2009 Upper Austrian state election

The Upper Austrian state election was held in Upper Austria on 27 September 2009. The SPÖ lost a lot of its votes, falling even behind the 1999 result, while the FPÖ gained strongly and both incumbent governing parties ÖVP and Greens held steady. The BZÖ failed to enter the Landtag.[1]

Party Votes Votes in % Change Seats Change Government seats Change
  Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) 400,365 46.76% +3.34% 28 +3 5 +1
  Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) 213,555 24.94% -13.39% 14 -8 2 -2
  Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) 130,937 15.29% +6.89% 9 +5 1 +1
  The Greens – The Green Alternative (Grüne) 78,569 9.18% +0.12% 5 ±0 1 ±0
  BZÖ - Uschi Haubner's List (BZÖ - Liste Uschi Haubner) 24,268 2.83% +2.83% 0 ±0 0 ±0
  Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ) 4,812 0.56% -0.22% 0 ±0 0 ±0
  The Christians (DC) 3,721 0.43% +0.43% 0 ±0 0 ±0
Total 856,227 100%  
Spoilt and null votes 16,569 1.90%  
Turnout 872,796 80.35%  
Electorate 1,086,310  
2009 Upper Austrian state election
27 September 2009
All 56 seats in the State Parliament
29 seats needed for a majority
Turnout80.3% 1.7%
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Josef Pühringer Erich Haider Manfred Haimbuchner
Party ÖVP SPÖ FPÖ
Last election 25 seats, 43.4% 22 seats, 38.3% 4 seats, 8.4%
Seats won 28 14 9
Seat change 3 8 5
Popular vote 400,365 213,555 130,937
Percentage 46.7% 24.9% 15.2%
Swing 3.3% 13.3% 6.8%
  Fourth party
 
Leader Ursula Haubner
Party Greens
Last election 5 seats, 9.0%
Seats won 5
Seat change 0
Popular vote 78,569
Percentage 9.1%
Swing 0.1%
Governor before election

Josef Pühringer
ÖVP

 Elected Governor

Josef Pühringer
ÖVP

References
  1. Upper Austria: Results of the 2009 state election Archived 2011-07-17 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 18 May 2010
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