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Regarding the district council elections, more than half of the districts were already counted by Tuesday afternoon. In 13 of the 23 districts, the preliminary end result, including EU citizens and postal voters, was already clear. More recently, the results of Mariahilf, Favoriten, Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus and Währing were added.
There were no changes at the top of any of these districts. So now it is finally clear that Mariahilf clearly remains in the hands of SPÖ. District Chief Markus Rumelhart increased to 37.2 percent. The Greens only posted a weak plus of 0.6 points and clearly missed 30.4 percent on their goal of converting the sixth district.
District Mayor Marcus Franz scored a huge victory with 47.4 percent of the Social Democrats in Favoriten, clearly outperforming the competition. The ÖVP achieved 18 percent, which means that the turquoise color in the 10th district more than doubled. The former SPÖ’s biggest competitor in Favoriten, the FPÖ, fell almost 28 points to 10.5 percent.
In contrast, the SPÖ had to accept slight losses of around half a percentage point at Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus. However, the district chief, Gerhard Zatlokal, is still firmly in the chair at 38.5 percent, and thus a respectable gap to the Greens in second place (23.9 percent). Noteworthy: In the 15th district, the KPÖ LINKS alliance achieved a higher percentage of votes (5.7) than the NEOS (5.5).
At Währing, on the other hand, the Greens were not only able to defend their supremacy, but even expand it. With district leader Silvia Nossek, who only snatched district 18 from the ÖVP in 2015, an increase of 10.6 points to 38.7 percent was achieved. Despite a slight increase, the Turquoises are lagging behind in second place with 27.5 percent. The SPÖ lost more than four percentage points and reached 17.9 percent.
Margareten remains in red hand. The 35.3 percent, however, means a decrease of 3.5 percentage points. This could possibly be related to the fact that District Leader Susanne Schaefer-Wiery left the party earlier in the year. ÖVP and Greens, on the other hand, were able to win more than 5 percentage points each, with the Greens clearly in second place with more than 28 percent.
At Döbling, Türkis was also able to win. The ÖVP clearly defended the first place with almost 37 percent (plus 4.4 percent). This means that the successor to long-term President Adi Tiller, Daniel Resch, has been successful for the first time.
That the SPÖ could steal Leopoldstadt from the Greens was already clear on election night. The Social Democrats gained 7.3 percentage points to 35.4 percent. In Vienna’s second district, the SPÖ initially had a majority in the 2015 Vienna elections and had to cede first place to the green party after re-election.
Unlike the municipal council election, in which not only the overall result, but also all the district results are published at once after all the voting cards have been counted, the districts are published immediately after scrutiny is completed at the district council level. Full results for Landstrasse, Neubau, Alsergrund, Hietzing, Penzing, Ottakring, Hernals, Floridsdorf, Donaustadt, and Liesing are still pending.
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