Volt Austria (short name: Volt; german: Volt Österreich) is a political party in

Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...

and the Austrian chapter of

Volt Europa Volt Europa (frequently abbreviated as Volt) is a pro-European and European federalist political movement that also serves as the pan-European structure for subsidiary parties in several EU member states. Volt candidates stood on a common, pan- ...

a progressive and Eurofederalist pan-European political party and movement.

History

Volt Austria has been registered as a party since October 12, 2018 with the aim of contesting the European elections 2019. However, the around 100 members (April 2019) did not manage to collect the necessary 2600 declarations of support for a candidacy. Thus, Volt was not eligible to run in the European elections in Austria.

Elections

2020

Volt Austria contested the municipal council and state parliament elections in

Vienna en, Viennese , iso_code = AT-9 , registration_plate = W , postal_code_type = Postal code , postal_code = , timezone = CET , utc_offset = +1 , timezone_DST ...

2020 in two of the 23 electoral districts and received 102 votes, which corresponds to 0.01% of the vote across Vienna. In the 2020 district representation election in Vienna, the party contested the 2nd to 10th districts and the 21st district and received 621 votes, equivalent to 0.08% of the vote across Vienna.

2021

In 2021, the party contested the city council election in

Linz Linz ( , ; cs, Linec) is the capital of Upper Austria and third-largest city in Austria. In the north of the country, it is on the Danube south of the Czech border. In 2018, the population was 204,846. In 2009, it was a European Capital of ...

, and received 112 votes (0.12%).

Structure

The party is organized in local and regional teams and active in

Upper Austria Upper Austria (german: Oberösterreich ; bar, Obaöstareich) is one of the nine states or of Austria. Its capital is Linz. Upper Austria borders Germany and the Czech Republic, as well as the other Austrian states of Lower Austria, Styria, a ...

Salzburg Salzburg (, ; literally "Salt-Castle"; bar, Soizbuag, label=Bavarian language, Austro-Bavarian) is the List of cities and towns in Austria, fourth-largest city in Austria. In 2020, it had a population of 156,872. The town is on the site of the ...

Styria Styria (german: Steiermark ; Serbo-Croatian and sl, ; hu, Stájerország) is a state (''Bundesland'') in the southeast of Austria. With an area of , Styria is the second largest state of Austria, after Lower Austria. Styria is bordered to ...

Tyrol Tyrol (; historically the Tyrole; de-AT, Tirol ; it, Tirolo) is a historical region in the Alps - in Northern Italy and western Austria. The area was historically the core of the County of Tyrol, part of the Holy Roman Empire, Austrian Emp ...

, Vorarlbeg and Vienna.

External links

Official website

References

{{Volt Europa

Pro-European political parties in Austria Political parties in Austria 2018 establishments in Austria Political parties established in 2018