Municipal council and mayoral elections in Upper Austria 2009
The municipal council and mayoral elections in Upper Austria in 2009 took place on September 27, 2009 and were held at the same time as the state elections in 2009 in 444 Upper Austrian municipalities. On October 11, 2009 runoff elections for mayoral elections took place in 37 municipalities . A total of 1,115,743 people were eligible to vote.
Suffrage
Right to vote
Austrian citizens and non-Austrian EU citizens who are not excluded from the right to vote, who have their main residence in the respective municipality and who have reached the age of 16 on election day are entitled to vote.
Passive suffrage
Those persons who have the active right to vote and who have reached the age of 18 on election day at the latest are eligible to vote.
Country result
Local council election
Local council elections 2009 |
GRW 2009 | GRW 2003 | difference | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| be right | % | Mandates | be right | % | Mandates | be right | % | Mandates | |||
| eligible to vote | 1,115,743 | - | 1,031,531 | - | + 84,212 | + 8.16 | - | ||||
| voter turnout | 881.812 | 79.03 | - | 802.624 | 77.81 | - | + 79,188 | + 1.22 | - | ||
| Invalid votes | 29,868 | 3.39 | - | 29,442 | 3.67 | - | + 426 | - 0.28 | - | ||
| Valid votes | 851.944 | 96.61 | - | 773.182 | 96.33 | - | + 78,762 | + 0.28 | - | ||
| of which accounted for by party | |||||||||||
| ÖVP | 371,601 | 43.62 | 5011 | 323.217 | 41.80 | 4900 | + 48384 | + 1.82 | + 115 | ||
| SPÖ | 285,339 | 33.49 | 2830 | 327.837 | 42.40 | 3558 | - 42,498 | - 8.91 | -718 | ||
| GREEN | 43,764 | 5.14 | 238 | 33,565 | 4.34 | 171 | + 10.199 | + 0.80 | + 67 | ||
| FPÖ | 121,046 | 14.21 | 1209 | 68.109 | 8.81 | 742 | + 52,937 | + 5.40 | + 468 | ||
| BZÖ | 10,967 | 1.29 | 56 | not running | + 10,967 | + 1.29 | + 56 | ||||
| KPÖ | 2.174 | 0.26 | 1 | 2,070 | 0.27 | 1 | + 104 | - 0.01 | ± 0 | ||
Mayoral election
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Mayoral elections 2009 |
Comparison of the mayoral elections 2009 and 2003 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BMW 2009 | BMW 2003 | difference | |||
| ÖVP | 330 | 321 | + 9 | ||
| SPÖ | 99 | 110 | - 11 | ||
| GREEN | 0 | 0 | ± 0 | ||
| FPÖ | 9 | 8th | + 1 | ||
| BZÖ | 2 | 0 | + 2 | ||
| KPÖ | 4th | 0 | ± 0 | ||
| Others | 6th | 5 | - 1 | ||
Individual evidence
- ↑ Legal information system of the Federal Chancellery: Land law Upper Austria: Entire legal regulation for Upper Austria. Local election regulations, version of July 17, 2016 - §17 , accessed on October 27, 2017.
- ↑ Legal information system of the Federal Chancellery: Land law Upper Austria: Entire legal regulation for Upper Austria. Local election regulations, version of July 17, 2016 - §24, §35 , accessed on October 27, 2017.
- ^ Province of Upper Austria , accessed on October 27, 2017.
- ^ Province of Upper Austria , accessed on October 27, 2017.
