The reform of the electoral law also makes it possible to vote for a candidate in Salzburg at the state level from Sunday.
About 400 candidates from eight parties will apply for one of the 36 seats in the Salzburg state parliament in the Chiemseehof on Sunday. For the first time, two preferential votes can also be awarded in the state elections: one at the district level and one at the state level. District-level preference voting has been possible since the 1994 state election.
Since the electoral law reform was passed unanimously in the autumn, it is now possible to cast a preferential vote at the state level. These votes can be cast for the candidate of a party that most appeals to the voter. However, preference votes can only be cast for the chosen party. For example, a preference vote for SPÖ leader David Egger by an ÖVP voter would be invalid. Such an error would keep the vote on the ÖVP valid.
All candidates in the district are on the ballot
Another new feature is that the district-level preferential vote – similar to the National Council election – is given by tapping. All candidates of the relevant district can be found on the ballot paper.
All you have to do is tick what you prefer. At the state level, the candidate’s name or number on the state list must be written in the space below the cross for the appropriate party. By the way: until now casting a preferential vote was a laborious job. No candidate has ever gained the lead based on preferential votes. The threshold of several thousand votes was always too high.
Source: Krone
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