Landtag constituency 2 (Burgenland)

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Constituency 2: Eisenstadt
Landtag constituencies Burgenland.svg
Country Austria
state Burgenland
Constituency number 2
Seat of the electoral authority Eisenstadt
Number of mandates 7th
Residents 60,032 (January 1, 2020)
Eligible voters 48,513 (2020)
voter turnout 75.12% (2020)
Election date January 26, 2020
MPs

The Constituency 2 is a constituency in Burgenland , the political district of Eisenstadt environment and the cities of Eisenstadt and Rust covers. In the 2020 state elections , 48,513 people were eligible to vote in constituency 2, with the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) emerging as the strongest party with 46.5%. In addition to the SPÖ, which achieved three of the seven possible basic mandates in the constituency, the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) also achieved two basic mandates.

history

Originally there was only one constituency in the state elections in Burgenland. After the 1977 regional election in Burgenland had been challenged by the Constitutional Court, the Constitutional Court recognized that the designation of “constituencies” in Article 26 of the Federal Constitutional Act , i.e. in the plural, must be interpreted as meaning that there must be at least two constituencies per federal state. As a result, the affected federal states of Carinthia, Salzburg and Burgenland changed their state election regulations. Burgenland carried out the necessary adaptation with the 1978 state election order passed on October 30th, which divided Burgenland into four constituencies. The Eisenstadt-Umgebung district as well as the free cities of Eisenstadt and Rust belonged to constituency I together with the Neusiedl am See district . As early as 1995, with the state election regulations in 1995, another reform of the constituencies took place, in which the number of constituencies was increased from four to seven and the Eisenstadt-Umgebung district with the cities of Rust and Eisenstadt was elevated to a separate constituency, constituency 2 .

The SPÖ has achieved a relative majority in every election since the constituency was founded, and its result in constituency 2 was always just below the national result. The SPÖ achieved its best result in 2005 with 49.5%. The ÖVP regularly scores in state elections in constituency 2 with a result that corresponds to its national average. With 36.5% it achieved its best result in 2005 and, like in all other elections, was clearly in second place. The Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) recorded its best election result in the constituency with 15.0% in 1996, most recently they received 9.1% of the vote in 2020. For Die Grünen Burgenland (GRÜNE) constituency 2 is one of the strongest regions in Burgenland, in 2020 they achieved their best result nationwide, whereby in 2020 they achieved their best result ever in a constituency with 8.9%.

Election results

State election 2020 in constituency 2
 %
50
40
30th
20th
10
0
46.51%
(+ 7.16  % p )
32.66%
(+1.95  % p )
9.18%
(-4.08  % p )
8.90%
(+ 0.33  % p )
1.01%
(-4.05  % p )
1.75%
(-0.87  % p )
2015

2020

State elections in constituency 2
Election date GM SPÖ ÖVP FPÖ GREEN LBL Others
June 2, 1996 Votes (%) 44.52 34.17 15.04 3.31 - 2.95
6th Basic mandates 3 2 1 0 - 0
December 3, 2000 Votes (%) 44.04 35.04 13.02 7.90 - -
6th Basic mandates 2 2 0 0 - -
October 9, 2005 Votes (%) 49.47 36.53 6.22 7.13 - 0.66
7th Basic mandates 3 2 0 0 - 0
May 30, 2010 Votes (%) 46.13 34.63 8.51 5.93 4.80 -
7th Basic mandates 3 2 0 0 0 -
May 31, 2015 Votes (%) 39.35 30.71 13.26 8.57 5.06 3.04
7th Basic mandates 2 2 0 0 0 0
January 26, 2020 Votes (%) 46.51 32.66 9.18 8.90 1.01 1.75
7th Basic mandates 3 2 0 0 0 0

Individual evidence

  1. Statistics Austria - Population at the beginning of 2002–2020 by municipalities (area status 01/01/2020)
  2. a b c Province of Burgenland election result of the state election 2020 in constituency 2
  3. Election statistics. The elections in the federal states since 1945. p. 340
  4. Landtag election regulations 1978 on ALEX - historical legal and legal texts online
  5. Landtag election regulations 1995 , law of 9 November 1995 on ALEX
  6. Election statistics. The elections in the federal states since 1945. P. 367 f. or Land Burgenland election results in Burgenland
  7. Number of basic mandates in the district as announced by the governor in 1996 and 2004

literature

  • Liaison office of the federal states at the office of the Lower Austrian provincial government: election statistics. The elections in the federal states since 1945. National Council and state parliaments. 8th edition, Vienna 1994

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