Municipal council and mayoral elections in Salzburg 2019
The municipal council and mayoral elections in Salzburg 2019 were held in the province of Salzburg on March 10, 2019.
Starting position
The last municipal council and mayoral elections took place in Salzburg in 2014 . A total of 434,262 people are entitled to vote, around three percent more than in 2014. With 12,298 people entitled to vote, the increase is mainly distributed among EU citizens and with 313 people entitled to vote among Austrians. In 2014 at least two parties ran in all 119 municipalities, this time only one party in the municipality of Thomatal .
Mayoral elections
- 80 out of 119 mayors elected in 2014 ran again, but for a different party in Goldegg im Pongau and Untertauern .
- At the end of 2017, after the resignation of Heinz Schaden (SPÖ), Harald Preuner (ÖVP) was elected a new mayor in the city of Salzburg .
- Out of a total of 119 municipalities, women also ran for mayor's office in 34 municipalities. Only women ran for candidates in the communities of Lend , Stuhlfelden and Lamprechtshausen .
As a result of the election, the mayors of 108 municipalities were elected in the first ballot, ie they received more than 50% of the vote. In 11 municipalities (city of Salzburg, Hallein , Seekirchen , Oberndorf , Zell am See , Elsbethen , Mattsee , Bad Hofgastein , Oberalm , St. Johann and Straßwalchen ) no candidate achieved an absolute majority, so that a runoff election took place on March 24, 2019. In the city of Salzburg, the ÖVP mayoral candidate came first in the first ballot with 41.4%.
literature
- Bernadette Pointl: Mayor and municipal council elections in the state of Salzburg . In: Franz Schausberger (ed.): IRE -Occasional Papers . No. 8/2019. Salzburg 2019. p. 235 - p. 237. ISBN 978-3-902557-20-9 .
Web links
- Municipal elections 2019
- Election 2019 on the Salzburger Nachrichten website
- Results of the municipal council elections on March 10, 2019
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b The 10 most exciting facts to choose from . Salzburg state correspondence of February 27, 2019, accessed on February 27, 2019.
- ↑ Harald Preuner barely the new mayor - salzburg.ORF.at. Retrieved February 27, 2019 .
- ↑ 34 women want to become mayors . Salzburg State Correspondence, February 19, 2019
- ↑ orf.at: ÖVP victory in the city, SPÖ turns Hallein and Zell around . Article dated March 24, 2019, accessed March 24, 2019.
- ↑ Election in the city of Salzburg: ÖVP is growing strongly. Salzburger Nachrichten, March 10, 2019, accessed on March 10, 2019 .
