2019 European Parliament election in Austria

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All 18 Austrian seats to the European Parliament
Turnout 59.77% (Increase14.38pp)
  First party Second party Third party
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Leader Othmar Karas Andreas Schieder Harald Vilimsky
Party ÖVP SPÖ FPÖ
Alliance EPP PES EAPN
Last election 26.98%, 5 seats 24.09%, 5 seats 19.72%, 4 seats
Seats won 7 5 3
Seat change Increase 2 Steady Decrease 1
Popular vote 1,305,954 903,151 650,114
Percentage 34.55% 23.89% 17.20%
Swing Increase7.57pp Decrease0.20pp Decrease2.52pp
  Fourth party Fifth party
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Leader Werner Kogler Claudia Gamon
Party Greens NEOS
Alliance Green ALDE
Last election 14.52%, 3 seats 8.14%, 1 seat
Seats won 2 1
Seat change Decrease 1 Steady 0
Popular vote 532,194 319,024
Percentage 14.08% 8.44%
Swing Decrease0.44pp Increase0.30pp
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Plurality winner for each district. Red denotes SPÖ received the most votes and cyan denotes ÖVP received the most votes.

An election was held in Austria on 26 May 2019 to elect the country's 18 members of the European Parliament.[1] The Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) gained two seats for a total of seven, while the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) and The Greens each lost one.

The election took place nine days after the start of the Ibiza affair, which led to the resignation of Vice-Chancellor and FPÖ leader Heinz-Christian Strache and the collapse of the federal ÖVP–FPÖ government. The European election was seen as a victory for the ÖVP and a defeat for the FPÖ, who were forecasted to perform substantially better.

Contesting parties

The table below lists parties elected in the 2014 European Parliament election.

Name Ideology Lead
candidate		 2014 result
Votes (%) Seats
ÖVP Austrian People's Party
Österreichische Volkspartei		 Christian democracy x75px
Othmar Karas		 27.0%
5 / 18
SPÖ Social Democratic Party of Austria
Sozialdemokratische Partei Österreichs		 Social democracy x75px
Eugen Freund		 24.1%
5 / 18
FPÖ Freedom Party of Austria
Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs		 Right-wing populism
Euroscepticism		 x75px
Harald Vilimsky		 19.7%
4 / 18
GRÜNE The Greens – The Green Alternative
Die Grünen – Die Grüne Alternative		 Green politics x75px
Werner Kogler		 14.5%
3 / 18
NEOS NEOS – The New Austria and Liberal Forum
NEOS – The New Austria and Liberal Forum		 Liberalism
Pro-Europeanism		 x75px
Claudia Gamon		 8.1%
1 / 18

Seven parties contested the election. In addition to the five already represented in the European Parliament, two more collected enough signatures to appear on the ballot:[2][3]

Facts and statistics

According to final numbers, a total of 6,416,202 people aged 16+ are eligible to vote in this election, an increase from 6,410,602 people in the 2014 election. 3,312,745 women (2014: 3,322,498) and 3,103,457 men (2014: 3,088,104) are eligible to vote. Included in these totals are 44,718 Austrians living abroad and 38,668 foreign EU-citizens living in Austria.[4]

Poll opening and closing times on election day are set individually by each municipality. Poll closing times can be no later than 5 pm. Results will be released at 11 pm (after Italy closes their polls).

Voters are allowed to cast their vote by postal ballot. Postal ballots have to arrive at the district voting commission no later than 5 pm on election day and will be counted on Monday, 27 May – starting at 9 am.

A total of 686,249 postal ballots have been requested by voters, up from 444,057 – an increase of 55% – compared with the 2014 election.[5]

Campaign

In the lead up to the 2019 European Parliament election in Austria, in what The Guardian described as "doubling down" on rhetoric ahead of the election,[6] FPO Vice Chancellor of Austria Heinz-Christian Strache endorsed the far-right conspiracy of the great replacement.[7] He claimed that "population replacement" was real, adding: "We don’t want to become a minority in our own country".[8]

Ibiza affair

The Ibiza affair (German: Ibiza-Affäre), also known as Ibiza-gate,[9] was a political scandal in Austria involving Heinz-Christian Strache, the former Vice-Chancellor of Austria and leader of the Freedom Party (FPÖ), Johann Gudenus, a deputy leader of the Freedom Party, and both the Austrian Freedom Party and Austria's political landscape in general.

The scandal started on 17 May 2019 with the publication of a secretly recorded video of a meeting in Ibiza, Spain, in July 2017, which appears to show the then opposition politicians Strache and Gudenus discussing their party's underhanded practices and intentions.[10][11][12] In the video, both politicians appeared receptive to proposals by a woman posing as the niece of a Russian oligarch, discussing how to provide the FPÖ with positive news coverage in return for government contracts. Strache and Gudenus also hinted at corrupt political practices involving numerous other wealthy donors to the FPÖ in Europe and elsewhere.

The scandal caused the resignation of Strache and Gudenus, the collapse of the Austrian governing ÖVP-FPÖ coalition on 18 May 2019 and the announcement of an early legislative election in September.[13][14][15]

Opinion polls

Graphical summary

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Vote share

Polling firm Fieldwork date Sample
size		 ÖVP SPÖ FPÖ Greens NEOS JETZT KPÖ+/
Others		 Lead
2019 election 26 May 2019 – 34.6 23.9 17.2 14.1 8.4 1.0 0.8 10.7
SORA/ARGE Wahlen/Hajek 21–26 May 2019 5,200 34.5 23.5 17.5 13.5 8 2 1 11
Research Affairs 9–15 May 2019 1,000 29 27 23 8 9 2 2 2
Unique Research/Peter Hajek Archived 11 May 2019 at the Wayback Machine 29 Apr–9 May 2019 2,405 30 27 23 10 8 1 1 3
OGM 29 Apr–2 May 2019 860 30.5 27.5 24.5 7 7 1.5 2 3
Research Affairs 25 Apr–1 May 2019 1,002 29 27 23 7 10 2 2 2
Research Affairs 11–17 Apr 2019 1,007 29 27 22 7 10 2 3 2
Market 12–15 Apr 2019 803 30 28 20 8 9 2 3 2
Research Affairs 28 Mar–3 Apr 2019 1,001 29 26 22 8 9 3 3 3
INSA 28 Mar–1 Apr 2019 1,000 28 28 25 9 6 2 2 Tie
Research Affairs 14–20 Mar 2019 1,002 28 26 23 8 8 3 4 2
Research Affairs 26 Feb–6 Mar 2019 1,001 28 26 23 9 9 2 3 2
INSA 27 Feb–1 Mar 2019 1,000 29 25 24 9 8 2 3 4
Market 18–20 Feb 2019 804 30 25 21 8 11 2 3 5
Research Affairs 13–20 Feb 2019 1,005 27 26 23 7 9 3 5 1
27 26 23 9[lower-alpha 1] 9 2 4 1
Research Affairs 31 Jan–6 Feb 2019 1,002 27 26 22 7 10 4 4 1
Research Affairs 17–23 Jan 2019 1,002 27 26 22 8 9 3 5 1
Research Affairs 3–9 Jan 2019 1,002 27 26 23 8 9 2 5 1
Research Affairs 6–12 Dec 2018 1,001 27 26 23 7 9 2 6 1
Research Affairs 22–28 Nov 2018 1,001 27 26 24 7 8 3 5 1
Research Affairs 8–14 Nov 2018 1,001 27 26 24 7 8 3 5 1
Research Affairs 11–17 Oct 2018 1,001 27 26 24 6 9 3 5 1
Research Affairs 27 Sep–3 Oct 2018 1,003 27 28 23 5 9 2 1 1
Research Affairs 19–20 Sep 2018 506 28 28 24 5 9 1 5 Tie
Research Affairs 30 Aug–5 Sep 2018 1,002 28 27 24 5 9 2 5 1
2014 election 25 May 2014 – 27.0 24.1 19.7 14.5 8.1 – 6.5 2.9

Results

The numbers in brackets denote changes in seat distribution caused by Brexit.

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Results by state

State ÖVP SPÖ FPÖ Grüne NEOS Europa KPÖ+ Turnout
 Burgenland 35.4 33.0 17.5 7.8 5.2 0.7 0.4 66.2
 Carinthia 28.9 30.4 21.6 9.9 7.7 0.9 0.6 52.1
 Lower Austria 40.1 22.3 17.8 10.5 7.8 0.9 0.6 67.2
 Upper Austria 35.1 25.0 18.1 13.4 7.0 0.8 0.6 62.1
 Salzburg 43.1 18.2 14.5 14.1 8.3 1.1 0.7 57.8
 Styria 35.7 21.4 19.7 13.3 7.8 0.9 1.1 56.7
 Tyrol 42.6 15.5 15.2 16.3 8.8 1.0 0.6 53.2
 Vorarlberg 34.6 13.5 14.1 18.8 17.3 1.2 0.6 53.0
 Vienna 21.4 30.3 14.4 20.8 10.2 1.6 1.3 58.7
 Austria 34.6 23.9 17.2 14.1 8.4 1.0 0.8 59.8
Source: Austrian Interior Ministry Archived 30 September 2019 at the Wayback Machine

Notes

  1. ↑ With Sarah Wiener as second candidate on the list

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