State election in Carinthia 2009
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The state elections in Carinthia 2009 took place on March 1, 2009 and were held at the same time as the municipal council and mayoral elections. In the state election, in addition to the parliamentary groups in the Carinthian state parliament, Alliance Future Austria (BZÖ), Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ), Austrian People's Party (ÖVP), Green Carinthia (GRÜNE) and Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ), the Communist Party of Austria ( KPÖ), the Stark list (STARK) and the Gaddafi Party Austria (GPÖ). From the election, the BZÖ emerged as the party with the strongest vote with around 45% of the votes, although the party had participated in the Carinthian state elections for the first time after the split in the FPÖ and the death of Jörg Haider . The SPÖ incurred significant losses and lost three seats as well as a regional councilor. While the ÖVP was able to win three mandates from a low level, the Greens were only just able to secure remaining in the state parliament after slight losses. After the BZÖ split off, the FPÖ failed to re-enter the state parliament, as did all the other lists.
requirements
Starting position
The Freedom Party of Austria won the regional elections in Carinthia in 2004 with 42.4%, followed by the Social Democratic Party of Austria , which won 38.4% of the vote. The Austrian People's Party had 11.6%, the Green Carinthia 6.7%. After the split of the Alliance Future Austria from the FPÖ, led by the then governor Jörg Haider , almost the entire top of the FPÖ Carinthia had converted to the BZÖ. 15 of the 16 FPÖ mandataries switched to the BZÖ. On October 11th, 2008 Jörg Haider died in a car accident. Gerhard Dörfler (BZÖ) was elected as Haider's successor as governor with the support of BZÖ, ÖVP and FPÖ.
Suffrage
In the state elections in Carinthia in 2009, all persons are entitled to vote who are 16 years of age on the day of the election, who are not excluded from the right to vote, who were Austrian citizens on December 27, 2008 and who have their main residence in Carinthia. The right to stand as a candidate was based on the same criteria, but candidates for the state election must have already reached the age of 18 on the day of the election. 443,449 people are actively entitled to vote in the state elections.
The voting age in state elections was only lowered in July 2008 through an electoral reform from 18 to 16 years. At the same time, the SPÖ, ÖVP, Greens and FPÖ lowered the high number of mandates for parties in the Carinthian state parliament in the electoral reform against the votes of the BZÖ. In the future, five percent of the votes in Carinthia will be sufficient for entry into the state parliament, previously at least ten percent of the votes in one of the four constituencies were necessary. The electoral districts of the Province of Carinthia remained unchanged by the reform of the electoral law. Constituency 1 comprises the districts of Klagenfurt-Stadt and Klagenfurt-Land, constituency 2 the districts Völkermarkt, Sankt Veit an der Glan and Wolfsberg, constituency 3 Villach-Stadt and Villach-Land, and constituency 4 the districts Feldkirchen, Hermagor and Spittal on the Drava. While constituencies 1 and 4 each have a maximum of nine direct mandates, constituency 2 has a maximum of ten and constituency 3 a maximum of eight direct mandates.
Ballot
As a result of the 2008 electoral reform, the Carinthian electoral law also enables early voting and postal voting. Eligible voters will be able to cast their vote on February 20th. The Carinthian municipalities are obliged to open at least one polling station for at least two hours. Those eligible to vote in Carinthia can apply for a voting card in writing by February 25th at the latest or orally by February 26th at the latest from the municipality of their main place of residence. Postal voting is possible from within Germany as well as from abroad, whereby the voting card for the state elections must be received by the respective district electoral authority by March 9th at the latest.
The official ballot for the state elections is white and has the format A4. After the election, the ballot will be put in a white envelope. In addition to the vote for a party, eligible voters can also give up to three preferential votes, whereby a valid preferential vote is only possible for one candidate from the elected party.
Campaigning parties (list name and official abbreviation)
The Freedom in Carinthia - BZÖ List Jörg Haider (BZÖ)
After the death of Jörg Haider, the BZÖ and the newly elected governor Gerhard Dörfler are the top candidates. Election campaign manager and member of the National Council Stefan Petzner conceived the election campaign appearance of the BZÖ as a team election campaign, whereby in addition to Dörfler, Deputy Governor Uwe Scheuch and Provincial Councilor Harald Dobernig could be found on the posters . Governor Dörfler set the electoral goal to achieve 40% of the vote, 37% he named as a “personal pain threshold”. With the poster subjects, the BZÖ relied on the continuation of the previous government course, whereby strong references to the deceased Governor Haider were made through the choice of the list name and slogans such as "We take care of your Carinthia". In terms of content, the BZÖ primarily focused on the issue of security in its election campaign, despite the worsening economic crisis. In its election program, the BZÖ put the prevention of further bilingual place-name signs first. This was followed by the prevention of a reception center for refugees and asylum seekers in Carinthia and the demand for additional police officers to combat "crime, asylum and drug abuse". Further topics were the support of the economy through promotional loans from the state, an economic fund against the economic crisis and the support of apprentices. Furthermore, the BZÖ demanded a youth entry fee, discounts for Carinthians at tourism facilities, the expansion of medical care, the expansion of solar energy and hydropower as well as anchoring social benefits in a "family income".
Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ)
The SPÖ went into the election campaign with Deputy Governor Reinhart Rohr as the top candidate. In the election campaign, Rohr claimed the office of governor and set the election goal to achieve first place. In terms of content, the SPÖ mainly focused on the topic of jobs. In his "5 Points for Carinthia", Rohr called for the creation of jobs on site with reasonable pay as the most important point. In the other points, the SPÖ relied on the promotion of young people in the field of work and training, the demand for affordable housing and life, securing pensions and health care.
Dr. Josef Martinz - Austrian People's Party (ÖVP)
The ÖVP entered under the list name Dr. Josef Martinz - Austrian People's Party and set up regional councilor and regional party chairman Josef Martinz as the top candidate . After the heavy losses in the 2004 state elections, Martinz named the election goal of becoming the strongest winner and taking over the finance department. At the end of the election campaign, Martinz expected 15% of the vote, he saw a personal success “if there was a plus in front”. The most important election campaign topics of the ÖVP were the areas of administrative reform, future funds and free kindergarten.
The Greens - The Green Alternative Carinthia (GREEN)
The Greens competed in the state elections in 2009 as Die Grünen - Die Grüne Alternative Kärnten . The top candidate in the state elections was Rolf Holub , who also ran as the only top candidate in the previous state elections in 2009. In his election campaign, Holub primarily focused on the topic of control and the creation of an energy self-sufficient Carinthia. Holub named reaching the third state parliament mandate as an election goal. Further topics of the Greens in the election program for the state elections in 2009 were environmental and nature protection, the expansion of public transport, the promotion of education, women and young people as well as the introduction of basic social security . In the dispute over Johannes Voggenhuber's re -election, which flared up before the state elections, Holub stood behind the long-standing EU parliamentarian who was no longer voted first on the list when the Greens were drawn up. Holub subsequently preferred the candidacy, which was initially excluded by Voggenhuber, to a lower position on the list, which, however, was not accepted by the federal board of the Greens.
Freedom Party of Austria - FPÖ (FPÖ)
The FPÖ ran with Mario Canori as the top candidate. Canori had previously been a member of the BZÖ and was presented by federal party leader Heinz-Christian Strache at the start of the election campaign. Canori started with the goal of getting 10 to 11% of the vote and thus a seat in the state government. Canori named the reunification with the BZÖ as a major goal. Canori named a cooperation with the BZÖ as a desired coalition and, if these two parties did not have a majority, an additional involvement of the ÖVP. One of the determined election goals was therefore to prevent a coalition of the SPÖ and ÖVP. For its poster series, the FPÖ chose the areas of poverty reduction, job creation and strengthening the economy.
Other parties
The Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ) also ran. In addition, the Stark list (STARK) and the Gaddafi Party of Austria - The White Party (GPÖ) competed in the elections, but both only in the Klagenfurt constituency.
Campaign budgets
For the BZÖ, election campaign manager Stefan Petzner did not reveal the amount of the campaign budget. He justified his move by saying that other parties would not provide any information on the election campaign budget. The SPÖ and ÖVP did not publish any information on their election campaign budgets either. According to their own statements, the Greens invested around 350,000 euros in the state and local council election campaigns and at the same time justified their late campaign start with the limited budget. The FPÖ again put around 700,000 euros into the election campaign.
Survey
In the polls, the BZÖ and SPÖ were last tied, although the pollsters did not want to determine which party would emerge from the elections as the party with the highest number of votes due to the fluctuation range. A survey by the opinion research institute Peter Hajek published by the Kleine Zeitung found the BZÖ at 38% and the SPÖ at 36% three weeks before the election. The survey conducted by the opinion research institute SORA for the Kronen Zeitung, on the other hand, calculated the SPÖ with 41% before the BZÖ with 38 percent. For the ÖVP, the two polls indicated a share of votes of 12% and 10%, respectively, the Greens were forecast by Hajek 7% and SORA 6%. While the FPÖ would manage to enter the state parliament with 5% at Hajek, SORA saw Canori fail with only 3%. After the election, the pollsters tried to explain the sometimes very different surveys with a Carinthian- Bradley effect .
Overall result
| Results 2009 | Results 2004 | Differences | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| be right | % | Mand. | be right | % | Mand. | be right | % | Mand. | |
| total | 362,680 | 81.78% | 36 | 334.431 | 78.63% | 36 | + 28,429 | + 7.79% | |
| Invalid | 6,406 | 5,732 | + 674 | ||||||
| Valid | 356.274 | 98.23% | 328,699 | 98.29% | +27,575 | + 7.74% | |||
| Political party | |||||||||
| Alliance Future Austria | 159,926 | 44.89% | 17th | 139,479 | 42.43% | 16 | + 20,447 | + 2.46% | + 1 |
| Social Democratic Party of Austria | 102,385 | 28.74% | 11 | 126,325 | 38.43% | 14th | - 23,940 | - 9.69% | - 3 |
| Austrian People's Party | 59,955 | 16.83% | 6th | 38,256 | 11.64% | 4th | + 21,699 | + 5.19% | + 2 |
| The Green Carinthia | 18,336 | 5.15% | 2 | 22,053 | 6.71% | 2 | - 3,717 | - 1.56% | ± 0 |
| Freedom Party of Austria | 13,383 | 3.76% | 0 | nk | + 13,383 | + 3.76% | ± 0 | ||
| Communist Party of Austria | 1,893 | 0.53% | 0 | 1,951 | 0.59% | 0 | - 58 | - 0.06% | ± 0 |
| List Stark | 208 | 0.06% | 0 | nk | + 208 | + 0.06% | ± 0 | ||
| Gaddafi Party Austria | 188 | 0.05% | 0 | nk | + 188 | + 0.05% | ± 0 | ||
consequences
After the election there was a coalition between BZÖ and ÖVP under Governor Gerhard Dörfler (BZÖ). In December 2009 the Freedom Party in Carinthia split off from the BZÖ and has since acted as an independent party (FPK), which continued the coalition with the ÖVP. After corruption scandals and investigations against members of the state government - after an initial blockade by the FPK - early new elections were called.
Web links
- State Office for Statistics: Detailed results (pdf, 85 pages)
Individual evidence
- ^ Carinthia total - final result of the state elections 2009
- ↑ Carinthia overall - final result ( Memento of the original from May 7th, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. State election 2004
- ↑ State of Carinthia ( Memento of the original from March 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Information on the 2009 state elections, accessed on February 14, 2009
- ↑ a b c d Province of Carinthia ( Memento of the original from March 7, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Election 09: Your vote counts !, accessed February 14, 2009
- ^ A b ORF Carinthia electoral law reform decided in the state parliament, July 3, 2008
- ^ Battle for Carinthia. Salzburger Nachrichten , accessed on February 27, 2009 .
- ^ Carinthia election: Race for first place still open. Tiroler Tageszeitung , February 20, 2009, accessed on March 1, 2009 .
- ↑ "I don't want any Chechen killers", Carinthia's governor Gerhard Dörfler in an interview about debts, asylum seekers and Jörg Haider. Wiener Zeitung , February 14, 2009, accessed on November 7, 2013 .
- ↑ Wahlkampffolder BZÖ state election 2009. (No longer available online.) BZÖ Carinthia, formerly in the original ; Retrieved February 27, 2009 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Rohr: "The party with the strongest vote should provide LH". ORF Carinthia, February 12, 2009, accessed on February 27, 2009 .
- ↑ What Carinthia needs now: Our 5 points for Carinthia at a glance! SPÖ Carinthia, accessed on February 27, 2009 .
- ↑ a b Martinz: "This is our offer". Kleine Zeitung , January 31, 2009, archived from the original on June 10, 2009 .
- ↑ Hard bandages at the end of the election campaign. krone.at, February 28, 2009, accessed on March 1, 2009 .
- ↑ Wolfgang Zaunbauer: The green pars-pro-toto castration. Wiener Zeitung , February 18, 2009, accessed on November 7, 2013 .
- ^ The Greens : A strong piece of Carinthia - election program. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 7, 2009 ; Retrieved March 1, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Greens: Discussion about Voggenhuber sparked. In: Austria . January 29, 2009, accessed March 1, 2009 .
- ↑ "The election campaign is too short". Kleine Zeitung , February 22, 2009, archived from the original on March 7, 2009 .
- ↑ Tiroler Tageszeitung: Election campaigns in Salzburg and Carinthia are picking up speed, 7 January 2009
- ↑ New Carinthian daily newspaper: "Sherlock Holub" on votes, January 29th, 2009
- ^ Carinthia election: SPÖ is catching up ( memento of February 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), Kurier
- ↑ derStandard.at: The Carinthian "Bradley Effect"
- ^ Official final result Carinthia. derstandard.at, March 3, 2013, accessed on August 24, 2015 .
- ^ Carinthia - final result of the state elections 2009
