1949 Austrian legislative election
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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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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] |
Results by state
State | ÖVP | SPÖ | WdU | Linksblock | DU | Others | |||
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![]() | 52.6 | 40.5 | 3.9 | 2.9 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |||
![]() | 34.0 | 41.1 | 20.8 | 4.1 | 0.1 | - | |||
![]() | 54.1 | 36.2 | 4.3 | 5.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |||
![]() | 44.9 | 30.8 | 20.8 | 3.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |||
![]() | 43.7 | 33.6 | 18.6 | 3.3 | 0.3 | 0.6 | |||
![]() | 42.9 | 37.4 | 14.5 | 4.5 | 0.5 | 0.1 | |||
![]() | 56.3 | 23.8 | 17.4 | 1.6 | 0.7 | 0.2 | |||
![]() | 56.4 | 18.9 | 21.9 | 2.4 | 0.4 | - | |||
![]() | 35.5 | 49.2 | 6.8 | 7.9 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |||
![]() | 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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