rajo
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I have made a short analysis of Austrian votes (televotes) since 1997.
So, here are the (not very surprising) results:
1. Serbia 92,5% of all Austrian votes
(2. Aserbaijan 80%)
3. Bosnia & Hercegovina 77,5%
(4. Bulgaria 60%)
5. Turkey 57,5%
6. Germany 54,4%
7. Croatia 51,3%
(8. Armenia 50%)
9. Poland 42,5%
10. Albania 40%
Countries in brakes imply that Austria met them only once so far, so votes don't necessarily allocate on a certain pattern. With Aserbaijan, one could suggest it was the flavour of Turkish immigrants when Turkey failed to qualify (2011). Bulgaria and Armenia were met in 2007, but never before or after.
All the other countries in this list can moreorless rely on Austrian votes.
An explanation might be found in the aggregation of the Austrian population:
According to census information published by Statistik Austria for 2001 there were a total of 710,926 foreign nationals living in Austria. Of these, the largest by far are 283,334 foreign nationals from the former Yugoslavia (of whom 135,376 speak Serbian; 105,487 Croatian; 31.551 Bosnian).
The next largest population of linguistic and ethnic groups are the 124,392 who speak German as their mother tongue even though they hail from outside of Austria (mainly immigrants from Germany, some from Switzerland and South Tyrol, Italy); 123,417 who speak Turkish; 25,155 English; 24,446 Albanian; 17,899 Polish; 14,699 Hungarian; 12,216 Romanian; 7,982 Arabic; 6,891 Slovak; 6,707 Czech; 5,916 Persian; 5,677 Italian; 5,466 Russian; 5,213 French; 4,938 Chinese; 4,264 Spanish; 3,503 Bulgarian. The populations of the rest fall off sharply below 3,000. Between 200,000 and 300,000 ethnic Turks (including minority of Turkish Kurds) currently live in Austria. They are the largest single immigrant group in Austria, closely followed by the Serbs.
So it's easy to see Austrian televotes are very biased.
In the years of winning Ukraine and Greece, Austria contributed 4 points respectively. The higher marks were allocated to the above mentioned.
On the other hand, the very successful countries of Greece, Ukraine, Sweden etc. got ridiculously low marks from Austria.
Here is a map I created based on the points given between 1997 and 2011.
http://www.bilder-space.de/show_img.php?img=005022-1330211184.gif&size=original
The greener and the bluer the countries are, the more points they get.
Yellow ones are somewhere in the middle. Apricot and orange ones hardly ever received points, and red ones, never got points in the history of Austrian televoting, including Spain, Portugal, France and Finland.
The more westwards you go, the less likely you see points from Austria.
So, here are the (not very surprising) results:
1. Serbia 92,5% of all Austrian votes
(2. Aserbaijan 80%)
3. Bosnia & Hercegovina 77,5%
(4. Bulgaria 60%)
5. Turkey 57,5%
6. Germany 54,4%
7. Croatia 51,3%
(8. Armenia 50%)
9. Poland 42,5%
10. Albania 40%
Countries in brakes imply that Austria met them only once so far, so votes don't necessarily allocate on a certain pattern. With Aserbaijan, one could suggest it was the flavour of Turkish immigrants when Turkey failed to qualify (2011). Bulgaria and Armenia were met in 2007, but never before or after.
All the other countries in this list can moreorless rely on Austrian votes.
An explanation might be found in the aggregation of the Austrian population:
According to census information published by Statistik Austria for 2001 there were a total of 710,926 foreign nationals living in Austria. Of these, the largest by far are 283,334 foreign nationals from the former Yugoslavia (of whom 135,376 speak Serbian; 105,487 Croatian; 31.551 Bosnian).
The next largest population of linguistic and ethnic groups are the 124,392 who speak German as their mother tongue even though they hail from outside of Austria (mainly immigrants from Germany, some from Switzerland and South Tyrol, Italy); 123,417 who speak Turkish; 25,155 English; 24,446 Albanian; 17,899 Polish; 14,699 Hungarian; 12,216 Romanian; 7,982 Arabic; 6,891 Slovak; 6,707 Czech; 5,916 Persian; 5,677 Italian; 5,466 Russian; 5,213 French; 4,938 Chinese; 4,264 Spanish; 3,503 Bulgarian. The populations of the rest fall off sharply below 3,000. Between 200,000 and 300,000 ethnic Turks (including minority of Turkish Kurds) currently live in Austria. They are the largest single immigrant group in Austria, closely followed by the Serbs.
So it's easy to see Austrian televotes are very biased.
In the years of winning Ukraine and Greece, Austria contributed 4 points respectively. The higher marks were allocated to the above mentioned.
On the other hand, the very successful countries of Greece, Ukraine, Sweden etc. got ridiculously low marks from Austria.
Here is a map I created based on the points given between 1997 and 2011.
http://www.bilder-space.de/show_img.php?img=005022-1330211184.gif&size=original
The greener and the bluer the countries are, the more points they get.
Yellow ones are somewhere in the middle. Apricot and orange ones hardly ever received points, and red ones, never got points in the history of Austrian televoting, including Spain, Portugal, France and Finland.
The more westwards you go, the less likely you see points from Austria.
