2023 Carinthian state election

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2023 Carinthian state election
Flag of Karnten.svg
  2018 5 March 20232028 

All 36 seats in the Landtag of Carinthia
19 seats needed for a majority
Turnout307,434 (71.7%)
Increase2.svg3.0%
 First partySecond party
  Peter Kaiser 1 (cropped).jpg Erwin 2.2 (cropped).jpg
Leader Peter Kaiser Erwin Angerer
Party SPÖ FPÖ
Last election18 seats, 47.9%9 seats, 23.0%
Seats won159
Seat changeDecrease2.svg 3Steady2.svg 0
Popular vote117,96274,329
Percentage38.9%24.5%
SwingDecrease2.svg 9.0%Increase2.svg 1.6%

 Third partyFourth party
  Gerhard Kofer 2021 (cropped).jpg
LeaderMartin GruberGerhard Köfer
Party ÖVP TK
Last election6 seats, 15.5%3 seats, 5.7%
Seats won75
Seat changeIncrease2.svg1Increase2.svg 2
Popular vote51,63730,549
Percentage17.0%10.1%
SwingIncrease2.svg 1.6%Increase2.svg 4.4%

Landtagswahlkarte Karnten 2023.svg
Results by municipality.
Light shade = relative majority.
Dark shade = absolute majority.

Governor before election

Peter Kaiser
SPÖ

Elected Governor

Peter Kaiser
SPÖ

The 2023 Carinthian state election was held in the Austrian state of Carinthia on 5 March 2023. [1]

Contents

Background

In the 2018 state election, the SPÖ became the strongest party with 47.9% of the vote. The FPÖ obtained 23.0%, the ÖVP obtained 15.5%, and the Team Carinthia achieved 5.7% of the vote.

Other parties like the BZÖ, ERDE, the Greens, the KPÖ and NEOS did not reach the electoral threshold of 5%.

In June 2017, the Proporz-system was abolished in Carinthia. As a result, a coalition between the SPÖ and the ÖVP was formed after the 2018 election, in which the SPÖ fell just one seat short of an absolute majority.

Electoral system

There is a 5% hurdle for entering the Carinthian state parliament, but parties can also win a seat outright in one of the 4 electoral constituencies (Grundmandat). Anyone who has their main residence in Carinthia and Austrian citizenship on the key date of January 3, 2023 and is at least 16 years old on the day of the election is entitled to vote. Parties need 100 declarations of support in each of the four constituencies or declarations of support from three members of the state parliament in order to gain ballot access. The deadline for submitting the declarations of support ended on 27 January 2023.

Contesting parties

The table below lists parties represented in the previous Landtag.

The candidacy of the parties represented in the state parliament (SPÖ, FPÖ, ÖVP and Team Carinthia) was secured from the start, with the signatures of at least 3 members of the Landtag.

NameIdeologyLeader2018 result
Votes (%)Seats
SPÖ Social Democratic Party of Austria
Sozialdemokratische Partei Österreichs
Social democracy Peter Kaiser 47.9%
18 / 36
FPÖ Freedom Party of Austria
Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs
Right-wing populism
Euroscepticism
Erwin Angerer 23.0%
9 / 36
ÖVP Austrian People's Party
Österreichische Volkspartei
Conservatism Martin Gruber15.5%
6 / 36
TK Team Carinthia
Team Kärnten
Centrist Populism
Regionalism
Gerhard Köfer5.7%
3 / 36

Additional parties on the ballot

Due to their exit from the state parliament in the 2018 election, the Greens had to collect declarations of support in order to gain ballot access. The same applied to NEOS, which had never been represented in the Carinthian state parliament. The new Vision Austria party also tried to get declarations of support. The party was founded by Alexander Todor-Kostic, former state spokesman and designated top candidate of the MFG. The BZÖ tried to run together with other lists as part of the Free Citizens' Party under the name Alliance for Carinthia. The small environmentalist party Responsibility Earth, which achieved respectable success in 2018, will not run in 2023. The KPÖ and the Stark list were only able to gather enough signatures in a few constituencies.

The state elections authority thus announced on 27 January 2023 that nominations for the state elections on 5 March 2023 had been submitted by ten campaigning groups within the deadline.

The following 4 parties will also be on the ballot statewide (with their lead candidates):

Only in constituencies 1 and 2 (Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt-Land, St. Veit an der Glan, Wolfsberg, Völkermarkt):

Only in constituency 3 (Villach, Villach-Land):

After reviewing the election proposals, they were finally approved by the state electoral authority on Thursday, February 2, 2023.

Opinion polling

Polling firmFieldwork dateSample
size
SPÖ FPÖ ÖVP TK Grüne NEOS MFG OthersLead
2023 state election5 March 202338.924.617.010.13.92.63.014.3
Market-Lazarsfeld/ÖSTERREICH [2] 20–22 Feb 20238604226101244216
Peter Hajek/Kleine Zeitung [3] 13–17 Feb 202380043231113442 [a] 20
IFDD/Krone [4] 17 Jan–11 Feb 20235004623101153223
2-morrow+telemark/5 min [5] 18 Jul–16 Aug 20226004220111084522
Peter Hajek/Kleine Zeitung [6] 28 Feb–3 Mar 20228004815137437333
2018 state election 4 Mar 201847.923.015.55.73.12.12.720.3

Results

Carinthie Landtag 2023.svg
PartyVotes %+/−Seats+/−
Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ)117,96238.94–9.0015–3
Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ)74,32924.53+1.579±0
Austrian People's Party (ÖVP)51,63717.04+1.597+1
Team Carinthia (TK)30,54910.08+4.415+2
The Greens – The Green Alternative (GRÜNE)11,6763.85+0.730±0
NEOS – The New Austria and Liberal Forum (NEOS)7,8402.59+0.450±0
Vision Austria (VÖ)7,1912.37New0New
Alliance for Carinthia (BFK)1,2700.42New0New
Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ)3490.12–0.160±0
List Stark (STARK)1670.06New0New
Invalid/blank votes4,464
Total307,434100360
Registered voters/turnout428,92971.67+3.04
Source: Carinthian Government [ permanent dead link ] Carinthian Government (Maps, Analysis)

Aftermath

The SPÖ announced that it would negotiate with all 3 parties who are represented in the new Landtag, first with the FPÖ, then with the ÖVP and finally with the Team Carinthia. For the new term, experts predicted a continuation of the current SPÖ-ÖVP government.

On 14 March 2023, the SPÖ started official coalition talks with the ÖVP.

On 31 March 2023, the SPÖ and ÖVP announced the official renewal of their coalition for another term of 5 years.

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