In today’s Chamber of Agriculture in Lower Austria, 155,056 farmers, peasant retirees, employees, family members, landowners etc. were eligible to vote. This makes them the largest Chamber of Agriculture in Austria. The voters not only chose the general assembly of the State Chamber of Agriculture, but also the composition of the 21 district farmers. For the first time, there were five different lists at the state level and thus more listing lists than in the past Chamber of Agriculture. A total of 72,274 voters voted their vote, which corresponds to a turnout of 46.61 percent.
Nationwide, the Lower Austrian Farmers’ Association came to 82 percent of the valid votes cast and will be with 32 out of 36 mandates, as before, the clearly strongest faction in the General Assembly of the State Chamber of Agriculture. At the state level the Lower Austria. The farmers ‘association continues to provide the president and the two vice presidents as well as at the level of the district farmers’ chambers of the chamber of chamber and all deputies.
The Austrian independent farmers’ association (UBV) reached 9.81 percent and three mandates. The Freedom & Independent Peasants (FB) reached 4.88 percent and thus a mandate in the State Chamber of Agriculture. The SPÖ farmers (SPÖ) came to 2.19 percent, the green farmers (GBB) to 1.11 percent. Both political groups were unable to skip the four percent hurdle and missed the entry into the general assembly of the State Chamber of Agriculture.
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