FPÖ leader Herbert Kickl received the most preferential votes among the candidates on the federal list in the National Council elections on September 29. With 85,542, he was well ahead of ÖVP top candidate Karl Nehammer with 60,402 votes. The Green top candidate Werner Kogler was pushed from his place on the list with only 7,569 preferential votes (10th place), as Environment Minister Leonore Gewessler received 31,244, thus exceeding the 7 percent threshold needed for advance ranking.
Gewessler, who is often seen as Kogler’s successor at the top of the Green Party, convinced 7.8 percent of Green voters to give her a preferential vote. According to the list of preferential votes published by the electoral authority on Wednesday afternoon, she came fourth behind Kickl, Nehammer and SPÖ leader Andreas Babler on the list of preferential votes on the federal list.
Zadic also for Kogler
Only 1.88 percent of the Green electorate gave Kogler one. And Justice Minister Alma Zadić also did better than Kogler with 10,034 preferential votes – which meant sixth place for the department head (or 2.5 percent of the Green electorate).
SPÖ leader Babler received 46,440 preferential votes (3rd place), NEOS top candidate Beate Meinl-Reisinger received 15,880 (5th place). FPÖ candidate and former federal councilor Christoph Steiner (9,385/7th place) (who was only 77th on the federal FPÖ list) also received more votes than Kogler, as did Sepp Schellhorn, who was third on the federal NEOS list (7,852/ 8th place). place) and also State Secretary Claudia Plakolm (ÖVP) with 7,820 votes (9th place).
Kickl failed to reach the seven percent mark
With 85,542 votes (6.07 percent of the blue votes), FPÖ leader Kickl did not exceed the seven percent needed for a provisional ranking. But since he was already first on the list, it doesn’t matter. ÖVP boss Nehammer received a preferential vote from 4.71 percent of ÖVP voters, Babler from 4.5 percent of SPÖ voters. 3.56 of the pink voters gave a preferential vote to the NEOS top candidate.
Kickl did not come close to the high number of preferential votes of the 2019 election winner, ex-ÖVP leader Sebastian Kurz: Kurz received 155,803 preferential votes (8.71 percent of ÖVP voters at the time). Of course, the ÖVP generally did significantly better in 2019 with 37.46 percent than in this year’s elections with 26.27 percent and also clearly better than the current election winner FPÖ, which received 28.85 percent of the votes on September 29 got. Kickl himself received 75,699 preferential votes in 2019 – when he was second on the FPÖ list.
Kickl received the most preferential votes this year with 22,574 in Lower Austria, followed by Vienna (13,895), Styria (12,511) and Upper Austria (10,923).
Source: Krone
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