Lower Austria South (National Council electoral district)

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Population216,852 (2024)[1]
Electorate159,888 (2019)
Lower Austria South
Niederösterreich Süd
Electoral District
for the National Council
Outline map
Location of Lower Austria South within Austria
District
StateLower Austria
Population216,852 (2024)[1]
Electorate159,888 (2019)
Area2,178 km2 (2023)[2]
Current Electoral District
Created1994
Seats
List
  • 4 (2024–present)
  • 5 (2013–2024)
  • 4 (1994–2013)
Members[3]  Christian Stocker (ÖVP)

Lower Austria South (German: Niederösterreich Süd), also known as Electoral District 3E (German: Wahlkreis 3E), is one of the 39 multi-member regional electoral districts of the National Council, the lower house of the Austrian Parliament, the national legislature of Austria. The electoral district was created in 1992 when electoral regulations were amended to add regional electoral districts to the existing state-wide electoral districts and came into being at the following legislative election in 1994. It consists of the city of Wiener Neustadt and the districts of Neunkirchen and Wiener Neustadt in the state of Lower Austria. The electoral district currently elects four of the 183 members of the National Council using the open party-list proportional representation electoral system. At the 2019 legislative election the constituency had 159,888 registered electors.

Lower Austria South was one 43 regional electoral districts (regionalwahlkreise) established by the "National Council Electoral Regulations 1992" (Nationalrats-Wahlordnung 1992) passed by the National Council in 1992.[4] It consisted of the city of Wiener Neustadt and the districts of Neunkirchen and Wiener Neustadt in the state of Lower Austria.[5] The district was initially allocated four seats in May 1993.[6] Electoral regulations require the allocation of seats amongst the electoral districts to be recalculated following each national census and in June 2013 the number of seats allocated to Lower Austria South was increased to five based on the population as at the 2011 national census.[7] The number of seats allocated to Lower Austria South was reduced to four in June 2023 based on the population as at the 2021 national census.[8]

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