Regional constituency of Styria center

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Constituency 6B: Central Styria
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Country Austria
state Styria
region Central Styria
Constituency number 6B
Number of mandates 4th
Eligible voters 157,674 (2008)
voter turnout 80.2%
Election date September 28, 2008
MPs

The regional constituency of Steiermark Mitte (constituency 6B) was a regional constituency in Austria , which was formed in elections to the National Council for the award of mandates in the first preliminary investigation . The constituency comprised the Graz-Umgebung district and the Voitsberg district . In the 2008 National Council election , 157,674 people were eligible to vote in the central Styria regional constituency, with the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) emerging as the strongest party with 29.6%. In addition to the SPÖ, the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) was the only other party to receive one of the four basic mandates to be awarded. With the National Council election in 2013 , the regional constituency of Styria Central was divided into the newly created regional constituencies of Graz and the surrounding area and Western Styria .

history

After the end of the state of Austria-Hungary , four electoral districts were created for the area of ​​Styria with the electoral code of 1918 for the election of the constituent national assembly, whereby for the area of ​​today's regional constituency partly to the constituency of Graz and the surrounding area (constituency 20) and to the constituency of funds - and Untersteier (constituency 21) belonged. 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. With the National Council electoral code in 1971, there was a far-reaching 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 Styria, the constituency of Styria (constituency 6). 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 the Graz-Umgebung and Voitsberg districts were merged to form the Styria Central constituency (constituency 6B). In 1993 the regional constituency was assigned four mandates, whereby the recalculation of the mandate distribution in 2002 (based on the results of the 2001 census) did not lead to any changes. In the course of the amalgamation of districts in the state of Styria, the regional constituencies in the state of Styria were reorganized on January 1, 2013. As a result, the Graz regional constituency was merged with the Graz-Umgebung district to form the Graz and Surroundings regional constituency, and the Voitsberg district with the Deutschlandsberg and Leibnitz districts to form the West Styria regional constituency .

Since the founding of the regional constituency, the SPÖ has achieved a relative majority of votes with one exception, with the National Council election in 1995 achieving its best result to date with 42.8%. In 2008 the SPÖ achieved its worst result to date with 29.6%, but again won first place. The ÖVP only succeeded in breaking the SPÖ majority in the regional constituency in the 2002 election year, and in the 2002 National Council election with 41.8% it also achieved the largest share of the vote ever achieved. Before that she had dueled with the Freedom Party of Austria for second place, but after 2002 the ÖVP was able to secure second place. Nevertheless, it fell to 22.7% by 2008, with this share of the vote being the lowest since the regional constituency was founded. The FPÖ itself was able to achieve second place in 1994 and 1999, with the 30.6% from 1999 representing its best result. After that, the FPÖ fell back to third place and reached 18.0% in 2008. The Greens - The Green Alternative (GRÜNE) usually took fourth place in the regional constituency, but were overtaken by the Liberal Forum in 1995 and by the Alliance Future Austria (BZÖ) in 2008, with the BZÖ in 2008 with 15.4% in the regional constituency of Styria Central its second best result scored in a constituency of Styria.

Election results

Election to the National Council in constituency 6B in 2008
 %
40
30th
20th
10
0
29.6%
(-9.8  % p )
22.7%
(-11.4  % p )
18.8%
(+ 7.3  % p )
8.0%
(+ 0.4  % p )
15.4%
(+ 11.7  % p )
5.5%
(+1.8  % p )
Otherwise.
2006

2008

National council elections in the regional constituency of Styria center
Election date GM SPÖ ÖVP FPÖ GREEN BZÖ LIF Others
October 9, 1994 Votes (%) 39.8 23.6 24.5 5.9 - 4.9 1.4
4th Basic mandates 1 1 1 - - 0 0
December 17, 1995 Votes (%) 42.8 25.8 22.0 3.9 - 4.1 1.4
4th Basic mandates 1 1 0 0 - 0 0
October 3, 1999 Votes (%) 36.2 23.5 30.6 5.7 - 2.4 1.6
4th Basic mandates 1 1 1 0 - 0 0
November 24, 2002 Votes (%) 39.4 41.8 10.5 6.5 - 1.0 0.8
4th Basic mandates 1 1 0 0 - 0 0
October 1, 2006 Votes (%) 39.4 34.1 11.5 7.6 3.7 - 3.7
4th Basic mandates 1 1 0 0 0 - 0
September 28, 2008 Votes (%) 29.6 22.7 18.8 8.0 15.4 1.6 3.9
4th Basic mandates 1 1 0 0 0 0 0

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Federal Ministry of the Interior - constituency division
  2. ↑ a b c d Result of the 2008 National Council election ( Memento of the original from November 30, 2012 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. on the website of the Federal Ministry of the Interior @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / wahl08.bmi.gv.at
  3. ↑ Election regulations 1918
  4. ↑ StGBl. No. 198/1945
  5. ↑ Federal Law Gazette No. 391/1970 : National Council election regulations 1971
  6. ↑ Federal Law Gazette No. 471/1992 : National Council election regulations 1992
  7. ↑ Federal Law Gazette No. 322/1993 : Number of mandates allocated to each constituency for the election of the National Council
  8. ↑ Federal Law Gazette II No. 337a / 2002 : Number of mandates allocated to each constituency for the election of the National Council
  9. ↑ National Council election regulations 1992 from January 1, 2013
  10. ^ Election results from 1995
  11. ↑ Number of basic mandates to be awarded

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