Results of the local elections in Linz
The following lists the results of the local elections in Linz . The results of the municipal council elections from 1945 onwards are given. All parties are listed that have received at least 1.95 percent of the votes in at least one election. 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
- FWG: Freedom Electoral Community → FPÖ
- GAL: Green Alternative List → Greens
- Greens: The Greens - The Green Alternative
- KLS: Communists and Left Socialists → KPÖ
- KPÖ: Communist Party of Austria
- LB: Left bloc → KPÖ
- LiF: Liberal Forum → NEOS
- NEOS: The New Austria and Liberal Forum
- ÖVP: Austrian People's Party
- SPÖ: Social Democratic Party of Austria
- VGÖ: United Greens Austria → Greens
- WdU: Electoral party of the Independent → FPÖ
Groups of voters
- GALL: Green alternative list Linz → Greens
- M&N: people and nature
Municipal council elections
Share of votes of the parties in percent
| year | SPÖ | ÖVP | KPÖ | FPÖ | Green 1 | NEOS | BZÖ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1945 | 59.4 | 36.3 | 4.2 | ||||
| 1949 | 42.4 | 24.0 | 4.9 | 28.1 | |||
| 1955 | 51.9 | 29.5 | 4.8 | 13.8 | |||
| 1961 | 52.5 | 31.1 | 3.6 | 12.8 | |||
| 1967 | 59.3 | 29.4 | 1.8 | 8.4 | |||
| 1973 | 56.2 | 32.5 | 2.2 | 8.5 | |||
| 1979 | 55.9 | 34.7 | 1.3 | 7.8 | |||
| 1980 | 58.4 | 29.2 | 2.5 | 9.7 | |||
| 1985 | 52.3 | 31.7 | 2.0 | 5.2 | 8.2 | ||
| 1991 | 44.8 | 24.7 | 0.9 | 19.4 | 10.3 | ||
| 1997 | 40.7 | 22.5 | 0.7 | 22.9 | 7.6 | 3.3 | |
| 2003 | 53.4 | 23.6 | 1.5 | 8.6 | 11.7 | ||
| 2009 | 41.0 | 27.7 | 1.7 | 14.8 | 12.3 | 2.2 | |
| 2015 | 32.02 | 20.14 | 2.37 | 24.89 | 14.84 | 4.91 |
Distribution of seats
| year | total | SPÖ | ÖVP | KPÖ | FPÖ | Green | NEOS | M&N | BZÖ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1945 | 60 | 36 | 22nd | 2 | |||||
| 1949 | 60 | 26th | 14th | 3 | 17th | ||||
| 1955 | 60 | 32 | 18th | 2 | 8th | ||||
| 1961 | 60 | 32 | 19th | 2 | 7th | ||||
| 1967 | 60 | 36 | 18th | 1 | 5 | ||||
| 1973 | 60 | 34 | 20th | 1 | 5 | ||||
| 1979 | 61 | 35 | 22nd | 4th | |||||
| 1980 | 61 | 36 | 18th | 1 | 6th | ||||
| 1985 | 61 | 33 | 20th | 1 | 3 | 4th | |||
| 1991 | 61 | 29 | 15th | 12 | 5 | ||||
| 1997 | 61 | 26th | 14th | 14th | 4th | 2 | 1 | ||
| 2003 | 61 | 34 | 15th | 5 | 7th | ||||
| 2009 | 61 | 26th | 17th | 1 | 9 | 7th | 1 | ||
| 2015 | 61 | 20th | 12 | 1 | 16 | 9 | 3 |
Footnotes
1 green:
- 1985: VGÖ: 5.5%, 3 seats, GALL: 2.7%, 1 seat
- 1991: VGÖ: 5.9%, 3 seats, GAL: 4.4%, 2 seats
- from 1997: Greens