Local council election in St. Pölten 2001

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The 2001 municipal council election took place on October 7, 2001 and was the twelfth regular municipal council election in St. Pölten after the end of the war. Despite losses, the Social Democratic Party of Austria was again able to unite the largest number of votes and defend the absolute majority .

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.

When the number was redialed on August 31, 1997 , there were hardly any shifts. 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.

Campaigning parties and election process

The four parties represented in the municipal council and the Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ) 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 Hermann Nonner, The Greens - The Green Alternative (GREEN) were led by Silvia Buschenreiter. The Liberal Forum started under the name of the top candidate List Otto Schwarz (LOS).

The last days before the election were marked by the ÖVP accusation that Willi Gruber would have wanted to offset the room rent for his birthday party on the city. Gruber immediately spoke of an error in the accounting and emphasized that he had paid the invoice out of pocket. However, since the allegations were still an election issue, the SPÖ obtained an injunction against the party newspaper in which the allegations were published.

Election result

In the election of October 7, 2001, the SPÖ was again able to unite the most votes and defend the absolute majority despite losses . The ÖVP made strong gains, as did the Greens. These were able to overtake the FPÖ, which had to accept massive losses, and reached third place. LOS and KPÖ did not make it into the municipal council.

Official final result of the 2001 municipal council election
Results 2001 Results 1997 Differences
be right % Mand. be right % Mand. be right % Mand.
Eligible voters 40,683 40.110 + 573
Votes cast 28,373 70.6% 29,642 73.9% - 905 - 3.3%
invalid votes 518 1.8% 643 4.1% - 125 - 2.3%
valid votes 27,855 98.2% 29,030 95.9% - 1,175 + 2.3%
Political party
SPÖ 15,750 56.5% 25th 16,751 57.8% 25th - 1,001 - 1.3% ± 0
ÖVP 7.171 25.7% 11 5,981 20.6% 9 + 1,190 + 5.1% + 2
Green 2,094 7.5% 3 1,380 4.8% 2 + 714 + 2.7% + 1
FPÖ 2,024 7.3% 3 3,672 12.7% 5 - 1,648 - 5.4% - 2nd
COME ON 585 2.1% 0 931 3.2% 1 - 346 - 1.1% - 1
KPÖ 231 0.8% 0 284 1.0% 0 - 53 - 0.2% ± 0
total 27,855 100.0% 42 29,030 100.0% 42 - 1,175 ± 0 ± 0

Effects

At the constituent meeting of the municipal council, Willi Gruber was re-elected mayor , while Hans Kocevar (SPÖ) and Alfred Brader (ÖVP) were deputy mayors . In the city council, the SPÖ occupied seven, the ÖVP two, the Greens and the FPÖ each one.

Shortly after the election, Ewald Stadler, as deputy state party leader , expressed himself critical of Nunner's election campaign and asked him to resign. The federal executive blamed Nonner for the failure, the federal politics are not to blame for the performance of the FPÖ in St. Pölten. After a meeting with the state party secretary Franz Marchat , in which he allegedly accused Nonner of being too “friendly to foreigners”, he and the other elected councilors resigned from the FPÖ. They then founded the list for St. Pölten and remained as free mandataries in the local council, the FPÖ was no longer represented. In the municipal council elections in 2006 , the list entered under Hermann Nonner's list .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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
  2. ^ Josef Tomek: The financial scandal surrounding a birthday party? . In: Die Presse , October 4, 2001
  3. ↑ Attacks against mayors prohibited . In: Die Presse , October 5, 2001
  4. ↑ Tax money dispute in the election campaign finish . In: Der Standard , October 6, 2001, p. 12
  5. ↑ Municipal council elections 1950-2001 on st-poelten.gv.at
  6. ^ FPÖ saved the city council seat . In: Die Presse , October 10, 2001
  7. ↑ Trouble after the election: Gruber criticizes ÖVP, conflict over FP top . In: Die Presse , October 9, 2001
  8. ↑ St. Pölten, an FP failure . In: Der Standard , October 9, 2001, p. 12
  9. ↑ Losses in St. Pölten lead to a split in the FPÖ . In: Der Standard , October 12, 2001, p. 8
  10. ↑ "The FP has now torn it up" . In: Der Standard , October 13, 2001, p. 12
  11. ↑ St. Pölten election - Hermann Nonner . On noe.orf.at , October 5, 2006