2009 Upper Austrian state election

The Upper Austrian state election was held in Upper Austria on 27 September 2009. The SPÖ lost a lot of its votes, falling even behind the 1999 result, while the FPÖ gained strongly and both incumbent governing parties ÖVP and Greens held steady. The BZÖ failed to enter the Landtag.[1]

	Party	Votes	Votes in %	Change	Seats	Change	Government seats	Change
	Austrian People's Party (ÖVP)	400,365	46.76%	+3.34%	28	+3	5	+1
	Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ)	213,555	24.94%	-13.39%	14	-8	2	-2
	Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ)	130,937	15.29%	+6.89%	9	+5	1	+1
	The Greens – The Green Alternative (Grüne)	78,569	9.18%	+0.12%	5	±0	1	±0
	BZÖ - Uschi Haubner's List (BZÖ - Liste Uschi Haubner)	24,268	2.83%	+2.83%	0	±0	0	±0
	Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ)	4,812	0.56%	-0.22%	0	±0	0	±0
	The Christians (DC)	3,721	0.43%	+0.43%	0	±0	0	±0
Total		856,227	100%
Spoilt and null votes		16,569	1.90%
Turnout		872,796	80.35%
Electorate		1,086,310

2009 Upper Austrian state election

27 September 2009
All 56 seats in the State Parliament 29 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	80.3% 1.7%
First party Second party Third party   Leader Josef Pühringer Erich Haider Manfred Haimbuchner Party ÖVP SPÖ FPÖ Last election 25 seats, 43.4% 22 seats, 38.3% 4 seats, 8.4% Seats won 28 14 9 Seat change 3 8 5 Popular vote 400,365 213,555 130,937 Percentage 46.7% 24.9% 15.2% Swing 3.3% 13.3% 6.8%   Fourth party   Leader Ursula Haubner Party Greens Last election 5 seats, 9.0% Seats won 5 Seat change 0 Popular vote 78,569 Percentage 9.1% Swing 0.1%
Governor before election Josef Pühringer ÖVP Elected Governor Josef Pühringer ÖVP

References

1. Upper Austria: Results of the 2009 state election Archived 2011-07-17 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 18 May 2010