Next Viennese state election

The next Viennese state election is scheduled to be held in the Austrian state of Vienna in the autumn of 2025. However, an earlier election after a premature dissolution of the Gemeinderat and Landtag is possible.

Next Viennese state election
All 100 seats in the Gemeinderat and Landtag of Vienna
51 seats needed for a majority
All 13 seats in the state government
  First party Second party Third party
 
Candidate Michael Ludwig Gernot Blümel Birgit Hebein
Party SPÖ ÖVP Greens
Last election 46 seats, 41.6% 22 seats, 20.4% 16 seats, 14.8%
  Fourth party Fifth party
 
Candidate Christoph Wiederkehr Dominik Nepp
Party NEOS FPÖ
Last election 8 seats, 7.5% 8 seats, 7.1%
Mayor and Governor before election

Michael Ludwig
SPÖ

 Elected Mayor and Governor

TBD

Background

In the 2020 state election, the SPÖ under mayor Michael Ludwig was able to improve its 2015 result after the downward trend of the last elections and again became the strongest party with 41.6%. The Greens under Birgit Hebein also improved and achieved their best result so far in Vienna with 14.8%. The NEOS party under Christoph Wiederkehr also recorded small gains and reached 7.5%. After suffering its worst result ever in 2015, the ÖVP was now able to more than double its share of the vote and received 20.4% of the vote; the party leader was former Federal Finance Minister Gernot Blümel. The FPÖ under Dominik Nepp lost more than two thirds of its vote share and reached 7.1%, its worst result since the state and municipal elections in 1983. The newly founded Team HC Strache – Alliance for Austria received 3.3% of the vote, which was below the electoral threshold, and thus failed to get any seats, as did the small parties LINKS with 2.1%, the Beer Party with 1.8%, and SÖZ with 1.2%. Other small parties played no significant role.[1]

In 2020, a total of 1,133,010 people were eligible to vote, of whom 597,027 were women and 535,983 men.[2] Voter turnout fell sharply to 65.27%, but this was still a higher turnout than in the 2005 state election, which had the lowest voter turnout to date with 60.81%. The share of postal votes reached a new high of 28.34% in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.[3]

After exploratory talks between the mayoral party SPÖ with the ÖVP, the Greens and NEOS, the SPÖ surprisingly decided to start coalition negotiations with the NEOS instead of the previous coalition partner, the Greens.[4] A coalition with the ÖVP was rejected due to little agreement on topics.[5] A coalition with the FPÖ was rejected outright by the SPÖ.[6]

On 16 November 2020, the first contents of the new coalition agreement were presented.[7] On 24 November 2020, Michael Ludwig (SPÖ) was re-elected as mayor with 60 out of 100 votes – 54 of them from the new coalition – and the new city government was sworn in by Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen.[8]

A 5% threshold applies to state and municipal elections in Vienna. In the past, the NEOS have campaigned for lowering it to 3%.[9]

Opinion polling
Polling firm/Client Fieldwork date Sample
size		 SPÖ ÖVP Grüne NEOS FPÖ KPÖ BIER MFG Others Lead
Unique Research/HEUTE[10] 2–5 Oct 2023 813 35 10 8 8 23 3 12 3 1 12
IFDD/WH Media[10] 3–5 Jun 2023 1,000 40 13 11 7 20 3 6 – 0 20
IFDD/WH Media[10] 1–7 Mar 2023 1,000 41 13 11 7 20 – 6 – 2 21
IFDD/WH Media[10] 25–29 Nov 2022 1,000 42 11 9 7 19 – 8 – 4 23
IFDD/WH Media[10] 5–9 Sep 2022 1,000 42 11 10 8 16 – 8 2 3 23
TCS-Heuritsch/n.a.[10] Jun 2022 1,000 47 10 10 8 18 – – 4 3 22
IFDD/WH Media[10] 25–28 Apr 2022 1,250 47 11 10 9 14 – 5 3 1 21
IFDD/Kronen Zeitung[10] 21–25 Feb 2022 800 46 12 9 8 14 – 6 4 1 23
OGM/Kurier[10] 22–24 Feb 2022 802 47 13 11 8 13 – 3 3 2 19
Market/DER STANDARD[10] 3–7 Feb 2022 805 46 14 13 10 9 – – 3 5 28
IFDD/WH Media/W24[10] 12–16 Dec 2022 1,250 45 12 10 9 14 – – – 10 31
IFDD/Kronen Zeitung[10] 4–9 Oct 2021 1,000 45 13 11 9 16 – – – 6 29
Triple M Matzka/W24[10] 19–27 Aug 2021 1,004 45 15 11 11 15 – – – 3 30
Peter Hajek/SPÖ Wien[10] 16–20 Jul 2021 800 45 16 10 9 15 – – – 5 29
Triple M Matzka/W24[10] 27 May–4 Jun 2021 1,018 46 15 11 11 13 – – – 4 31
IFDD/Kronen Zeitung[10] 15–22 Apr 2021 803 46 16 9 10 14 – – – 5 30
Triple M Matzka/W24[10] 26 Mar–5 Apr 2021 1,014 46 16 11 11 13 – – – 3 30
Research Affairs/TZ Österreich[10] 6–8 Apr 2021 500 45 17 9 10 13 – – – 6 28
Unique Research/SPÖ Wien[10] 19–25 Feb 2021 800 46 19 9 9 12 – – – 5 27
Triple M Matzka/W24[10] 5–14 Jan 2021 1,009 44 18 12 9 12 – – – 5 26
OGM/Kurier[10] 18–19 Nov 2020 800 43 19 13 10 8 – – – 7[lower-alpha 1] 24
2020 state election 11 Oct 2020 – 41.6 20.4 14.8 7.5 7.1 2.1[lower-alpha 2] 1.8 – 4.5[lower-alpha 3] 8.8

References
  1. "Vienna Overview" (in German). Retrieved 2023-03-22.
  2. "Vienna Election 2020: 1,494 polling stations for 1,362,789 voters" (in German). Retrieved 2023-03-22.
  3. "Vienna Overview Postal Voting" (in German). Retrieved 2023-03-22.
  4. "Viennese SPÖ enters into coalition negotiations with Neos" (in German). 2020-10-27. Retrieved 2023-03-22.
  5. "After exploratory talks: De facto rejection of red-turquoise in Vienna" (in German). 2020-10-21. Retrieved 2023-03-22.
  6. "Choice of partner with consequences for the Confederation" (in German). 2020-11-16. Retrieved 2023-03-22.
  7. "Red-pink coalition presents first content" (in German). 2020-10-13. Retrieved 2023-03-22.
  8. "New city government is sworn in" (in German). Archived from the original on 2020-11-24. Retrieved 2023-03-22.
  9. "Neos want to lower barrier clause for Vienna City Council" (in German). 2015-12-02. Retrieved 2023-03-22.
  10. "Vienna polls, @Wahlen_AT" (in German). Retrieved 2023-05-12.
  1. HC: 3 %
  2. HC: 3.3 %
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