Municipal council and mayoral elections in Tyrol 2010

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The municipal council and mayoral elections in Tyrol 2010 took place on March 14, 2010.

Starting position

Since there are traditionally numerous lists of names, especially those close to the ÖVP, in municipal elections in Tyrol, the state of Tyrol does not report an overall result for the parties due to the difficulty in identifying them. According to media reports, the ÖVP and its affiliated lists had around 2300 out of a total of 3676 seats before the 2010 election. The SPÖ defends 462 municipal council mandates and 22 mayors, the FPÖ provided 40 councilors in 17 municipalities before the election. The Greens were represented with 69 mandates in 33 municipalities.

Suffrage

The municipal council election 2010 was carried out in accordance with the “Law of 7 July 1994, which regulates the election of the organs of the municipality (Tyrolean municipal election regulations 1994 - TGWO 1994)” in the current version from 2008. All citizens of the European Union who had their main residence in a Tyrolean municipality on December 30, 2009, had resided in the municipality for at least a year and were 16 years of age on election day at the latest, were entitled to vote. Compared to the 2004 election, this was the first time that people under the age of 18 were actively eligible to vote. Active voters were also not allowed to have been excluded from the right to vote (conviction for criminal acts committed with intent to a prison term of more than one year).

All those persons who were actively eligible to vote and who had reached the age of 18 on election day at the latest had the passive right to vote in municipal council elections. Citizens of the European Union without Austrian citizenship who had not yet had their main residence in an Austrian municipality for five years without interruption could not have been excluded from voting in their home country as a result of a criminal decision in order to be eligible to vote.

The passive right to vote for the mayoral election, however, was incumbent only on all persons who were passively entitled to vote for the municipal council election and who also had Austrian citizenship. In addition, candidates for the mayoral election were not allowed to have been declared forfeit as a member of the municipal council in the last six years before election day.

Ballot and deadlines

The election was announced on December 9, 2009 in the State Law Gazette . Immediately afterwards, the election was announced in the communities on the same day. The appointment of the members of the electoral authorities took place in December, after which the constituent meeting of the municipal electoral authorities, the district electoral authorities and any district electoral authorities and special electoral authorities had to take place by December 30, 2009 at the latest. After that, nominations for the municipal council and mayoral elections could be submitted until February 19, 2010. The deadline for announcing list linkages was February 26, 2010.

The ballot itself was held on March 14, 2010 in 276 of the 279 municipalities in Tyrol. In Ischgl and Seefeld in Tirol municipal elections were held in 2009, the next election in Innsbruck would take place only in April 2012 found. The ÖVP and its related name lists competed in 2010 across the whole of Tyrol, while the SPÖ ran in 117 municipalities. For the first time, the SPÖ made candidacies in Gries am Brenner , Matrei am Brenner and Grinzens . The FPÖ, which was only represented in 27 municipalities before the election, ran in 62 municipalities in 2010, the Greens were on the ballot in 36 municipalities, with the party being represented in 33 municipal councils at the time. Members of the Fritz Dinkhauser list appeared for the first time since the citizens' list was founded in ten municipalities, whereby the Tirol-Klub-Bürgerforum, split off from the Dinkhauser Landtag Club , wanted to defend the mayor's chair of Thomas Schnitzer , Member of Parliament in Ehrwald .

For the first time, voters were able to vote by post in addition to their personal voting . In order to participate by postal vote, a written application for the issue of a voting card had to be submitted by March 4, 2010 or an oral application by March 9, 2010. In the case of postal voting, the voter had to vote "personally, unobserved and uninfluenced" and then put the ballot papers in the voting envelope. This envelope then had to be placed again in the voting card, whereby the voting card had to be signed. As a result, only voting cards that had arrived at the municipality by post by March 12, 2010 were valid. If a voting card was issued, the right to vote could subsequently only be exercised by postal voting or by presenting the voting card to the electoral authority where the voter was entered in the electoral roll.

Results

The SPÖ was able to win in some smaller towns, but lost in communities that were important to them, such as Reutte or Landeck . The ÖVP won mandates, the Greens lost as well as the FPÖ, which fell well short of their expectations. In the municipalities of Kundl , Kirchberg , Radfeld , Natters , Patsch and others, the office-holder position changed to the SPÖ.

A runoff election was held on March 28, 2010 in 25 municipalities in which no candidate achieved an absolute majority in the first ballot in the mayoral election. This led, among other things, to changes of mayor in the communities of Wörgl , Kufstein , Imst , Reutte and Telfs .

After the runoff election, eight of 279 municipalities will be led by mayors, of which there were only two before the election. 236 mayors are provided by the ÖVP (previously 238), 26 by the SPÖ (previously 22) and one by the FPÖ ( Gerald Hauser in St. Jakob in Defereggen ). The rest of the incumbents are independent politicians.

According to its own information, the ÖVP received 2,550 instead of 2,320 mandataries from the municipal councils.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Tiroler Tageszeitung: Five applicants per mandate ( Memento from February 4, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  2. ↑ a b TGWO 1994, §7
  3. ↑ TGWO 1994, §9
  4. ↑ TGWO 1994, §8
  5. ↑ innsbruckinformiert.at: Innsbruck informs the city senate on December 14, 2011 ( memento of the original from January 20, 2012 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. , Accessed December 17, 2011  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / innsbruckinformiert.at
  6. ↑ Municipal council and mayoral elections 2010: The postal vote ( Memento from February 9, 2010 in the web archive archive.today )
  7. ↑ TGWO 1994, §34a, paragraph 7
  8. ↑ derstandard.at: Tyrol: SPÖ loses in "Prestigegemeinden" , derStandard.at, accessed on December 17, 2011
  9. ↑ a b c d nachrichten.at: Tyrolean mayoral elections with surprises , March 28, 2010, accessed on December 17, 2011