- Source: Waldviertel (National Council electoral district)
Waldviertel, also known as Electoral District 3B (German: Wahlkreis 3B), 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 Krems an der Donau and the districts of Gmünd, Horn, Krems an der Donau, Waidhofen an der Thaya and Zwettl in the state of Lower Austria. The electoral district currently elects five 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 177,574 registered electors.
History
Waldviertel 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 Krems an der Donau and the districts of Gmünd, Horn, Krems an der Donau, Waidhofen an der Thaya and Zwettl in the state of Lower Austria. The district was initially allocated five seats in May 1993.
Electoral system
Waldviertel currently elects five 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:
Party mandates - Lukas Brandweiner (ÖVP), 3,491 votes; and Martina Diesner-Wais (ÖVP), 6,472 votes.
= 2017 =
Results of the 2017 legislative election held on 15 October 2017:
The following candidates were elected:
Personal mandates - Martina Diesner-Wais (ÖVP), 8,967 votes.
Party mandates - Konrad Antoni (SPÖ), 1,752 votes; Angela Fichtinger (ÖVP), 4,371 votes; and Walter Rosenkranz (FPÖ), 3,279 votes.
Substitutions:
Angela Fichtinger (ÖVP) resigned on 11 June 2019 and was replaced by Lukas Brandweiner (ÖVP) on 12 June 2019.
Walter Rosenkranz (FPÖ) resigned on 30 June 2019 and was replaced by Alois Kainz (FPÖ) on 1 July 2019.
= 2013 =
Results of the 2013 legislative election held on 29 September 2013:
The following candidates were elected:
Personal mandates - Martina Diesner-Wais (ÖVP), 8,902 votes.
Party mandates - Konrad Antoni (SPÖ), 2,386 votes; and Angela Fichtinger (ÖVP), 7,123 votes.
2000s
= 2008 =
Results of the 2008 legislative election held on 28 September 2008:
The following candidates were elected:
Party mandates - Erwin Hornek (ÖVP), 4,321 votes; Ewald Sacher (SPÖ), 2,948 votes; and Günter Stummvoll (ÖVP), 5,089 votes.
= 2006 =
Results of the 2006 legislative election held on 1 October 2006:
The following candidates were elected:
Party mandates - Erwin Hornek (ÖVP), 6,717 votes; Rudolf Parnigoni (SPÖ), 3,545 votes; and Günter Stummvoll (ÖVP), 7,224 votes.
= 2002 =
Results of the 2002 legislative election held on 24 November 2002:
The following candidates were elected:
Party mandates - Anna Höllerer (ÖVP), 1,404 votes; Erwin Hornek (ÖVP), 3,217 votes; Rudolf Parnigoni (SPÖ), 3,712 votes; and Günter Stummvoll (ÖVP), 7,869 votes.
1990s
= 1999 =
Results of the 1999 legislative election held on 3 October 1999:
The following candidates were elected:
Party mandates - Reinhard Firlinger (FPÖ), 1,016 votes; Erwin Hornek (ÖVP), 2,600 votes; Rudolf Parnigoni (SPÖ), 2,541 votes; and Günter Stummvoll (ÖVP), 5,846 votes.
= 1995 =
Results of the 1995 legislative election held on 17 December 1995:
The following candidates were elected:
Party mandates - Rudolf Parnigoni (SPÖ), 3,143 votes; Willi Sauer (ÖVP), 2,349 votes; and Günter Stummvoll (ÖVP), 5,752 votes.
= 1994 =
Results of the 1994 legislative election held on 9 October 1994:
The following candidates were elected:
Party mandates - Rudolf Parnigoni (SPÖ), 5,921 votes; Willi Sauer (ÖVP), 5,341 votes; and Günter Stummvoll (ÖVP), 7,171 votes.