Who would you vote for in the Upper Austria state election ?

[Tender Branson]

This poll will run for 5 days.

The parties running are:

ÖVP (People's Party, center-right, conservative)
SPÖ (Social Dems, center-left)
FPÖ (Freedom Party, far-right)
Greens (Green Party, eco-left)
NEOS (liberal, centrist)
KPÖ (Communists, far-left)
CPÖ (Christian Party, right to far-right)

[Tender Branson]

If I were living in Upper Austria, I'd currently be more or less undecided between voting Green and voting ÖVP (strategically).

With the massive FPÖ-surge coming on election day, it's not out of question that the ÖVP drops to around 35% (from 47% in 2009) and the SPÖ from 25% to 15%, while the FPÖ surges from 15% to 30-35% and therefore creating a dead heat with the ÖVP.

The last thing I want is to see the FPÖ win in Upper Austria, therefore I could vote ÖVP. But if the last polls show the ÖVP around 40% and the FPÖ at 28%, I'll vote Green because it would be unlikely that the FPÖ makes it to 1st place.

[politicus]

NEOS (liberal, centrist)

Why not centre-right. Their economic policies are clearly right wing. What makes them "centrist"?

[Tender Branson]

NEOS (liberal, centrist)

Why not centre-right. Their economic policies are clearly right wing. What makes them "centrist"?

Their social policies.

But considering that economic policies are more important to them, you are probably right.

[DavidB.]

ÖVP, probably. They're horrible and useless, but during a migrant crisis, I wouldn't be able to bring myself to voting for the "take in the entire world and then ride on unicorns together" NEOS. And even though I agree with the FPÖ on closing the borders, it is not my kind of new-right party. I simply can't see myself voting for a party that is openly campaigning on nazi sentiments, especially in Austria, of all places. I'm pretty sure many of them don't like Jews, which is a no-go for me in and of itself.

[Goldwater]

ÖVP, most likely.

[politicus]

ÖVP, most likely.

Hmm? You are an atheist and Libertarian (and IIRC pro-immigration), why a fairly SoCon/Catholic Conservative party? I would have guessed NEOS - socially Liberal and fiscally right wing.

[Murica!]

KPO(Normal)

[DavidB.]

KPO(Normal)

Where is this actually normal? Not in Upper Austria, at least...

[Goldwater]

ÖVP, most likely.

Hmm? You are an atheist and Libertarian (and IIRC pro-immigration), why a fairly SoCon/Catholic Conservative party? I would have guessed NEOS - socially Liberal and fiscally right wing.

TBH I don't know much about Austin politics and at first glance didn't realize that NEOS was particularly right-wing on economic issues. Also, U.S. politics give me a tendency to pick the "lesser of two evils" in an election, so I need to keep in mind that it's not really necessary to do that in counties with PR. So yeah, NEOS is probably a better fit for me in Austria.

[TDAS04]

Voted SPO.

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

How, err, modernised are the KPO? They aren't tankies or the KKE I know that, but they aren't, say, Podemos.

[SNJ1985]

Both the FPÖ and the CPÖ appeal to me. I guess I would go with the FPÖ in this case, since they have a much higher chance of winning.

[PJ]

Probably Greens, although voting for the same party as Tender doesn't sit well with me.

[Intell]

SPO

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Probably Greens, although voting for the same party as Tender doesn't sit well with me.

[Mr. Smith]

Probably Greens, although voting for the same party as Tender doesn't sit well with me.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Naive left-lefitst ISIS-loving SPÖ.

[DC Al Fine]

Christians. OVP if forced to choose from major parties.

[Cranberry]

How, err, modernised are the KPO? They aren't tankies or the KKE I know that, but they aren't, say, Podemos.

They are not too bad actually. They talk mostly about how to decrease cost of rents and heating through public housing, I guess, but they are not at all present in the public narrative. You don't really hear anything from them outside their core issues, maybe the occasional anti-TTIP, anti-austerity, anti-bad EU bureaucracy thing.

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

Cool. The thing is with this election is that voting Green is pretty much saying yes to a Green-Black coalition; and the Christian Democrats are very much the sort of party whose organisation I find distasteful (based on rural municipality machines, from what I gather); voting SPO will endorse a tired, equally factional and silly party and voting KPO is possibly endorsing the sort of mad tankie that proliferates in a a party of that name.

[SATW]

OVP, for similar, immigration-related reasons as DavidB. Otherwise, I'd vote for NEOS.