Local council election in St. Pölten 1996
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The municipal council election in 1996 took place on October 13, 1996 and was the eleventh municipal council election in St. Pölten after the end of the war. Despite heavy losses, the Social Democratic Party of Austria was again able to unite the most votes and defend the absolute majority .
Starting position
In the election of October 6, 1991 , the SPÖ was able to unite the most votes and defend the absolute majority with losses compared to the record result of 1986 . While the ÖVP and KPÖ lost a lot, the FPÖ more than tripled its share of the vote. The Greens, who stood for the first time, were able to move into the municipal council with two mandates.
Campaigning parties and election process
The four parties represented in the municipal council, the Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ) and, for the first time, the Liberal Forum (LIF) competed in the elections . The Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) ran with Willi Gruber as the top candidate, the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) sent Alfred Brader into the race. The leading candidate of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) was Franz Miksch, The Greens - The Green Alternative (GREEN) were led by Silvia Buschenreiter. The LIF competed with Niki Schwab.
In the electoral process Willi Gruber refused to participate in an elephant round in ORF . His reasoning that Helmut Kohl did not take part in a television duel generated national media interest.
Election result
In the election of October 13, 1996, the SPÖ was again able to unite the largest number of votes and defend an absolute majority , despite heavy losses . While the ÖVP had to accept heavy losses and KPÖ and GRÜNE lost slightly, the FPÖ won strongly. The LIF was able to move into the municipal council when it first took office.
| Results 1996 | Results 1991 | Differences | |||||||
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| be right | % | Mand. | be right | % | Mand. | be right | % | Mand. | |
| Eligible voters | 40.110 | 39,988 | + 122 | ||||||
| Votes cast | 30,799 | 76.8% | 30,273 | 75.7% | + 526 | + 1.1% | |||
| invalid votes | 700 | 2.3% | 1,243 | 4.1% | - 543 | - 1.8% | |||
| valid votes | 30,099 | 97.7% | 29,030 | 95.9% | + 1,069 | + 1.8% | |||
| Political party | |||||||||
| SPÖ | 16,988 | 56.4% | 25th | 17,515 | 60.3% | 26th | - 527 | - 3.9% | - 1 |
| ÖVP | 6,385 | 21.2% | 9 | 6,959 | 24.0% | 10 | - 574 | - 2.8% | - 1 |
| FPÖ | 3,766 | 12.5% | 5 | 2,615 | 9.0% | 4th | + 1,151 | + 3.5% | + 1 |
| GREEN | 1,548 | 5.1% | 2 | 1,683 | 5.8% | 2 | - 135 | - 0.7% | ± 0 |
| LIF | 1,093 | 3.6% | 1 | not running | |||||
| KPÖ | 319 | 1.1% | 0 | 258 | 0.9% | 0 | + 61 | + 0.2% | ± 0 |
| total | 30,099 | 100.0% | 42 | 29,030 | 100.0% | 42 | + 1,069 | ± 0 | ± 0 |
Effects
At the constituent municipal council meeting, Gruber was re-elected mayor , while Amand Kysela (SPÖ) and Alfred Brader (ÖVP) were deputy mayors .
Shortly after the election, the FPÖ challenged the election at the Constitutional Court because of irregularities in the counting of votes and violation of the election supervision by the election chairman Willi Gruber . He had partially delegated the supervision of the electoral process for counting preferential votes. The court followed the arguments of the FPÖ and had the election repeated in 17 of 88 districts on August 31, 1997 , a total of 9,316 people were again eligible to vote.
literature
- Siegfried Nasko , Willibald Rosner (ed.): St. Pölten in the 20th century. History of a city. Residenz-Verlag, St. Pölten et al. 2010, ISBN 978-3-7017-3155-8 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Local council elections: Liberals win a mandate, Liberals move in . In: Der Standard , October 14, 1996
- ↑ Article . In: Der Standard , October 10, 1996
- ↑ Municipal council elections 1950-2001 on st-poelten.gv.at
- ^ Election campaign in the summer slump - FPÖ St.Pölten hopes for an increase in votes and a second city council . In: Der Standard , August 6, 1997
