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Reinhold Lopatka

European People's Party (EPP) · ÖVP

97%participation, 354 of 364 votesMedian: EPP 90% · Austria 95% · all MEPs 89%
94%of votes matched the position of EPP
94%of For and Against votes on the winning side
22votes off the group line, of 354 comparable

Details

How they were elected

List
Österreichische Volkspartei (ÖVP)864,072 votes, 24.5%, 5 seats
Electoral rule
In Austria, personal votes for candidates decide, fully or in part, which of a list's candidates win its seats.

List share and seats: European Parliament, 2024 European election results (results.elections.europa.eu); list votes: sum of the local results in BLUE_EP (Hublet 2024), which matches the official share.

Where the votes came from

Where the Österreichische Volkspartei (ÖVP) list won votes in the 2024 European election

The map shows the share of valid votes won by this list in each of the 2,093 municipalities: 844,974 votes, 24.6% of valid votes. The 19,098 votes cast abroad or by post have no municipality and are not on the map.

7.3% to 23.2%23.2% to 28.7%28.7% to 33.6%33.6% to 39.8%39.8% to 96.2%% of valid votes

Strongest areas (at least 1,000 valid votes)

  • SöldenBezirk Imst, Tirol52.6% · 681
  • SchweiggersBezirk Zwettl, Niederösterreich49.5% · 564
  • Raabs an der ThayaBezirk Waidhofen an der Thaya, Niederösterreich48.5% · 713
  • Hartberg UmgebungBezirk Hartberg-Fürstenfeld, Steiermark48.4% · 537
  • Kirchschlag in der Buckligen WeltBezirk Wiener Neustadt (Land), Niederösterreich48.4% · 701

Results by municipality: BLUE_EP (Hublet, F. (2024). BLUE_EP: A Dataset of Municipality-Level Results of European Parliament Elections. Codebook v1. Paris: Groupe d'études géopolitiques. 10.5281/zenodo.14569325, CC BY 4.0), compiled from the official results. Municipal boundaries: BEV (Bundesamt für Eich- und Vermessungswesen), Verwaltungsgrenzen 1:250 000, 01.04.2024, CC BY 4.0, simplified.

How Reinhold Lopatka voted

Most recent first

Source: European Parliament roll-call votes, via HowTheyVote (ODbL). Collected 8 November 2026.

Off the group line

22 of 354 comparable votes

Votes in 2026

For 295Abstain 7Against 52Did not vote 10

Alignment with each group

Share of Reinhold Lopatka's votes that matched each group's position

EPPown group94%
S&D84%
PfE47%
ECR72%
Renew87%
Greens/EFA74%
The Left47%
ESN32%

In Parliament

Country
Austria
Group
European People's Party (EPP)
National party
ÖVP

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Method

Participation: Share of the votes the Radar follows (HowTheyVote main votes and final roll-call votes) in which the MEP voted. Not attendance; excused absences are not counted. Winning side: Of the For and Against votes, the share on the side of the result: For when adopted, Against when rejected. Abstentions and absences are left out. Off the group line: a vote different from the position of the MEP's own group on that day; divided groups and non-attached members are left out. Full method