- Source: Traunviertel (National Council electoral district)
Traunviertel, also known as Electoral District 4D (German: Wahlkreis 4D), is one of the 39 multi-member regional electoral districts of the National Council, the lower house of the Austrian Parliament, the national legislature of Austria. The electoral district was created in 1992 when electoral regulations were amended to add regional electoral districts to the existing state-wide electoral districts and came into being at the following legislative election in 1994. It consists of the city of Steyr and the districts of Gmunden, Kirchdorf and Steyr Rural in the state of Upper Austria. The electoral district currently elects six of the 183 members of the National Council using the open party-list proportional representation electoral system. At the 2019 legislative election the constituency had 197,070 registered electors.
History
Traunviertel was one 43 regional electoral districts (regionalwahlkreise) established by the "National Council Electoral Regulations 1992" (Nationalrats-Wahlordnung
1992) passed by the National Council in 1992. It consisted of the city of Steyr and the districts of Gmunden, Kirchdorf and Steyr Rural in the state of Upper Austria. The district was initially allocated six seats in May 1993.
Electoral system
Traunviertel currently elects six of the 183 members of the National Council using the open party-list proportional representation electoral system. The allocation of seats is carried out in three stages. In the first stage, seats are allocated to parties (lists) at the regional level using a state-wide Hare quota (wahlzahl) (valid votes in the state divided by the number of seats in the state). In the second stage, seats are allocated to parties at the state/provincial level using the state-wide Hare quota (any seats won by the party at the regional stage are subtracted from the party's state seats). In the third and final stage, seats are allocated to parties at the federal/national level using the D'Hondt method (any seats won by the party at the regional and state stages are subtracted from the party's federal seats). Only parties that reach the 4% national threshold, or have won a seat at the regional stage, compete for seats at the state and federal stages.
Electors may cast one preferential vote for individual candidates at the regional, state and federal levels. Split-ticket voting (panachage), or voting for more than one candidate at each level, is not permitted and will result in the ballot paper being invalidated. At the regional level, candidates must receive preferential votes amounting to at least 14% of the valid votes cast for their party to over-ride the order of the party list (10% and 7% respectively for the state and federal levels). Prior to April 2013 electors could not cast preferential votes at the federal level and the thresholds candidates needed to over-ride the party list order were higher at the regional level (half the Hare quota or 1⁄6 of the party votes) and state level (Hare quota).
Election results
= Summary
== Detailed
=2010s
= 2019 =
Results of the 2019 legislative election held on 29 September 2019:
The following candidates were elected:
Personal mandates - Markus Vogl (SPÖ), 6,816 votes.
Party mandates - Johann Singer (ÖVP), 4,629 votes; and Bettina Zopf (ÖVP), 3,446 votes.
Substitutions:
Markus Vogl (SPÖ) resigned on 6 January 2021 and was replaced by Elisabeth Feichtinger (SPÖ) on 7 January 2021.
= 2017 =
Results of the 2017 legislative election held on 15 October 2017:
The following candidates were elected:
Personal mandates - Johann Singer (ÖVP), 7,040 votes.
Party mandates - Gerhard Deimek (FPÖ), 1,624 votes; and Markus Vogl (SPÖ), 6,523 votes.
= 2013 =
Results of the 2013 legislative election held on 29 September 2013:
The following candidates were elected:
Party mandates - Gerhard Deimek (FPÖ), 1,201 votes; Johann Singer (ÖVP), 3,551 votes; and Markus Vogl (SPÖ), 4,458 votes.
2000s
= 2008 =
Results of the 2008 legislative election held on 28 September 2008:
The following candidates were elected:
Party mandates - Kurt Gartlehner (SPÖ), 3,443 votes; and Johann Singer (ÖVP), 2,090 votes.
= 2006 =
Results of the 2006 legislative election held on 1 October 2006:
The following candidates were elected:
Party mandates - Kurt Gartlehner (SPÖ), 4,935 votes; Walter Murauer (ÖVP), 1,329 votes; and Rainer Wimmer (SPÖ), 4,641 votes.
= 2002 =
Results of the 2002 legislative election held on 24 November 2002:
The following candidates were elected:
Party mandates - Kurt Gartlehner (SPÖ), 5,327 votes; Wilhelm Molterer (ÖVP), 8,223 votes; Walter Murauer (ÖVP), 1,767 votes; and Rainer Wimmer (SPÖ), 5,556 votes.
1990s
= 1999 =
Results of the 1999 legislative election held on 3 October 1999:
The following candidates were elected:
Party mandates - Gerhard Fallent (FPÖ), 1,575 votes; Kurt Gartlehner (SPÖ), 4,253 votes; Wilhelm Molterer (ÖVP), 5,086 votes; and Rainer Wimmer (SPÖ), 4,564 votes.
Substitutions:
Wilhelm Molterer (ÖVP) resigned on 7 February 2000 and was replaced by Walter Murauer (ÖVP) on 8 February 2000.
= 1995 =
Results of the 1995 legislative election held on 17 December 1995:
The following candidates were elected:
Party mandates - Kurt Gartlehner (SPÖ), 4,515 votes; Elfriede Madl (FPÖ), 1,227 votes; Walter Murauer (ÖVP), 1,623 votes; and Rainer Wimmer (SPÖ), 4,974 votes.
= 1994 =
Results of the 1994 legislative election held on 9 October 1994:
The following candidates were elected:
Party mandates - Kurt Gartlehner (SPÖ), 5,044 votes; Elfriede Madl (FPÖ), 1,354 votes; Walter Murauer (ÖVP), 3,014 votes; and Rainer Wimmer (SPÖ), 4,576 votes.