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]
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165 seats in the National Council of Austria 83 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Results of the election, showing seats won by constituency and nationwide. Constituencies are shaded according to the first-place party. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Results
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| Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
| Austrian People's Party | 1,846,581 | 44.03 | 77 | –8 | |
| Socialist Party of Austria | 1,623,524 | 38.71 | 67 | –9 | |
| Electoral Party of Independents | 489,273 | 11.67 | 16 | New | |
| Communist Party of Austria and Left Socialists | 213,066 | 5.08 | 5 | +1 | |
| Democratic Union | 12,059 | 0.29 | 0 | New | |
| Fourth Party | 7,134 | 0.17 | 0 | New | |
| Democratic Front of the Working People | 2,088 | 0.05 | 0 | New | |
| Democratic Party of Austria | 5 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | |
| Economic Party of House and Property Owners | 3 | 0.00 | 0 | New | |
| Austrian Patriotic Party | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | New | |
| Total | 4,193,733 | 100.00 | 165 | 0 | |
| Valid votes | 4,193,733 | 98.66 | |||
| Invalid/blank votes | 56,883 | 1.34 | |||
| Total votes | 4,250,616 | 100.00 | |||
| Registered voters/turnout | 4,391,815 | 96.78 | |||
| Source: Nohlen & Stöver[3] | |||||
References
edit- ^ The Development of Right-Wing Extremism After 1945 Documentation Archive of Austrian Resistance
- ^ Austrian Cabinets since 1945 Austrian Chancellery
- ^ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, pp213–219 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7