Upper Styria (National Council electoral district)

Upper Styria currently elects seven of the 183 members of the National Council using the open party-list proportional representation electoral system.^[9][10][11] The allocation of seats is carried out in three stages.^[12] In the first stage, seats are allocated to parties (lists) at the regional level using a state-wide Hare quota (wahlzahl) (valid votes in the state divided by the number of seats in the state).^[13][14] In the second stage, seats are allocated to parties at the state/provincial level using the state-wide Hare quota (any seats won by the party at the regional stage are subtracted from the party's state seats).^[13][14] In the third and final stage, seats are allocated to parties at the federal/national level using the D'Hondt method (any seats won by the party at the regional and state stages are subtracted from the party's federal seats).^[13][14] Only parties that reach the 4% national threshold, or have won a seat at the regional stage, compete for seats at the state and federal stages.^[13][14]

Electors may cast one preferential vote for individual candidates at the regional, state and federal levels.^[14] Split-ticket voting (panachage), or voting for more than one candidate at each level, is not permitted and will result in the ballot paper being invalidated.^[14][15] At the regional level, candidates must receive preferential votes amounting to at least 14% of the valid votes cast for their party to over-ride the order of the party list (10% and 7% respectively for the state and federal levels).^[15]

Results of the 2019 legislative election held on 29 September 2019:^[16][17]

The following candidates were elected:^[18][19]

• Party mandates - Hannes Amesbauer (FPÖ), 4,099 votes; Andreas Kühberger (ÖVP), 5,767 votes; Max Lercher (SPÖ), 7,354 votes; and Corinna Scharzenberger (ÖVP), 2,521 votes.

Substitutions:

• Hannes Amesbauer (FPÖ) was reassigned to the federal list seat vacated by Petra Steger and was replaced by Wolfgang Zanger (FPÖ) in Upper Styria on 16 July 2024.

Results of the 2017 legislative election held on 15 October 2017:^[20][21]

The following candidates were elected:^[22][23]

• Party mandates - Hannes Amesbauer (FPÖ), 3,850 votes; Barbara Krenn (ÖVP), 6,709 votes; Andreas Kühberger (ÖVP), 6,456 votes; Jörg Leichtfried (SPÖ), 7,078 votes; Birgit Sandler (SPÖ), 548 votes; and Wolfgang Zanger (FPÖ), 3,411 votes.

Substitutions:

• Barbara Krenn (ÖVP) died on 3 April 2019 and was replaced by Karl Schmidhofer (ÖVP) on 10 April 2019.^[24]

Results of the 2013 legislative election held on 29 September 2013:^[25][26]

The following candidates were elected:^[27][28]

• Party mandates - Andrea Gessl-Ranftl (SPÖ), 2,057 votes; Fritz Grillitsch (ÖVP), 5,096 votes; Erwin Spindelberger (SPÖ), 3,859 votes; and Wolfgang Zanger (FPÖ), 2,906 votes.