Austrian legislative election, 1962

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Austrian legislative election, 1962
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  1959 18 November 1962 1966  

165 seats in the National Council of Austria
83 seats needed for a majority

 First partySecond partyThird party
  Alfons Gorbach 1965.jpg Bruno Pittermann.jpg No image.svg
Leader Alfons Gorbach Bruno Pittermann Friedrich Peter
Party ÖVP SPÖ FPÖ
Leader since196019571958
Last election79 seats, 44.19%78 seats, 44.79%8 seats, 7.70%
Seats won81768
Seat changeIncrease2.svg 2Decrease2.svg 2Steady2.svg
Popular vote2,024,5011,960,685313,895
Percentage45.43%44.00%7.04%
SwingIncrease2.svg 1.24%Decrease2.svg 0.79%Decrease2.svg 0.66%

Chancellor before election

Alfons Gorbach
ÖVP

Elected Chancellor

Alfons Gorbach
ÖVP

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Parliamentary elections were held in Austria on 18 November 1962. [1] The result was a victory for the Austrian People's Party, which won 81 of the 165 seats. Voter turnout was 93.8%. [2] Although the People's Party had come up only two seats short of an outright majority, Chancellor Alfons Gorbach (who had succeeded Julius Raab a year earlier) retained the grand coalition with the Socialists under Vice-Chancellor Bruno Pittermann.

Austria Federal republic in Central Europe

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Austrian Peoples Party conservative political party in Austria

The Austrian People's Party is a Christian-democratic and conservative political party in Austria. A successor to the Christian Social Party of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, it was founded immediately following the reestablishment of the Republic of Austria in 1945 and since then has been one of the two largest Austrian political parties with the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ). In federal governance, the ÖVP has spent most of the postwar era in a grand coalition with the SPÖ. Most recently, it has been junior partner in a coalition government with the SPÖ since 2007. However, the ÖVP won the 2017 election, having the greatest number of seats and formed a coalition with the national-conservative Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ). Its chairman Sebastian Kurz is the youngest Chancellor in Austrian history.

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Results

PartyVotes%Seats+/–
Austrian People's Party 2,024,50145.481+2
Socialist Party of Austria 1,960,68544.076–2
Freedom Party of Austria 313,8957.080
Communists and Left Socialists 135,5203.000
European Federal Party of Austria21,5300.50New
Invalid/blank votes49,876
Total4,506,0071001650
Source: Nohlen & Stöver
Popular vote
ÖVP
45.43%
SPÖ
44.00%
FPÖ
7.04%
KLS
3.04%
EFP
0.48%
Parliamentary seats
ÖVP
49.09%
SPÖ
46.06%
FPÖ
4.85%

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References

  1. Nohlen, Dieter; Stöver, Philip (31 May 2010). Elections in Europe: A data handbook. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft. p. 196. ISBN   978-3-8329-5609-7.
  2. Nohlen & Stöver, p214