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Provincial constituencies, electoral districts


(1) The federal territory is divided in nine provincial constituencies for the purposes of the elections; in this case every province constitutes a provincial constituency.
The provincial constituency carries the name of the respective province and receives a number, corresponding to the alphabetical order of all provinces.


(2) Irrespective of the provisions on casting a vote by means of a voting card, the casting of votes takes place in the presence of the local election officials. Local election officials are the municipal election officials and the ward elections authorities.


(3) Fundamentally every political district, in the provinces of Lower Austria and Vorarlberg every administrative district, as well as every town with an own charter constitutes a constituency. In the City of Vienna every municipal district is also an electoral district.