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The Popular Party continued ahead in the polls
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Postal voters gave the Greens a success in the Vienna district council elections: they eventually removed Josefstadt from the ÖVP. With around 5,300 voters at the polls, the People’s Party with district chief Veronika Mickel was still ahead. Counting 7,300 voting cards, the Greens clearly rebounded, dropping 33.6 to 30.6 percent of the first place they had lost in 2010. Thus, their top candidate Martin Fabisch becomes district president.
The Greens did not achieve – even with the evaluation of the postal vote – the expected conquest of Wiedens: There the head of the SPÖ, Lea Halbwidl, with 33.2 percent kept the Greens (28.1 percent) clearly at a distance . There is now a greater distance in the city center, where this year, unlike in 2015, the ÖVP district president, Markus Figl, clearly prevailed against the SPÖ (22.9 percent) with 40.5 percent .
In Meidling and Brigittenau, the SPÖ left the FPÖ, which had generally collapsed this year, far behind: Meidling District President Wilfried Zankl, recently in office, increased the SPÖ’s result to 42.0 percent, while the FPÖ, in 2015, was second, 23rd. Aim for 6.8 percent. Similar at Brigittenau: there the SPÖ and Hannes Derfler rose to 45.0 percent, while the FPÖ rose to 7.4 percent (by 22.1 points).
The proportion of voters by mail was sometimes huge. In the inner city districts, in Corona’s time, about 60 percent preferred not to vote on Sunday at the polling station but with a voting card. Turnout did not drop too low in the Innere Stadt, Wieden and Josefstadt districts, which were already counted on Monday night. This is different in Meidling and Brigittenau, for which the full results of the district representative elections were already available.
There, the percentage of votes by mail was lower, 44 percent each, so that more than half of the votes were cast in the polling stations. There, the share fell about 10 percentage points, to just over 50 percent.
In Josefstadt, about 59 percent of the votes were made by voting card, in the city center and in Wieden, 57 percent. And that benefited electoral participation, it fell comparatively little, by five or in Wieden by 6.5 points. In District 8, Corona notwithstanding, it was still 67 percent, in District 1 65 and in Wieden 57 percent. Overall, supercomputers assumed a vote-by-mail share of around 40 percent.
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