Regional constituency of Linz and the surrounding area

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Constituency 4A: Linz and the surrounding area
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Country Austria
state Upper Austria
Constituency number 4A
Number of mandates 4th
Eligible voters 247,049 (2017)
voter turnout 78.5%
Election date 15th October 2017
MPs

The regional constituency of Linz and the surrounding area (constituency 4A) is a regional constituency in Austria that is formed in the case of elections to the National Council for the assignment of mandates in the first preliminary investigation . The constituency includes the state capital Linz and the political district of Linz-Land and corresponds in its scope to the state electoral district of Linz and the surrounding area . In the 2017 National Council election , 247,049 people were eligible to vote in the Linz and the surrounding area, with the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) emerging as the strongest party with 35.0%. Of the seven basic mandates to be awarded, two were for the SPÖ, one for the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) and one for the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ); the Greens lost their direct mandate.

history

After the end of the state of Austria-Hungary , six constituencies were created for the area of ​​Upper Austria with the electoral code of 1918 for the election of the constituent national assembly, with a constituency named Linz and the surrounding area already being formed at that time . This constituency (initially constituency 13, from 1923 constituency 12) comprised the area of ​​the city of Linz and the judicial districts of Linz, Ottensheim and Urfahr. After the electoral code of 1923 was overruled by the Austro-Fascist government in 1934, the original division of constituencies was largely reintroduced after the Second World War with the constitutional law of October 19, 1945. As a result, the constituency of Linz and the surrounding area was affected by area transfers. In 1949 the area of ​​the constituency remained unchanged, although the definition of the constituency area had to be adjusted. When the St. Florian judicial district was closed, it fell to the Linz judicial district, but the area remained part of the Traunviertel constituency. Therefore, from 1949, the constituency area by definition included the city of Linz and the judicial districts Ottensheim, Urfahr and Linz (excluding the former judicial district Markt St. Florian). The 1958 dissolution of the district courts of Ottensheim and Urfahr in 1958 was also taken into account with the 1958 amendment to the National Council's election regulations. Once again there was no change in the area, but the definition of the constituency area has now been changed to include the city of Linz, the judicial district Linz-Land (excluding the communities of the former St. Florian market) and the judicial district Urfahr-Umgebung. With the National Council electoral code in 1971, there was, for the first time, a radical reform of the constituencies, which reduced the number of constituencies in Austria to just nine. As a result, there was only one constituency for the federal state of Upper Austria, the constituency of Upper Austria (constituency 4). When the National Council electoral code came into force in 1992, the Austrian federal territory was finally divided into 43 regional constituencies and a third investigation procedure was introduced, whereby Linz and the Linz-Land district were combined to form the Linz and environs constituency (constituency 4A). The regional constituency of Linz and the surrounding area now also included the communities of the former St. Florian market, but in return lost the community of the judicial district of Urfahr-Umgebung. In 1993, seven seats were assigned to the regional constituency, although the recalculation of the distribution of seats in 2002 (based on the results of the 2001 census) did not result in any changes.

Since the creation of the constituency, the SPÖ has achieved a relative majority in every election and two to three basic mandates. In the last National Council election in 2008, the SPÖ achieved its worst result to date with 37.7%. The second place had been contested between the FPÖ and ÖVP since 1994. While the ÖVP consistently achieved at least one basic mandate and even achieved two basic mandates in 2002, the FPÖ remained without a basic mandate in 2002 and 2006, while it achieved a basic mandate in each of the other elections. While the FPÖ was ahead of the ÖVP between 1994 and 1999, it even fell behind the Greens in 2002 and 2006. In 2008, however, the FPÖ was able to catch up with the ÖVP with 18.4%, which had its worst result so far this year. The Greens, for whom the constituency of Linz and the surrounding area is the strongest constituency, remained just below their best result of 2006 with 12.4%.

Election results

National Council election in constituency 4A 2017
 %
40
30th
20th
10
0
35.0%
(+1.9  % p )
24.1%
(+ 7.1  % p )
24.0%
(+ 3.6  % p )
4.5%
(-10.5  % p )
5.4%
(+ 0.9  % p )
4.6%
( n.k. )
2.4%
(± 0.0  % p )
2013

2017

National council elections in the regional constituency of Linz and the surrounding area
Election date GM SPÖ ÖVP FPÖ GREEN BZÖ LIF FRANK NEOS MUSHROOM Others
October 9, 1994 Votes (%) 41.7 18.5 22.5 8.9 - 6.7 - - - 1.5
7th Basic mandates 3 1 1 0 - 0 - - - 0
December 17, 1995 Votes (%) 46.8 20.1 20.5 5.5 - 6.0 - - - 1.1
7th Basic mandates 3 1 1 0 - 0 - - - 0
October 3, 1999 Votes (%) 40.0 19.3 26.6 8.6 - 4.0 - - - 1.6
7th Basic mandates 2 1 1 0 - 0 - - - 0
November 24, 2002 Votes (%) 45.5 31.9 10.0 11.0 - 1.1 - - - 0.5
7th Basic mandates 3 2 0 0 - 0 - - - 0
October 1, 2006 Votes (%) 44.2 24.8 11.9 12.7 2.6 - - - - 3.8
7th Basic mandates 3 1 0 0 0 - - - - 0
September 28, 2008 Votes (%) 37.7 18.4 18.4 12.4 8.1 1.9 - - - 3.3
7th Basic mandates 2 1 1 0 0 0 - - - 0
29th September 2013 Votes (%) 33.1 17.0 20.4 15.0 3.0 - 4.7 4.5 - 2.4
7th Basic mandates 2 1 1 1 0 - 0 0 - 0
15th October 2017 Votes (%) 35.0 24.1 24.0 4.5 - - - 5.4 4.6 2.4
7th Basic mandates 2 1 1 0 - - - 0 0 0
29th September 2019 Votes (%)
Basic mandates

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Result of the 2017 National Council election on the website of the Federal Ministry of the Interior, accessed on December 5, 2017.
  2. ↑ Election regulations 1918
  3. ↑ StGBl. No. 198/1945
  4. ↑ Federal Law Gazette No. 129/1949
  5. ↑ Federal Law Gazette No. 7/1959
  6. ↑ Federal Law Gazette No. 391/1970 : National Council election regulations 1971
  7. ↑ Federal Law Gazette No. 471/1992 : National Council election regulations 1992
  8. ↑ Federal Law Gazette No. 322/1993 : Number of mandates allocated to each constituency for the election of the National Council
  9. ↑ Federal Law Gazette II No. 337a / 2002 : Number of mandates allocated to each constituency for the election of the National Council
  10. ↑ Election results since 1994 , website of the Federal Ministry of the Interior, accessed on December 5, 2017.
  11. ↑ Number of basic mandates to be awarded