State election in Vorarlberg 1999
The state election in Vorarlberg on September 19, 1999 was the 12th election of the Vorarlberg state parliament since 1945. As in the previous state elections, the Austrian People's Party won the election with its new top candidate, Governor Herbert Sausgruber , but not only lost the absolute one for the first time since 1945 Votes, but also the absolute majority of mandates (18 + 1 mandates). For Sausgruber, it was the first choice as the top candidate of the ÖVP, after he took over the post of governor from Martin Purtscher in 1997. Following the election, the ÖVP and the strengthened FPÖ again formed a government coalition in the Sausgruber II state government , with the Freedom Party being able to occupy the office of state governor for the first time in history with one of their own - later Vice Chancellor Hubert Gorbach .
While the FPÖ was able to achieve more than 8 percentage points more than in the last state election, the two major parties ÖVP and SPÖ each lost between 3 and 4 percent. In the election, 226,113 people were entitled to vote, the turnout was 87.81% (198,540 votes cast, 191,300 of which were valid).
Election result
| Official end result | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party 1 | be right | percent | +/- | Mandates | +/- |
| ÖVP | 87,542 | 45.76% | - 4.19% | 18th | - 2nd |
| FPÖ | 52,444 | 27.41% | + 9.02% | 11 | + 4 |
| SPÖ | 24,844 | 12.99% | - 3.25% | 5 | - 1 |
| Green | 11,541 | 6.03% | - 1.73% | 2 | - 1 |
| LIF | 6,424 | 3.36% | - 0.13% | 0 | 0 |
| VAU 2 | 4,363 | 2.28% | - | 0 | - |
| Frizz 3 | 2,328 | 1.2% | + 0.30% | 0 | 0 |
| NEW 4 | 1,679 | 0.88% | - | 0 | - |
| Leuprecht 5 | 135 | 0.07% | - | 0 | - |
| total | 191,300 | 100.00% | 36 | ||
1 Party names as abbreviations according to the official election proposal
2 List Vau-Heute
3 List Georg Fritz
4 Party Neutral Austria
5 List Elmar Leuprecht (candidacy only in the Dornbirn constituency )
literature
Franz Valandro: The Vorarlberg state election 1999 - A political science analysis . In: Montfort. Journal for the history, local history and folklore of Vorarlberg . No. 4/1999 . Vorarlberger Verlagsanstalt, Dornbirn 1999, p. 394–399 ( full text on ANNO - AustriaN Newspapers Online [accessed on August 13, 2016]).
Web links
- Website of the state election authority for the 1999 state elections.
- Detailed review of the 1999 state elections on the Vorarlberg website.
