The SPÖ makes use of this possibility: Erich Wahl does not accept his Mühlviertel mandate in order to pave the way for club boss Michael Lindner to join the state parliament. Otherwise the red group leader would have been without a mandate.
Prominent newcomers in the state parliament would probably be for the ÖVP Chamber of Commerce Vice-President Margit Angerlehner, for the FPÖ the right-wing Linz city councilor Michael Raml and the previous regional councilor Wolfgang Klinger. The Greens are renewing a large part of their club, the NEOS and MFG, which have recently entered the state parliament, naturally bring new faces with them.
As before, the ÖVP won three mandates in the Linz constituency and the surrounding area, so that, according to the list, Landtag President Wolfgang Stanek and Elisabeth Manhal as well as Landtag Managing Director Wolfgang Hattmannsdorfer – all three of whom have already been in the Landtag – would come into play. In the Innviertel, there are also three constituency mandates for the ÖVP. According to the list, this would be Günther Lengauer (new), Barbara Tausch, who has already been represented in the state parliament, and – again new – Klaus Mühlbacher. In the Hausruckviertel, the previous five constituency mandates remained, which, subject to any waivers, go to Elisabeth Gneißl, Christian Mader, Peter Csar, Peter Oberlehner and Alexandra Platzer. Gneißl, Mader and Platzer would be new.
FPÖ loses mandate in the Linz area
In the Traunviertel – three mandates unchanged – are ranked behind LH Thomas Stelzer, club chairman Christian Dörfel and the mandataries Regina Aspalter and Rudolf Raffelsberger, who have already been represented in the state parliament. In the Mühlviertel, the ÖVP retains its four previous mandates – according to the list, they belong to Gertraud Scheiblberger, Anton Froschauer, Johanna Miesenberger (new) and Josef Rathgeb. From the state list, Helena Kirchmayr and – new – Anlehner would then almost certainly come to the train.
The FPÖ loses a constituency mandate in the Linz area, the remaining ones will probably go to Raml, who is new to the state parliament, and club boss Herwig Mahr, possibly also to the previous mandate Franz Graf. In the Innviertel they also lost a mandate, the two retained would be assigned to David Schiessl and – new – Hermann Brückl. In the Hausruckviertel, the FPÖ also gets one less mandate than last, namely three: These should go to Wolfgang Klinger, who is likely to lose his regional councilor, as well as Christiane Kroiss and Rudolf Kroiss. In the Traunviertel they rattled down from three to a mandate that will probably go to the first in the list and Michael Gruber, who has already been represented in the state parliament. In the Mühlviertel – one mandate lost, one retained – is Peter Handlos, who has already sat in the state parliament, first in the list. From the state list, Rosa Ecker (new) and Sabine Binder could also come into play.
The SPÖ retained their two mandates in the Linz-Umgebung constituency, which Peter Binder and – new – Tobias Höglinger can be assigned. Gabriele Knauseder will probably keep her mandate in the Innviertel, in the Hausruckviertel it will remain with two mandates for Heidi-Maria Strauss and Doris Margreiter. In the Traunviertel, the two mandates go to the newcomers Sabine Engleitner-Neu and Mario Haas.
Video: OÖN editor-in-chief Gerald Mandlbauer comments on the election result
However, the Social Democrats have one problem in the Mühlviertel: they did not succeed in gaining a second constituency mandate. According to the list, this would go to Erich Wahl, but the club boss Michael Lindner, who was ranked second on the list, would then go away empty-handed. Since Wahl and Lindner are far back on the state list, the club chairman cannot be heaved into the state parliament this way – the only option is to waive the mandate of Wahl, which he also announced on Monday. Background to the strange situation: the former parliamentary group leader Christian Makor resigned a few hours after the party congress, at which the candidate lists were fixed, because he had damaged the park while being drunk, Lindner followed.
Trade unionist Hans Karl Schaller as well as new Thomas Antlinger and women’s chairwoman Renate Heitz should then move into the state parliament via the SPÖ state list.
As in 2015, the Greens each had a mandate in four constituencies: Anne Sophie Bauer is assigned to the one in the Linz area, Rudolf Hemetsberger in the Hausruck district – he has a good chance of becoming the first Green Mayor of Upper Austria in Attersee. Ines Vukajlović is likely to play in the Traunviertel, and Dagmar Engel in the Mühlviertel. On the state list, club chairman Severin Mayr, Ulrike Schwarz and Reinhard Ammer would be the logical mandataries. Except for Schwarz and Mayr, all of them would be newcomers.
Felix Eypeltauer and Julia Bammer will probably move in at NEOS, while at MFG it would be Joachim Aigner, Dagmar Häusler and Manuel Krautgartner.
