Südtiroler Gemeinderatswahlen 2020 – Eine Wahl in Zeiten von Covid-19

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Abstract	During the 2020 South Tyrolean municipal election that was postponed due to Covid-19-crisis, 113 municipal councils were up for election – parallel to the Italian confirming constitutional referendum. One of the peculiarities of this local council election was its election campaign: It was atypically short without any major capital investments in most municipalities. Possible reasons for this might be the election date (it was set close to the holiday season), the lack of political competition and the Covid-19-situation. The result itself was not groundbreaking, even if some surprise winners occurred. The SVP was still able to live up to its claim of being the mayoral party with 101 mandates in the 116 municipalities in 2020. It was particularly surprising that 10 incumbent mayors were voted out of office and 4 new mayors were younger than 35. For the first time in the last 25 years, there was a slowdown in the voter turnout reduction trend. This was underpinned by higher turnouts from large municipalities. However, it turned out that more than 80 municipalities experienced a renewed reduction. Especially in municipalities with low or even no political competition, the number of white/invalid votes and nonvoters increased. A rise in political competition could counteract this ongoing trend and avoid the accompanying threat of provisional administrations.
Authors	Gasser, Florian
Editors	Pallaver, Günther; Alber, Elisabeth & Engl, Alice
Language	German
Subjects	business studies social sciences political science
HSG Classification	contribution to practical use / society
Date	15 April 2021
Publisher	Raetia Edition
Place of Publication	Bozen
Series Name	Politika - Südtiroler Jahrbuch für Politik
Page Range	213-236
Number of Pages	24
Title of Book	Politika 2021
ISBN	978-88-7283-771-9
Official URL	https://www.raetia.com/de/geschichte-und-politik/6...
Depositing User	Florian Gasser
Date Deposited	03 May 2021 08:07
Last Modified	20 Jul 2022 17:45
URI:	https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/publications/263104

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Gasser, Florian: Südtiroler Gemeinderatswahlen 2020 – Eine Wahl in Zeiten von Covid-19. In Pallaver, Günther; Alber, Elisabeth & Engl, Alice (ed.): Politika 2021. Bozen : Raetia Edition, 2021, S. 213-236.

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