Volt Austria
Volt Österreich
PresidentJessica Sommer
Ricardo Winter
Founded12 October 2018; 5 years ago (2018-10-12)
HeadquartersWien
IdeologySocial liberalism
European affiliationVolt Europa
Colors  Purple
Website
https://www.voltoesterreich.org
National sections of Volt Europa. The borders of the European Union are shown in red.

Volt Austria (short name: Volt; German: Volt Österreich) is a political party in Austria and the Austrian chapter of Volt Europa a progressive and Eurofederalist pan-European political party and movement.

History

Volt Austria has been registered as a party since October 12, 2018 with the aim of contesting the European elections 2019. However, the around 100 members (April 2019) did not manage to collect the necessary 2600 declarations of support for a candidacy. Thus, Volt was not eligible to run in the European elections in Austria.[1]

Elections

2020

Volt Austria contested the municipal council and state parliament elections in Vienna 2020 in two of the 23 electoral districts and received 102 votes, which corresponds to 0.01% of the vote across Vienna.[2] In the 2020 district representation election in Vienna, the party contested the 2nd to 10th districts and the 21st district and received 621 votes, equivalent to 0.08% of the vote across Vienna.[3]

2021

In 2021, the party contested the city council election in Linz,[4] and received 112 votes (0.12%).[5]

Structure

The party is organized in local and regional teams and active in Upper Austria, Salzburg, Styria, Tyrol, Vorarlbeg and Vienna.[6]

External links

References

  1. ^ "Volt sorgt in Österreich nicht für genug Spannung". DER STANDARD (in Austrian German). Retrieved 2022-02-17.
  2. ^ "Gemeinderatswahlen 2020, Ergebnisse der Wiener Wahlbehörden". www.wien.gv.at. Retrieved 2022-02-17.
  3. ^ "Bezirksvertretungswahlen 2020, Ergebnisse der Wiener Wahlbehörden". www.wien.gv.at. Retrieved 2022-02-17.
  4. ^ "Volt schafft Hürde und tritt bei Linzer Gemeinderatswahl an". Tips Online. Retrieved 2022-02-17.
  5. ^ "Ergebnis Wahl 2021: Stadt Linz wählt Bürgermeister, Gemeinderat & Landtag". MeinBezirk.at (in German). 26 September 2021. Retrieved 2022-02-17.
  6. ^ "Startseite". Volt Österreich (in Austrian German). Retrieved 2022-02-17.
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