Austrian presidential election, 1998

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Austrian presidential election, 1998
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  1992 19 April 1998 2004  

  Thomas Klestil.jpg Gertraud Knoll 2008.jpg
Nominee Thomas Klestil Gertraud Knoll
Party Independent
(ÖVP)
Independent
(Greens)
Home state Wien Wien
Popular vote2,644,034566,551
Percentage63.1%13.59%

President before election

Thomas Klestil
Non-partisan

President-Elect

Thomas Klestil
Non-partisan

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Presidential elections were held in Austria on 19 April 1998. [1] The result was a victory for incumbent president Thomas Klestil, who sought re-election as an independent candidate. The Austrian People's Party, who had originally put him up in 1992, reluctantly supported him again, while the Austrian Social Democratic Party and the Austrian Freedom Party did not propose any competing candidates. Klestils competitors were Heide Schmidt, leader of the Liberal Forum, Gertraud Knoll, the former Lutheran superintendent of Burgenland (supported by the Greens), socialite Richard Lugner and Karl Walter Nowak.

Austria Federal republic in Central Europe

Austria, officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in Central Europe comprising 9 federated states. Its capital, largest city and one of nine states is Vienna. Austria has an area of 83,879 km2 (32,386 sq mi), a population of nearly 9 million people and a nominal GDP of $477 billion. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Hungary and Slovakia to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west. The terrain is highly mountainous, lying within the Alps; only 32% of the country is below 500 m (1,640 ft), and its highest point is 3,798 m (12,461 ft). The majority of the population speaks local Bavarian dialects as their native language, and German in its standard form is the country's official language. Other regional languages are Hungarian, Burgenland Croatian, and Slovene.

Thomas Klestil Austrian diplomat and politician

Thomas Klestil was an Austrian diplomat and politician. He served as President of Austria in 1992 and was re-elected into office in 1998.

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

CandidatePartyVotes%
Thomas Klestil Independent 2,644,03463.42
Gertraud Knoll Independent 566,55113.59
Heide Schmidt Liberal Forum 464,62511.14
Richard Lugner The Independents 413,0669.91
Karl Nowak Independent 81,0431.94
Invalid/blank votes181,953
Total4,351,272100
Registered voters/turnout5,848,58474.40
Source: Ministry of Interior

By state

State Klestil Knoll Schmidt Lugner Nowak ElectorateVotesValid votesInvalid votes
Burgenland 114,37731,49912,12712,2851,950214,827181,099172,2388,861
Lower Austria 591,163110,35084,05887,96415,8691,136,258929,330889,40439,926
Vienna 347,45398,427121,50294,75911,6001,116,014699,299673,74125,558
Carinthia 194,80238,63924,31428,4934,153425,185305,195290,40114,794
Styria 425,96670,76354,45654,45412,524915,471640,995618,16322,832
Upper Austria 461,139107,46065,86755,14614,444989,228733,913704,05629,857
Salzburg 164,49834,74327,21913,8294,930355,521255,476245,21910,257
Tirol 217,49041,17840,32845,0798,508467,615369,823352,58317,240
Vorarlberg 110,02326,90828,61319,4016,740228,465203,790191,68512,105
Source: European Election Database

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