Vienna Election 2025: Michael Ludwig Again Winner in Preferential Votes

10,326 SPÖ voters gave Mayor Michael Ludwig their preferential vote in the Vienna Election 2025. The governor of the federal capital is clearly ahead of the Freedom Party leader Dominik Nepp (8,171), followed by the Green top candidate Judith Pühringer with 4,394.

Fewer Preferential Votes in Vienna Election than Five Years Ago

Karl Mahrer also failed to personally convince. The VP top candidate had to settle for 1,744 personal mentions. Although he can leave behind Vice Mayor Bettina Emmerling, who as the best NEOS candidate received 1,437 preferential votes, he remains just behind six SPÖ candidates (Ludwig, Kathrin Gaal, Peter Hacker, Peter Hanke, Asliha Bozatemur, Jürgen Czernohorszky). Only 679 people voted for Heinz-Christian Strache, fewer than for the top three on the KPÖ-LINKS list. LINKS politician Angelika Adensamer was the number one here with 961 votes.

Among the candidates on the lower list positions, Asliha Bozatemur once again convinced the most. She is considered a link between the SPÖ and the Turkish community and received 1,527 preferential votes, the same as Transport Minister Peter Hanke. Also strong were the 1,185 mentions of Omar Al-Rawi, a long-time municipal council member and former top official of the Islamic religious community.

The preferential vote results are significantly lower overall than those five years ago. At that time, Ludwig was mentioned more than 15,000 times. The then ÖVP top candidate Gernot Blümel also had a higher value with 11,336 mentions than Ludwig this time. The Green frontwoman Birgit Hebein received 7,076 expressions of support, and NEOS top candidate Christoph Wiederkehr reached 3,110. These results were also better than those of the respective list leaders this time. Nepp, on the other hand, was able to more than double his personal result from 3,790.

(APA/Red)

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