1975 Austrian legislative election

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1975 Austrian legislative election

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183 seats in the National Council of Austria
92 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
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Leader Bruno Kreisky Karl Schleinzer Friedrich Peter
Party SPÖ ÖVP FPÖ
Leader since 1967 1971 1958
Last election 93 seats, 50.04% 80 seats, 43.11% 10 seats, 6.29%
Seats won 93 80 10
Seat change Steady Steady Steady
Popular vote 2,326,201 1,981,291 249,444
Percentage 50.42% 42.95% 5.41%
Swing Increase 0.38% Decrease 0.16% Decrease 0.88%

1975 Austrian legislative election - Results.svg
Results of the election, showing seats won by state and nationwide. States are shaded according to the first-place party.

Chancellor before election

Bruno Kreisky
SPÖ

Elected Chancellor

Bruno Kreisky
SPÖ

Parliamentary elections were held in Austria on 5 October 1975.[1] The result was a victory for the Socialist Party, which won 93 of the 183 seats. Voter turnout was 92.9%.[2]

Results[]

Party Votes % Seats +/–
Socialist Party of Austria 2,326,201 50.4 93 0
Austrian People's Party 1,981,291 42.9 80 0
Freedom Party of Austria 249,444 5.4 10 0
Communist Party of Austria 55,032 1.2 0 0
Group of Revolutionary Marxists 1,024 0.0 0 New
Steinacher Franz List 440 0.0 0 0
Invalid/blank votes 49,252
Total 4,662,684 100 183 0
Source: Nohlen & Stöver
Popular vote
SPÖ
50.42%
ÖVP
42.94%
FPÖ
5.41%
KPÖ
1.19%
Other
0.03%
Parliamentary seats
SPÖ
50.93%
ÖVP
43.72%
FPÖ
5.46%

References[]

  1. ^ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p196 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
  2. ^ Nohlen & Stöver, p215


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