Election day in Burgenland

4000 people ensure a smooth election

Voting on election day: The first polling station opens at 6.45 am. The last ones close at 4 pm.

(Bild: P. Huber)

A new National Council will be elected next Sunday. A total of 11 parties will be on the ballot in Burgenland. The electoral authorities are in the midst of preparations for the ballot. 

According to provisional figures, 233,738 people are eligible to vote in the National Council elections in Burgenland. That is 556 more people than at the ballot in 2019. Voters can choose from 11 parties that are on the ballot in Burgenland this time: ÖVP, SPÖ, FPÖ, Grüne, Neos, Bierpartei, Keine von denen, KPÖ, Liste Madelaine Petrovic, Liste Gaza and Die Gelben.

This time, Burgenlanders can choose from 11 parties.

(Bild: P. Huber)

Preparations well advanced
The chief electoral officer in the province is Bernhard Ozlsberger, Head of the Department for Municipalities in the Office of the Burgenland Provincial Government. He experienced his "baptism of fire" as the main person in charge during the EU elections in June. Flooding made it difficult to hold the ballot in parts of the country at the time. "However, the election was still able to take place everywhere and the municipalities coped very well," Ozlsberger looks back. This time, the weather forecasts are much better. Preparations for the ballot are well advanced. A total of around 4,000 people in Burgenland will be working as poll workers - voluntary members of the electoral authorities and municipal staff - to ensure that everything runs smoothly. Training has been underway for months.

Preparations for the election are already in full swing. For example, poll workers have been undergoing training for several months.

Bernhard Ozlsberger, Abteilungsvorstand Gemeinden

The first polling station in Burgenland will open on Sunday at 6.45 am in Bad Sauerbrunn. The other municipalities will gradually follow. The closing times of the polling stations are also traditionally different. The last ones close at 4 pm - including those in the provincial capital Eisenstadt.

Results from 5 p.m.
The first results will be published on the province's website from 5 p.m., as this is also when the last polling stations are closed throughout Austria. There is an important innovation in the counting process: some of the polling cards will now also be counted on Sunday. It is difficult to predict when a provisional final result will be available. "Counting the preferential votes in particular takes some time," says Ozlsberger.