Contested Vienna Municipal Housing: SPÖ and FPÖ Dominate Among Voters

SPÖ and FPÖ scored strongly in the Vienna municipal council election on Sunday in the municipal housing. According to calculations by the OGM Institute for APA, the Social Democrats received 47 percent of the votes among municipal housing residents and the Freedom Party 30 percent. This puts them significantly above their expected overall results (SPÖ: 39.5 percent, FPÖ: 20.4 percent) - almost eight out of ten residents in municipal housing voted red or blue.

Vienna Municipal Housing as a Stronghold for SPÖ and FPÖ

More than a fifth of Viennese people live in the 1,800 municipal housing complexes - thus forming a large and traditionally fiercely contested voter group between SPÖ and FPÖ. However, voting behavior in municipal housing cannot be directly measured. While some large buildings form their own voting districts, most municipal housing is located in "mixed districts" with private or cooperative apartments. For the current evaluation, OGM supplemented the district results from Sunday with information about the voter structure and used a regression model to infer the election result in municipal housing.

In 2020, the SPÖ achieved a narrow absolute majority in municipal housing with 51 percent. The current 47 percent therefore means slight losses, which are somewhat larger than in the general population. The FPÖ, on the other hand, climbed from twelve percent in municipal housing in 2020 to 30 percent.

Greens, ÖVP and NEOS Far Behind

All other parties play hardly any role in municipal housing: ÖVP, Greens, and NEOS each only reached five to six percent. The KPÖ also achieved a slightly worse result with three percent than the overall average, while the Team HC Strache performed slightly better in municipal housing than citywide.

(APA/Red)

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