Vienna North (National Council electoral district)

Vienna North (Wien Nord), also known as Electoral District 9G (Wahlkreis 9G), 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 Donaustadt and Floridsdorf in the city-state of Vienna. The electoral district currently elects seven 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 234,239 registered electors.

History
Vienna North 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 Donaustadt and Floridsdorf in the city-state of Vienna. The district was initially allocated five seats in May 1993. Electoral regulations require the allocation of seats amongst the electoral districts to be recalculated following each national census and in September 2002 the number of seats allocated to Vienna North was increased to six based on the population as at the 2001 national census. The number of seats allocated to Vienna North was increased to seven in June 2023 based on the population as at the 2021 national census.

Electoral system
Vienna North currently elects seven 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:

The following candidates were elected:
 * Party mandates - Ruth Becher (SPÖ), 1,896 votes; Martin Graf (FPÖ), 1,953 votes; and Gudrun Kugler (ÖVP), 2,637 votes.

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

The following candidates were elected:
 * Party mandates - Ruth Becher (SPÖ), 1,816 votes; Gudrun Kugler (ÖVP), 2,040 votes; David Lasar (FPÖ), 1,786 votes; and Angela Lueger (SPÖ), 749 votes.

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

The following candidates were elected:
 * Party mandates - Ruth Becher (SPÖ), 1,017 votes; Hubert Fuchs (FPÖ), 2,535 votes; and Angela Lueger (SPÖ), 1,861 votes.

Hubert Fuchs (FPÖ) was replaced by David Lasar (FPÖ) on 24 June 2016.

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

The following candidates were elected:
 * Party mandates - Ruth Becher (SPÖ), 2,876 votes; Martin Graf (FPÖ), 3,146 votes; and Angela Lueger (SPÖ), 1,134 votes.

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

The following candidates were elected:
 * Party mandates - Ruth Becher (SPÖ), 1,753 votes; and Kurt Eder (SPÖ), 3,991 votes.

Kurt Eder (SPÖ) resigned on 31 December 2007 and was replaced by Angela Lueger (SPÖ) on 8 January 2008.

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

The following candidates were elected:
 * Party mandates - Ruth Becher (SPÖ), 2,129 votes; Kurt Eder (SPÖ), 6,102 votes; Dietmar Hoscher (SPÖ), 294 votes; and Ferdinand Maier (ÖVP), 1,837 votes.

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

The following candidates were elected:
 * Party mandates - Kurt Eder (SPÖ), 3,414 votes; Josef Edler (SPÖ), 2,480 votes; and Martin Graf (FPÖ), 3,158 votes.

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

The following candidates were elected:
 * Party mandates - Kurt Eder (SPÖ), 3,361 votes; Josef Edler (SPÖ), 1,661 votes; and Martin Graf (FPÖ), 1,787 votes.

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

The following candidates were elected:
 * Party mandates - Kurt Eder (SPÖ), 3,275 votes; Martin Graf (FPÖ), 1,650 votes; and Hilde Hawlicek (SPÖ), 2,825 votes.

Hilde Hawlicek (SPÖ) resigned on 19 April 1995 and was replaced by Josef Edler (SPÖ) on 21 April 1995.