Vienna 2020 Election Result: SPÖ as Election Winner, Strache Fails – Vienna – 1st District

The ÖVP doubled its share of the votes, the FPÖ suffered a breakdown in resolve and its former boss Heinz-Christian Strache fails with his roll call. The choice of both the Greens and the NEOS resulted in slight increases.

The preliminary result of the 2020 Vienna elections on Sunday evening (without voting postcards and without voting cards from foreign districts, which are counted as of Monday) resulted in a 43.09 percent turnout of the votes for the SPÖ. The result that includes postal votes (according to ARGE Wahlen and SORA / ORF projections) of 42.9 and 42.2 respectively means an increase of around three percentage points compared to 2015 (previous result: 39.59 per hundred).

The ÖVP can expect to double the votes. At the polls, the city’s turquoise reached 18.47 percent, the ARGE election projection sees 19.2 percent for the ÖVP in the final bill, including postal voters, SORA / ORF expects a 18.8 percent. Compared to the record negative result of 2015 (9.24), the Popular Party has gained around ten percentage points.

The FPÖ crash was even clearer than expected. While the Freedom Party reached 8.92 percent at the polls, the result, including mail-in votes, is likely to be even worse. The FPÖ finally sees the extrapolations at 8.2 percent (ARGE) and 7.7 percent (SORA). The party thus lost significantly more than 20 percentage points compared to the last result of Vienna (30.79).

The rupture of the former president of the blue party Heinz-Christian Strache failed. HC Strache’s team missed the necessary five percent hurdle. At the polls, Strache reached 4.32 percent, but ultimately, the result is likely to be even worse: ARGE’s electoral extrapolation sees Strache at 4 percent, SORA at 3.6 percent.

The Greens managed to win slightly and reached the polls with 12.2 percent. Votes by mail will improve the result, according to ARGE Wahlen to 13.3, according to SORA to 14 percent. In 2015, the ecological party obtained 11.84 percent of the votes. There was also an advantage for NEOS, which reached 6.92 percent of the voters present. Including postal voters, pink people can count on 7.3 (ARGE) or 7.8 percent (SORA) of the votes. If they really rank fourth ahead of the FPÖ, as the SORA poll shows, it is still open.

The other (small) parties LINKS, SÖZ and the beer party got a total of 6.07 percent of the ballot box voters. Including absentee votes, their combined participation should be 5.2 (ARGE) and 5.7 percent (SORA).

Once the ballot box results are available on Election Sunday, the electoral authority does not initially calculate the mandate. The official assignment of mandates will only take place after the results of the city council election, including voting cards, are available, either on Monday night or on Tuesday.

According to projections by SORA / ORF and ARGE Wahlen, the SPÖ will have 47 or 48 of the 100 seats in the Vienna City Council in the future – an increase of two or three seats compared to 2015. The ÖVP has tripled its seats – from seven to 20 (SORA) or 21 (ARGE). The FPÖ has lost more than two-thirds of its 34 previous seats and will only have nine in the future. The Greens have increased five seats to 14 (ARGE) or 15 (SORA), the NEOS from five to eight (ARGE) or nine (SORA).