Lower Austria East (National Council electoral district)

Lower Austria East
Niederösterreich Ost
Electoral District for the National Council
Location of Lower Austria East within Austria
District	List Bruck an der Leitha Gänserndorf
State	Lower Austria
Population	218,152 (2024)[1]
Electorate	151,346 (2019)
Area	1,975 km^2 (2023)[2]
Current Electoral District
Created	2017
Seats	4 (2017–present)
Members[3]	List   Angela Baumgartner (ÖVP)   Katharina Kucharowits (SPÖ)
Created from	List Lower Austria South East Weinviertel

Lower Austria East (German: Niederösterreich Ost), also known as Electoral District 3G (German: Wahlkreis 3G), is one of the 39 multi-member regional electoral districts of the National Council, the lower house of the Austrian Parliament, the national legislature of Austria. The electoral district was established in 2016 from parts of Lower Austria South East and Weinviertel following the re-organisation of the regional electoral districts in Lower Austria to reflect the new administrative district structure and came into being at the following legislative election in 2017. It consists of the districts of Bruck an der Leitha and Gänserndorf in the state of Lower Austria. The electoral district currently elects four of the 183 members of the National Council using the open party-list proportional representation electoral system. At the 2019 legislative election the constituency had 151,346 registered electors.

History

Lower Austria East was established in 2016 from parts of Lower Austria South East and Weinviertel following the re-organisation of the regional electoral districts in Lower Austria to reflect the new administrative district structure.[4] It consisted of the districts of Bruck an der Leitha and Gänserndorf in the state of Lower Austria.[5] The district was initially allocated four seats in February 2017.[6]

Electoral system

Lower Austria East currently elects four of the 183 members of the National Council using the open party-list proportional representation electoral system.[7][8][9] The allocation of seats is carried out in three stages.[10] In the first stage, seats are allocated to parties (lists) at the regional level using a state-wide Hare quota (wahlzahl) (valid votes in the state divided by the number of seats in the state).[11][12] In the second stage, seats are allocated to parties at the state/provincial level using the state-wide Hare quota (any seats won by the party at the regional stage are subtracted from the party's state seats).[11][12] In the third and final stage, seats are allocated to parties at the federal/national level using the D'Hondt method (any seats won by the party at the regional and state stages are subtracted from the party's federal seats).[11][12] Only parties that reach the 4% national threshold, or have won a seat at the regional stage, compete for seats at the state and federal stages.[11][12]

Electors may cast one preferential vote for individual candidates at the regional, state and federal levels.[12] Split-ticket voting (panachage), or voting for more than one candidate at each level, is not permitted and will result in the ballot paper being invalidated.[12][13] At the regional level, candidates must receive preferential votes amounting to at least 14% of the valid votes cast for their party to over-ride the order of the party list (10% and 7% respectively for the state and federal levels).[13]

Election results

Summary

Election	Communists KPÖ+ / KPÖ			Social Democrats SPÖ			Greens GRÜNE			NEOS NEOS / LiF			People's ÖVP			Freedom FPÖ
	Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats
2019	630	0.54%	0	27,942	23.94%	1	10,542	9.03%	0	7,593	6.51%	0	45,141	38.68%	1	22,201	19.02%	0
2017	612	0.49%	0	34,684	28.03%	1	2,564	2.07%	0	4,416	3.57%	0	37,688	30.46%	1	37,360	30.20%	1

Detailed

2019

Results of the 2019 legislative election held on 29 September 2019:[14][15]

Party			Votes per district			Total votes	%	Seats
			Bruck an der Leitha	Gän- sern- dorf	Voting card
	Austrian People's Party	ÖVP	20,492	24,484	165	45,141	38.68%	1
	Social Democratic Party of Austria	SPÖ	13,728	14,099	115	27,942	23.94%	1
	Freedom Party of Austria	FPÖ	10,395	11,679	127	22,201	19.02%	0
	The Greens	GRÜNE	5,621	4,821	100	10,542	9.03%	0
	NEOS – The New Austria and Liberal Forum	NEOS	3,837	3,700	56	7,593	6.51%	0
	JETZT	JETZT	1,069	1,049	26	2,144	1.84%	0
	KPÖ Plus	KPÖ+	310	315	5	630	0.54%	0
	Der Wandel	WANDL	261	256	2	519	0.44%	0
Valid Votes			55,713	60,403	596	116,712	100.00%	2
Rejected Votes			747	761	7	1,515	1.28%
Total Polled			56,460	61,164	603	118,227	78.12%
Registered Electors			72,905	78,441		151,346
Turnout			77.44%	77.97%		78.12%

The following candidates were elected:[16][17]

• Party mandates - Angela Baumgartner (ÖVP), 3,494 votes; and Katharina Kucharowits (SPÖ), 2,041 votes.

2017

Results of the 2017 legislative election held on 15 October 2017:[18][19]

Party			Votes per district			Total votes	%	Seats
			Bruck an der Leitha	Gän- sern- dorf	Voting card
	Austrian People's Party	ÖVP	16,864	20,651	173	37,688	30.46%	1
	Freedom Party of Austria	FPÖ	17,759	19,415	186	37,360	30.20%	1
	Social Democratic Party of Austria	SPÖ	17,641	16,861	182	34,684	28.03%	1
	Peter Pilz List	PILZ	2,456	2,400	3	4,859	3.93%	0
	NEOS – The New Austria and Liberal Forum	NEOS	2,199	2,151	66	4,416	3.57%	0
	The Greens	GRÜNE	1,283	1,248	33	2,564	2.07%	0
	My Vote Counts!	GILT	572	562	53	1,187	0.96%	0
	Communist Party of Austria	KPÖ	331	281	0	612	0.49%	0
	The Whites	WEIßE	101	89	14	204	0.16%	0
	Free List Austria	FLÖ	70	75	4	149	0.12%	0
Valid Votes			59,276	63,733	714	123,723	100.00%	3
Rejected Votes			586	625	5	1,216	0.97%
Total Polled			59,862	64,358	719	124,939	83.56%
Registered Electors			72,142	77,376		149,518
Turnout			82.98%	83.18%		83.56%

The following candidates were elected:[20][21]

• Party mandates - Angela Baumgartner (ÖVP), 4,902 votes; Werner Herbert (FPÖ), 2,416 votes; and Rudolf Plessl (SPÖ), 2,398 votes.

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