- Burgenland local elections, 2007
Local and mayoral elections were held in the
Austria n state ofBurgenland on7 October 2007 . The date was decided on byFranz Steindl (ÖVP), who is responsible for elections as thedeputy governor of Burgenland. [http://www.kurier.at/nachrichten/burgenland/58284.php] The elections were held in only 170 of the 171 municipalities of Burgenland, due to the fact thatSteinberg-Dörfl had held early elections in 2006.Apart from the
SPÖ , theÖVP , the Greens and theFPÖ , the former leader of the Freedom Party in Burgenland,Wolfgang Rauter , will stand with a split from the FPÖ, theFree Citizens' List ("Plattform Freie Bürgerlisten", FBL), instead. [http://derstandard.at/?url=/?id=2807549] The FPÖ's goal for the election initially were 70 local councillors or more [http://derstandard.at/?url=/?id=3024779] (this goal was later raised to "90 or more"), while the SPÖ wants to improve on its "record achievement" of 94 mayors in the 2002 elections. [http://derstandard.at/?url=/?id=3018431] TheBZÖ will not contest the election. A platform calledLeft Burgenland ("Linkes Burgenland") will also contest the election in some municipalities, in addition to a number of citizens' lists only contesting the election in single municipalities.Participation was 82.93%, a slight decrease, and results were: [http://derstandard.at/?url=/?ressort=resultategr]
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SPÖ : 92,225 votes (–1,184), 47.70% (–1.26), 1,537 local councillors (–19), 88 mayors (–7)
*ÖVP : 83,286 votes (+974), 43.07% (–0.07), 1,368 local councillors (+25), 78 mayors (+6)
*FPÖ : 5,680 votes (–4,023), 2.94% (–2.15), 53 local councillors (–43), 0 mayors (–1)
* FBL: 3,607, 1.87%, 30 local councillors, 1 mayor
*Grüne : 2,626 votes (–833), 1.36% (+0.42), 19 local councillors (+6), 0 mayors (±0)
* Others: 5,938 votes (+2,350), 3.07% (+1.19), 91 local councillors (+24), 4 mayors (+1)Run-off mayoral elections were be held in eight municipalities on
21 October 2007 ; seven candidates were from ÖVP and SPÖ, respectively, two from local lists. [http://derstandard.at/?url=/?id=3066061] The SPÖ lost both of their mayoral positions in the run-off elections, losing one to the ÖVP (who held their other five) and one to a local list.The election was declared invalid in Wiesen, as one of the candidates of an independent list ("Unabhängige Liste Wiesen", ULW; "Independent List Wiesen") did not have passive suffrage since he did have his residence in the municipality; ULW got 12.8% of the vote and 3 seats in the municipal council in the election. The election was questioned by the SPÖ. [ [http://derstandard.at/?url=/?id=3160363 derStandard.at ] ]
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