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2019 Styrian state election
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All 48 seats in the Landtag of Styria
25 seats needed for a majority
Turnout606,528 (63.5%)
Decrease 4.4%
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Hermann Schützenhöfer Michael Schickhofer Mario Kunasek
Party ÖVP SPÖ FPÖ
Last election 14 seats, 28.5% 15 seats, 29.3% 14 seats, 26.8%
Seats won 18 12 8
Seat change Increase 4 Decrease 3 Decrease 6
Popular vote 217,036 138,572 105,294
Percentage 36.0% 23.0% 17.5%
Swing Increase 7.6% Decrease 6.3% Decrease 9.3%
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Sandra Krautwaschl Claudia Klimt-Weithaler Niko Swatek
Party Greens KPÖ NEOS
Last election 3 seats, 6.7% 2 seats, 4.2% 0 seats, 2.6%
Seats won 6 2 2
Seat change Increase 3 Steady 0 Increase 2
Popular vote 72,749 36,062 32,346
Percentage 12.1% 6.0% 5.4%
Swing Increase 5.4% Increase 1.8% Increase 2.7%
Results by municipality.
Governor before election

Hermann Schützenhöfer
ÖVP

Elected Governor

Hermann Schützenhöfer
ÖVP

The 2019 Styrian state election was held on 24 November 2019 to elect the members of the Landtag of Styria.

The conservative Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) was the clear winner of the election, winning 36.0% on a swing of 7.6 percentage points. This came to the detriment of the former largest party, the centre-left Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ), which lost six points and fell to second place. The Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) fell by nine points. The Greens made a strong showing, winning 12% and doubling their representation to six seats. The Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ) achieved their best result since re-entering the Landtag in 2005 with 6.0%. NEOS – The New Austria (NEOS) doubled its voteshare from the 2015 election, winning 5.4%, and entered the Landtag with two seats.[1]

The outgoing government, a coalition of the SPÖ and ÖVP, was unusual in that it was headed by a member of the smaller party – Hermann Schützenhöfer of the ÖVP. With his party's success in the election, he was re-elected Governor by the Landtag at the head of a renewed ÖVP–SPÖ coalition.[2]

Background

In the 2015 election, the SPÖ–ÖVP government suffered major losses (–9.0 and –8.7 points respectively) to the FPÖ (+16.1 points), with all three parties finishing within a 2.5 percentage point margin of one another. Afterwards, in line with a promise to step down if the SPÖ fell below 30% of votes, Governor Franz Voves announced his resignation. With the SPÖ and ÖVP planning to continue their coalition, the larger SPÖ was expected to retain the governorship. However, after several days of negotiations, the government announced that Voves would be succeeded by ÖVP leader Hermann Schützenhöfer.[3] This was received poorly by opposition parties and the federal SPÖ alike, who criticised it as a breach of political convention. The Styrian SPÖ claimed it had been done to prevent the ÖVP from defecting and forming a coalition with the FPÖ.[4]

In May 2019, the Ibiza affair led to the collapse of the federal government between the ÖVP and FPÖ. The October 2019 federal election saw substantial losses for the FPÖ and SPÖ, and gains for the ÖVP and Greens.

Electoral system

The 48 seats of the Landtag of Styria are elected via open list proportional representation in a two-step process. 40 of the seats are distributed between four 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 eight leveling 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.[5]

Contesting parties

Name Ideology Leader 2015 result
Votes (%) Seats
style="background:Template:Social Democratic Party of Austria/meta/color;"| SPÖ Social Democratic Party of Austria
Sozialdemokratische Partei Österreichs 		Social democracy Michael Schickhofer 29.3%
15 / 48
style="background:Template:Austrian People's Party (2017)/meta/color;"| ÖVP Austrian People's Party
Österreichische Volkspartei 		Christian democracy Hermann Schützenhöfer 28.5%
14 / 48
style="background:Template:Freedom Party of Austria/meta/color;"| FPÖ Freedom Party of Austria
Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs 		Right-wing populism
Euroscepticism 		Mario Kunasek 26.8%
14 / 48
style="background:Template:The Greens – The Green Alternative/meta/color;"| GRÜNE The Greens – The Green Alternative
Die Grünen – Die Grüne Alternative 		Green politics Sandra Krautwaschl 6.7%
3 / 48
style="background:Template:Communist Party of Austria/meta/color;"| KPÖ Communist Party of Austria
Kommunistische Partei Österreichs 		Communism Claudia Klimt-Weithaler 4.2%
2 / 48
style="background:Template:NEOS – The New Austria and Liberal Forum/meta/color;"| NEOS NEOS – The New Austria and Liberal Forum
NEOS – Das Neue Österreich und Liberales Forum 		Liberalism
Pro-Europeanism 		Niko Swatek 2.6%
0 / 48

Results

Popular vote
ÖVP
 
 36.05%
SPÖ
 
 23.02%
FPÖ
 
 17.49%
GRÜNE
 
 12.08%
KPÖ
 
 5.99%
NEOS
 
 5.37%
Landtag seats
ÖVP
 
 37.50%
SPÖ
 
 25.00%
FPÖ
 
 16.67%
GRÜNE
 
 12.50%
KPÖ
 
 4.17%
NEOS
 
 4.17%
Party Votes % +/− Seats +/−
bgcolor=Template:Austrian People's Party (2017)/meta/color| Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) 217,036 36.05 +7.60 18 +4
bgcolor=Template:Social Democratic Party of Austria/meta/color| Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) 138,572 23.02 –6.27 12 –3
bgcolor=Template:Freedom Party of Austria/meta/color| Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) 105,294 17.49 –9.27 8 –6
bgcolor=Template:The Greens – The Green Alternative/meta/color| The Greens – The Green Alternative (GRÜNE) 72,749 12.08 +5.40 6 +3
bgcolor=Template:Communist Party of Austria/meta/color| Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ) 36,062 5.99 +1.77 2 ±0
bgcolor=Template:NEOS – The New Austria/meta/color| NEOS – The New Austria (NEOS) 32,346 5.37 +2.73 2 +2
Invalid/blank votes 4,469 – – – –
Total 606,528 100 – 48 0
Registered voters/turnout 955,795 63.46 –4.44 – –
Source: Styrian Government

Results by constituency

Constituency ÖVP SPÖ FPÖ Grüne KPÖ NEOS Total
seats 		Turnout
colspan="2" style="background:Template:Austrian People's Party (2017)/meta/color;"| colspan="2" style="background:Template:Social Democratic Party of Austria/meta/color;"| colspan="2" style="background:Template:Freedom Party of Austria/meta/color;"| colspan="2" style="background:Template:The Greens – The Green Alternative/meta/color;"| colspan="2" style="background:Template:Communist Party of Austria/meta/color;"| colspan="2" style="background:Template:NEOS – The New Austria and Liberal Forum/meta/color;"|
% S % S % S % S % S % S
District 1 29.2 4 17.4 2 15.2 2 20.6 3 9.9 1 7.7 1 13 62.1
District 2 47.2 5 18.8 2 19.0 2 8.5 1 2.6 3.9 10 67.0
District 3 38.8 3 23.9 2 21.2 1 8.0 3.7 4.4 6 62.8
District 4 32.8 4 32.7 4 16.7 2 7.6 1 5.8 4.5 11 62.5
State seats 2 2 1 1 1 1 8
Total 38.8 18 23.0 12 17.5 8 12.1 6 6.0 2 5.7 2 48 63.5
Source: Styrian Government

References

  1. ^ "Overall results - Table 2019 final" (PDF). Styrian Government.
  2. ^ "New Styrian government is in place: ex-minister becomes regional councillor". Kurier. 16 December 2019.
  3. ^ "Schützenhöfer becomes LH, Schickhofer follows Voves". ORF. 10 June 2015.
  4. ^ ""First should provide governor"". ORF. 11 June 2015.
  5. ^ "Mandate distribution table" (PDF). Styrian Government.
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