Vorarlberg South (National Council electoral district)

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Population178,682 (2024)[1]
Electorate121,470 (2019)
Vorarlberg South
Vorarlberg Süd
Electoral District
for the National Council
Outline map
Location of Vorarlberg South within Austria
District
StateVorarlberg
Population178,682 (2024)[1]
Electorate121,470 (2019)
Area1,566 km2 (2023)[2]
Current Electoral District
Created1994
Seats
List
  • 4 (2002–present)
  • 3 (1994–2002)
Members[3]  Karlheinz Kopf (ÖVP)

Vorarlberg South (German: Vorarlberg Süd), also known as Electoral District 8B (German: Wahlkreis 8B), 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 districts of Bludenz and Feldkirch in the state of Vorarlberg. 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 121,470 registered electors.

Vorarlberg 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 districts of Bludenz and Feldkirch in the state of Vorarlberg.[5] The district was initially allocated three 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 September 2002 the number of seats allocated to Vorarlberg South was increased to four based on the population as at the 2001 national census.[7]

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