Tamsweg constituency

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Constituency 5: Tamsweg
Landtag constituencies Salzburg.svg
Country Austria
state Salzburg
region Lungau
Constituency number 5
Seat of the electoral authority Salzburg
Number of mandates 2
Residents 20,251 (January 1, 2020)
Eligible voters 16,259 (2013)
voter turnout 75.85%
Election date May 5, 2013

The Tamsweg constituency (constituency 5) is an electoral district in Salzburg that includes the political district of Tamsweg (Lungau) . In the 2013 election to the Salzburg State Parliament , 16,259 people were eligible to vote in the Tamsweg constituency, with the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) emerging as the strongest party with 38.5%. In the election, none of the parties achieved a basic mandate.

history

monarchy

Electoral districts for the  newly elected state parliaments were set up in the Austrian Empire for the Crown Land Duchy of Salzburg with the October diploma in  1860, when Salzburg received a new state statute, and were re-ordained for all crown lands with the February patent 1861. The Landtag in the Duchy of Salzburg had a total of 26 (originally 20) seats ( MPs ), including 10 representatives of the cities and markets (constituency II, originally 5) and 8 of the rural communities (constituency III, originally 9). The following were planned for the Lungau:

republic

Originally there was only one constituency in state elections in the state of Salzburg of the Republic of Austria . After the 1977 state election in Burgenland had been challenged by the Constitutional Court, the Constitutional Court recognized that the use 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. The state of Salzburg carried out the necessary adaptation with the state election regulations adopted on September 27, 1978, which divided the state of Salzburg into six constituencies. The Tamsweg district subsequently formed its own constituency.

The state electoral district of Tamsweg was dominated almost exclusively by the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP). Between 1979 and 1989, the ÖVP achieved an absolute majority of votes, and in 1984 it achieved its best result with 55.9%. However, since the state elections in 1999, the ÖVP has gradually lost its share of the vote, in 2013 it only came to 38.5%. Nevertheless, the ÖVP in the Tamsweg constituency consistently achieved its best result in the six constituencies. With Gabi Burgstaller's triumphant advance, the ÖVP lost first place in the constituency for a short time in 2004, which it was able to regain in 2009. However, the ÖVP was the only party to obtain a basic mandate between 1979 and 1989.

The Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPO) was with one exception becoming the second largest party in the constituency, reaching from 1979 to 1999 between 25 and 34%. With the appearance of Gabi Burgstaller, the SPÖ was able to overtake the ÖVP in 2004 and achieve its best result to date with 43.0%. In 2009 the SPÖ was unable to maintain its top position and fell behind the ÖVP again; in 2013 it fell to 24.9%, its worst result to date.

The Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) has so far been the third strongest party in the Tamsweg district in every election, and in 1999 it achieved its best result to date with 21.3%. After heavy losses in 2004, the FPÖ was able to increase again to 18.1%. Until 2009, the Greens Salzburg did not reach more than 5.5% in any election. Thanks to massive wins in the state elections, the Greens were able to achieve their best result with 12.3% in 2013, but still only finished fourth behind the FPÖ.

Election results

State election 2013 in the Tamsweg constituency
 %
40
30th
20th
10
0
38.53%
(-1.38  % p )
24.88%
(-13.94  % p )
18.12%
(+ 3.92  % p )
12.27%
(+ 8.93  % p )
6.19%
( n. K. )
none
(-3.73  % p )
Otherwise.
2009

2013

State elections in the Tamsweg constituency
Election date GM SPÖ ÖVP FPÖ GREEN TEAM Others
March 25, 1979 Votes (%) 33.71 51.27 15.01 - - -
2 Basic mandates 0 1 0 - - -
March 25, 1984 Votes (%) 32.51 55.85 11.65 - - -
2 Basic mandates 0 1 0 - - -
March 12, 1989 Votes (%) 27.58 50.88 16.65 3.46 - 1.43
2 Basic mandates 0 1 0 0 - 0
March 13, 1994 Votes (%) 25.32 46.57 20.12 5.53 - 2.46
2 Basic mandates 0 0 0 0 - 0
March 7, 1999 Votes (%) 27.20 46.74 21.25 2.81 - 2.00
2 Basic mandates 0 0 0 0 - 0
March 7, 2004 Votes (%) 42.97 41.79 11.17 4.08 - -
2 Basic mandates 0 0 0 0 - -
March 1, 2009 Votes (%) 38.82 39.91 14.20 3.34 - 3.73
2 Basic mandates 0 0 0 0 - 0
May 5, 2013 Votes (%) 24.88 38.53 18.12 12.27 6.19 -
2 Basic mandates 0 0 0 0 0 0
April 22, 2018 Votes (%)
Basic mandates

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c State of Salzburg ( Memento of the original from March 6, 2010 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. Election results in the state of Salzburg @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.salzburg.gv.at
  2. ^ Statute on the state representation in the Herzogthume Salzburg. RGBl. No. 238/1860 (EReader, ALEX Online ).
  3. ^ State regulations and state parliament election regulations for the Duchy of Salzburg. Appendix 2c of the RGBl. No. 20/1861, p. 106 ff ( Landtag election regulations 112 ff; EReader, ALEX Online).
  4. ↑ § 3 Landes -ordnung 1861, together with the two members of the Chamber of Commerce
  5. ↑ The electoral regulations of 1860 were irrelevant, as the state parliament did not meet for the opening session until April 6, 1861 .
  6. ↑ § 3 State Regulations , §§ 2 and 4 Landtag election regulations 1861
  7. ↑ §§ 6 and 8 Landtag election regulations 1861; originally § 7 statute on the state representation 1860
  8. ↑ Election statistics. The elections in the federal states since 1945. p. 340
  9. ↑ Landtag election regulations 1978 on ALEX - historical legal and legal texts online
  10. ↑ Election statistics. The elections in the federal states since 1945. pp. 400–409 or Land Salzburg ( Memento of the original from March 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Election results in Salzburg @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.salzburg.gv.at
  11. ↑ Number of basic mandates in the Salzburg electoral district