Lower Austrian state election, 2008

Lower Austria state election, 2008

All 56 seats in the Landtag of Lower Austria All 9 seats in the state gouverment 29 seats needed for a majority

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The Lower Austrian state election of 2008 was held in the Austrian state of Lower Austria on 9 March 2008.^[1] They were contested by the Austrian People's Party, the Social Democratic Party of Austria, The Greens – The Green Alternative and the Freedom Party of Austria, all of whom are in the current Landtag, and a number of smaller parties.

The ÖVP had earlier indicated that its preferred date would have been the 20 April 2008,^[2] though 13 April 2008 had also been considered a possible date.^[3] The newly founded party The Christians contested its first election.^[4]

A poll, conducted in October 2007 by Integral for the newspaper Kurier, showed the following voting intentions:^[5]

ÖVP: 50%
SPÖ: 31%
Greens: 9%
FPÖ: 9%
BZÖ: 1%

In total, nine parties contested the election. SPÖ, ÖVP, FPÖ, the Greens and the Communist Party of Austria contested the election in all districts. The Alliance for the Future of Austria (BZÖ) contested the election in seventeen of the twenty-one districts, having failed to gather the necessary fifty signatures in Lilienfeld, Neunkirchen, Waidhofen a.d. Thaya and Wiener Neustadt. The Christians contested the election in all districts except Bruck a.d. Leitha. The List for Our Lower Austria (Liste für unser Niederösterreich, LNÖ) contested the election in Baden, Gänserndorf, Lilienfeld, Neunkirchen, St. Pölten and Wiener Neustadt, and the Animal Rights Party (Tierrechtspartei) contested the election only in Mödling.^[6]

Results

Party	Votes in %	Seats	Change
Austrian People's Party (ÖVP)	54.4%	31	±0
Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ)	25.5%	15	-4
Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ)	10.5%	6	+4
The Greens – The Green Alternative (Grüne)	6.9%	4	±0
Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ)	0.9%	0	±0
Alliance for the Future of Austria (BZÖ)	0.7%	0	±0
Others	1.1%	0	±0

Popular Vote

ÖVP			54.39%
SPÖ			25.51%
FPÖ			10.47%
GRÜNE			6.91%
KPÖ			0.86%
DCP			0.84%
BZÖ			0.72%
Other			0.31%

References

Local elections in

Austria

State elections

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Carinthia	1945 1949 1953 1956 1960 1965 1970 1975 1979 1984 1989 1994 1999 2004 2009 2013

Lower Austria	1945 1949 1954 1959 1964 1969 1974 1979 1983 1988 1993 1998 2003 2008 2013

Salzburg	1945 1949 1954 1959 1964 1969 1974 1979 1984 1989 1994 1999 2004 2009 2013

Styria	1945 1949 1953 1957 1961 1965 1970 1974 1978 1981 1986 1991 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015

Tyrol	1945 1949 1953 1957 1961 1965 1970 1975 1979 1984 1989 1994 1999 2003 2008 2013

Upper Austria	1945 1949 1955 1961 1967 1973 1979 1985 1991 1997 2003 2009 2015

Vienna	1945 1949 1954 1959 1964 1969 1973 1978 1983 1987 1991 1996 2001 2005 2010 2015

Vorarlberg	1945 1949 1954 1959 1964 1969 1974 1979 1984 1989 1994 1999 2004 2009 2014

Municipal and
mayoral elections

Burgenland	2002 2007

Carinthia	2003 2009

Lower Austria	2005

Krems an der Donau	1950 1955 1957 1962 1967 1972 1977 1982 1987 1992 1997 2002 2007

Salzburg	2004 2009

Styria	2005 2010

Graz	2003 2008 2012

Tyrol	2004

Innsbruck	2006

Upper Austria	2003

Vienna	1945 1949 1954 1959 1964 1969 1973 1978 1983 1987 1991 1996 2001 2005 2010

Vorarlberg	2005

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