Ballot Papers for Burgenland Election are Printed
The election will therefore close at 4 pm, when the last polling stations, including those in Eisenstadt and Mattersburg, close. All votes, including preference votes, will be counted on election Sunday, emphasized state election director Bernhard Ozlsberger on Tuesday.
By Wednesday, the people of Burgenland will receive the sample ballots, with which they can "practice how to vote", Ozlsberger noted. Up to five crosses are possible: one for the party, a preference vote on the state list and three on the constituency list. The preference vote outweighs the party if it is given to a candidate from another list.
The NEOS and the Hausverstand list are responsible for special features on the ballot. While the Hausverstand list first submitted its circle election proposals in constituencies 1, 6 and 7 (Neusiedl am See, Güssing and Jennersdorf) and is therefore ranked fifth ahead of the NEOS, the Pinks were faster in the other constituencies and exchange places with the Hausverstand list on the ballot. For Hausverstand, place 26 on the state list also remains vacant because the candidate has withdrawn his candidacy.
Burgenland Election: First Municipality Votes from 6.45 am
The first polling station opens on January 19th at 6.45 am in Bad Sauerbrunn (Mattersburg district), the others mostly follow between 7 and 9 am, the last polling stations open at 9.30 am in Pilgersdorf (Oberpullendorf district) and Strem (Güssing district). At 10 am, the election is already over in some places - consistently in small municipalities in southern Burgenland, as Ozlsberger noted. The last polling stations close at 4 pm, in addition to Eisenstadt and Mattersburg also in the free city of Rust, in Neufeld and Donnerskirchen (Eisenstadt-Umgebung district).
Voting can be done by postal ballot, directly at the municipality from now on, by ballot in front of a "flying electoral authority", on the advanced voting day next Friday or traditionally on election day on January 19. On the advanced voting day, at least one polling station per municipality must be open from 6 pm to 7 pm. The last ones close at 8 pm, says Ozlsberger.
Preference Votes Determine the Allocation of Mandates to Candidates
While the provisional election result including mandates will be determined on election Sunday, the allocation of mandates to the respective candidates of the parties will not take place until the following week. In the first determination procedure at the constituency level, all parties that have achieved at least four percent of the votes nationwide are taken into account. The election number determines which party gets how many mandates. Who enters the state parliament via these is decided by the preference votes. The list position no longer plays a role for the first time after a law change in 2021, except when two candidates have received the same number of preference votes. The remaining mandates are awarded in the second determination procedure by the state electoral authority. Here, the d'Hondt method is used.
Special attention will be paid to the preference votes due to the new regulation, Ozlsberger said. The count will therefore probably take a little longer on election Sunday than before.
(APA/Red)
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