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The city council or state election in our capital takes place today.
Vienna is a city and state at the same time, so it is treated as a "state election", in which only Austrian citizens can vote (like in federal elections).
Vienna also has 23 boroughs, which also hold elections today (in those elections, EU citizens can vote as well).
There are 1.1 million eligible voters for the state election and 1.4 million for the borough elections. Out of a total population of 2 million.
Vienna is usually a very left-leaning city, unlike Austria as a whole, which (especially rural areas) vote mostly conservative and far-right.
The social democratic SPÖ is expected to win today with ca. 40%, and the far-right FPÖ could increase its share from 7% in 2020 to 20-25%.
In 2020, the FPÖ performed particularly bad because of the Ibiza scandal, but has recovered since. It won't get the historically best result of 31% from 2015 during the "regugee" crisis though, or even close, because Vienna's demographics are changing like most big cities and more immigrants lead to less support for rightwing parties.
Here you can read more.
en.wikipedia.org
Vienna is a city and state at the same time, so it is treated as a "state election", in which only Austrian citizens can vote (like in federal elections).
Vienna also has 23 boroughs, which also hold elections today (in those elections, EU citizens can vote as well).
There are 1.1 million eligible voters for the state election and 1.4 million for the borough elections. Out of a total population of 2 million.
Vienna is usually a very left-leaning city, unlike Austria as a whole, which (especially rural areas) vote mostly conservative and far-right.
The social democratic SPÖ is expected to win today with ca. 40%, and the far-right FPÖ could increase its share from 7% in 2020 to 20-25%.
In 2020, the FPÖ performed particularly bad because of the Ibiza scandal, but has recovered since. It won't get the historically best result of 31% from 2015 during the "regugee" crisis though, or even close, because Vienna's demographics are changing like most big cities and more immigrants lead to less support for rightwing parties.
Here you can read more.
