The ÖVP lost in 261 of the 277 municipalities in the state elections, but it still claims leadership. The party executive is meeting today, after which soundings should be carried out quickly.
The Tyrolean ÖVP has at the state election on Sunday not only massively lost votes and thus you historically worst election result retracted, but also suffers a financial loss. In fact, according to the preliminary final result, it loses more than 800,000 euros in funding per year due to its fall from 44.3 percent to 34.7 percent. For this year, the People’s Party, including club funding, was entitled to around 4.4 million euros in state funding. The loss of almost 23,000 votes and three mandates now means that monetary resources have shrunk to around 3.5 million euros.
The Greens are also affected by the loss of votes and money: the previous coalition partner loses more than 100,000 euros in party and club funding.
For the other parties, on the other hand, there will be more money in the future: the Fritz list, which has almost doubled, will receive around 400,000 euros more in the future, the FPÖ, which was able to displace the SPÖ from second place, will make more than 300,000 euros in profit and also for Neos and SPÖ assumes a small plus. The vaccination-critical MFG, which missed entering the state parliament but surpassed the 2.5 percent mark, also receives money: the 9,539 votes it received (2.7 percent) resulted in a one-time payment of around 40,000 euros.
ÖVP losses in 261 of the 277 municipalities
The ÖVP result can not only be calculated financially and in negative percentage points, but also in municipalities: In 261 of the 277 municipalities, the People’s Party had to accept losses. The SPÖ, which was only able to gain 0.23 percentage points, lost in 94 municipalities and gained in 183. The FPÖ (with a nationwide plus of 3.31 points) made gains in 242 of the municipalities – it lost in only 35 municipalities.
The ÖVP performed the weakest in Innsbruck with only 20.59 percent (minus 5.29 percentage points). The biggest loss was in Gerlosberg, where the minus was 35.98 percentage points (result: 39.75 percent). It scored less than 30 percent in 38 communities. There was a loss of more than ten percentage points in 147 municipalities, in twenty-two the ÖVP lost more than 20 percentage points.
The ÖVP was able to increase in only sixteen municipalities. Despite the losses in 261 municipalities, it is still the strongest party in just as many, which also reflects the country’s first place (now only 34.71 percent). The ÖVP achieved the “absolute” (more than 50 percent) in seventy-one communities. The strongest ÖVP community was Gramais with 95.65 percent, which is an increase of 18.38 percentage points. The party also achieved its largest increase in votes there.
Mattle does not rule out a three-party coalition
Even on the day after the election, top candidate Anton Mattle does not want to be deterred by the figures, which he finds not very pleasing. He was happy to have reached 34.7 percent, “nevertheless we lost voters,” he admitted in the Ö1 “Morgenjournal”. It will now be the “task of the coming years to win back trust”. He wanted to face this challenge, he renewed the “leadership claim” and the claim to be the governor.
According to today’s state party executive, he will immediately start talks “with all parties, except the FPÖ”, he stuck to his campaign announcement that he did not want to form a coalition with the Freedom Party. Mattle also has the confidence to “create a tripartite coalition,” as he said before the election. “Now in the exploratory talks we will find out how well things are working.” In any case, it is important that a government is formed quickly, according to the state party leader, in order to be able to tackle the problems that arise in Tyrol.
Incidentally, only two-party coalitions with ÖVP participation, namely with SPÖ or FPÖ, are mathematically possible. Of the Black and red variant Incidentally, most experts run out.
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