Talk Elections

Tried myself on three Austrian maps. Big thanks for Georg Ebner who provided the data!

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1927 General Election:

Blue - "Einheitsliste" (Unity List) of CS (Christian Socials) and Großdeutsche (Great-Germans)
Red - SDAP (Social Democratic Labour Party)
Green - Landbund (Country Union)

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1930 General Election:

Blue - Christlichsoziale Partei (Christian Social Party) CS
Red - Sozialdemokratische Arbeiterpartei (Social Democratic Labor Party) SDAP
Yellow - Großdeutsche Volkspartei (Great-German People's Party) GdP

After the last two democratic election in the First Republic (before the Austro-fascist regime and later the Nazi regime), here is one from the Second Republic, a comparison of the SPÖ vote in the two presidential elections of 1951 and 2004, illustrating the shifts that major center-left party has seen over the course of fifty years.

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Blue - Decrease of SPÖ-share of the vote (0-5%,5-10%,10-15%,15%+)
Red - Increase of SPÖ-share of the vote (0-5%,5-10%,10-15%,15%+)

All maps are by district.

Cool.

Where did you get the 1927/30 maps with historical district boundaries ?

I also have a few older ones to add from my Gallery:

Presidential Election 1986

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Kurt Waldheim (ÖVP) vs. Kurt Steyrer (SPÖ)

Waldheim won 53.9 to 46.1

6 blue Waldheim shades from 50-80% (5% each)
4 red Steyrer shades from 50-70% (5% each)

Presidential Election 2004

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Heinz Fischer (SPÖ) vs. Benita Ferrero-Waldner (ÖVP)

Fischer won 52.4 to 47.6

Fischer shades from 50-75% (5% each)
Ferrero-Waldner shades from 50-70% (5% each)

Austria Trend Map: 1986 Presidential Election vs. 2004 Presidential Election

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Trend by County:

County Change relative to National Change.

3 Blue shades (trended 0-5%, 5-10%, 10-15% more ÖVP)

4 Red shades (trended 0-5%, 5-10%, 10-15%, 15-20% more SPÖ)

A map of the 1999 Nationalratswahl would be interesting. :)

homelycooking is currently creating a high-resolution map of the 1999 federal election by town.

Because there are 2400 towns/cities in Austria, it takes a while to create the map.

But homely has said that he has it ready by Thanksgiving.

Yeah, it's 90% complete. It's just boring and time-consuming work for me (I know very little about Austrian politics) when there's a lot of really interesting US election data coming out. But I will keep my word to Tender and finish it within the next week or two.

Yeah, sorry for the workload.

But consider that your map will be the first anywhere on the Internet from the 1999 federal election, by town/cities. 1999 was also one of the most interesting and polarizing elections here.

So, it's definitely more interesting than some random 2014 map from Pennsylvania or Wyoming or whatever.

;)

Thanks for doing this.

I took your photo you once posted from your Historischen Weltatlas, copy-pasted it into paint, followed the district lines with black, and then played around a little bit with contrast/brightness in paint.net, so I received a blank map I could work with. It was a very sh**tty work, but I managed to do it in the end :P
I could post the blank map if you want to, so you can play around with it a bit?

Cool. I look forward to seeing it.

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Thanks, homely ... :)

NICE!

Homely, that map is just awesome! <3 :P

Georg Ebner, yours are equally so. It indeed is shocking to see my so ÖVP-true landsmen voting for the FPÖ that much... My municipality did too - but based on your district map, I could claim it was the Unterländer's fault :P

Great maps all around yeah.

Indeed: Tyrol is voting less FPÖ, while Styria has become the new Carinthia.

Compare 1999 with the 2013 map:

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Great job, all of you.

I spotted a small number of strange colors on Tender's last map:
One dark orange and one light orange municipality in Carinthia (one of them probably BZÖ, but the other one?)
One light yellow or white municipality just to the north of Graz (Stronach?)
Two maroon municipalities in Upper Styria (KPÖ?!)

Another question: From the maps it seems that Lower Austria has quite a fair share of SPÖ-friendly, densely populated areas (mainly in the South and East). Why is Lower Austria such an ÖVP stronghold then?

Niiiiice.

Zell am See was pretty stupid back then, voting in favour of the Nuclear Power Plant.

The light orange one in Carinthia is Friesach, the home town of (then) BZÖ-leader Josef Bucher.

The dark orange one in Carinthia is Stall, a tie between BZÖ and SPÖ.

The white one north to Graz was won by Stronach.

The 2 maroon ones in Upper Styria are SPÖ-ÖVP ties, not KPÖ (lol).

Upper Austria (federal election, 1930):

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Upper Austria (federal election, 2013):

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Upper Austria (state election, 1931):

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Upper Austria (state election, 2009):

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That one little Heimatblock town surrounded by CS towns in 1930 is interesting.

The CS only lost it by 8 votes though.

And today is solidly ÖVP.

Interesting maps. The correlation between 1930 and 2013 seems to be quite strong when it comes to the SPÖ-ÖVP divide.

On the other hand most towns with Third Camp majorities in 1930 had an ÖVP majority in 2013 and most town with FPÖ in majorities in 2013 had a CS majority in 1930. Is there a correlation Third Camp -> FPÖ that isn't visible on the majority maps?

Here's a map I made in Paint.NET of the 1994 Austrian referendum on EU membership.

I credit Wikipedia user Andrew Leonard (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Golbez) for creating the blank map I used to make this, which can be found here (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Austria_states_blank.png#globalusage).

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^ Good work!

Hahaha, Tirol :P

Yepp.

Cross-border transit was (and still is) a big topic in Tyrol. There's a ton of traffic on the Inntalautobahn with gazillions of trucks from Germany and elsewhere driving over the Brenner Pass to Italy and vice-versa.

Tyrolians thought that with the EU-entry of Austria, the traffic would increase even more and they would drown in congestion, bad air and particulate matter emissions (they were not wrong).

Burgenland on the other hand voted most strongly for the EU-entry, because it was a relatively poor state compared to the other states and Austria managed to secure regional aid for Burgenland ahead of the vote (The EU has a cohesion fund to help out poorer regions, so that they become more in line with wealthier ones).

I know, I live there.

Four Tirol muncipality maps, each by party, from the 2014 EP-Elections:

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I chose to make the darkest shade of ÖVP votes 70%+, but there were municipalities that voted 90%+ ÖVP.. In 2014..

(See Example Hinterhornbach:
ÖVP - 38 - 90.5%
NEOS - 2 - 4.8%
FPÖ - 1 - 2.4%
SPÖ - 1 - 2.4%

Great maps, Georg.

:)

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If one would create a map with the combined percentage of the NSDAP, GDVP/Landbund and maybe the Heimatblock in the 1930 federal election, then you would probably get roughly the same geographic pattern as for the FPÖ in the 2013 federal elections (+ combined with Team Stronach and BZÖ maybe).

This is great ! Thanks, Georg.

:)

Now let's compare the 1930 far-right with the 2013 far-right (I made the map after the 2013 election):

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"The Times They Are a-Changin ..."

Not.

So I guess Sankt Veit an der Glan and Feldkirchen are pretty horrible places to live in if you're an immigrant. Or anything like a decent person, really.

Don't know. You'd have to ask the immigrants how they feel about living there.

Not that there are many of them: In the biggest cities in these 2 districts, only 5% of the population are foreigners.

But the landscape there is nice and it's not far away from the capital Klagenfurt.

It is Carinthia though, which makes it horrible by default.

You have to remember also that St. Veit is home to this (I doubt anyone but Tender and Georg Ebner will get that one):

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Ahhh, yeah, now that you mention it ...

Another district where I'll never move to ... :P

I bet the correlation with a map of population density would be pretty much obvious.

Yes:

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Great topic. Good job.

Great job, Schorsch! ;)

Not exactly "elections", but a map of registered firearms by Austrian district (per 10.000 people):

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A total of 886.863 firearms (handguns, rifles, shotguns etc.) have been registered on March 31, 2015 in the Central Firearm Registry.

In Lilienfeld, every 4th person owns a firearm while in Innsbruck only 4% do.

Styria 2010 vs. 2015:

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Clickable Google precinct map for Vienna showing the 2014 EU election results:

https://www.google.com/fusiontables/embedviz?q=select+col8%3E%3E1+from+1qUXjXpnwThIZX_0gYUk7P2vbNAw83yMEVy29QqQt&viz=MAP&h=false&lat=48.21767915939287&lng=16.40920173263555&t=1&z=12&l=col8%3E%3E1&y=2&tmplt=2&hml=KML

Should be useful for the Oct. state elections, which should produce a less green and a much bluer map.

I'm creating a map soon of all the recent state election results by district.

Data will be:

* 2013 state elections: Salzburg, Tyrol, Lower Austria & Carinthia
* 2014 state elections: Vorarlberg
* 2015 state elections: Styria, Burgenland & Upper Austria, Vienna (the map will remain blank until they are held in September/October)

Base map:

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Red = 2015
Green = 2014
Purple = 2013