🇦🇹 Austrian Elections & Politics 6.0 - Upper Austria election: 26 Sept. 2021

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Reckon a cake party would have polled better in Vienna. Not one of the great brewing cities, but there are no greater baking ones.

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Is the dark grey spot right in the middle of Vienna the neighbourhood where all the turbocharged upper BouRgeOisiE whose housing is worth seven digits lives?

It’s where they work or where their offices and expensive shops are.

It’s Vienna’s 1st district, where parliament and the stock exchange is.

Similar to the City of London.

The wealthy bourgeoisie is living in the 3 western districts, those coloured more darkly for ÖVP and NEOS.

But who are the voters that turn Vienna's 1st district into the ÖVP's strongest place in all of Vienna?

Is it stockbrokers and other yuppies?

Is it the long-established bourgeoisie? (The 1st district has been an ÖVP stronghold in Red Vienna for decades!)

Is it a mix of both? Or other groups? Who are these voters?

The 1st District only has a population of 15.000, out of 2 million in the city.

It's likely that some owners of property there also have their main residence there, for example the owners of restaurants - but have their fancy mansions in the western districts as a secondary residence. Which means they would be eligible to vote in the 1st district. Other than business owners, there's a lot of older people from the arts and culture living there who made a career (prices are pretty high in the 1st), politicians and diplomats etc.

The "regular" folk lives elsewhere. The Bobos/Hipsters in the districts to the SW of the Inner City, the working class in the South and North and the Wealthy or Upper Middle Class in the West (Vienna doesn't really have an "East").

And historically, we're talking back during the days of the Empire here, it was an aristocratic district, rather than a bourgeois one. If we take London as a point of comparison, it's the equivalent of forming a borough out of The City and the posher parts of the old City of Westminster; Knightsbridge, Mayfair, St James's and so on. And then building a ring-road around it all.

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Those colours are very wrong - ÖVP are black and FPÖ are blue, not the other way round.

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Approximate translation: Yvette Cooper has just been ousted by Stephen Kinnock.

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Approximate translation into THIGMOO English: following Yvette Cooper's removal as Leader, it was thought that Stephen Kinnock had been elected in her stead, but this was the result of an administrative cock-up and, actually, John Cryer won.

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Since when were there serious parties in Austria?