Waldviertel (National Council electoral district)

Waldviertel
Electoral District for the National Council
Location of Waldviertel within Austria
District	List Gmünd Horn Krems an der Donau City Krems an der Donau Waidhofen an der Thaya Zwettl
State	Lower Austria
Population	215,838 (2024)[1]
Electorate	177,574 (2019)
Area	4,615 km2 (2023)[2]
Current Electoral District
Created	1994
Seats	5 (1994–present)
Members[3]	List   Lukas Brandweiner (ÖVP)   Martina Diesner-Wais (ÖVP)

Waldviertel, also known as Electoral District 3B (German: Wahlkreis 3B), is one of the 39 multi-member regional electoral districts of the National Council, the lower house of the Austrian Parliament, the national legislature of Austria. The electoral district was created in 1992 when electoral regulations were amended to add regional electoral districts to the existing state-wide electoral districts and came into being at the following legislative election in 1994. It consists of the city of Krems an der Donau and the districts of Gmünd, Horn, Krems an der Donau, Waidhofen an der Thaya and Zwettl in the state of Lower Austria. The electoral district currently elects five of the 183 members of the National Council using the open party-list proportional representation electoral system. At the 2019 legislative election the constituency had 177,574 registered electors.