Missed input – small parties turn a blind eye

The so-called guillotine effect apparently played a role again in these elections. It states that parties that, according to polls, are hopelessly far below the minimum threshold of four percent, are often not elected so as not to cast a losing vote. And so the small parties like the KPÖ – which still performed the best – or the Beer Party clearly missed out on joining the National Council.

The KPÖ itself no longer expected to join the National Council. In the most recent projection (count percentage of almost 55 percent), the communists are well below the necessary threshold of four percent, just like the Beer Party.

“I didn’t fall on my head”
For KPÖ top candidate Tobias Schweiger, the result “can be improved,” but he is positive about the future: “We know we can build on that.” Beer party leader Dominik Wlazny “of course expected more”. Even though the fluctuation margin initially meant in theory that the four percent limit was only narrowly exceeded, you still have to remain realistic: “I didn’t hit my head. I can read the result.”

Of the ‘little ones’, LMP, the Madeleine Petrovic list and ‘None of them’ competed nationally. According to the projection, the former Green Party Petrovic and NO will each receive 0.6 percent.

Like Petrovic, MFG chairman Joachim Aigner was disappointed after the first projection, but both said they wanted to continue. The MFG, which became known as a critical party with regard to corona measures, was active in seven states.