Vienna Inner West (National Council electoral district)

Vienna Inner West (Wien Innen-West), also known as Electoral District 9B (Wahlkreis 9B), 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 Alsergrund, Innere Stadt, Josefstadt, Mariahilf and Neubau in the city-state of Vienna. The electoral district currently elects three 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 94,800 registered electors.

History
Vienna Inner West 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. It consisted of the districts of Alsergrund, Innere Stadt, Josefstadt, Mariahilf and Neubau in the city-state of Vienna. The district was initially allocated three seats in May 1993.

Electoral system
Vienna Inner West currently elects three of the 183 members of the National Council using the open party-list proportional representation electoral system. The allocation of seats is carried out in three stages. In the first stage, seats are allocated to parties (lists) at the regional level using a state-wide Hare quota (wahlzahl) (valid votes in the state divided by the number of seats in the state). In the second stage, seats are allocated to parties at the state/provincial level using the state-wide Hare quota (any seats won by the party at the regional stage are subtracted from the party's state seats). In the third and final stage, seats are allocated to parties at the federal/national level using the D'Hondt method (any seats won by the party at the regional and state stages are subtracted from the party's federal seats). Only parties that reach the 4% national threshold, or have won a seat at the regional stage, compete for seats at the state and federal stages.

Electors may cast one preferential vote for individual candidates at the regional, state and federal levels. Split-ticket voting (panachage), or voting for more than one candidate at each level, is not permitted and will result in the ballot paper being invalidated. At the regional level, candidates must receive preferential votes amounting to at least 14% of the valid votes cast for their party to over-ride the order of the party list (10% and 7% respectively for the state and federal levels). Prior to April 2013 electors could not cast preferential votes at the federal level and the thresholds candidates needed to over-ride the party list order were higher at the regional level (half the Hare quota or $1⁄6$ of the party votes) and state level (Hare quota).

2019
Results of the 2019 legislative election held on 29 September 2019:

2017
Results of the 2017 legislative election held on 15 October 2017:

2013
Results of the 2013 legislative election held on 29 September 2013:

2008
Results of the 2008 legislative election held on 28 September 2008:

2006
Results of the 2006 legislative election held on 1 October 2006:

2002
Results of the 2002 legislative election held on 24 November 2002:

The following candidates were elected:
 * Party mandates - Franz Morak (ÖVP), 3,279 votes.

Franz Morak (ÖVP) resigned on 4 March 2003 and was replaced by Carina Felzmann (ÖVP) on 5 March 2003.

1999
Results of the 1999 legislative election held on 3 October 1999:

1995
Results of the 1995 legislative election held on 17 December 1995:

The following candidates were elected:
 * Personal mandates - Caspar Einem (SPÖ), 8,555 votes.

Caspar Einem (SPÖ) resigned on 13 March 1996 and was replaced by Irmtraut Karlsson (SPÖ) on 14 March 1996.

1994
Results of the 1994 legislative election held on 9 October 1994: