7
4th2012 4	33.7	19.9	13.8	12.1	15.3
2017	37.8	20.3	15.9	10.5	010.05	3.9

Distribution of seats

year	total	ÖVP	KPÖ	FPÖ	Green 1	SPÖ	NEOS	PIRATE	BZÖ	ÖABP	GBL
1945	36	15th	2			19th
1949	48	16	2	10		20th
1953	48	16	2	9		21st
1958	48	18th	1	6th		23
1963	48	17th	1	7th		23
1968	48	15th	1	6th		26th
1973	56	20th	1	9		26th
1978	56	18th	1	14th		23
1983	56	18th	1	9	4th	24
1988	56	19th	1	7th	2	25th					2
1993	56	15th	2	12	4th	21st				2
1998	56	13	4th	16	3	18th	1			1
2003	56	21st	12	4th	4th	15th
2008	56	23	6th	6th	8th	11			2
2012	48	17th	10	7th	6th	7th		1
2017	48	19th	10	8th	5	5	1

Footnotes

¹ green:

1993: ALG: 5.3%, 3 seats, green 1.9%, 1 seat

1998: ALG: 5.6%, 3 seats, green: 1.1%

from 2003: Greens

² NEOS: 1998: LiF
³ 2008: additionally: BZÖ: 4.3%
⁴ 2012: additionally: PIRATE: 2.7%

District council elections

I inner city

Share of votes of the parties in percent

year	ÖVP	KPÖ	Green	FPÖ	NEOS	SPÖ
1998	31.4		10.8	26.9	5.4	25.5
2003	37.6	22.5	13.8	9.1		17.0
2008	42.6	14.2	20.9	9.6		12.7
2012	33.8	23.3	22.1	10.9		010.04
2017	32.6	25.6	18.6	10.9	6.8	5.5

Distribution of seats

year	total	ÖVP	KPÖ	Green	FPÖ	SPÖ
1998	7th	2		1	2	2
2003	7th	3	2	1		1
2008	7th	4th	1	1		1
2012	7th	3	2	2
2017	7th	3	2	1	1

II St. Leonhard

Share of votes of the parties in percent

year	ÖVP	KPÖ	Green	FPÖ	SPÖ	NEOS
1998	30.9		12.8	25.8	24.4	6.0
2003	41.0	016.70	16.3	9.4	016.67
2008	43.4	24.7	012.27	7.3	012.33
2012	35.0	19.8	22.5	12.4	10.3
2017	33.8	23.1	21.5	8.7	6.6	6.3

Distribution of seats

year	total	ÖVP	KPÖ	Green	FPÖ	SPÖ
1998	10	3		1	3	3
2003	8th	4th	1	1	1	1
2008	8th	4th	1	2		1
2012	8th	3	1	2	1	1
2017	10	4th	3	2	1

III Geidorf

Share of votes of the parties in percent

year	ÖVP	Green	KPÖ	FPÖ	SPÖ	NEOS
1998	37.1	14.7		25.3	22.9
2003	43.6	14.8	14.5	8.5	17.5
2008	43.8	23.0	10.5	8.4	14.3
2012	38.0	21.6	18.0	10.9	11.5
2017	35.6	20.2	19.9	9.8	7.8	6.6

Distribution of seats

year	total	ÖVP	Green	KPÖ	FPÖ	SPÖ	NEOS
1998	15th	6th	2		4th	3
2003	13	6th	2	2	1	2
2008	13	6th	3	1	1	2
2012	13	6th	3	2	1	1
2017	15th	6th	3	3	1	1	1

IV Lend

Share of votes of the parties in percent

year	ÖVP	KPÖ	FPÖ	SPÖ	Green	NEOS
1998	17.4	09.95	28.5	37.4	6.7
2003	26.3	20.3	8.8	36.2	8.3
2008	28.9	13.2	14.4	29.5	14.1
2012	25.5	21.6	16.9	21.7	14.3
2017	25.9	23.6	17.8	15.6	13.4	3.6

Distribution of seats

year	total	ÖVP	KPÖ	FPÖ	SPÖ	Green
1998	17th	3	1	5	7th	1
2003	15th	4th	3	1	6th	1
2008	15th	4th	2	2	5	2
2012	15th	4th	3	3	3	2
2017	19th	5	5	3	3	3

V semolina

Share of votes of the parties in percent

year	KPÖ	ÖVP	FPÖ	SPÖ	Green	NEOS
1998	11.4	18.4	30.3	34.3	5.5
2003	22.8	27.8	9.3	32.2	7.9
2008	16.2	28.4	15.4	27.0	13.0
2012	26.0	25.8	16.2	18.8	13.2
2017	27.5	26.1	18.8	12.1	11.4	3.2

Distribution of seats

year	total	KPÖ	ÖVP	FPÖ	SPÖ	Green
1998	16	2	3	5	6th
2003	15th	4th	4th	1	5	1
2008	15th	2	5	2	4th	2
2012	15th	4th	4th	2	3	2
2017	17th	5	5	3	2	2

VI Jakomini

Share of votes of the parties in percent

year	ÖVP	KPÖ	Green 1	FPÖ	SPÖ	NEOS
1998	21.1	9.8	8.9	27.6	32.6
2003	29.9	21.6	11.1	8.0	29.4
2008	33.8	14.6	17.2	11.6	22.8
2012	28.4	24.9	17.3	12.9	16.5
2017	28.6	25.7	16.3	13.9	10.4	5.2

Distribution of seats

year	total	ÖVP	KPÖ	Green	FPÖ	SPÖ	NEOS
1998	19th	4th	2	1	5	7th
2003	17th	5	4th	2	1	5
2008	17th	6th	2	3	2	4th
2012	17th	5	4th	3	2	3
2017	19th	6th	5	3	2	2	1

footnote

¹ green:

1998: ALG: 5.6%, 1 seat; Green: 3.3%

from 2003: Greens

VII Liebenau

Share of votes of the parties in percent

year	ÖVP	FPÖ	SPÖ	KPÖ	Green	NEOS
1998	24.9	27.9	32.1	7.4	7.6
2003	35.3	8.3	35.7	15.0	5.8
2008	39.5	13.8	29.4	9.3	7.9
2012	37.0	17.7	22.3	15.4	7.6
2017	42.7	19.3	15.2	12.1	7.4	3.2

Distribution of seats

year	total	ÖVP	FPÖ	SPÖ	KPÖ
1998	8th	2	3	3
2003	8th	3		4th	1
2008	8th	4th	1	3
2012	8th	4th	1	2	1
2017	9	5	2	1	1

VIII St. Peter

Share of votes of the parties in percent

year	ÖVP	Green 1	FPÖ	KPÖ	SPÖ	NEOS
1998	32.8	16.6	24.7		21.2	4.6
2003	48.2	21.5	8.5		21.8
2008	47.6	20.9	8.1	8.2	15.1
2012	42.3	17.9	12.9	14.7	12.2
2017	43.8	17.1	13.4	12.9	7.7	04.95

Distribution of seats

year	total	ÖVP	Green	FPÖ	KPÖ	SPÖ
1998	7th	3	1	2		1
2003	9	5	2			2
2008	9	5	2		1	1
2012	9	4th	2	1	1	1
2017	10	5	2	1	1	1

footnote

¹ green:

1998: ALG: 13.4%, 1 seat, Green: 3.2%

from 2003: Greens

IX Waltendorf

Share of votes of the parties in percent

year	ÖVP	Green	KPÖ	FPÖ	SPÖ	NEOS
1998	34.6	12.8		26.7	20.7	4.9
2003	47.3	13.2	12.9	9.6	16.9
2008	47.9	17.7	8.6	8.7	17.1
2012	45.9	15.6	14.6	12.8	11.1
2017	46.7	14.9	13.2	13.0	7.2	04.97

Distribution of seats

year	total	ÖVP	Green	KPÖ	FPÖ	SPÖ
1998	8th	3	1		2	2
2003	7th	4th	1	1		1
2008	7th	5	1			1
2012	7th	4th	1	1	1
2017	8th	5	1	1	1

X ream

Share of votes of the parties in percent

year	ÖVP	Green	FPÖ	KPÖ	SPÖ
1998	35.9	14.9	26.5		22.8
2003	47.8	18.7	010.02		23.4
2008	47.9	18.8	9.2	8.1	15.9
2012	46.1	16.5	010.02	14.4	12.9
2017	48.2	17.4	13.3	13.1	8.1

Distribution of seats

year	total	ÖVP	Green	FPÖ	KPÖ	SPÖ
1998	7th	3	1	2		1
2003	7th	4th	1			2
2008	7th	5	1			1
2012	7th	4th	1		1	1
2017	7th	4th	1	1	1

XI Mariatrost

Share of votes of the parties in percent

year	ÖVP	Green	KPÖ	FPÖ	SPÖ	NEOS
1998	44.6	13.4		23.8	18.2
2003	55.0	13.2	11.7	8.0	12.1
2008	54.1	20.4	8.1	7.9	9.5
2012	50.8	18.0	13.2	9.1	8.9
2017	48.1	16.5	13.3	11.2	6.4	4.6

Distribution of seats

year	total	ÖVP	Green	KPÖ	FPÖ	SPÖ
1998	7th	3	1		2	1
2003	7th	4th	1	1		1
2008	7th	5	2
2012	7th	5	1	1
2017	7th	4th	1	1	1

XII Andritz

Share of votes of the parties in percent

year	ÖVP	Green 1	FPÖ	KPÖ	SPÖ
21998 2	30.0	12.7	24.1		29.5
2003	45.6	16.6	8.7		29.2
2008	45.1	16.6	9.1	8.5	20.8
2012	39.1	14.1	11.0	15.4	20.5
2017	44.8	15.1	14.4	13.9	11.8

Distribution of seats

year	total	ÖVP	Green	FPÖ	KPÖ	SPÖ
1998	10	3	1	3		3
2003	11	5	2	1		3
2008	11	5	2	1	1	2
2012	11	5	1	1	2	2
2017	12	6th	2	2	1	1

Footnotes

¹ green:

1998: ALG, 8.8%, 1 seat, green: 3.9%

from 2003: Greens

² 1998: additionally: LiF: 3.7%

XIII Gösting

Share of votes of the parties in percent

year	ÖVP	FPÖ	SPÖ	KPÖ	Green	BZÖ
1998	25.6	33.9	40.5
2003	32.5	11.8	31.3	15.7	8.7
2008	36.6	11.8	25.4	9.6	10.6	5.9
2012	32.6	19.4	23.3	16.5	8.2
2017	37.8	22.6	15.4	15.1	9.2

Distribution of seats

year	total	ÖVP	FPÖ	SPÖ	KPÖ	Green
1998	7th	2	2	3
2003	7th	3	1	2	1
2008	7th	3	1	2		1
2012	7th	3	1	2	1
2017	7th	3	2	1	1

XIV Eggenberg

Share of votes of the parties in percent

year	ÖVP	FPÖ	KPÖ	SPÖ	Green 1	NEOS
1998	23.3	28.7		36.1	11.9
2003	33.4	7.1	16.8	33.0	9.1
2008	35.7	14.8	10.6	25.7	13.1
2012	31.6	18.3	19.1	19.2	11.8
2017	34.1	20.2	18.0	13.5	11.1	3.2

Distribution of seats

year	total	ÖVP	FPÖ	KPÖ	SPÖ	Green
1998	11	3	3		4th	1
2003	11	4th		2	4th	1
2008	11	4th	2	1	3	1
2012	11	4th	2	2	2	1
2017	12	5	3	2	1	1

footnote

¹ green:

1998: ALG: 8.2%, 1 seat, Green: 3.7%,

from 2003: Greens

XV Wetzelsdorf

Share of votes of the parties in percent

year	ÖVP	FPÖ	SPÖ	KPÖ	Green
1998	24.6	33.6	41.8
2003	30.6	9.0	37.2	16.9	6.2
2008	34.7	15.4	30.8	10.5	8.7
2012	31.8	19.6	22.5	18.7	7.4
2017	36.1	23.8	16.8	15.3	8.0

Distribution of seats

year	total	ÖVP	FPÖ	SPÖ	KPÖ
1998	8th	2	3	3
2003	8th	3		4th	1
2008	8th	3	1	3	1
2012	8th	3	2	2	1
2017	9	4th	2	2	1

XVI Straßgang

Share of votes of the parties in percent

year	ÖVP	FPÖ	SPÖ	KPÖ	Green
1998	26.8	29.9	35.8		7.5
2003	35.5	7.4	36.6	13.4	6.3
2008	37.8	14.3	29.8	9.3	8.8
2012	34.3	17.5	24.2	16.8	7.2
2017	39.0	22.8	18.2	11.7	8.3

Distribution of seats

year	total	ÖVP	FPÖ	SPÖ	KPÖ
1998	8th	2	3	3
2003	8th	3		4th	1
2008	8th	4th	1	3
2012	8th	3	2	2	1
2017	9	4th	2	2	1

XVII Puntigam

Share of votes of the parties in percent

year	ÖVP	FPÖ	SPÖ	KPÖ	Green	NEOS
1998	24.6	26.2	40.9		8.4
2003	36.6	7.9	36.3	13.5	5.9
2008	35.5	17.8	29.0	9.1	8.6
12012 1	29.4	17.8	25.7	16.4	8.3
2017	34.6	25.8	15.7	13.4	7.2	3.3

Distribution of seats

year	total	ÖVP	FPÖ	SPÖ	KPÖ
1998	7th	2	2	3
2003	7th	3		3	1
2008	7th	3	1	3
2012	7th	3	1	2	1
2017	7th	3	2	1	1

footnote

¹ 2012: additionally: BZÖ: 2.3%

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