In Austria a local election was held yesterday for the Land (state/regional-level) council in Vienna.

The following table from Die Presse provides a picture of the votes received and the seats won in the state parliament and compares them to the 2005 result:

Social Democrats (SPÖ)
Christian Democratic People’s Party (ÖVP)
Freedom Party (FPÖ)
Grüne (Greens)
Alliance for the Future of Austria (BZÖ)
Communist Party (KPÖ)

I could almost cut and paste previous Austria regional election posts, but, suffice to say, that the right-wing FPÖ party was, in one sense, the big winner. Whereas in 2005, the Christian Democratic People’s Party was the second largest party, this time the right-wing Freedom Party emerged as the second party. The ruling Social Democrats have lost their absolute majority, but only marginally.