Election file: This is how the voting in Burgenland 2025 works!

Election file: This is how the voting in Burgenland 2025 works!

Bad Sauerbrunn, Österreich - In Burgenland, the state election on January 19, 2025 is just around the corner, which comes up with significant innovations. The election is at 4 p.m., with the last polling stations in places such as Eisenstadt and Mattersburg, as ORF Burgenland . As is well known, the voters will have more influence on the decision for the first time which candidates of the district lists will move into the state parliament, since only the preferred votes are decisive. This is the first time that the preferred voting system, which was introduced in 2021, is used. The counting of the votes is expected to take longer because the preferred votes can overcome the list ranking.

The choice will be possible in different ways: by postal electorate, directly in the municipal office or on one of the numerous election days, including an early election day next Friday. It is important that at least one polling station per community must be open. The submission of the election cards also runs according to specified deadlines, which last until January 17th. According to Krone , approved election cards must be returned by January 17 at the latest so that they can still be included in the count. The parties also have their deadlines to submit their election proposals, and they must be finally announced by December 27th.

The result of the election is determined on the same Sunday, but the assignment of the mandates to the corresponding candidates will only take place the following week. The voters can hand over up to five votes, one vote for the party and four for the candidates in the constituencies. On the ballot papers, the NEOS and the List of common sense provide some special features, since their suggestions are placed differently in different constituencies, which may have an impact on voting. Particular attention is paid to the preferred votes in this ballot, as electoral manager Bernhard Ozlsberger emphasizes.