2022 Tirol Senate election

2022 Tirol Senate election

30 January 2022 (2022-01-30)
15 of the 18 seats in the Senate of Tirol 10 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered	23,032,763 2.3%
Turnout	16,193,584 (70.3%)
First party Second party   Leader Erwin Moroder Kevin Hulm Party Labour League Alliance Socialists Traditionalists Leader since 1 February 2016 3 February 2016 Leader's seat Council I Passeier I Last election 6 7 Seats won 4 7 Seats after 6 7 Seat change Popular vote 14,944,958 14,163,904 Percentage 30.8% 29.2%   Third party Fourth party   Leader Nina Spescha Paolo Montanelli Party Greens Freedom and Justice Alliance Socialists Traditionalists Leader's seat Trentin I Ziller II (I) Last election 0 1 Seats won 2 2 Seat change 2 1 Popular vote 7,196,337 1,551,985 Percentage 14.8% 3.2%
Results of the 2022 Senate election
Speaker before election Erwin Moroder Labour Elected Speaker Erwin Moroder Labour

The 2022 Tirol Senate election was held on Sunday, 30 January 2022, the last Sunday of January as required by the Tiroler constitution. The 15 elected seats of the Senate are up for election, with the three appointed seats not to be reallocated until 2023.

Background

The 2022 Tirol Senate election will be the first since the 2016 Ozidenta scandal which resulted in a collapse in the vote-share of the Internationale Party.

The 2019 protests are a major point of debate, Ulrike Kindle's response to the crisis has attracted a great deal of criticism from opposition parties on both sides of the political spectrum.

Senators at dissolution

With no senators leaving office between the 2016 election and the end of 2021, there have been no by-elections in this term. Hence all senators at dissolution were those selected for the 2016 election.

District	Senator	Party	Seat	First elected
1	Erwin Moroder	Lab	Council I	2005
2	Albert Cela	Lab	Council II	2005
3	Beto Loria	Int	Council III	2017
4	Marko Blume	Lab	Adesc I	2016
5	Lia Suente	Lab	Adesc II	2010
6	Carolina Metteo	Lab	Adesc III	2010
7	Eduardo Monterrosa Galdámez	Liga	Inn I	2016
8	Briano dl Calfosch	Liga	Inn II	2004
9	Manuel Carador	Lab	Inn III	2016
10	Kevin Hulm	Liga	Passeier I	2004
11	Tomas Vierso	Liga	Passeier II	1998
12	Carlie Torane	Liga	Passeier III	2016
13	Ciaran Ozid	Int	Trentin I	2010
14	Russel Sante	Int	Trentin II	2016
15	Giano Osmundson	Int	Trentin III	2004
16	Nico Salatorc	Liga	Ziller I	1998
17	Paolo Montanelli	LPP	Ziller II	2004
18	Monte Barilla	Liga	Ziller III	2010

Candidate selection

All candidates who sought re-election were successfully reselected. The two seats with incumbents standing down engaged in extensive selection processes.

Tomas Vierso, the incumbent League Party senator for Passeier II, resigned, a shortlist of five candidates was published during November 2021. Of the candidates, Markus Salaria, former mayor of Maran, was selected.

Internationale selected a replacement for Giano Osmundson on 25 March 2018 after his announcement that he would be standing down at the termination of his term. Nicola Anpezo was selected as the Internationale candidate for Trentin III.

Electoral system

The 2022 Senate election will be conducted using the same system of plurality in triple member constituencies as the previous election. The electorate of each province elects three senators in three separate contests.

Tiroler citizens living abroad are entitled to vote in the last province they were legally resident in Tirol, so long as they ceased being resident at most sixteen years ago.

Senators not standing for re-election

Vierso, the senator for Passeier II, is standing down at the termination of this term following a number of accusations of bullying and workplace harassment. Though he "categorically denies" all such claims, he has stated that in order for public confidence in the senate to be fully restored, it was in the national interest not to seek re-election. Osmundson of the Internationale Party is standing down at the termination of this term, though he has not provided reasoning for his resignation, a report from the Innsbruck Zeita claimed his campaign did not believe that he could win re-election following the 2016 Ozidenta scandal.

Opinion polling

Main article: Opinion polling for the 2022 Tirol Senate election

The chart below shows opinion polls conducted for the 2022 Tirol Senate election. The trend lines are local regressions (LOESS).

Results

Summary

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1	6	2	2	7
Int	Labour	Greens	F&J	League

Party		Leader	Senators				Votes
				Of total		+/–		Of total
	Labour	Erwin Moroder	6	33.3%	6 / 18	0	14,944,958	30.8%
	League	Kevin Hulm	7	38.9%	7 / 18	0	14,163,904	29.2%
	Greens	Nina Spescha	2	11.1%	2 / 18	2	7,196,337	14.8%
	Internationale	Russel Sante	1	5.6%	1 / 18	3	2,154,586	4.4%
	Freedom and Justice	Paolo Montanelli	2	11.1%	2 / 18	1	1,551,985	3.2%
	Alliance	Thomas Calonder	0	0.0%	0 / 18	–	4,813,717	9.9%
	Liberty	Amadio Irsara	0	0.0%	0 / 18	–	2,664,731	5.5%
	Red Eagle	Joseph Planta	0	0.0%	0 / 18	–	261,311	0.5%
	National Corporatists	Felice Rudiferia	0	0.0%	0 / 18	–	231,418	0.5%
	Free Voters of Trentin	Christoffel Brändli	0	0.0%	0 / 18	–	193,315	0.4%
	Adige Party	Marc Rousseau	0	0.0%	0 / 18	–	60,012	0.1%
	Red Penguin	No leader	0	0.0%	0 / 18	–	50,146	0.1%
Blank and invalid votes							294,332	–	–
Total			18				16,193,584	100%
Registered voters and turnout							23,032,763	70.3%

Results by province

Provinzia Adesc

Provinzia Adesc

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Marko Blume*	1,662,742	46.9
	Labour	Lia Suente*	1,494,860	42.2
	Labour	Carolina Metteo*	1,422,194	40.1
	League	Manuel dla Val	1,394,914	39.4
	League	Andreas Polster	1,348,770	38.1
	League	Alessandro Kindle	1,169,564	33.0
	Greens	Marc Llewelyn	728,826	20.6
	Greens	Julia Bachegn	534,620	15.1
	Alliance	Micael Lazaro	308,972	8.7
	Alliance	Carle Perathoner	293,530	8.3
	Internationale	Maria Lachese	116,324	3.3
	Adige	Marc Rousseau	60,012	1.7
Turnout			3,544,134	75.25
	Labour hold
	Labour hold
	Labour hold

Provinzia Inn

Provinzia Inn

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	League	Eduardo Monterrosa Galdámez*	2,010,450	38.0
	League	Briano dl Calfosch*	1,989,287	37.6
	League	Marie Persenù	1,978,758	37.4
	Labour	Manuel Carador*	1,978,706	37.4
	Labour	Jesus Catolin	1,974,473	37.3
	Labour	Siegfrid Ragnarsson	1,973,415	37.3
	Greens	Giuani Veraguth	544,937	10.3
	Greens	Sofia Guanella	534,356	10.1
	Alliance	Luca Nöia	497,321	9.4
	Alliance	Sara Cjastelfon	481,449	9.1
	Alliance	Andreas Zill	476,159	9.0
	Greens	Vitor Killias	476,144	9.0
	Liberty	Franzis Mei	121,697	2.3
	Internationale	Meta dl Salis	121,661	2.3
	Liberty	Lara Raffl	112,102	2.1
	Internationale	Jacub Pesko	111,103	2.1
	Liberty	Martin dl Appan	105,813	2.0
	Internationale	Ruedi Rocca	105,809	2.0
	Freedom & Justice	Rosa la Nicca	52,906	1.0
	Freedom & Justice	Marko Corvi	48,144	0.9
	Freedom & Justice	Robert Theus	47,615	0.9
	National Corporatists	Ricarde Olgiati	31,743	0.6
	National Corporatists	Enzo Curschellas	31,701	0.6
	Red Eagle	Joseph Planta	26,453	0.5
	Red Penguin	Josias Coaz	26,443	0.5
Turnout			5,290,658	71.19
	League hold
	League hold
	League gain from Labour

Provinzia Passeier

Provinzia Passeier

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	League	Kevin Hulm*	877,210	32.0
	League	Carlie Torane*	874,743	31.9
	League	Markus Salaria	874,469	31.9
	Alliance	Elisa Calonder	816,915	29.8
	Alliance	Thomas Calonder	816,902	29.8
	Alliance	Felix Tumler	811,420	29.6
	Liberty	Binia Ragaz	557,028	20.3
	Liberty	Amadio Irsara	556,480	20.3
	Liberty	Alfons Mezuo	556,206	20.3
	Greens	Martin Tiefenthaler	232,318	8.5
	Greens	Angelica Vuleta	228,206	8.3
	Greens	Giuani Indermaur	222,044	8.1
	Labour	Antone Trebo	219,878	8.0
	Labour	Ulrich Soglio	219,576	8.0
	Labour	Clara Rosafio	218,754	8.0
	National Corporatists	Felice Rudiferia	16,223	0.6
	Red Penguin	Hugo Declara	13,482	0.5
Turnout			2,741,284	75.91
	League hold
	League hold
	League hold

Provinzia Trentin

Provinzia Trentin

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Greens	Nina Spescha	1,295,089	41.0
	Greens	Laurien Blaesi	1,171,897	37.1
	Labour Co-op	Donat Cadruvi	1,137,467	36.0
	Greens	Adolf Janka	1,137,151	36.0
	Labour Co-op	Vita Huonder	1,130,833	35.8
	Labour Co-op	Martina Carigiet	1,118,198	35.4
	Internationale	Nicola Anpezo	663,338	21.0
	Internationale	Russel Sante*	511,718	16.2
	Internationale	Ciaran Ozid*	508,559	16.1
	Alliance	Thomas Planta	132,667	4.2
	Alliance	Flury Ravanel	120,032	3.8
	Free Voters of Trentin	Christoffel Brändli	98,553	3.1
	League	Andrea Bezzola	97,921	3.1
	League	Maurus Decurtins	94,762	3.0
	Free Voters of Trentin	Tonia Zindel	94,760	3.0
	League	Giacun Camenisch	91,603	2.9
	Liberty	Arno Accola	37,905	1.2
Turnout			9,476,262	65.62
	Greens gain from Internationale
	Greens gain from Internationale
	Labour gain from Internationale

Provinzia Ziller

Provinzia Ziller

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Freedom & Justice	Paolo Montanelli*	568,914	39.0
	League	Nico Salatorc*	554,326	38.0
	Freedom & Justice	Christian Janka	428,873	29.4
	Freedom & Justice	Florian Hemmi	405,533	27.8
	League	Monte Barilla*	404,074	27.7
	League	Jordan dla Featte	403,053	27.6
	Liberty	Stjepan Leutenegger	310,714	21.3
	Liberty	Soloman Gmür	307,797	21.1
	Labour	Beat Braune	132,746	9.1
	Labour	Violetta Bavier	131,287	9.0
	Labour	Ilira Federa	129,829	8.9
	Red Eagle	Andre Hilty	121,076	8.3
	Red Eagle	Paulo Bruggencate	113,782	7.8
	National Corporatists	Simeon dl Pala	77,313	5.3
	National Corporatists	Annabeth Valerio	74,396	5.1
	Alliance	Heini Lohrer	58,350	4.0
	Greens	Alfred Moritzi	45,513	3.1
	Greens	Manuel Camartin	45,221	3.1
	Internationale	Enzo Bundi	16,046	1.1
	Red Penguin	Simona Guanella	10,211	0.7
Turnout			4,376,262	59.16
	Freedom & Justice hold
	League hold
	Freedom & Justice gain from League

See also

• Elections in Tirol