Styrian AK election – Slight losses, but Pesserl the clear winner

The Styrian employees have decided. The red FSG faction of AK President Josef Pesserl was again elected as the strongest force in the Chamber of Labor election with 62.7 percent of all votes. Harald Korschelt (FPÖ, plus 1.7 percent) comes in second place. At 30.3 percent, voter turnout was around five percent lower than in 2019.

On Tuesday at 10 a.m. the official result of the Chamber of Labor election in Styria was announced in Graz. “Defending champion” Josef Pesserl and his group of Social Democratic Trade Unionists achieved fewer votes than in the 2019 election (64.5 percent), but was able to clearly claim first place with 62.7 percent of all votes. The FPÖ, Greens and KPÖ gained during the While the FA/FPÖ under Harald Korschelt recorded an increase of 1.7 percent, the KPÖ even gained 2.2 percent and the Greens still achieved an increase of 0.5 percent, the ÖAAB-FCG with its new top candidate Peter Amreich fell to 12th .2 percentage points (minus 1.9). 440,845 Styrians were eligible to vote, 133,711 went to the polls. The voter turnout was 30.3 percent.
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