| Election Name: | 2014 Vorarlberg state election |
| Country: | Vorarlberg |
| Flag Year: | state |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Previous Election: | 2009 Vorarlberg state election |
| Previous Year: | 2009 |
| Next Election: | 2019 Vorarlberg state election |
| Next Year: | 2019 |
| Election Date: | 21 September 2014 |
| Seats For Election: | All 36 seats in the Landtag of Vorarlberg |
| Majority Seats: | 19 |
| Turnout: | 171,765 (64.3%) 4.1% |
| Leader1: | Markus Wallner |
| Party1: | Austrian People's Party |
| Last Election1: | 20 seats, 50.8% |
| Popular Vote1: | 71,205 |
| Seats1: | 16 |
| Seat Change1: | 4 |
| Percentage1: | 41.8% |
| Swing1: | 9.0% |
| Leader2: | Dieter Egger |
| Party2: | Freedom Party of Austria |
| Last Election2: | 9 seats, 25.1% |
| Seats2: | 9 |
| Seat Change2: | 0 |
| Popular Vote2: | 39,892 |
| Percentage2: | 23.4% |
| Swing2: | 1.7% |
| Leader3: | Johannes Rauch |
| Party3: | The Greens – The Green Alternative |
| Last Election3: | 4 seats, 10.6% |
| Seats3: | 6 |
| Seat Change3: | 2 |
| Popular Vote3: | 29,193 |
| Percentage3: | 17.1% |
| Swing3: | 6.5% |
| Leader4: | Michael Ritsch |
| Party4: | Social Democratic Party of Austria |
| Last Election4: | 3 seats, 10.0% |
| Seats4: | 3 |
| Seat Change4: | 0 |
| Popular Vote4: | 14,948 |
| Percentage4: | 8.8% |
| Swing4: | 1.2% |
| Leader5: | Sabine Scheffknecht |
| Party5: | NEOS – The New Austria and Liberal Forum |
| Last Election5: | Did not exist |
| Seats5: | 2 |
| Seat Change5: | 2 |
| Popular Vote5: | 11,742 |
| Percentage5: | 6.9% |
| Swing5: | New party |
| Map Size: | 200px |
| Governor | |
| Before Election: | Markus Wallner |
| Before Party: | Austrian People's Party |
| After Election: | Markus Wallner |
| After Party: | Austrian People's Party |
The 2014 Vorarlberg state election was held on 21 September 2014 to elect the members of the Landtag of Vorarlberg.
The Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) suffered substantial losses, and was deprived of its majority in the Landtag. The second-placed Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) and Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) retained their position with minor losses. The beneficiaries of the ÖVP's defeat were The Greens, who achieved a breakthrough result of 17.1%, and NEOS – The New Austria, which debuted at 6.9%.[1]
Now lacking a majority, the ÖVP led by Governor Markus Wallner sought a coalition partner. They ultimately formed government with the Greens.[2]
In the 2009 election, the ÖVP saw a small downswing but retained its majority. The FPÖ double its share of the vote and became the second largest party, ahead of the SPÖ.
The 36 seats of the Landtag of Vorarlberg are elected via open list proportional representation in a two-step process. The seats are distributed between four multi-member constituencies, corresponding to the districts of Vorarlberg. For parties to receive any representation in the Landtag, they must either win at least one seat in a constituency directly, or clear a 5 percent state-wide electoral threshold. Seats are distributed in constituencies according to the Hagenbach-Bischoff quota, with any remaining seats allocated at the state level, to ensure overall proportionality between a party's vote share and its share of seats.
The table below lists parties represented in the previous Landtag.
| Name | Ideology | Leader | 2009 result | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes (%) | Seats | ||||||
| ÖVP | Austrian People's Party | Christian democracy | Markus Wallner | 50.8% | |||
| FPÖ | Freedom Party of Austria | Right-wing populism Euroscepticism | Dieter Egger | 25.1% | |||
| GRÜNE | The Greens – The Green Alternative | Green politics | Johannes Rauch | 10.6% | |||
| SPÖ | Social Democratic Party of Austria | Social democracy | Michael Ritsch | 10.0% | |||
In addition to the parties already represented in the Landtag, five parties collected enough signatures to be placed on the ballot.
| align=center colspan=7 | |||||||
| Party | Votes | % | +/− | Seats | +/− | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| bgcolor= | Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) | 71,205 | 41.79 | –9.00 | 16 | –4 | |
| bgcolor= | Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) | 39,892 | 23.42 | –1.70 | 9 | ±0 | |
| bgcolor= | The Greens – The Green Alternative (GRÜNE) | 29,193 | 17.14 | +6.56 | 6 | +2 | |
| bgcolor= | Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) | 14,948 | 8.77 | –1.25 | 3 | ±0 | |
| bgcolor= | NEOS – The New Austria (NEOS) | 11,743 | 6.89 | New | 2 | New | |
| WIR – Platform for Families and Child Protection (WIR) | 1,088 | 0.64 | New | 0 | New | ||
| bgcolor= | Christian Party of Austria (CPÖ) | 833 | 0.49 | New | 0 | New | |
| Pirate Party of Austria (PIRAT) | 795 | 0.47 | +0.47 | 0 | ±0 | ||
| Men's Party (M) | 672 | 0.39 | New | 0 | New | ||
| Invalid/blank votes | 1,396 | – | – | – | – | ||
| Total | 171,765 | 100 | – | 36 | 0 | ||
| align=left colspan=2 | Registered voters/turnout | 267,104 | 64.31 | –4.13 | – | – | |
| align=left colspan=7 | Source: Vorarlberg Government | ||||||
| Constituency | ÖVP | FPÖ | Grüne | SPÖ | NEOS | Others | Total seats | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| class=unsortable | % | class=unsortable | class=unsortable | % | class=unsortable | class=unsortable | % | class=unsortable | class=unsortable | % | class=unsortable | class=unsortable | % | class=unsortable | class=unsortable | % | |||||
| 45.6 | 3 | 22.6 | 1 | 12.0 | 11.0 | 6.6 | 2.3 | 4 | |||||||||||||
| 43.9 | 5 | 22.6 | 2 | 16.2 | 2 | 9.0 | 1 | 6.6 | 1.7 | 10 | |||||||||||
| 35.8 | 3 | 27.3 | 2 | 20.2 | 1 | 7.8 | 7.1 | 1.8 | 6 | ||||||||||||
| 41.3 | 4 | 22.0 | 2 | 19.4 | 2 | 7.8 | 8.3 | 2.3 | 8 | ||||||||||||
| Remaining seats | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | |||||||||||||||
| Total | 41.8 | 16 | 23.4 | 9 | 17.1 | 6 | 8.8 | 3 | 6.9 | 2 | 2.0 | 36 | |||||||||
| Source: Vorarlberg Government | |||||||||||||||||||||