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1949 Austrian legislative election

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1949 Austrian legislative election

← 1945 9 October 1949 1953 →

165 seats in the National Council of Austria
83 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party
 
Leader Leopold Figl Adolf Schärf
Party ÖVP SPÖ
Last election 49.80%, 85 seats 44.60%, 76 seats
Seats won 77 67
Seat change Decrease 8 Decrease 9
Popular vote 1,846,581 1,623,524
Percentage 44.03% 38.71%
Swing Decrease5.77 pp Decrease5.91 pp

  Third party Fourth party
 
Leader Herbert Kraus Johann Koplenig
Party VdU KPÖ
Last election 5.42%, 4 seats
Seats won 16 5
Seat change New Increase 1
Popular vote 489,273 213,066
Percentage 11.67% 5.08%
Swing New Decrease0.34 pp

Results of the election, showing seats won by constituency and nationwide. Constituencies are shaded according to the first-place party.

Chancellor before election

Leopold Figl
ÖVP

Elected Chancellor

Leopold Figl
ÖVP

Parliamentary elections were held in Austria on 9 October 1949. About 500,000 registered Nazis, who were not allowed to vote in 1945, regained their voting rights. A newly created party, the Electoral Party of Independents (WdU) (a predecessor of the Freedom Party of Austria) specifically targeted this group of voters and immediately won a large share of votes.[1] The Austrian People's Party remained strongest party, although losing their absolute majority of seats. Leopold Figl stayed as Chancellor, leading a coalition with the Socialist Party of Austria as junior partner.[2]

Results

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PartyVotes%Seats+/–
Austrian People's Party1,846,58144.0377–8
Socialist Party of Austria1,623,52438.7167–9
Electoral Party of Independents489,27311.6716New
Communist Party of Austria and Left Socialists213,0665.085+1
Democratic Union12,0590.290New
Fourth Party7,1340.170New
Democratic Front of the Working People2,0880.050New
Democratic Party of Austria50.0000
Economic Party of House and Property Owners30.000New
Austrian Patriotic Party00.000New
Total4,193,733100.001650
Valid votes4,193,73398.66
Invalid/blank votes56,8831.34
Total votes4,250,616100.00
Registered voters/turnout4,391,81596.78
Source: Nohlen & Stöver[3]

Results by state

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State ÖVP SPÖ WdU Linksblock DU Others
 Burgenland 52.6 40.5 3.9 2.9 0.1 0.1
 Carinthia 34.0 41.1 20.8 4.1 0.1 -
 Lower Austria 54.1 36.2 4.3 5.1 0.1 0.2
 Upper Austria 44.9 30.8 20.8 3.1 0.2 0.2
 Salzburg 43.7 33.6 18.6 3.3 0.3 0.6
 Styria 42.9 37.4 14.5 4.5 0.5 0.1
 Tyrol 56.3 23.8 17.4 1.6 0.7 0.2
 Vorarlberg 56.4 18.9 21.9 2.4 0.4 -
 Vienna 35.5 49.2 6.8 7.9 0.3 0.2
 Austria 44.0 38.7 11.7 5.1 0.3 0.2
Source: Institute for Social Research and Consulting (SORA)[4]

References

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  1. ^ The Development of Right-Wing Extremism After 1945 Documentation Archive of Austrian Resistance
  2. ^ Austrian Cabinets since 1945 Austrian Chancellery
  3. ^ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, pp213–219 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
  4. ^ Institute for Social Research and Consulting (SORA) (2019-07-24), National election results Austria 1919 - 2017 (OA edition) (in German), Austrian Social Science Data Archive (AUSSDA), doi:10.11587/EQUDAL