Austro-Turks in Vienna increasingly voted for the SPÖ
The alleged courting of the Turkish community by the Vienna FPÖ during the election campaign had no impact on the election result of the Blues. According to OGM, the Blues performed practically as strongly among eligible voters from Turkey with 21 percent as they did in the federal capital overall. The SPÖ, on the other hand, performed above average in this group with 46 percent.
In Vienna, more than 200,000 Austrian citizens who were born abroad were eligible to vote in the municipal council election. For eligible voters from Turkey and the former Yugoslavia, the OGM institute calculated the voting behavior based on the counted results of 1,500 precincts and official population data.
Many immigrants in Vienna can identify with FPÖ
Despite attacks on "political Islam" and former campaign slogans like "Home instead of Islam," the FPÖ did not have a particularly hard time succeeding in the Turkish community in Austria. The reason: Many immigrants can identify with the conservative social image of the Blues. In the 2020 election, where the Freedom Party only achieved 7.1 percent, four percent of Turks still voted for the FPÖ.
In the recent Vienna election campaign, the ÖVP in particular criticized that the Freedom Party was increasingly courting the favor of Turkish immigrants while simultaneously criticizing political Islam. However, the Blues denied the alleged participation in events of the mosque association Atib, and there was no official order for advertisements in Turkish, it was said.
SPÖ and FPÖ particularly strong among ex-Yugoslavs
Among eligible voters from the former Yugoslavia, the SPÖ with 44 percent and the FPÖ with 25 percent are significantly above their overall result in Vienna. Additionally, the KPÖ reaches 6 percent there. The party SÖZ (Social Austria of the Future), which was only on the ballot in some constituencies, performed strongly among Turks with 17 percent.
According to OGM, ÖVP, Greens, and NEOS received little support in the two surveyed immigrant groups. This is surprising, as the Greens were far more popular in the Turkish community in past elections and were increasingly voted for along with the SPÖ.
(APA/Red)
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