After the election, an SPÖ mayor will rule in eight of Salzburg’s eleven municipalities. There is also a new record: for the first time, 14 women are at the head of a community.
There are exactly eleven cities in the state. Since Sunday, eight of these eleven have been in SPÖ hands, especially the state capital. Neumarkt and St. Johann are new to the list. The Reds took the mayor’s chair from the ÖVP in both municipalities. Mittersill is getting a new city boss in Thomas Ellmauer, but he belongs to a list. Only Radstadt and Seekirchen remain black. For the Reds, including the election on Sunday, there was an increase of five mayors compared to 2019. The ÖVP lost nine. If you focus on the changes at the top of the municipalities since election day five years ago, the ÖVP’s losses are as high as eleven local leaders. In Bad Vigaun, Maria Alm and Forstau, list men moved into the office after the last election. In addition to Alexander Sartori in Bad Vigaun, Gregor Schwarz surprised in Forstau. Two blue local leaders, 14 female mayors. The entrepreneur from Lower Austria, who moved to Pongau 16 years ago, broke through the ÖVP’s autocracy of the community with his “Forstau list”. Since statistics began, there have only been ÖVP mayors in Forstau, and they have always been elected after just one ballot. For the Freedom Party, there are two local leaders for the first time. In addition to Andreas Fanninger (Unternberg), the FPÖ has another mayor after the runoff election, Willi Bodner (Mühlbach/Hochkönig). There are now 14 female mayors in the 119 municipalities in the country. That’s a record. After the election in 2019 there were only eleven.
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