The SPÖ got back in the local elections in Weiz, the ÖVP Hartberg. In Lassing the black people get 100 percent.
The major parties’ strongholds that faltered in 2015 on Sunday in the Styrian municipal election experienced strengthening: the SPÖ brought back the Absolute in Weiz, the ÖVP in Hartberg. The capitals are partly black and partly red. The largest majorities were in smaller communities: the ÖVP in Lassing with 100, the SPÖ in Kainach near Voitsberg with 81.35 percent.
For the People’s Party, it is the second best result in Styrian municipal elections since 1945 with 47.18 percent. Only in 1975 did the ÖVP achieve a better result with 47.38 percent. It was a little surprise for the party. The 100 percent in Lassing, on the other hand, is not at all surprising, since there was only the ÖVP on the ballot. The 92.78 percent in Schäffern, the 89.54 percent in Pöllauberg and the 86.67 percent in Hartl are more meaningful – all three municipalities are located in the black heartland of Eastern Styria. The ÖVP expanded its Absolute in Murau and Feldbach.
Majority hit list
Also in Eastern Styria, but the city of Weiz has always been a red core area. In 2015 the Absolute was lost due to only one vote. Mayor Erwin Eggenreich got the Absolute back impressively with a two-thirds majority and 67.64 percent. Further SPÖ strongholds in the industrial cities of the Mur-Mürz-Furche were consolidated: the Social Democrats brought the Absolute back to Knittelfeld and Bruck an der Mur. In Liezen and Leoben it wasn’t enough for the absolute, but the relative majority was held. In Deutschlandsberg and Voitsberg the Reds expanded the Absolute, in Leibnitz they were obtained after it had failed in 2015 by only a few hundredths of a percentage point.
In the hit list of majorities at the SPÖ after Kainach near Voitsberg there are Haselsdorf-Tobelbad (district Graz-surroundings), Gralla (district Leibnitz) and Turnau (district Bruck-Mürzzuschlag) each with just over 80 percent of the votes. After the successful municipal elections in 2015, the FPÖ made a vigorous move: the blue ones achieved the best result in Bad Blumau (Hartberg-Fürstenfeld district), where they won 37.91 percent of the vote and even increased by 7.75 percentage points. Everywhere else you stayed below the 30 percent mark.
The Styrian Greens – in addition to Graz, where there was no election on Sunday – have discovered an entire stronghold region for themselves: in many municipalities northeast of Graz, the Greens have obtained relatively high votes. In the Schöckl valley station community of St. Radegund, they scratched the 20 percent hurdle with 19.98 percent. In Gleisdorf it was 19.58 percent, in Eggersdorf near Graz as well as in Kumberg and Stattegg each managed more than 18 percent.
For the Greens St. Radegund, for the KPÖ Trofaiach
What is for the Greens St. Radegund is for the KPÖ Trofaiach (Leoben district): The communists won 21.51 percent, second place and a second seat in the city senate. NEOS were pleased about the jump over the 10 percent hurdle in Ramsau am Dachstein (Liezen district) and in Ludersdorf-Wilfersdorf (Weiz district).
The ÖVP won the absolute majority of the votes in 180 municipalities. It was very close in St. Ruprecht an der Raab and Ehrenhausen an der Weinstrasse: in the East Styrian community it worked with 50.25 percent of the votes, in the South Styrian municipality it did not work with 49.90 percent.
The SPÖ managed the feat of the absolute in 61 communities. In Raaba-Grambach, southeast of Graz, for example, the SPÖ was able to maintain the tight absolute of 2015 with 51.73 percent.
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