Vorarlberg North regional constituency

Vorarlberg North constituency
Country	Austria
state	Vorarlberg
Number of mandates	4th
Eligible voters	153,030 (2019)
voter turnout	67.1%
Election date	29th September 2019
MPs
	Norbert Sieber ( ÖVP );

The regional constituency of Vorarlberg Nord (constituency 8A) is a regional constituency in Austria , which 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 two political districts of Bregenz and Dornbirn . In the 2019 National Council election, 153,030 people were eligible to vote in the Vorarlberg Nord regional constituency, with the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) emerging as the strongest party with 37.6%. In the election, the ÖVP was able to achieve one of the four basic mandates.

history

After the end of the state of Austria-Hungary , an electoral district, the Vorarlberg constituency (constituency 27), was created for the Vorarlberg area with the 1918 electoral code for the election of the constituent national assembly. After areas such as South Tyrol and South Bohemia were finally ceded by Austria to the successor states of Austria-Hungary, the total number of constituencies was reduced. As a result, the Vorarlberg constituency was given constituency number 19. After the electoral code of 1923 was overruled by the Austrofascist government in 1934, the original allocation of constituencies was largely reintroduced after the Second World War with the constitutional law of October 19, 1945. In 1971, with the National Council electoral code of 1971, a far-reaching reform of the constituencies was finally carried out, with which the number of constituencies in Austria was reduced to just nine. For the state of Vorarlberg, however, only the constituency number changed (now constituency 8). 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, with the Bregenz and Dornbirn districts being combined to form the Vorarlberg Nord regional constituency (constituency 8A). 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 change in the regional constituency.

Since the creation of the constituency, the ÖVP has succeeded in becoming the party with the highest number of votes in every election. In the 2002 National Council election it achieved its best result to date with 50.8% and also achieved an absolute majority of votes once. The ÖVP suffered its worst result in the 2013 National Council election when it slipped to 27.8%. The Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) took second place in two out of nine elections, with its best election result in 1995 being 21.7%. As with the ÖVP, the SPÖ also slipped to its worst result so far in the 2013 National Council election and only achieved fifth place among the participating parties with 12.5%. The Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) was the second strongest party in the 1994, 1995 and 1999 elections, with its best result in 1999 with 30.4%. After falling to 11.6%, the FPÖ was able to fight its way back to third place by 2008 and came in second with 20.5% in 2013 and 23.9% in 2017. The Greens - The Green Alternative (GRÜNE) mostly achieved fourth place in the regional constituency elections, but were able to increase almost successively and in 2008 became the second strongest party with 16.8%. In 2013, the Greens were only placed third with the same percentage, in 2017 they performed drastically worse and could only achieve 7.1% of the votes. Fourth place from the Greens went to the NEOS party - The New Austria and Liberal Forum , with 8.8% of the votes in 2017 , which started in 2013 and achieved its best result to date in the regional constituency with 12.6% at the time.

Election results

National Council election in constituency 8A 2019

%

40

30th

20th

10

0

37.6%
(+1.7 % p )

12.8%
(-4.5 % p )

14.5%
(-9.4 % p )

18.2%
(+ 11.1 % p )

13.3%
(+ 4.5 % p )

3.6%
(-3.4 % p )

Otherwise.

2017

2019


National council elections in the regional constituency Vorarlberg Nord
Election date	GM		ÖVP	SPÖ	FPÖ	GREEN	BZÖ	LIF	FRANK	NEOS	Others
October 9, 1994		Votes (%)	38.9	19.4	23.8	9.1	-	6.7	-	-	2.1
October 9, 1994	4th	Basic mandates	1	0	0	-	-	0	-	-	0
December 17, 1995		Votes (%)	35.0	21.7	27.8	7.2	-	7.3	-	-	1.0
December 17, 1995	4th	Basic mandates	1	0	1	0	-	0	-	-	0
October 3, 1999		Votes (%)	36.3	16.8	30.4	10.0	-	5.0	-	-	1.5
October 3, 1999	4th	Basic mandates	1	0	1	0	-	0	-	-	0
November 24, 2002		Votes (%)	50.8	18.8	13.0	14.5	-	1.6	-	-	1.3
November 24, 2002	4th	Basic mandates	2	0	0	0	-	0	-	-	0
October 1, 2006		Votes (%)	43.5	17.2	11.6	16.5	3.0	-	-	-	8.2
October 1, 2006	4th	Basic mandates	1	0	0	0	0	-	-	-	0
September 28, 2008		Votes (%)	32.9	13.3	16.0	16.8	12.5	2.7	-	-	1.9
September 28, 2008	4th	Basic mandates	1	0	0	0	0	0	-	-	0
29th September 2013		Votes (%)	27.8	12.5	20.5	16.8	2.2	-	5.3	12.6	2.4
29th September 2013	4th	Basic mandates	1	0	0	0	0	-	0	0	0
15th October 2017		Votes (%)	35.9	17.3	23.9	7.1	-	-	-	8.8	7.0
15th October 2017	4th	Basic mandates	1	0	1	0	-	-	-	0	0
29th September 2019		Votes (%)	37.6	12.8	14.5	18.2	-	-	-	13.3	3.6
29th September 2019	4th	Basic mandates	1	0	0	0	-	-	-	0	0

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