Survey: ÖVP Salzburg loses, KPÖ surprised
Vienna, December 22, 2022 | Lower Austria, Styria and at the federal level: The ÖVP is currently having to deal with severe losses in the polls. In a new query from Salzburg, almost four months before the state elections, there is also a minus for the party of Governor Wilfried Haslauer, albeit significantly less than in the other federal states.
Lost nine percentage points since the beginning of the year
The People’s Party, which won the election in 2018 with 37.8 percent, “only” falls by around three percentage points to 35 percent. Compared to the beginning of the year, the GMK survey for the Salzburg regional media looks like a drop of nine percentage points. In January 2022, the Salzburg ÖVP was still 44 percent.
Second place in the survey goes to the SPÖ with 22 percent. Compared to 2018, you could gain two percentage points. Closely below the Social Democrats are the Freedom Party in third place with 20 percent, which also gains around two percentage points.
The two coalition partners of the ÖVP in the state, the Greens and the NEOS, are stagnating on their 2018 election results. The Greens come to nine percent, as they did in the state elections, the NEOS can easily increase from 7.3 percent to eight percent.
KPÖ surprised
The surprise, however, is the KPÖ. The Salzburg communists are gaining ground and are struggling to get into the state parliament. At four percent you are only one percentage point below the five percent hurdle. In the 2018 election, it was still 0.4 percent. The MFG, on the other hand, disappears into complete insignificance. It comes to just one percent and loses five percentage points compared to the beginning of the year.
SALZBURG | Sunday question state election GMK/regional media Salzburg
SVP: 35% (-9)
SPÖ: 22% (+4)
FPÖ: 20% (+7)
GREEN: 9% (-2)
NEOS: 8% (+2)
KPO: 4% (+2)
MFG: 1% (-5)
Other: 1% (+1)Changes to the last survey from January 19, 2022
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With this outcome, all doors would be open to the ÖVP when it came to finding a coalition. A continuation of black-green-pink, as well as ÖVP-SPÖ and ÖVP-FPÖ would be possible options.
800 people were interviewed by telephone, the fluctuation range is 3.5 percentage points.
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