European elections in Austria 2009
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The European elections in Austria 2009 took place on June 7th, 2009. It was held in the course of the EU-wide European elections in 2009 , with 17 instead of the previous 18 from a total of 736 seats in the European Parliament . In addition to the five parties already represented in the European Parliament, the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ), Austrian People's Party (ÖVP), Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ), The Greens - The Green Alternative (GRÜNE) and List Dr. Martin (MARTIN) also ran the Future Austria Alliance (BZÖ), which is represented in the Austrian National Council , as well as the Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ) and the Young Liberals (JuLis). The Euro-critical party Libertas was unable to provide the 2,600 signatures required for a candidacy. The Liberal Forum , which had a MEP in the previous legislative period, did not stand for election due to a lack of declarations of support. The opening times of the polling stations were regulated differently from one location to the next; There was also the possibility of postal voting.
Results
Bottom line
| Political party | be right | +/- | percent | +/- | Mandates 2009 |
+/- | Mandates 2011 |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ÖVP | 858.921 | +41.205 | 30.0% | -2.7% | 6th | ± 0 | 6th | |
| SPÖ | 680.041 | -153,476 | 23.7% | -9.6% | 4th | -3 | 5 | |
| MARTIN | 506.092 | +156.396 | 17.7% | + 3.7% | 3 | +1 | 3 | |
| FPÖ | 364.207 | +206.485 | 12.7% | + 6.4% | 2 | +1 | 2 | |
| GREEN | 284.505 | -37,924 | 9.9% | -3.0% | 2 | ± 0 | 2 | |
| BZÖ | 131,261 | +131.261 | 4.6% | + 4.6% | 0 | ± 0 | 1 | |
| JuLis | 20,668 | +20,668 | 0.7% | + 0.7% | 0 | ± 0 | 0 | |
| KPÖ | 18,926 | -604 | 0.7% | -0.1% | 0 | ± 0 | 0 | |
| Valid votes | 2,864,621 | +364.011 | 97.9% | + 0.5% | 17th | -1 | 19th | |
| Invalid / blank ballot papers | 60,511 | -5,518 | 2.1% | -0.5% | ||||
| total | 2,925,132 | +358.493 | 100.0% | |||||
The turnout increased by 3.6 percentage points to 46.0% compared to the last European elections.
With the counting of the voting cards, there was a shift from a mandate from the SPÖ in favor of the Greens.
The final official final result was announced after the meeting of the federal electoral authority on June 24th.
requirements
Starting position
In the 2004 European elections , the SPÖ had again emerged as the party with the most votes after 1999. Compared to 1999, it had increased 1.62% and achieved 33.33% and 7 mandates. The ÖVP was able to increase its share of the vote by 2.03% and again achieved second place with 32.70%. Despite its gains, the ÖVP lost one mandate due to the lower number of mandates for Austria and placed 6 mandates in the coming legislative period. Third place went to the “List of Dr. Hans-Peter Martin - for real control in Brussels ”, which started in 2004. Hans-Peter Martin , a former member of the SPÖ, had fallen out with the party leadership and in 2004 was able to siphon off votes from the weakened FPÖ in particular. He achieved 13.98% of the vote and two seats. However, one of the two MPs, Karin Resetarits , later transferred to the Liberal Forum . In the 2009 European elections, however, she did not support her own party, but the JuLis, and thus made their candidacy possible. As in 1999, the Greens came fourth in the European elections in 2004 and were able to increase their share of the vote to 12.89% with a gain of 3.6%. The number of mandates remained constant with 2 seats in the European Parliament. The FPÖ lost 17.09% compared to the European elections in 1999 and was only able to hold one of the five previous mandates with 6.31% of the vote.
Suffrage
In the 2009 European elections, all those persons who are Austrian citizens and are resident in Austria are eligible to vote in Austria. In addition, those eligible to vote must be 16 years of age on election day at the latest and be entered in the voter register / European voter register of an Austrian municipality on the key date, May 31, 2009. Furthermore, Austrians abroad who are not resident in Austria and non-Austrian Union citizens with their main residence in Austria are also entitled to vote in the European elections, provided they are included in the European electoral register and are 16 years of age on the day of the election. In the European elections, all persons who are entitled to vote themselves and who are 18 years of age on election day have the right to stand.
According to the federal electoral authority, 6,362,526 people are eligible to vote in the European elections, 313,397 or 5.2% more than in the 2004 European elections, in which 16- and 17-year-olds were not yet allowed to vote.
- 3,314,671 women (52.1%, +136,221 compared with 2004)
- 3,047,855 men (47.9%, +177,176 compared with 2004)
The number of those entitled to vote also includes 39,832 Austrians abroad and 30,414 EU citizens with their main residence in Austria.
Top candidates of the parties
- SPÖ: Hannes Swoboda
- ÖVP: Ernst Strasser
- MARTIN: Hans-Peter Martin
- GREEN: Ulrike Lunacek
- FPÖ: Andreas Mölzer
- KPÖ: Günther Hopfgartner
- JuLis: Hannes Müllner
- BZÖ: Ewald Stadler
Election campaign
On January 18, 2009, at the Federal Green Congress in Klagenfurt, Ulrike Lunacek was elected as the top candidate for the EU election with 54.7 percent of the 240 delegates. Long-time list leader Johannes Voggenhuber only achieved 45.3 percent. He initially decided not to run for second place on the list. When he finally offered to run for the last 16th place on the list in Vienna, the federal executive of the Greens rejected his candidacy on January 30, 2009. He was accused of wanting to enter the European Parliament through a preferential election campaign.
The ÖVP also presented with the former Minister of the Interior Ernst Strasser a different top candidate than the previous head of the delegation, Othmar Karas . Karas was elected on February 2, 2006 to succeed Ursula Stenzel , the former head of the ÖVP delegation in the European Parliament . Karas then led a preferential vote campaign with his own election posters, his own website and e-mail campaigns. A personal committee "Karas for Europe" with the spokesman Peter Marboe supported the campaign.
The BZÖ, founded in 2005, ran for the first time in a European election. It had presented its top candidate Ewald Stadler on posters as "our Ombudsman for Europe". The Austrian Ombudsman's Office obtained an injunction on May 29, 2009 , according to which Stadler was no longer allowed to call himself an Ombudsman. However, after this judgment, the already affixed posters did not have to be removed. Ewald Stadler was an ombudsman for the FPÖ from 2001 to 2006, but stood for the BZÖ in the Austrian National Council election in 2008 .
The list of Dr. Hans Peter Martin is the only group in the European Parliament that did not have a party organization on a national basis for the election campaign. Hans Peter Martin, a long-time journalist, received media support from the Kronen-Zeitung . The preprint of his book Die Europafalle and a column he wrote led to Martin's daily presence in Austria's most widely read daily newspaper.
Elected mandataries
The following MEPs were elected to the European Parliament:
Two MEPs took office following the enlargement of the European Parliament in December 2011:
| ÖVP | SPÖ | MARTIN | FPÖ | Green | BZÖ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | Josef Weidenholzer | - | - | - | Ewald Stadler |
Election sequences
With just under 113,000 votes, Othmar Karas achieved the largest number of preferential votes that a non- list candidate has ever achieved.
literature
- Markus Glück: EU election campaign 2009 - An Austrian perspective. Lang-Verlag, Frankfurt / Main, Oxford, Vienna 2011.
Web links
- Election information from the Federal Ministry of the Interior
- EU elections on June 7th, 2009. EU Parliament and Lisbon Treaty.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Federal Ministry of the Interior : Austria, final result (including all voting card results) ( Memento of the original from July 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b Der Standard , April 28, 2009: “Unfriendly act” when declaring support.
- ↑ Federal Ministry of Economics, Family and Youth: Use your right to vote. Useful information for young and first-time voters ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Federal Ministry of the Interior ( Memento of the original dated July 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ EU election: SPÖ loses a mandate to the Greens ( memento from June 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) in the Wirtschaftsblatt from June 9, 2009, accessed on June 10, 2009.
- ↑ European elections 2009 ( Memento of the original from July 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Federal Ministry of the Interior, accessed on December 1, 2012
- ^ "Elections to the European Parliament" at Help.gv.at, accessed on June 7, 2009
- ^ ORF: All about the 2009 European elections
- ↑ ORF from January 18, 2009 Voggenhuber takes his hat ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Europe.bg from January 28th, 2009 Greens: Voggenhuber resigns as a European spokesman ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ The standard of January 30, 2009 Green basket for Voggenhuber
- ^ Die Presse of March 4, 2009 Salzburg Greens: No new initiative for Voggenhuber
- ↑ oe24 of March 26, 2009 Strasser EU top candidate for ÖVP
- ↑ OK Europe of February 2, 2006 [Othmar Karas is the new ÖVP delegation leader in the EP]
- ↑ APA -OTS of May 23, 2009 Peter Marboe: Karas preferential vote campaign leads to trend reversal
- ^ The press of May 29, 2009 Stadler is no longer allowed to call himself an ombudsman
- ↑ Die Presse from July 30, 2009 BZÖ: Stadler traded high on the rumor exchange
- ↑ Martin: Third thanks to Dichand in the Wiener Zeitung of June 8, 2009, accessed on December 3, 2013.
- ↑ European Parliament, Information Office for Austria ( Memento of the original from January 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed July 7, 2009).
- ^ A shimmer of hope for new mandataries , Wiener Zeitung .at (and print) from December 1, 2010 (accessed on December 3, 2013)
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