Английская Википедия:2008 Lower Austrian state election
Шаблон:Infobox election The 2008 Lower Austrian state election was held on 9 March 2008 to elect the members of the Landtag of Lower Austria.
The Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) retained its majority. The major opposition party, the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ), suffered substantial losses. The Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) partially recovered from its 2003 losses, more than doubling its voteshare and tripling its number of seats.[1]
Background
The Lower Austrian constitution mandates that cabinet positions in the state government (state councillors, Шаблон:Lang-de) be allocated between parties proportionally in accordance with the share of votes won by each; this is known as Proporz. As such, the government is a perpetual coalition of all parties that qualify for at least one state councillor. After the 2003 election, the ÖVP had six councillors and the SPÖ three.
Electoral system
The 56 seats of the Landtag of Lower Austria are elected via open list proportional representation in a two-step process. The seats are distributed between twenty-one multi-member constituencies. For parties to receive any representation in the Landtag, they must either win at least one seat in a constituency directly, or clear a 4 percent state-wide electoral threshold. Seats are distributed in constituencies according to the Hare quota, with any remaining seats allocated using the D'Hondt method at the state level, to ensure overall proportionality between a party's vote share and its share of seats.[2]
Contesting parties
The table below lists parties represented in the previous Landtag.
| Name | Ideology | Leader | 2003 result | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes (%) | Seats | Councillors | |||||
| style="background:Шаблон:Party color;"| | ÖVP | Austrian People's Party Шаблон:Small |
Christian democracy | Erwin Pröll | 53.3% | Шаблон:Composition bar | Шаблон:Composition bar |
| style="background:Шаблон:Party color;"| | SPÖ | Social Democratic Party of Austria Шаблон:Small |
Social democracy | Heidemaria Onodi | 33.6% | Шаблон:Composition bar | Шаблон:Composition bar |
| style="background:Шаблон:Party color;"| | GRÜNE | The Greens – The Green Alternative Шаблон:Small |
Green politics | Madeleine Petrovic | 7.2% | Шаблон:Composition bar | |
| style="background:Шаблон:Party color;"| | FPÖ | Freedom Party of Austria Шаблон:Small |
Right-wing populism Euroscepticism |
Barbara Rosenkranz | 4.5% | Шаблон:Composition bar | |
In addition to the parties already represented in the Landtag, five parties collected enough signatures to be placed on the ballot.[3]
- Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ)
- The Christians (DCP) – on the ballot only in 20 constituencies
- Alliance for the Future of Austria (BZÖ) – on the ballot only in 17 constituencies
- List for our Lower Austria (LNÖ) – on the ballot only in 6 constituencies
- Animal Rights Party (TRP) – on the ballot only in Mödling
Results
| Party | Votes | % | +/− | Seats | +/− | Шаблон:Abbr | +/− | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| bgcolor=Шаблон:Party color| | Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) | 549,510 | 54.39 | +1.10 | 31 | ±0 | 6 | ±0 |
| bgcolor=Шаблон:Party color| | Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) | 257,770 | 25.51 | –8.04 | 15 | –4 | 2 | –1 |
| bgcolor=Шаблон:Party color| | Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) | 105,748 | 10.47 | +5.98 | 6 | +4 | 1 | +1 |
| bgcolor=Шаблон:Party color| | The Greens – The Green Alternative (GRÜNE) | 69,852 | 6.91 | –0.31 | 4 | ±0 | 0 | ±0 |
| bgcolor=Шаблон:Party color| | Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ) | 8,661 | 0.86 | +0.09 | 0 | ±0 | 0 | ±0 |
| bgcolor=Шаблон:Party color| | The Christians (DCP) | 8,537 | 0.84 | New | 0 | New | 0 | New |
| bgcolor=Шаблон:Party color| | Alliance for the Future of Austria (BZÖ) | 7,250 | 0.72 | New | 0 | New | 0 | New |
| List for our Lower Austria (LNÖ) | 2,174 | 0.22 | New | 0 | New | 0 | New | |
| Animal Rights Party (TRP) | 854 | 0.08 | New | 0 | New | 0 | New | |
| Invalid/blank votes | 23,339 | – | – | – | – | – | – | |
| Total | 1,033,695 | 100 | – | 56 | 0 | 9 | 0 | |
| Registered voters/turnout | 1,387,368 | 74.51 | +2.72 | – | – | – | – | |
| Source: Lower Austrian Government | ||||||||
Results by constituency
| Constituency | ÖVP | SPÖ | FPÖ | Grüne | Others | Total seats |
Turnout | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| colspan="2" style="background:Шаблон:Party color;"| | colspan="2" style="background:Шаблон:Party color;"| | colspan="2" style="background:Шаблон:Party color;"| | colspan="2" style="background:Шаблон:Party color;"| | ||||||||||
| % | Шаблон:Abbr | % | Шаблон:Abbr | % | Шаблон:Abbr | % | Шаблон:Abbr | % | |||||
| Amstetten | 58.6 | 3 | 22.7 | 1 | 10.1 | 6.0 | 2.6 | 4 | 79.1 | ||||
| Baden | 47.2 | 2 | 29.1 | 1 | 12.8 | 7.9 | 3.0 | 3 | 70.2 | ||||
| Bruck an der Leitha | 51.2 | 30.7 | 10.7 | 5.7 | 1.7 | 0 | 72.6 | ||||||
| Gänserndorf | 47.9 | 1 | 30.9 | 1 | 12.1 | 5.9 | 3.2 | 2 | 71.3 | ||||
| Gmünd | 54.1 | 31.1 | 8.1 | 4.3 | 2.4 | 0 | 77.9 | ||||||
| Hollabrunn | 60.7 | 1 | 23.5 | 8.5 | 5.3 | 2.1 | 1 | 77.8 | |||||
| Horn | 68.6 | 1 | 18.1 | 6.4 | 4.8 | 2.0 | 1 | 79.2 | |||||
| Korneuburg | 56.0 | 1 | 22.0 | 10.8 | 8.7 | 2.5 | 1 | 73.0 | |||||
| Krems an der Donau | 60.5 | 2 | 21.2 | 8.9 | 6.2 | 3.2 | 2 | 76.9 | |||||
| Lilienfeld | 51.2 | 32.2 | 9.6 | 4.7 | 2.3 | 0 | 79.5 | ||||||
| Melk | 55.1 | 1 | 26.0 | 11.0 | 5.3 | 2.7 | 1 | 80.2 | |||||
| Mistelbach | 60.5 | 2 | 22.4 | 9.5 | 5.5 | 2.2 | 2 | 78.0 | |||||
| Mödling | 52.0 | 2 | 21.5 | 9.4 | 12.9 | 4.3 | 2 | 68.3 | |||||
| Neunkirchen | 49.4 | 1 | 30.8 | 1 | 11.7 | 5.7 | 2.4 | 2 | 75.2 | ||||
| Sankt Pölten | 49.4 | 2 | 28.4 | 1 | 11.6 | 7.4 | 3.2 | 3 | 75.6 | ||||
| Scheibbs | 60.9 | 1 | 21.9 | 8.9 | 5.9 | 2.4 | 1 | 80.5 | |||||
| Tulln | 58.4 | 1 | 22.4 | 9.7 | 7.1 | 2.3 | 1 | 75.7 | |||||
| Waidhofen an der Thaya | 63.1 | 20.7 | 10.2 | 4.6 | 1.4 | 0 | 78.0 | ||||||
| Wiener Neustadt | 50.5 | 2 | 29.0 | 1 | 12.0 | 5.7 | 2.7 | 3 | 71.9 | ||||
| Vienna Surrounds | 46.9 | 2 | 27.5 | 1 | 11.4 | 11.6 | 2.7 | 3 | 65.3 | ||||
| Zwettl | 70.0 | 1 | 15.6 | 7.8 | 4.5 | 2.2 | 1 | 81.9 | |||||
| Remaining seats | 5 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 23 | ||||||||
| Total | 54.4 | 31 | 25.5 | 15 | 10.5 | 6 | 6.9 | 4 | 2.7 | 56 | 74.5 | ||
| Source: Lower Austrian Government | |||||||||||||
Preference votes
Alongside votes for a party, voters were able to cast a preferential votes for a candidate on the party list. The ten candidates with the most preferential votes were as follows:[4]
| Party | Шаблон:Abbr | Candidate | Votes | Шаблон:Abbr | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| bgcolor=Шаблон:Party color| | ÖVP | 1 | Erwin Pröll | 303,022 | 91.2 |
| bgcolor=Шаблон:Party color| | SPÖ | 1 | Heidemaria Onodi | 45,445 | 58.5 |
| bgcolor=Шаблон:Party color| | FPÖ | 1 | Barbara Rosenkranz | 45,371 | 86.8 |
| bgcolor=Шаблон:Party color| | GRÜNE | 1 | Madeleine Petrovic | 18,973 | 66.5 |
| bgcolor=Шаблон:Party color| | SPÖ | 2 | Emil Schabl | 4,131 | 5.3 |
| bgcolor=Шаблон:Party color| | ÖVP | 3 | Wolfgang Sobotka | 3,961 | 1.2 |
| bgcolor=Шаблон:Party color| | ÖVP | 4 | Josef Plank | 3,748 | 1.1 |
| bgcolor=Шаблон:Party color| | ÖVP | 2 | Ernest Gabmann | 2,695 | 0.8 |
| bgcolor=Шаблон:Party color| | ÖVP | 30 | Bettina Rausch | 2,441 | 0.7 |
| bgcolor=Шаблон:Party color| | SPÖ | 13 | Josef Jahrmann | 2,211 | 2.8 |
References
Шаблон:Austrian local elections
