# 2025 Viennese state election

The 2025 Viennese state election is scheduled to be held in the Austrian state of Vienna on 27 April 2025.

## Background

In the 2020 state election, the SPÖ under mayor Michael Ludwig was able to improve its 2015 result after the downward trend of the last elections and again became the strongest party with 41.6%. The Greens under Birgit Hebein also improved and achieved their best result so far in Vienna with 14.8%. The NEOS under Christoph Wiederkehr also recorded small gains and reached 7.5%. After suffering its worst result ever in 2015, the ÖVP was now able to more than double its share of the vote and received 20.4%; their lead candidate was former Federal Finance Minister Gernot Blümel. The FPÖ under Dominik Nepp lost more than two thirds of its vote share and reached 7.1%, its worst result since the state and municipal elections in 1983. The newly founded Team HC Strache – Alliance for Austria received 3.3% of the vote, which was below the electoral threshold, and thus failed to get any seats, as did the small parties LINKS with 2.1%, the Beer Party with 1.8%, and SÖZ with 1.2%. Other small parties played no significant role.
In 2020, a total of 1,133,010 people were eligible to vote, of whom 597,027 were women and 535,983 men. Voter turnout fell sharply to 65.27%, but this was still a higher turnout than in the 2005 state election, which had the lowest voter turnout to date with 60.81%. The share of postal votes reached a new high of 28.34% in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
After exploratory talks between the mayoral party SPÖ with the ÖVP, the Greens and NEOS, the SPÖ surprisingly decided to start coalition negotiations with the NEOS instead of the previous coalition partner, the Greens. A coalition with the ÖVP was rejected due to little agreement on topics. A coalition with the FPÖ was rejected outright by the SPÖ.
On 16 November 2020, the first contents of the new coalition agreement were presented. On 24 November 2020, Michael Ludwig (SPÖ) was re-elected as mayor with 60 out of 100 votes – 54 of them from the new coalition – and the new city government was sworn in by Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen.
A 5% threshold applies to state and municipal elections in Vienna. In the past, the NEOS have campaigned for lowering it to 3%.

## Contesting parties

The table below lists parties represented in the current Gemeinderat and Landtag.
| Name | Name | Name | Ideology | Party leader(s) | 2020 result | 2020 result | 2020 result |
| Name | Name | Name | Ideology | Party leader(s) | Votes (%) | Seats | Councillors |
| | SPÖ | Social Democratic Party of Austria Sozialdemokratische Partei Österreichs | Social democracy | Michael Ludwig | 41.6% | 46 / 100 | 7 / 13 |
| | ÖVP | Austrian People's Party Österreichische Volkspartei | Conservatism Economic liberalism | Karl Mahrer | 20.4% | 22 / 100 | 2 / 13 |
| | GRÜNE | The Greens – The Green Alternative Die Grünen – Die Grüne Alternative | Green politics | Judith Pühringer Peter Kraus | 14.8% | 16 / 100 | 2 / 13 |
| | NEOS | NEOS – The New Austria and Liberal Forum NEOS – Das Neue Österreich und Liberales Forum | Liberalism Pro-Europeanism | Christoph Wiederkehr | 7.5% | 8 / 100 | 1 / 13 |
| | FPÖ | Freedom Party of Austria Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs | National conservatism Right-wing populism | Dominik Nepp | 7.1% | 8 / 100 | 1 / 13 |
The following additional parties/lists will appear on the ballot in all 17 constituencies:
* KPÖ und LINKS - Kommunistische Partei Österreichs und LINKS Wien - (short ballot abbreviation: KPÖ)
* Team HC Strache - Allianz für Österreich - (short ballot abbreviation: HC)
The following additional parties/lists will appear on the ballot only in some of the 17 constituencies:
* Soziales Österreich der Zukunft - (short ballot abbreviation: SÖZ) - (in 14/17 constituencies)
* Pro 23 für ein lebenswertes und zukunftsfittes Liesing - (short ballot abbreviation: PRO) - (in 1/17 constituencies)
* Plattform Obdachlos - Armut - Arbeitslos - Teuerung - (short ballot abbreviation: HERZ) - (in 1/17 constituencies)

## Opinion polling
### Recent opinion polling

| Polling firm/Client | Fieldwork date | Sample size | SPÖ | ÖVP | Grüne | NEOS | FPÖ | HC | KPÖ | Others | Lead |
| IFDD/krone.at | Early March 2025 | 1,000 | 40 | 10 | 12 | 9 | 22 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 18 |
| 2020 state election | 11 Oct 2020 | – | 41.6 | 20.4 | 14.8 | 7.5 | 7.1 | 3.3 | 2.1 | 3.2 | 21.2 |

### Older opinion polling

| Polling firm/Client | Fieldwork date | Sample size | SPÖ | ÖVP | Grüne | NEOS | FPÖ | KPÖ | BIER | MFG | Others | Lead |
| Unique Research/HEUTE | 27–30 Jan 2025 | 800 | 40 | 10 | 11 | 9 | 23 | 4 | 1 | – | 2 | 17 |
| Market-Lazarsfeld/oe24.at | 20–22 Jan 2025 | 800 | 36 | 12 | 16 | 10 | 20 | 4 | 1 | – | 1 | 16 |
| IFDD/W24 | 4–6 Dec 2024 | 1,000 | 37 | 11 | 12 | 10 | 22 | 4 | 3 | – | 1 | 15 |
| Market/DER STANDARD | 6–12 Aug 2024 | 771 | 36 | 15 | 10 | 9 | 19 | 3 | 7 | – | 1 | 17 |
| IFDD/W24 | 24–27 Jun 2024 | 1,000 | 36 | 12 | 12 | 8 | 19 | 4 | 7 | – | 2 | 17 |
| IFDD/W24 | 21–26 Mar 2024 | 1,000 | 36 | 11 | 11 | 8 | 21 | 4 | 8 | – | 1 | 15 |
| IFDD/W24 | 14–19 Dec 2023 | 1,026 | 37 | 11 | 11 | 8 | 21 | 3 | 7 | – | 2 | 16 |
| Unique Research/HEUTE | 2–5 Oct 2023 | 813 | 35 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 23 | 3 | 12 | – | 1 | 12 |
| IFDD/WH Media | 3–5 Jun 2023 | 1,000 | 40 | 13 | 11 | 7 | 20 | 3 | 6 | – | 0 | 20 |
| IFDD/WH Media | 1–7 Mar 2023 | 1,000 | 41 | 13 | 11 | 7 | 20 | – | 6 | – | 2 | 21 |
| IFDD/WH Media | 25–29 Nov 2022 | 1,000 | 42 | 11 | 9 | 7 | 19 | – | 8 | – | 4 | 23 |
| IFDD/WH Media | 5–9 Sep 2022 | 1,000 | 42 | 11 | 10 | 8 | 16 | – | 8 | 2 | 3 | 23 |
| TCS-Heuritsch/n.a. | Jun 2022 | 1,000 | 47 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 18 | – | – | 4 | 3 | 22 |
| IFDD/WH Media | 25–28 Apr 2022 | 1,250 | 47 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 14 | – | 5 | 3 | 1 | 21 |
| IFDD/Kronen Zeitung | 21–25 Feb 2022 | 800 | 46 | 12 | 9 | 8 | 14 | – | 6 | 4 | 1 | 23 |
| OGM/Kurier | 22–24 Feb 2022 | 802 | 47 | 13 | 11 | 8 | 13 | – | 3 | 3 | 2 | 19 |
| Market/DER STANDARD | 3–7 Feb 2022 | 805 | 46 | 14 | 13 | 10 | 9 | – | – | 3 | 5 | 28 |
| IFDD/WH Media/W24 | 12–16 Dec 2022 | 1,250 | 45 | 12 | 10 | 9 | 14 | – | – | – | 10 | 31 |
| IFDD/Kronen Zeitung | 4–9 Oct 2021 | 1,000 | 45 | 13 | 11 | 9 | 16 | – | – | – | 6 | 29 |
| Triple M Matzka/W24 | 19–27 Aug 2021 | 1,004 | 45 | 15 | 11 | 11 | 15 | – | – | – | 3 | 30 |
| Peter Hajek/SPÖ Wien | 16–20 Jul 2021 | 800 | 45 | 16 | 10 | 9 | 15 | – | – | – | 5 | 29 |
| Triple M Matzka/W24 | 27 May–4 Jun 2021 | 1,018 | 46 | 15 | 11 | 11 | 13 | – | – | – | 4 | 31 |
| IFDD/Kronen Zeitung | 15–22 Apr 2021 | 803 | 46 | 16 | 9 | 10 | 14 | – | – | – | 5 | 30 |
| Triple M Matzka/W24 | 26 Mar–5 Apr 2021 | 1,014 | 46 | 16 | 11 | 11 | 13 | – | – | – | 3 | 30 |
| Research Affairs/TZ Österreich | 6–8 Apr 2021 | 500 | 45 | 17 | 9 | 10 | 13 | – | – | – | 6 | 28 |
| Unique Research/SPÖ Wien | 19–25 Feb 2021 | 800 | 46 | 19 | 9 | 9 | 12 | – | – | – | 5 | 27 |
| Triple M Matzka/W24 | 5–14 Jan 2021 | 1,009 | 44 | 18 | 12 | 9 | 12 | – | – | – | 5 | 26 |
| OGM/Kurier | 18–19 Nov 2020 | 800 | 43 | 19 | 13 | 10 | 8 | – | – | – | 7 | 24 |
| 2020 state election | 11 Oct 2020 | – | 41.6 | 20.4 | 14.8 | 7.5 | 7.1 | 2.1 | 1.8 | – | 4.5 | 21.2 |