Changes after repetition in four municipalities-Diepresse.com

The repetition of the municipal council election on Sunday in four municipalities has changed the results. In Klosterneuburg (Tulln district), Neos and FPÖ are now in third place with the same number of votes, but the mandates remained unchanged. In Gablitz (St. Pölten district), the pinks flew from the local council. In Maria Lanzendorf (Bruck ad Leitha district), the now approved « List Maria Lanzendorf » was second. In Marchegg (Gänserndorf district), a mandate for the ÖVP hiked.

If the pinks in Klosterneuburg had more than the freedom at the urn’s gang on January 26, the two parties, according to the preliminary result, keep the two parties in a explosive at exactly 1,543. The ÖVP is still number one with 17 seats (after 18 in 2020), in front of the Greens with six (nine). This is followed by Neos and FPÖ, who were added to five representatives compared to 2020. SPÖ and platform our Klosterneuburg (PUK) keep up with four. The previous partners ÖVP and Neos would continue to have a majority with 22 out of 41 mandates. The Peter Hofbauer (LPH) list around the 85-year-old former SPÖ Vice Mayor missed the move into the municipal council.

Plus for Greens in Gablitz, clear minus for VP in Maria Lanzendorf

In Gablitz, the Greens won two mandates in the repetition of the election, according to the preliminary result, compared to the preliminary result. The Neos and the FPÖ each lost one. At 15 (after 13 in 2020) of 29 seats, the People’s Party reached the absolute majority of the mandate. The Greens came to ten (6), the SPÖ to three (4). The FPÖ remained unchanged in a mandate compared to 2020. The NEOS, who have had a seat so far, are no longer represented in the local council. The list “Gablitz Citizens’ Declaration” (Connection) around the initiator of several referendum Robert Marschall, who contested the urn gang from January, did not achieve a mandate.

In Maria Lanzendorf, the SPÖ remained unchanged in first place with seven (9) of 21 mandates. The « List Maria Lanzendorf » around the former mayor Peter Wolf, who had contested the election, came to six (4) seats, as did the Greens. Wolf had left the SPÖ last autumn and had covered his office. The FPÖ lost one of its two seats so far. « Together Maria Lanzendorf – VP Mala » crashed and has only one mandate. So far there were six.

In Marchegg, the People’s Party defended the absolute majority with 13 (12) of 23 mandates. Behind it came the SPÖ with five, the FPÖ with four and the citizen list Marchegg-Breitensee (Blimb), which had brought the contestation, with a seat. In comparison to the end of January, a mandate from Blimb went to the ÖVP.

Wahl had to be fully repeated in four communities or partially

The local elections on January 26th had taken place in 568 of the 573 municipalities in Lower Austria. The regional election authority decided that urns are again necessary in four municipalities. The entire election day had to be repeated in Gablitz and Marchegg, in Maria Lanzendorf from the introduction of the election proposals. In Klosterneuburg, a sprinkle with around 100 voters was affected. The turnout was lower in all four communities on Sunday than at the end of January.

In Gablitz, the announcement of the election proposals had been incorrect, in Marchegg members had given their votes before the election began. In Maria Lanzendorf, the « List Maria Lanzendorf » around the former mayor Peter Wolf was wrongly not admitted on January 26. In Klosterneuburg, the choice in Sprengel 28 had to be carried out again. There, a member alone and without the presence of the further election commission, which had passed through the rooms at the time to enable bedridden and older people, accepted voting, which was included in the count.

(APA)