The state election authority announced the preference vote results after the on Sunday. Governor Hans Peter Doskozil (SPÖ) received the most preference votes on the state list by far, with 48,033. FPÖ top candidate Norbert Hofer was able to achieve a total of 29,628 preference votes here.

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Doskozil also received the most preference votes in his home district of Oberwart (6,134). Deputy Governor Astrid Eisenkopf received 4,104 preference votes on the state list and 5,987 in the Eisenstadt-Umgebung constituency. The mayor of Schattendorf, Thomas Hoffmann, who will enter the state parliament for the first time, received 3,039 preference votes in the Mattersburg district. State Councillor Heinrich Dorner received 4,709 preference votes in the Oberpullendorf district and State Councillor Daniela Winkler received 3,979 in the Neusiedl am See district - the mayor of Gols, Kilian Brandstätter, who is second on the list behind Winkler, received 5,333. State Councillor Leonhard Schneemann, second on the list in the Oberwart constituency, received 2,424 preference votes. Newcomer to the state parliament, Christian Drobits, received 4,133 in the Oberwart district.

FPÖ Top Candidate Hofer Far Ahead of the Blues

Among the Freedom Party, club chairman Johann Tschürtz followed Hofer with the second most preference votes, but by a large margin. Tschürtz received 582 on the state list, and 1,362 in his Mattersburg constituency. Top candidate Hofer received 4,354 preference votes in his home district of Oberwart. State party chairman Alexander Petschnig, who had given Hofer the first place on the list and only ran last, received 54 preference votes on the state list.

Preference Vote Results of ÖVP, Greens and NEOS

ÖVP state party chairman Christian Sagartz received 12,242 preference votes over the state list and 1,349 in the Mattersburg constituency. Club chairman Markus Ulram in the Neusiedl am See district (3,204) and the mayor of Eisenstadt, Thomas Steiner in the Eisenstadt-Umgebung district (3,323) received more. State Managing Director Patrik Fazekas received 2,204 preference votes in his home constituency of Oberpullendorf.

Among the Greens, top candidate and state spokeswoman Anja Haider-Wallner received the most preference votes with 2,941 on the state list. The second on the list, Wolfgang Spitzmüller, received 445.

The NEOS did not make it into the state parliament. State spokesman Christoph Schneider was considered by the voters with 982 preference votes at the state level. List Hausverstand founder Geza Molnar received 511 preference votes, he also did not make it - again - into the state parliament. Molnar was last a free mandate after he was expelled from the FPÖ.

(APA/Red)

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