European Parliament election, 2009 (Austria)

  • GREEN: 2
  • SPÖ: 4
  • MARTIN: 3
  • ÖVP: 6
  • FPÖ: 2
  • GREEN: 2
  • SPÖ: 5
  • MARTIN: 3
  • ÖVP: 6
  • AAF: 1
  • FPÖ: 2

The European elections in Austria in 2009 was held on June 7, 2009. It was conducted as part of the EU held the 2009 European elections, which were awarded in Austria 17 instead of the previous 18 from a total of 736 seats in the European Parliament. In addition to the five already represented in the European parliament parties Social Democratic Party of Austria ( SPÖ), Austrian People's Party ( ÖVP), Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ ), The Greens - The Green Alternative ( GREEN ) and list Dr. Martin ( MARTIN ) occurred in the election also which represented the Austrian National alliance for the Future of Austria ( AAF ) and the Communist Party of Austria ( CPA ) and the young Liberals ( JuLis ) to. The European critical Libertas could not provide the necessary 2,600 signatures to be a candidate. The Liberal Forum, which provided an MEP in the previous legislature, entered due to lack of support declarations not to vote. The opening times of the polling stations were regulated differently locally, election deadline was on 7 June 2009 by 17 clock. There was also the option of voting.

  • 2.1 Initial situation
  • 2.2 suffrage
  • 2.3 top candidates of the parties
  • 2.4 campaign

Results

Final result

Voter turnout increased compared to the last European election by 3.6 percentage points to 46.0 %.

With the counting of electoral cards still resulted in a shift from a mandate of the Social Democratic Party in favor of the Greens.

The final official results were announced after the meeting of the Federal Election Commission on June 24.

Requirements

Starting position

In the European elections of 2004, the SPÖ was again emerged after 1999 as the strongest party vote. She was able to grow 1.62% compared to 1999 and had achieved 33.33% and 7 seats. The Austrian People's Party increased its vote share by 2.03% and reached 32.70 % again in second place. Despite their gains, the ÖVP lost due to the decline of Austria total number of mandates a mandate and presented in the next legislative period 6 mandates. Third place went to the " list Dr. Hans -Peter Martin - for real control in Brussels," had set out for the first time in 2004. Hans -Peter Martin, a former MP for the Social Democrats, had fallen out with the party line and was able to siphon off votes from 2004, in particular the weakened FPÖ. He reached 13.98 % of the votes and two seats. However, joined one of the two deputies, Karin Resetarits, later in the Liberal Forum about. In the European elections in 2009, they however do not support their own party, but the JuLis, and thus enabled their candidacy. The Greens won at the 2004 European elections as early as 1999 to fourth place and were able to increase their share of the vote to 12.89 % with a gain of 3.6%. The mandate level remained constant with 2 seats in the European Parliament. The FPÖ lost ground against the European elections of 1999 and 17.09% could keep up with 6.31% share of the vote, only one of the original five mandates.

Suffrage

In the European elections 2009 all those people are eligible to vote in Austria who have Austrian citizenship and residence in Austria. In addition, voters on election day must complete the age of 16 and at the date of 31 May 2009, be registered in the electoral register / European electoral register an Austrian municipality at the latest. Furthermore, in the European elections and Austrians are not resident in Austria, as well as non-Austrian EU citizens with main residence in Austria entitled to vote, unless they were included in the European electoral register and complete 16 years of age on election day. The passive suffrage have all those people who are themselves eligible to vote on election day and complete the age of 18 in the European elections.

According to the Federal Election Commission are in the European election 6,362,526 people eligible to vote, 313 397, or 5.2 % more than in the 2004 European elections, in which 16 - and 17 -year-old is not allowed to vote.

  • 3,314,671 women ( 52.1%, 136,221 compare with 2004)
  • 3,047,855 men ( 47.9 %, 177,176 compare with 2004)

The number of electors includes 39,832 Austrians (inside) and 30 414 EU citizens ( inside) with main residence in Austria.

Top candidates of the parties

Electioneering

On January 18, 2009, was elected to the Federal Congress of the Greens in Klagenfurt Ulrike Lunacek with 54.7 percent of the 240 delegates as the top candidate for the EU election. The long-time leader list Voggenhuber reached only 45.3 percent. He renounced first candidacy on the second list position when he finally offered, in the last 16 list position to stand in Vienna rejected the Federal Executive of the Greens on 30 January 2009 from his candidacy. He was accused of wanting to still collected by a preferential voting election to the European Parliament.

The ÖVP presented with the former interior minister Ernst Strasser, another leading candidate as the former head of the delegation Othmar Karas. Karas was the successor of the former leader of the ÖVP delegation in the European Parliament, Ursula Stenzel, elected on 2 February 2006. Karas then led a preferential voting campaign with their own campaign posters, their own website and e- mail campaigns. A person committee " Karas for Europe" with the speaker Peter Marboe supported the campaign.

The AAF established in 2005 went to at a European election for the first time. It had its top candidates Ewald Stadler presented on posters as " our people advocate for Europe ". The Austrian Ombudsman reached on 29 May 2009 a preliminary injunction, after which Stadler was not allowed to call more people lawyer. The posters had already affichierten following this judgment, however, not be removed. Ewald Stadler was 2001-2006 ombudsman for the Freedom Party, but joined the national elections in Austria in 2008 for the AAF to.

The list Dr. Hans Peter Martin is the only grouping in the European Parliament, who had no party organization on a national basis for the campaign are available. Hans Peter Martin, a longtime journalist, got media support by the Kronen-Zeitung. The advance copy of his book The European case and a column written by him led to a daily presence Martins in Austria's most widely read daily newspaper.

Elected representatives

Following Members were elected to the European Parliament:

Two deputies were due to the enlargement of the European Parliament in December 2011 its mandate to:

See also List of members of the 7th European Parliament.

Electoral consequences

Of the preference votes Othmar Karas reached nearly 113,000 votes, the largest number ever reached a non- candidate list first.

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