Editing Open list (section)

====Austria====

The members of the [[National Council (Austria)|National Council]] are elected by open list [[proportional representation]] in nine multi-member constituencies based on the [[States of Austria|states]] (with varying in size from 7 to 36 seats) and 39 districts. Voters are able to cast a single party vote and one preference votes each on the federal, state and electoral district level for their preferred candidates within that party. The thresholds for a candidate to move up the list are 7% of the candidate's party result on the federal level, 10% on the state level and 14% on the electoral district level.<ref>[https://www.help.gv.at/Portal.Node/hlpd/public/content/32/Seite.320260.html Vorzugsstimmenvergabe bei einer Nationalratswahl ("''Preferential voting in a federal election''")] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190302115618/https://www.help.gv.at/Portal.Node/hlpd/public/content/32/Seite.320260.html |date=2019-03-02 }} [[HELP.gv.at]]</ref> Candidates for the district level are listed on the ballot while voters need to write-in their preferred candidate on state and federal level.