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1962 Austrian legislative election
← 1959 18 November 1962 1966 →
165 seats in the National Council of Austria
83 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Alfons Gorbach Bruno Pittermann Friedrich Peter
Party ÖVP SPÖ FPÖ
Last election 44.19%, 79 seats 44.79%, 78 seats 7.70%, 8 seats
Seats won 81 76 8
Seat change Increase 2 Decrease 2 Steady
Popular vote 2,024,501 1,960,685 313,895
Percentage 45.43% 44.00% 7.04%
Swing Increase 1.24 pp Decrease 0.79 pp Decrease 0.66 pp
Results by constituency
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. The result was a victory for the Austrian People's Party, which won 81 of the 165 seats. Voter turnout was 94%. 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.

Results

PartyVotes%Seats+/–
Austrian People's Party2,024,50145.4381+2
Socialist Party of Austria1,960,68544.0076–2
Freedom Party of Austria313,8957.0480
Communists and Left Socialists135,5203.0400
European Federal Party of Austria21,5300.480New
Total4,456,131100.001650
Valid votes4,456,13198.89
Invalid/blank votes49,8761.11
Total votes4,506,007100.00
Registered voters/turnout4,805,35193.77
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

Results by state

State ÖVP SPÖ FPÖ KLS EFP
 Burgenland 48.7 46.3 4.0 1.0 -
 Carinthia 34.2 49.7 12.5 3.2 0.4
 Lower Austria 52.2 41.7 3.4 2.6 0.1
 Upper Austria 48.6 41.3 8.0 1.8 0.2
 Salzburg 46.1 38.5 13.7 1.8 -
 Styria 46.5 43.2 6.8 3.4 -
 Tyrol 61.9 30.0 6.5 1.0 0.6
 Vorarlberg 55.9 28.0 14.9 1 -
 Vienna 34.5 52.4 6.6 5.0 1.4
 Austria 45.4 44.0 7.0 3.0 0.5
Source: Institute for Social Research and Consulting (SORA)

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
  3. "National election results Austria 1919 - 2017 (OA edition)", Institute for Social Research and Consulting (SORA) (in German), Austrian Social Science Data Archive (AUSSDA), 2019-07-24, doi:10.11587/EQUDAL
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