Vorarlberg Süd regional constituency

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Vorarlberg Süd constituency
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Country Austria
state Vorarlberg
Number of mandates 4th
Eligible voters 121,470 (2019)
voter turnout 68.5%
Election date 29th September 2019
MPs

The regional constituency of Vorarlberg Süd (constituency 8B) 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 two political districts Bludenz and Feldkirch . In the 2019 National Council election, 121,470 people were eligible to vote in the Vorarlberg Süd regional constituency, with the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) emerging as the strongest party with 35.4%.

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 was introduced, whereby the Bludenz and Feldkirch districts were combined to form the Vorarlberg Süd regional constituency (constituency 8B). In 1993 the regional constituency was assigned three mandates, whereby the recalculation of the mandate distribution in 2002 (according to the results of the 2001 census) led to an increase in the number of direct mandates to four basic mandates.

Since the creation of the constituency, the ÖVP has succeeded in becoming the party with the highest number of votes in every election, and in the 2002 National Council elections it achieved its best result to date with 47.3%. The ÖVP suffered its worst result in the 2013 election when it slipped to 24.6%. The Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) came second in two out of nine elections, with its best election result in 1995 being 24.4%. As with the ÖVP, the SPÖ also slipped to its worst result so far in 2013 and only achieved fourth place among the participating parties with 14.0%. The Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) was the second strongest party in the elections from 1994 to 1999, where it achieved its best result in 1999 with 29.9%. After falling to 10.1%, the FPÖ was able to fight its way back to third place by 2008 and came in second in 2013 with 19.9%. The party was able to keep this second place in 2017, but lost it to the Greens in 2019. The Greens - The Green Alternative (GRÜNE) reached fourth place three times in the regional constituency elections, rose to the third strongest party in 2002 and the second strongest party in 2008, with 17.6% achieving their best result to date. In the 2013 election, the Greens lost 0.3% and became the third strongest force in the constituency. In 2017, the Greens fell to fourth place and were elected nationwide from the National Council, but two years later they were able to return in the 2019 election and regain second place in the electoral favor in the Vorarlberg Süd constituency.

Election results

National Council election in constituency 8B 2019
 %
40
30th
20th
10
0
35.4%
(+ 2.2  % p )
15.0%
(-10.1  % p )
13.5%
(-5.1  % p )
13.9%
(+ 4.6  % p )
18.1%
(+ 10.8  % p )
4.0%
(-2.4  % p )
Otherwise.
2017

2019

National council elections in the regional constituency Vorarlberg Süd
Election date GM ÖVP SPÖ FPÖ GREEN BZÖ LIF / NEOS FRANK MUSHROOM / NOW Others
October 9, 1994 Votes (%) 36.4 22.6 23.2 8.8 - 6.3 - - 2.7
3 Basic mandates 1 0 0 - - 0 - - 0
December 17, 1995 Votes (%) 32.8 24.4 27.0 7.4 - 6.9 - - 1.5
3 Basic mandates 1 0 0 0 - 0 - - 0
October 3, 1999 Votes (%) 33.8 19.9 29.9 10.1 - 4.6 - - 1.7
3 Basic mandates 1 0 0 0 - 0 - - 0
November 24, 2002 Votes (%) 47.3 21.6 13.0 14.6 - 1.6 - - 1.9
4th Basic mandates 1 0 0 0 - 0 - - 0
October 1, 2006 Votes (%) 40.1 20.1 10.1 16.4 3.5 - - - 9.8
4th Basic mandates 1 0 0 0 0 - - - 0
September 28, 2008 Votes (%) 29.4 15.2 16.2 17.6 13.0 2.5 - - 6.1
4th Basic mandates 1 0 0 0 0 0 - - 0
29th September 2013 Votes (%) 24.6 14.0 19.9 17.3 2.6 13.7 5.4 - 2.7
4th Basic mandates 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0
15th October 2017 Votes (%) 33.2 18.6 25.1 7.3 - 9.3 - 2.9 3.5
4th Basic mandates 1 0 0 0 - 0 - 0 0
29th September 2019 Votes (%) 35.4 13.5 15.0 18.1 - 13.9 - 2.1 1.9
4th Basic mandates 1 0 0 0 - 0 - 0 0

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Federal Ministry of the Interior - constituency division
  2. ↑ a b c d Result of the National Council election 2019 on the website of the Federal Ministry of the Interior
  3. ↑ Election regulations 1918
  4. ↑ National Council election regulations 1923
  5. ↑ StGBl. No. 198/1945
  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 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