Austrian Election Maps

[Cranberry]

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



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)



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.



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.

[Tender Branson]

Cool.

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

[Tender Branson]

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

Presidential Election 1986



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



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



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)

[SNJ1985]

A map of the 1999 Nationalratswahl would be interesting.

[Tender Branson]

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.

[homelycooking]

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.

[Tender Branson]

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.

[Cranberry]

Cool.

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

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
I could post the blank map if you want to, so you can play around with it a bit?

[SNJ1985]

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.

Cool. I look forward to seeing it.

[homelycooking]

[Tender Branson]

Thanks, homely ...

[SNJ1985]

NICE!

[Cranberry]

Homely, that map is just awesome!

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

[Tender Branson]

Homely, that map is just awesome!

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

Great maps all around yeah.

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

Compare 1999 with the 2013 map:

[palandio]

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?

[Tender Branson]

Niiiiice.

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

[Tender Branson]

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?!)

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).

[Tender Branson]

Upper Austria (federal election, 1930)




Upper Austria (federal election, 2013)



...

Upper Austria (state election, 1931)




Upper Austria (state election, 2009)

[SNJ1985]

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

[Tender Branson]

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.

[palandio]

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?

[SNJ1985]

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

I credit Wikipedia user Andrew Leonard for creating the blank map I used to make this, which can be found here.

[Cranberry]

^ Good work!

Hahaha, Tirol

[Tender Branson]

Has to do with Brenner pass, Tyrol is normally least FPÖ-friendly state.

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).

[Cranberry]

Has to do with Brenner pass, Tyrol is normally least FPÖ-friendly state.

I know, I live there.