State parliament and municipal council election in Vienna 2010
The state and municipal council elections in Vienna 2010 took place on October 10th.
The Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) lost its absolute mandate majority. The Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) achieved its second-best result so far in the election and was able to overtake the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP), which achieved its worst result with 13.99%.
In addition to the parties established in the town hall, the Alliance Future Austria (BZÖ), the Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ), the Liberal Forum (LIF), the Socialist Left Party (SLP), the MUT party and the Direct Democracy Platform (DEM) also ran for candidates. , an electoral alliance made up of 5 groups.
At the same time as the state parliament and municipal council elections, the district representative election was held in Vienna , in which the district councils and district heads were elected.
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Starting position
In the state and local council elections in 2005, the SPÖ was again the winner. It was able to maintain its absolute mandate majority with 49.1% and also recorded a profit of 2.2% and an increase of three mandates. Thus, the SPÖ provided 55 of the 100 members of the state parliament and local councilors in the Vienna state parliament and municipal council in the 18th electoral term . The ÖVP had also made a profit in the 2005 election and increased its share of the vote by 2.4% to 18.8%. This also meant winning two mandates, which resulted in the ÖVP having 18 mandataries. The Greens were able to gain 2.2% as well as three mandates and achieved their best result so far in Vienna with 14.6%. As a result, the Greens achieved 14 seats for the first time, placing them ahead of the FPÖ for the first time, which was the loser in the state and municipal council elections with 14.8% and 13 seats. The FPÖ had to record losses of 5.3% in the election and also lost eight mandates. For the FPÖ, this meant the worst election result since 1987. All of the remaining candidate parties, including the KPÖ and the BZÖ (with a different list name), clearly failed because they entered the state parliament and the local council.
Suffrage
All persons who had their place of residence in Vienna on the reference date, August 10, 2010, were Austrian citizens and who had reached their 16 year of age on October 10, 2010 at the latest, were actively eligible for election to the state parliament and municipal council .
It was the first municipal council election in Vienna where postal voting was possible.
1,144,510 people were eligible to vote in the state elections, which meant an increase of 2,384 people eligible to vote. The turnout in 2010 was 67.63%, which is a sharp rise compared to 2005 (60.81%).
Parties entered
SPÖ - Social Democratic Party of Austria
The Social Democratic Party of Austria ( SPÖ Vienna ) started with the aim of defending its absolute majority in the Vienna Landtag. For this reason, the party did not announce any possible coalition variants. A collaboration with the FPÖ was ruled out by Michael Häupl. The party put its campaign expenditure at 5 million euros. On September 4, 2010, the SPÖ started its election campaign in the Wiener Stadthalle . During the election campaign, the SPÖ focused on integration, education, jobs, quality of life and security. The Social Democrats advertised with the expansion of childcare places, investments in research, infrastructure and housing, the distribution of wealth, the expansion of video surveillance and "clear rules" for living together in Vienna.
ÖVP - Austrian People's Party
The aim of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) was to break the absolute majority of the Social Democrats and to improve on the last local council election. She also wants to join the city government, although she did not initially exclude the FPÖ as a coalition partner. For the election campaign, the ÖVP wanted to get by with between 1.5 and 2.5 million euros. On September 10, 2010, the ÖVP held its kick-off event in the tent pavilion at Vienna City Hall. The People's Party focused on integration, education and the economy. She called for the introduction of a city watch, a new regulation of traffic, more teachers for the schools, more efficiency in the city administration and preparatory classes for children who do not speak enough German.
FPÖ - Freedom Party of Austria
The Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) announced the duel for Vienna in early 2010 . Their goal was also to break the absolute majority of the SPÖ. The FPÖ spent around 3 to 4 million euros on its election campaign. The FPÖ officially started its election campaign on September 2, 2010 in Lugner City . The core issues of the FPÖ were security, integration, jobs and tradition. The party's demands were a separate security department for Vienna, a "counteracting the abuse of asylum" and the adjustment of immigrants to society.
The Green Vienna - The Green Alternative
The Greens Vienna sought a coalition with the Social Democrats . Such a red-green coalition had not previously existed at state level in Austria. In Vienna, however, so-called red-green projects were decided in 2001 and 2005 . However, the party in Mariahilf and Josefstadt had to accept splitting of the district groups for the district council election. In addition, Federal Council member Stefan Schennach switched to the Social Democrats. The budget of the Greens provided for expenditure of 1.5 million euros. The election campaign of the Vienna Greens took place on September 7, 2010 in Arena 21 in the Museum Quarter. The main themes of the Greens were environment, integration, social affairs and jobs. The party's demands were to switch to local public transport , promote integration and introduce a tax on the wealthy.
BZÖ - Alliance Future Austria - List Walter Sonnleitner
The Alliance for the Future of Austria named the entry into the state parliament as a goal, for which five percent of the votes or a basic mandate in an electoral district would be necessary. Of the parties represented in the National Council, Vienna has the lowest budget available for the election campaign, at 350,000 euros. Large-format posters were also dispensed with and triangular stands and mobile advertising were mainly used. The election campaign of the BZÖ was officially September 9 Ares Tower opened, the self-declared focus from Sonnleitner is thrift and honesty, further one steps against cronyism and party membership economy on. The BZÖ mainly promoted the issue of reducing bureaucracy.
KPÖ - Communist Party of Austria - Left List
In addition to the parties represented in parliament, the Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ) ran in all 18 constituencies of Vienna with Dietmar Zach as the top candidate. The main themes of the communists were distributive justice and the economic crisis.
Other parties
In addition to the parties that ran in all constituencies, there were the Liberal Forum (in all constituencies except Hietzing, Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus and Döbling), the MUT party (Center and Inner West), the Socialist Left Party (Brigittenau), the Direct Platform Democracy (Donaustadt) and we approved for Floridsdorf (Floridsdorf).
Results
| Results 2010 | Results 2005 | Differences | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eligible voters | 1,144,510 | 1,142,126 | +2,384 | ||||||
| voter turnout | 67.63% | 60.81% | + 6.82% | ||||||
| be right | % | Mand. | be right | % | Mand. | be right | % | Mand. | |
| Votes cast | 774.079 | 694.515 | +79,564 | ||||||
| Invalid | 19,141 | 2.47% | 14,950 | 2.15% | +4,191 | + 0.32% | |||
| Valid | 754.938 | 97.53% | 679,565 | 97.85% | +75,373 | −0.32% | |||
| Political party | |||||||||
| Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) | 334.757 | 44.34% | 49 | 333.611 | 49.09% | 55 | +1,146 | −4.75% | −6 |
| Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) | 105,627 | 13.99% | 13 | 127,531 | 18.77% | 18th | −21.904 | −4.78% | −5 |
| Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) | 194,517 | 25.77% | 27 | 100,780 | 14.83% | 13 | +93,737 | +10.94% | +14 |
| The Greens Vienna (Greens) | 95,445 | 12.64% | 11 | 99,432 | 14.63% | 14th | −3,987 | −1.99% | −3 |
| Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ) | 8,425 | 1.12% | 0 | 9,969 | 1.47% | 0 | −1,544 | −0.35% | 0 |
| Alliance Future Austria - List Walter Sonnleitner (BZÖ) | 10,057 | 1.33% | 0 | 7,824 | 1.15% | 0 | +2,233 | + 0.18% | 0 |
| Socialist Left Party (SLP) | 73 | 0.01% | 0 | 124 | 0.02% | 0 | −51 | −0.01% | 0 |
| Liberal Forum (LIF) | 5,192 | 0.69% | 0 | not running | not running | ||||
| MUT Party, Human Environment Animal Welfare - The Animal Rights Party (MUT) | 514 | 0.07% | 0 | not running | not running | ||||
| Direct Democracy Platform (DEM) | 331 | 0.04% | 0 | not running | not running | ||||
| Vienna Forum (WIF) | not running | 294 | 0.04% | 0 | −294 | −0.04% | ± 0 | ||
| total | 100.00% | 100 | 100.00% | 100 | |||||
Allegations of manipulation
The Green MP Martin Margulies raised electoral fraud allegations against the SPÖ : there were postal votes from people with dementia and citizens with a Turkish migration background by third parties.
Effects
Coalition negotiations
Immediately after the election, Häupl left it open for the time being whether he would enter into coalition negotiations with the ÖVP or the Greens; in any case, there would be no simultaneous parallel negotiations with both parties. As before the election, he ruled out a coalition with the FPÖ.
Strache stated that he was open to all possible coalition variants and would remain in Vienna's state politics as mayor, deputy mayor and / or integration or security city councilor. The Vienna Greens unanimously decided in a party meeting to negotiate with the SPÖ. In the ÖVP-Vienna there were both voices in favor of starting coalition talks, as well as those who considered it tactically wiser to remain in the opposition and raise the party's profile until the next election.
On October 22, 2010 it was announced that the SPÖ would enter into coalition negotiations with the Greens.
First red-green state government
In the SPÖ there were several politicians who spoke out in favor of a red-green coalition , including party chairmen Michael Ritsch in Vorarlberg and Peter Kaiser in Carinthia, as well as Stefan Schennach , who switched from the Greens to the SPÖ at the beginning of the election campaign. The Socialist Youth Austria also showed clear preferences for a coalition with the Greens. A short time later, a website was set up on which prominent supporters of the red-green coalition (including David Schalko , Barbara Blaha , Robert Misik and Heide Schmidt ) spoke.
On November 12, 2010, the SPÖ and the Greens announced that they had agreed on a joint coalition. Maria Vassilakou moved into the state government of Häupl V as vice mayor and city councilor for urban development, transport, climate protection, energy planning and citizen participation in the state government.
Subsequent choice
The next election took place on October 11, 2015.
Web links
- Municipality of Vienna: Results of the municipal council election 2010
- Municipality of Vienna: Results of the 2010 district council election
Footnotes
- ↑ Postal voting for lawyers "questionable" . In: ORF . August 9, 2010.
- ↑ SP spin doctor Greenberg wants to motivate . In: The Standard . July 15, 2010.
- ↑ October 1, 2010 in the ORF broadcast Vienna today .
- ↑ a b c d Vienna election: parties refer to “War Rooms” . In: The press . August 5, 2008.
- ^ SPÖ Vienna: My dream for Vienna ( Memento from September 22, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) .
- ^ ÖVP: City watch and budget as topics . In: ORF . July 20, 2010.
- ^ "Direction choice " for ÖVP on October 10th . In: ORF . September 10, 2010.
- ^ ÖVP Vienna: ÖVP wants to break absolute rules of the Viennese SPÖ ( memento from October 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). October 3, 2010.
- ^ FPÖ Vienna: Election program 2010 ( Memento from February 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 5.2 MB).
- ↑ Greens continue to argue: party split in Mariahilf . In: The Standard . June 24, 2010.
- ↑ Josefstadt: After the “Putsch” there are two green lists . August 11, 2010.
- ↑ Eco-Corso to kick off the election campaign . In: ORF . September 7, 2010.
- ↑ Lukas Kapeller: Walter Sonnleitner competes for BZÖ Vienna . In: The Standard . June 29, 2010.
- ^ BZÖ list as an offer to medium-sized businesses . In: ORF . September 15, 2010.
- ^ Election campaign: BZÖ against "chief suitcase with party book" . In: The press . September 9, 2010.
- ↑ KPÖ-Appointments for municipal council elections fixed . In: The Standard . August 23, 2010.
- ^ City of Vienna: Municipal council election 2010 .
- ^ "Ballot papers for people with dementia": SPÖ election fraud? «DiePresse.com. In: diepresse.com. Retrieved October 4, 2015 .
- ↑ Greens accuse SPÖ of electoral fraud in the Turkish community «DiePresse.com. In: diepresse.com. Retrieved October 4, 2015 .
- ↑ Häupl will start coalition talks next week . In: The press . October 12, 2010.
- ↑ Negotiations from next week . In: ORF . October 13, 2010.
- ^ The Greens : Joy about the start of Red-Green negotiations in Vienna . October 22, 2010.
- ^ Ferry Maier wants Viennese ÖVP in opposition . In: The Standard . October 11, 2010.
- ↑ Anita Zielina: Mayor Häupl says yes to red-green negotiations . In: The Standard . October 22, 2010.
- ↑ The only thing fixed is that nothing is fixed yet . In: Small newspaper . October 11, 2010.
- ↑ red-green for Vienna! ( Memento of October 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) .
- ↑ Heide Schmidt supports red-green advocates . In: The Standard . October 18, 2010.
- ↑ Big plans for integration and transport . In: ORF . November 12, 2010.
