Salzburg state and municipal elections, 2009

  • SPÖ: 15
  • GREEN: 2
  • ÖVP: 14
  • FPO: 5

The state election in Salzburg 2009 was held jointly with the community representative and mayoral elections on 1 March 2009.

  • 2.1 Social Democratic Party of Austria - Gabi Burgstaller ( SPÖ)
  • 2.2 ÖVP Salzburg Wilfried Haslauer / Doraja Eberle / Sepp Eisl (ÖVP )
  • 2.3 Freedom Party Salzburg (FPÖ )
  • 2.4 The Greens - The Green Alternative ( GREEN )
  • 2.5 For Salzburg. Alliance for Austria's Future & Doris list Tazl ( AAF )

Requirements

Starting position

The state election in Salzburg in 2004 was marked by a landslide victory of the Social Democratic Party, which could make the country main woman for the first time in the Second Republic with Gabi Burgstaller. The Social Democrats formed after the election, with the losing ÖVP coalition government.

Suffrage

In the state elections in 2009 all those people on the record date (1st March 2009) were active right, were Austrian citizen and 16 years of age had completed. The voters also had to have a residence in a municipality in the Province of Salzburg and could not have been disqualified from voting. An exclusion from the right to vote was at a final conviction by a domestic court for one or more committed with intent offenses to more than one year imprisonment. The exclusion ended after six months, the beginning of the period started after the execution of the sentence as soon as the Freiheitsentzung was completed or dropped. A further prerequisite for the participation in the election was the registration on the electoral roll. These were placed in the municipal offices of 19 January to 23 January 2009 for public inspection. The passive right to vote in the state election of 2009 was to all those people who themselves were eligible to vote and 18 years of age had completed. By lowering the voting age after the state elections of 2004, the number of eligible voters increased.

Ballot

In addition to the personal vote choice in the regional elections could also be done by means of election card and postal voting. The choice of card could be requested in writing or verbally between 18 December 2008 and 26 February 2009 at the respective municipality of residence. A selector card could the voters choose certain polling station on election day in every election for voter cards. In addition, there was the possibility to transmit the election map by absentee ballot to the precinct election authority. In the letter, the personal choice, unobserved and uninfluenced filling in the ballot paper had to be confirmed by personal signature. The postal vote had to take place before closing the last polling station, the ballot paper had to be transmitted until the fourth day after the election by 14:00 clock to the Authority.

Choice advertiser parties (list name and short name)

Social Democratic Party of Austria - Gabi Burgstaller ( SPÖ)

The Social Democratic Party of Austria was under the leadership of Governor Gabi Burgstaller into the race, declared goal was to remain the strongest party. As campaign issues work, free kindergarten, security, education, combating child poverty, health and culture were called.

ÖVP Salzburg Wilfried Haslauer / Doraja Eberle / Sepp Eisl (ÖVP )

The Austrian People's Party, led by Governor woman deputy and state chairman Wilfried Haslauer wanted to be the strongest party and win back the Governor chair. The core topics work, business, safety and families were called.

Freedom Party of Salzburg (FPÖ )

The Austrian Freedom Party candidate with Karl Swift as top candidates. One representative from each district was named as the target. Quick calls in addition to the maintenance of employment and also the small and medium-sized enterprises a reduction in payroll taxes for workers and employers, as well as an immediate immigration stop.

The Greens - The Green Alternative ( GREEN )

The Green Party led by Country Head Cyriak Schwaighofer during the election campaign. The Greens presented in the center of her campaign while a radical energy policy until 2025. Schwaighofer called it an energy self-sufficient Salzburg, this target should be met through energy savings, switching to renewable energy, the creation of small decentralized structures and corresponding policy frameworks. When dialing destination Schwaighofer spent winning a third state parliament mandate and thereby achieving the club status in the state parliament. This target had been missed in 2004. During the election campaign Schwaighofer advocated a candidacy of John Voggenhuber in the European Parliament elections in 2009, but failed. Peter Pilz organized in the sequence a " political Ash Wednesday " in Salzburg in support of the Greens, which was a counter-event to the same event of the FPÖ in Ried im innkreis.

For Salzburg. Alliance for Austria's Future & Doris list Tazl ( AAF )

The State Chairman of the AAF, Robert Stark, had founded with Councillor Mechthilde cherry and Doris Tazl a voter community. Doris Tazl had been excluded in 2006 from the FPÖ, the common list was to bear the name " For Salzburg. Alliance for Austria's Future & Doris Tazl list ". Doris Tazl described the common list as a non-partisan and independent. The Alliance for the Future Federal Coordinator Markus Fauland will top the list as the leading candidate. The stated goal was to Faulands, win votes, especially from the ÖVP. The AAF headlined his own campaign " Time for something new, time for action. Salzburg is more".

Surveys

Pre-election polls saw slight losses from the government parties SPÖ and ÖVP ( about minus two percent ), the Social Democratic Party with 43 ​​percent extended their lead over the ÖVP (36 percent) would clearly can hold. Simultaneously, the FPÖ were predicted with 13 percent gains votes. For the Greens, the eight percent ( 2004) were not hedged.

A courier survey spoke of the high popularity of country Burgstaller, 80 percent of the Salzburg stopped their work for good or very good, including two -thirds of the ÖVP - voters. According to this survey, the Social Democrats would have come to 40 percent, 35 percent, the ÖVP and the FPÖ twelve per cent, the Greens eight percent and four percent AAF.

For 59 percent of the Salzburg federal politics played no role in the state elections.

Final result

Winner of the election was 39.4 percent of the valid votes, the Social Democratic Party, which still could achieve a result of 45.4 percent in the regional elections of 2004. The ÖVP ( 36.5 percent) lost over 2004 by 1.4 percentage points. Vote share gains could book the FPÖ, which improved to 13.0 percent by 4.3 percentage points. The Greens won 7.4 per cent (2004: 8.0 per cent ), the first time be incurred AAF is not represented in the parliament ( lacking the necessary 5% of her exactly 3877 votes) with a score of 3.7 percent. Instead the first time in 2004 reached theoretical "left" majority SPÖ - Green, there were now calculated again the traditional bourgeois right-wing majority of ÖVP-FPÖ in the parliament. Ultimately, however, formed the Social Democratic Party again formed a coalition with the ÖVP.

Landeshauptmann Wilfried Haslauer junior Johannes Voggenhuber Die Presse
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