State election in Carinthia in 1989
The state elections in Carinthia in 1989 took place on March 12, 1989.
initial situation
It was the first choice after the retirement of the long-term governor Leopold Wagner . The scandal surrounding the Magdalen pulp mill is often said to be of great importance for this election, for which responsibility was placed with the ruling SPÖ.
Results
The Socialist Party of Austria (SPÖ) lost its absolute majority and three seats to the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ). The FPÖ achieved its best result to date in the election and was able to overtake the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP), which also lost three mandates to the FPÖ. In addition to the parties established in the state parliament, the Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ), the United Greens of Austria (VGÖ), the List of Other Carinthia (Durgacna Koroska, GAL) and the List of Nonpartisan Carinthians (LPK) also ran.
In 1989, 401,759 people were eligible to vote in the state elections, which meant an increase of 16,411 people eligible to vote. The turnout in 1989 was 90.08%, which is a sharp rise compared to 1979 (82.96%).
Overall result
| Results 1989 | Results 1984 | Differences | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| be right | % | Mand. | be right | % | Mand. | be right | % | Mand. | ||
| Votes cast | 361.913 | 36 | 319,685 | 36 | + 42,228 | |||||
| Invalid | 9,047 | 2.50% | 4,571 | 1.43% | + 4,476 | + 1.07% | ||||
| Valid | 352,866 | 97.50% | 315.114 | 98.57% | + 13,447 | - 1.07% | ||||
| Political party | ||||||||||
| Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) | 162.147 | 45.95% | 17th | 162,756 | 51.65% | 20th | - 690 | - 5.70% | - 3 | |
| Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) | 74.054 | 20.99% | 8th | 89.094 | 28.27% | 11 | - 15,040 | - 7.28% | - 3 | |
| Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) | 102,322 | 29.00% | 11 | 50,321 | 15.97% | 5 | + 52.001 | + 13.03% | + 6 | |
| Other Carinthia (GAL) 1 | 5,976 | 1.69% | 0 | 6,881 | 2.18% | 0 | - 905 | - 0.49% | ± 0 | |
| United Green Austria (VGÖ) | 5,601 | 1.59% | 0 | 3,569 | 1.13% | 0 | + 2,032 | + 0.46% | ± 0 | |
| Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ) | 2,155 | 0.61% | 0 | 2,493 | 0.79% | 0 | - 338 | - 0.18% | ± 0 | |
| List of non-party Carinthians (LPK) 2 | 611 | 0.17% | 0 | not running | + 611 | + 0.17% | ± 0 | |||
| total | 352,866 | 100% | 36 | 315.114 | 100% | 36 | + 13,447 | |||
1 Comparative figures from 1984 sum of the Greens and the Carinthian standard list and alternative
2 only in the Klagenfurt constituency - city and country candidate
consequences
For the first time since the state elections in 1965, the SPÖ lost an absolute majority. The MPs of the FPÖ and ÖVP elected Jörg Haider as governor. However, due to his statement about the "employment policy in the Third Reich", Haider was voted out of office in 1991 with the votes of the SPÖ and ÖVP. His successor was Christof Zernatto (ÖVP).
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ PressReader.com - Newspapers from around the world. In: pressreader.com. Retrieved September 23, 2017 .
- ↑ limited preview in the Google book search
- ↑ Overfather and foster son - Politische Sommerfrische - derStandard.at ›Inland. In: derstandard.at. Retrieved September 23, 2017 .
- ^ Rauchberger (Ed.): Keyword Federal States - Federal Council. P. 373 f.
literature
- Josef Rauchberger (Ed.): Keyword Federal States - Federal Council. Elections and representative bodies of the federal states from 1945 to 2000. PR-Verlag, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-9011-1105-0 .
Web links
- Office of the Carinthian Provincial Government State Office for Statistics. The state elections in Carinthia on March 7, 2004 (with a list of the state elections 1945-2004)
