The SPÖ came to 40.9 percent and 17 mandates (2017: 46.07 percent), the ÖVP to 23.3 percent and ten mandates (2017: 26.67 percent) and the FPÖ to 14.7 percent (2017: 15.04 percent) and holds six mandates. The three largest parties in the city are losing approval.
The KLS (Krems Left City Movement) gained significantly with 7.1 percent and three mandates (2017: 5.28 percent). The NIK – Neos in Krems – formerly Liste ProKrems – competed in the city for the first time and immediately achieved 6.7 percent and two seats.
The MFG (Human Freedom, Fundamental Rights) with three percent and the Greens with 3.7 percent (2017: 3.6) will also just get one seat in the municipal council. Contrary to what the list name Green Future Krems expresses, there is no future for the environmental list with 0.7 percent of the votes in the municipal council.
How the politicians react
SPÖ Mayor Reinhard Resch wants to start talks with all parliamentary groups as soon as possible “so that we can quickly have a functioning city council”. On the evening of the election, the mayor was rather dismayed by the loss, “but these almost 41 percent are still our second-best result.” The popularity during the election campaign was enormous, so he was “surprised” at the beginning of the result.
Florian Kamleitner from the ÖVP admits that the election result might be better. “But what I also have to say regarding this is that the ÖVP is still the second strongest faction and we have achieved a partial success, because together with the other factions we prevented the absolute majority of the Resch-SPÖ.2
