State election in Tyrol 2018
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The state elections in Tyrol in 2018 took place on February 25, 2018. 537,273 people were eligible to vote.
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Starting position
In the state elections in Tyrol in 2013 , the ÖVP became the strongest party with a slight loss of votes, with 39.4% missing the absolute majority in Tyrol for the second time in history after 2008. The SPÖ also recorded slight losses and, with 13.7% of the vote, posted its worst national result to date. Thanks to slight gains of 12.6%, the Grünen Tirol achieved their best result to date and, after 2003, became the third strongest force in Tirol for the second time. The fourth strongest force was the Vorwärts Tirol list , a newly founded former ÖVP and SPÖ politicians, which achieved 9.5% when they first appeared. It was followed by the FPÖ with 9.3% and the FRITZ list with 5.6%, both of which had to accept greater to severe losses.
After the state elections, the ÖVP entered into a coalition government with the Greens for the first time, with Platter II having six members of the ÖVP and two Green state councilors. During the legislative period in 2015, the club split from the Vorwärts Tirol party and founded the Impuls-tirol party .
Schedule
After the state parliament's resolution on its dissolution before the end of the five-year legislative period on November 21, 2017, the state government decided to fix the election to the Tyrolean state parliament for February 25, 2018. The announcement of the election announcement was subsequently published in the State Law Gazette on November 27, 2013, this date being the day of the election announcement. November 28, 2013 was declared as the cut-off date . As a result, the electoral rolls were published from December 18, 2017, which could be appealed by December 22, 2017 at the latest. The election campaigning parties had the opportunity to submit their nominations to the district electoral authorities until January 4, 2018; the state nominations had to be submitted by January 18, 2018.
The state electoral authority subsequently published the approval of eleven lists in the state elections on January 29th. In addition to the six parties represented in the state parliament, ÖVP, SPÖ, GRÜNE, Impuls-tirol, FPÖ and FRITZ, NEOS and the List Family - The Tyrolean Family Party also submitted nominations. Seven of the eight campaigning groups submitted election proposals in all constituencies, the Impuls tirol list was a candidate in all constituencies with the exception of Schwaz .
Suffrage
The state elections in 2018 were carried out in accordance with the “Tyrolean state elections 2017”. After the passive and active voting age had already been lowered before the state elections in 2008 and the "Tyrolean Abroad" were allowed to vote (Tyrolean state election regulations 2008 - TLWO 2008), the reform adopted in 2011 enables the allocation of preferential votes at state level for the first time in state elections. Previously, preferential votes were only possible at the district level. At the same time, the option of linking lists has been abolished, and voting cards must also be received by the authorities on election evening. As a result of the changes in the electoral code adopted in 2017, postal votes must now be counted on election day. In addition, provisions on the appointment of non-party election assessors were passed.
The right to vote in the 2018 state elections was held by all those people who had reached the age of 16 on election day at the latest, were Austrian citizens and had their main residence in Tyrol . In addition, the people could not be excluded from the right to vote. An exclusion from the right to vote existed if a domestic court had legally sentenced a citizen “to a prison sentence of more than one year for one or more criminal acts committed with intent”. Since the 2008 electoral reform, Austrian citizens are also entitled to vote in the state elections if they had their main residence in Tyrol before moving their main residence abroad and who met all other requirements for eligibility to vote. These citizens were granted the right to vote for the duration of their stay abroad, but no longer than ten years. All Austrian citizens with their main residence in Tyrol were passively eligible to vote in the 2018 state elections, provided they were 18 on the day of the election and were not excluded from the right to vote.
Parties and candidates
The following parties submitted state nominations and ran with the following party names and top candidates:
| Political party | Abbreviation | Top candidate |
|---|---|---|
| Governor Günther Platter Tyrolean People's Party | VP TYROL | Günther Platter |
| Social Democratic Party Austria - Tyrol | SPÖ | Elisabeth Blanik |
| The Greens - The Green Alternative Tyrol | GREEN | Ingrid Felipe |
| Freedom Party of Austria - the Tyrolean Freedom Party | FPÖ | Markus Abwerzger |
| Bürgerforum Tirol - List Fritz | FRITZ | Andrea Haselwanter-Schneider |
| NEOS - the new Tyrol | NEOS | Dominik Oberhofer |
| Family - The Tyrolean family party | FAMILY | Andrea Krumschnabel |
| impulse tyrol | PULSE | Josef Schett |
Impuls tirol did not run in the Schwaz constituency . All other parties ran with district election proposals in all nine constituencies that correspond to the Tyrolean districts .
The Vorwärts Tirol party , which won four seats in the 2013 state elections, no longer ran. Three of the MPs elected for this party ran for other parties: Josef Schett and Maria Zwölfer were the first two applicants in impuls tirol's state nomination , Andrea Krumschnabel was Family’s top candidate .
Governor Günther Platter Tyrolean People's Party (VP TIROL)
After 2013, the Tyrolean People's Party ran for the second time with the incumbent Governor Günther Platter as the top candidate. After the historically worst election result of the ÖVP in Tyrol in 2013 (39.4%), Platter only set the goal of skipping the 40 percent mark. The ÖVP moved Governor Platter to the center of their election campaign, the election program was published under the title “Vorsprung Tirol”.
Social Democratic Party Austria - Tyrol (SPÖ)
The Tyrolean Social Democrats entered the state elections in 2018 with Elisabeth Blanik as the top candidate. The mayor of Lienz had only taken over the office of regional party leader in 2016 and aimed to become the “strongest opposition party” in the state elections. The second member of the SPÖ state list, Georg Dornauer , stated that second place was the goal and saw the SPÖ as having the potential to achieve 25% of the valid votes in the election. In its election program "Freu dich Tirol :)", the SPÖ focused primarily on the issues of social affairs, work, living space, education, mobility and the environment, strengthening the communities, quality of life, security and agriculture.
The Greens - The Green Alternative Tyrol (GREEN)
After 2013, the Grünen Tirol again entered the state elections with Ingrid Felipe as the top candidate. After the Greens left the National Council in autumn 2017 and Felipe withdrew as the Greens' national spokeswoman, the party leadership was covered in formulating a specific election target. However, the aim was to continue the government coalition with the ÖVP. In the foreword of its election program “Only with Dir. Green election program 2018”, the party focused on the topics of affordable housing, transit reduction, solar power expansion and environmental protection. These issues were also reflected in the election posters of the Greens, where the Greens presented themselves as "environmental fighters", among other things.
NEOS - The New Tyrol (NEOS)
The NEOS - Das Neue Österreich and Liberales Forum competed for the first time in a state election in Tyrol. They sent the hotelier Dominik Oberhofer to the state parliament as a top candidate, who set himself a candidate for entry into the state parliament. In addition, Oberhofer wanted a coalition with the ÖVP after the state elections. In their election program, the NEOS focused on the topics of transport, teaching, medical care, digitization, care, living, opportunities, responsibility and transparency.
Family - The Tyrolean Family Party (FAMILY)
Family - The Tyrolean family party was founded by the state parliament member Andrea Krumschnabel . After her expulsion from the Vorwärts Tirol party in 2014, the educational advisor Krumschnabel stayed as a wild member of the state parliament and subsequently founded the Family party, for which she also entered the state elections as the top candidate. Krumschnabel formulated the achievement of several mandates as an election goal. Thematically, the party is based entirely on the cross-cutting issue of families, with the party not only advocating the classic father-mother-child constellation, but also blended families or same-sex parents with children.
Fairness pact and election campaign costs
In the run-up to the election, five of the eight campaigning parties signed an agreement for a fair campaign. With the fairness pact, the ÖVP and the Greens invited all candidate electoral parties to sign for a “fair, short, economical election campaign conducted on the basis of objective arguments”. The guidelines of the pact included, for example, promoting the positive qualities of one's own candidates and not denigrating other parties or candidates as well as self-restraint by the governing parties ÖVP and the Greens, the public relations work of the state of Tyrol in the last few weeks before the election day not beyond the scope to promote the usual trade. In addition, a disclosure of election campaign costs was agreed. The fairness pact was signed by the ÖVP, Greens, SPÖ, NEOS and the family party, the Fritz list spoke out against a fairness agreement shortly before the election. The FPÖ, after criticizing the martially staged FPÖ election campaign kick-off, and the Impuls Tirol list did not take part in the negotiations on the pact.
The election campaign costs were stated by the ÖVP with a maximum of 1.5 million euros. In addition there were the private expenses of the preferential votes. The SPÖ put their campaign budget at 350,000 euros, the Greens had to shrink their campaign expenses to 450,000 euros after the Greens left the National Council. NEOS estimated 300,000 euros as election campaign costs, the family party set up 20,000 euros for the election campaign. Of the lists not represented in the fairness pact, the FPÖ had the largest budget with 800,000 euros. The list Fritz wanted to use 500,000 euros, impulse 20,000 euros. Overall, the campaign budget of the campaigning parties was around 3.9 million euros.
Survey
When asked which party the Tyroleans would vote for, the state elections would be next Sunday, the respondents answered as follows:
Sunday question
(Note: The statistical range of fluctuation (deviation) is between 3 and 5 percent.)
| Institute | date | ÖVP | SPÖ | GREEN | pulse | FPÖ | FRITZ | NEOS | Otherwise. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IFAP | 02/10/2018 | 39-41 | 15-17 | 11-13 | n / A | 16-18 | 5-6 | 6-7 | 2-3 |
| Research Affairs | December 28, 2017 | 38 | 14th | 12 | n / A | 24 | 3 | 5 | 4th |
| GMK | December 16, 2017 | 45 | 12 | 10 | 2 | 20th | 4th | 6th | 1 |
| BrandSupport | 06.2017 | 41.5 | 14th | 15th | - | 16.5 | 4th | 4th | 5 |
| Market | May 16, 2017 | 41 | 13 | 13 | - | 22nd | 6th | 4th | 1 |
| Research Affairs | 12/27/2016 | 33 | 13 | 17th | 3 | 25th | 3 | 5 | 1 |
| IFAP | December 21, 2016 | 41 | 14th | 14th | - | 21st | 4th | 4th | - |
| GMK | December 06, 2016 | 41 | 12 | 14th | 1 | 25th | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| Research Affairs | 12/28/2015 | 35 | 12 | 16 | 3 | 19th | 5 | 6th | 4th |
| GMK | 12/28/2015 | 38 | 9 | 13 | 2 | 29 | 4th | 4th | 1 |
| GfK | 04/19/2014 | 39 | 13 | 16 | 1.5 | 13 | 5 | 4th | 5.5 |
| GMK | 12/29/2014 | 42 | 17th | 12 | 3 | 15th | 3 | 3 | 5 |
| Gallup | December 27, 2014 | 38 | 15th | 15th | 3 | 13 | 4th | 7th | - |
| GMK | December 31, 2013 | 41 | 11 | 16 | 2 | 15th | 2 | 8th | 3 |
| Karmasin | 12/22/2013 | 41 | 13 | 14th | 6th | 12 | 4th | - | 10 |
Results
Overall result
| Results 2018 | Results 2013 | Differences | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| be right | % | Mand. | be right | % | Mand. | be right | % | Mand. | |
| total | 322.379 | 60.00% | 36 | 321.611 | 60.40% | 36 | +768 | −0.40% | |
| Invalid | 2,245 | 0.70% | 4,759 | 1.48% | −2,514 | −0.78% | |||
| Valid | 320.134 | 99.30% | 316.852 | 98.52% | +3,282 | + 0.78% | |||
| Political party | |||||||||
| VP TYROL | 141,691 | 44.26% | 17th | 124,689 | 39.35% | 16 | +17.002 | + 4.91% | +1 |
| SPÖ | 55.223 | 17.25% | 6th | 43,469 | 13.72% | 5 | +11,754 | + 3.53% | +1 |
| GREEN | 34,168 | 10.67% | 4th | 39.904 | 12.59% | 5 | −5,736 | −1.92% | −1 |
| FPÖ | 49,727 | 15.53% | 5 | 29,594 | 9.34% | 4th | +20,133 | + 6.19% | +1 |
| FRITZ | 17,471 | 5.46% | 2 | 17,785 | 5.61% | 2 | −314 | −0.15% | ± 0 |
| NEOS | 16,670 | 5.21% | 2 | nk | nk | nk | +16,670 | + 5.21% | +2 |
| FAMILY | 3,645 | 1.14% | 0 | nk | nk | nk | +3,645 | +1.14% | ± 0 |
| PULSE | 1,539 | 0.48% | 0 | nk | nk | nk | +1,539 | + 0.48% | ± 0 |
Cartographic representation of the election results
consequences
After the ÖVP's election victory, Governor Platter announced the start of exploratory talks with all parties represented in the state parliament. After the first exploratory talks, especially the SPÖ and the Greens were given opportunities to participate in the government. On March 8, 2018, Platter finally announced that he would enter into “open-ended talks” with the Greens. The SPÖ had previously resigned as a possible government partner during the exploratory talks after internal disputes, the FPÖ stumbled upon right-wing extremist incidents by some of its functionaries. On March 20, the ÖVP and the Greens announced an agreement on a coalition and subsequently formed the state government of Platter III .
After the FPÖ had only missed the sixth mandate by 31 votes, the FPÖ applied to the state electoral authority to review the “numerical determination of the election results”. Since transmission errors or incorrect summation of partial results could be ruled out by the electoral authority and the questions raised by the FPÖ about the validity or invalidity of ballot papers were not the subject of the requested review, the FPÖ's request was rejected. In advance, the FPÖ had repeatedly called for the votes to be recounted.
See also
- List of members of the Tyrolean state parliament (17th legislative period)
- Landtag constituency in Tyrol
Web links
- Dossiers about the most promising candidates on www.meineabektiven.at
Individual evidence
- ↑ orf.at: Tyrol elects the state parliament on February 25, 2018 . Article dated June 12, 2017, accessed June 12, 2017.
- ↑ Land Tirol: State elections 2018. In: wahlen.tirol.gv.at. Retrieved February 24, 2018 .
- ↑ State of Tyrol (PDF; 283 kB): "Law of July 5, 2017 on the election of the state parliament in Tyrol (Tyrolean state election regulations 2017 - TLWO 2017)"
- ↑ ORF Tyrol Tyrolean state parliament decides to vote from January 16, 31, 2008
- ↑ LT Newsletter November 2011
- ^ Tiroler Tageszeitung: "State elections in Tyrol: New suffrage brings changes" , November 21, 2017
- ↑ Tyrolean state election regulations 2017, §4
- ↑ Announcement by the regional returning officer about the approved regional election proposals , Bote für Tirol from January 29, 2018 (PDF; 166KB)
- ↑ Press release of the state of Tyrol: District election proposals for state elections decided
- ↑ a b c d Profile : "State elections in Tyrol: The parties - starting position, goals, opportunities", February 6, 2018
- ↑ freudich.tirol Rejoice in Tyrol :). The new SPÖ Tirol is here. Election program 2018–2023
- ↑ derstandard.at : "Ingrid Felipe:" Governing with the Greens did not harm the ÖVP ", February 12, 2018
- ^ The Green Tyrol election program 2018
- ↑ The Green Tyrol Contents and posters
- ↑ Tyrolean daily newspaper "Ex-Vorwärts-MPs enters with" Family Party "", November 17, 2017
- ^ Tiroler Tageszeitung : "Tyrolean parties negotiate fairness pact", January 12, 2018
- ^ Tiroler Tageszeitung: “Fairness Pact without FPÖ, List Fritz and Impulse”, January 17, 2018
- ↑ Tiroler Tageszeitung: “The fairness partners disclose their election campaign costs”, January 19, 2018
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- ↑ mein district.at: [3]
- ↑ Tyrol: VP at 40 to 43 percent, three-way battle behind . In: tt.com . ( tt.com [accessed March 12, 2020]).
- ↑ Dieter Zirnig: neuwal.com polls. With quality check. In: neuwal.com . ( neuwal.com [accessed May 22, 2017]).
- ↑ tt.com: TT survey: FPÖ is getting closer and closer to Tyrolean ÖVP ( Memento from December 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b c d e f neuwal.com: [4]
- ↑ mein district.at: - ( Memento of the original from December 27, 2017 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.
- ↑ tt.com: [5]
- ↑ mein district.at: [6]
- ^ State of Tyrol - final result of the state election 2018
- ↑ [7] "Tyrol election: Platter announces exploratory talks", February 26, 2018
- ↑ derstandard.at : "Tyrolean color games: Platter wants to continue explorations next week", March 1, 2018
- ↑ derstandard.at : "Platter goes into coalition negotiations with the Tyrolean Greens", March 8, 2018
- ↑ derstandard.at : "SPÖ in Tyrol out of the race, FPÖ stumbles over new Nazi scandal", March 7, 2018
- ↑ oe24.at "Tyrol election: Authority rejects FPÖ application", March 21, 2018
