The “Kärntner Krone” accompanies you up to the elections with a comprehensive information route. The basis is a large amount of data, collected in good cooperation with the FH Joanneum.
The countdown has begun: Today it is exactly 15 days until the state elections, in which 428,421 of the total of 560,939 Carinthians can, may and/or must go to the polls this year (see chart below). And because anticipation is the greatest joy, we will continue to cover current, crucial political issues for the next two weeks.
It is important for us at the “Kärntner Krone” not only to report on press releases and media data, but above all to give you, dear readers, orientation – so that you can make your choice before the elections. We do this with our daily voting format “30 questions, 300 answers”, to which all parties are invited. We do this with surveys, interviews and analyses, with the video project “Auf an Ratscha”, in which young candidates have their say. And we do that on all our channels: print, online and social media; in word, writing and (moving) images.
Figures, data, facts: everything about the elections
Based on data collected for us by political expert and election researcher Heinz Wassermann from the Institute for Journalism and Digital Media at the FH Joanneum in Graz, we are starting a new series of information with this double page. “The figures come from state statistics and the state election authority,” explains Wassermann: “A big compliment goes to the head of the statistics department, Thomas Graf – the cooperation was excellent and uncomplicated.”
That is why the data was collected relatively quickly, after which Wassermann worked intensively on the data for a week: “First you need a good concept, then things go quickly anyway. And you have to know what to read from the numbers.”
How were the last elections?
To begin with, let’s look at the latest election results. As a reminder, in 2018, voter turnout was 68.6 percent – 6.6 percentage points lower than in 2013. The 2018 result:
- SPÖ 47.9 percent
- FPÖ 22.9 percent
- ÖVP 15.5 percent
- Team Carinthia 5.7 percent
- The Greens 3.1 percent
- Neos 2.1 percent
- Earth 1.9 percent
- FO 0.4
- Other 0.5 percent
And the flow of voters: Five years ago, the Reds were re-elected by 80 percent of their voters in the 2013 state election, earning them the highest retention rate of any party! This percentage was lowest in 2018 with 19 percent for the Greens. Those who no longer wanted to make their mark with the Greens after internal party splits at the state and federal level mainly migrated to the SPÖ (32 percent). And former BZÖ and “Team Stronach” voters gave their vote to the FPÖ in 2018.
And what will it be like this year?
Who will form a coalition with whom this year, who will win in the state parliament, who will receive the most preferential votes – that is still in the stars. One thing is clear: after nearly three years of a pandemic emergency and massive price hikes that have overwhelmed us since the start of the war in Ukraine, things are about to get tense.
In the next 15 days we want to see how our federal state is structured, where there are problems in Carinthia, what difficulties we face as a society and which party promises what.
Source: Krone
I am Ida Scott, a journalist and content author with a passion for uncovering the truth. I have been writing professionally for Today Times Live since 2020 and specialize in political news. My career began when I was just 17; I had already developed a knack for research and an eye for detail which made me stand out from my peers.
