Live: State elections in Salzburg: Election Sunday - the vote of the people of Salzburg decides

2023-04-23 03:30:00

Sunday is election day. The people of Salzburg elect the new state parliament for the next five years. The “Salzburger Nachrichten” delivers results and analyses, broadcasts live from the Chiemseehof in Salzburg and accompanies you through the election day with the SN live blog!

Eight parties are running in the Salzburg state elections on Sunday. What is new in this election is how the preferential votes are assigned. Every person entitled to vote can submit two of them. In order for these to count, they have to be correct fill out. There are a total of 519 polling stations in the state . The first open at 6.45 a.m. in Dorfgastein and Niedernsill, the last closes at 5 p.m. in Maria Alm.

Around 12,500 votes needed to enter the state parliament

386,947 Salzburg residents can cast their votes in the state elections. Voter turnout will determine how many votes a party needs to clear the five percent hurdle and thus get into the state parliament. Around 12,500 votes are necessary for this. Gernot Filipp, Head of State Statistics, explains: “If all those eligible to vote cast their votes, the number of votes required to enter the Salzburg state parliament would be just over 19,000. In practice, however, voter turnout is well below the In the state election in 2018 it was 65 percent.”

Digital voting aid for the Salzburg state elections

At www.sn.at/wahl you can make yourself fit for the election at the last minute. Most will probably have already considered their choice in advance, but the digital SN election aid is still undecided heartfelt. This voting studio was created in cooperation with the University of Salzburg and the “Wahlswiper” team from Berlin. The SN electoral focus also includes an analysis by the Salzburg political scientist Armin Mühlböck on the starting position for the competing parties, the portraits of the top candidates or the Wahlstudio posts like “Should the S-Link be built?”.

Preliminary election result already on Sunday

A preliminary result will be available for the first time on Sunday. In the past elections, the voting cards were not counted until days after the election Sunday, this time it will be done on April 23rd. However, an official final result will probably not be known until Wednesday after the decision by the state electoral authority.

Live entry of the SN from the Chiemseehof

From 4.45 p.m., SN local manager Heidi Huber will provide a picture of the mood from the government headquarters in Salzburg’s Kaiviertel. Together with the political scientist Franz Fallend from the University of Salzburg, she analyzes the first extrapolation. Interviews with the top candidates are then planned.