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Sunday’s Vienna city council elections have been counted. With the evaluation of 321,056 voting cards, the percentage of votes has changed significantly. And the electoral authority has now also announced the mandates that have been fulfilled. The SPÖ is represented in the new municipal council with 46 seats, the ÖVP with 22, the Greens with 16, NEOS and FPÖ with eight each. In the end, the FPÖ only ranks behind NEOS.
The number of mail-in votes that district electoral authorities had to count on Monday and Tuesday was greater than ever: Nearly 44 percent of the votes were cast by mail or at the district office before October 11. 317,091 valid votes were added to the ballot box result, and a lot was changed.
So the map of the city, which was colored red on the Sunday after the elections, scored two turquoise points: in the city center and in Hietzing, the ÖVP is ultimately far ahead of the SPÖ.
Overall, the ÖVP and the Greens performed well with postal voters, which was also not what extrapolators expected. In the end, the ÖVP broke the 20 percent mark, at 20.43 percent, an increase of 11.19 percentage points. The number of its deputies has more than tripled, from seven to 22.
The Greens finally came out with their best Viennese result each – 14.80 percent (+2.96) – and there are six more councilors (previously 10). You are now the third strongest force, instead of the collapsed FPÖ.
The SPÖ defended the undisputed first place and expanded it by 2.03 percentage points to 41.62 percent, as did the number of terms from 44 to 46. However, unlike previous years, it did significantly worse with postal voters, with Voters at the polls had 43.09 percent.
The election winners also include NEOS, which rose to 7.47 percent (+1.31) and its terms from five to eight.
This time, the losers in the elections were in the “third field”, which was still so successful in 2015: the FPÖ collapsed from a record 30.79 percent to just 7.11 percent as a result of Ibiza and the issue of expenses. 26 of his 34 leaders so far have to say goodbye, and also from the position of vice mayor.
Former FPÖ boss Heinz-Christian Strache failed: his new party, the HC Strache list, remained well below the five percent hurdle at 3.27 percent. Both the FPÖ and the HC performed well below average among postal voters, their overall results being significantly worse than the ballot box results announced Sunday.
Of course, voter turnout increased with postal voters, to 65.27 percent. Of course, that still means a sharp 9.48 percentage point drop. This was due, on the one hand, to the crown pandemic and, on the other, to the fact that many former FPÖ voters stayed away from the polls.
Those: APA
