Local council election in St. Pölten 1997
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The 1997 municipal council election took place on August 31, 1997 and was the partial repetition of the 1996 municipal council elections due to a complaint brought by the FPÖ to the Constitutional Court . The result changed only slightly; no mandates were shifted.
Starting position
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. She won a city council mandate, and only ten votes were missing for a second. The LIF was able to move into the municipal council when it first took office.
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, a total of 9,316 people were again eligible to vote.
Campaigning parties and election process
For the new elections, the same nominations as in the previous election were valid, and those eligible to vote remained the same. As a result, 200 eligible voters had died and 600 had moved. At the Liberal Forum (LIF), the top candidate in the 1996 election, Niki Schwab, had meanwhile ceded his mandate to Otto Schwarz. The dominant election campaign topic of all parties, with the exception of the FPÖ, was the sense of re-election and the cost of around one million schillings . With regard to the VfGH decision, the FPÖ ruled that “law must remain law”.
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.
Election result
In the election of August 31, 1997, there were hardly any postponements. Like the FPÖ, the SPÖ won easily, the other parties lost easily. In total, there were no shifts in mandates in the local council or city council.
| Results 1997 a | Results 1996 | Results 1991 | Differences 1991–1997 | Differences 1996–1997 | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| be right | % | Mand. | be right | % | Mand. | be right | % | Mand. | be right | % | Mand. | be right | % | Mand. | |
| Eligible voters | 40.110 | 40.110 | 39,988 | + 122 | ± 0 | ||||||||||
| Votes cast | 29,642 | 73.9% | 30,799 | 76.8% | 30,273 | 75.7% | - 631 | - 1.8% | - 1,157 | - 2.9% | |||||
| invalid votes | 643 | 2.2% | 700 | 2.3% | 1,243 | 4.1% | - 600 | - 1.9% | - 57 | - 0.1% | |||||
| valid votes | 28,999 | 97.8% | 30,099 | 97.7% | 29,030 | 95.9% | - 31 | + 1.9% | - 1,100 | - 0.1% | |||||
| Political party | |||||||||||||||
| SPÖ | 16,751 | 57.8% | 25th | 16,988 | 56.4% | 25th | 17,515 | 60.3% | 26th | - 764 | - 2.5% | - 1 | - 237 | + 1.4% | ± 0 |
| ÖVP | 5,981 | 20.6% | 9 | 6,385 | 21.2% | 9 | 6,959 | 24.0% | 10 | - 978 | - 3.4% | - 1 | - 404 | - 0.6% | ± 0 |
| FPÖ | 3,672 | 12.7% | 5 | 3,766 | 12.5% | 5 | 2,615 | 9.0% | 4th | + 1,057 | + 3.7% | + 1 | - 94 | + 0.2% | ± 0 |
| GREEN | 1,380 | 4.8% | 2 | 1,548 | 5.1% | 2 | 1,683 | 5.8% | 2 | - 303 | - 1.0% | ± 0 | - 168 | - 0.3% | ± 0 |
| LIF | 931 | 3.2% | 1 | 1,093 | 3.6% | 1 | not running | - 362 | - 0.4% | ± 0 | |||||
| KPÖ | 284 | 1.0% | 0 | 319 | 1.1% | 0 | 258 | 0.9% | 0 | + 61 | + 0.2% | ± 0 | + 61 | + 0.2% | ± 0 |
| total | 28,999 | 100.0% | 42 | 30,099 | 100.0% | 42 | 29,030 | 100.0% | 42 | - 31 | ± 0 | ± 0 | - 1,100 | ± 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 .
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
- ^ 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
- ↑ St.Pölten by-election: "Search for happiness" . In: Der Standard , September 1, 1997
- ↑ St. Pölten elects - once again . In: Der Standard , August 30, 1997
- ↑ Municipal council elections 1950-2001 on st-poelten.gv.at
