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1979 Austrian legislative election
← 1975 6 May 1979 1983 →
All 183 seats in the National Council
92 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Bruno Kreisky Josef Taus Alexander Götz
Party SPÖ ÖVP FPÖ
Last election 50.42%, 93 seats 42.95%, 80 seats, 5.41%, 10 seats,
Seats won 95 77 11
Seat change Increase 2 Decrease 3 Increase 1
Popular vote 2,413,226 1,981,739 286,789
Percentage 51.03% 41.90% 6.06%
Swing Increase0.61 pp Decrease1.05 pp Increase0.65 pp
Results by state
Chancellor before election

Bruno Kreisky
SPÖ

Elected Chancellor

Bruno Kreisky
SPÖ

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Parliamentary elections were held in Austria on 6 May 1979. The Socialist Party won a fourth term in government, taking 95 of the 183 seats. Voter turnout was 92.2%. As of the 2017 elections, this is the most seats that an Austrian party has won in a free election, as well as the last time that an Austrian party has won an outright majority.

Results

PartyVotes%Seats+/–
Social Democratic Party of Austria2,413,22651.0395+2
Austrian People's Party1,981,73941.9077–3
Freedom Party of Austria286,7436.0611+1
Communist Party of Austria45,2800.9600
Christian Social Labour Group2,2630.050New
Total4,729,251100.001830
Valid votes4,729,25198.85
Invalid/blank votes54,9221.15
Total votes4,784,173100.00
Registered voters/turnout5,186,73592.24
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

Results by state

State SPÖ ÖVP FPÖ KPÖ CSA
 Burgenland 52.9 43.9 2.7 0.4 -
 Carinthia 56.2 32.6 10.0 1.1 -
 Lower Austria 48.4 47.3 3.6 0.7 -
 Upper Austria 50.3 41.8 7.2 0.7 -
 Salzburg 44.9 43.0 11.4 0.6 -
 Styria 51.4 41.4 6.1 1.1 -
 Tyrol 37.7 55.4 5.7 0.6 0.7
 Vorarlberg 33.4 54.9 10.7 0.9 -
 Vienna 60.6 33.2 4.7 1.5 -
 Austria 51.0 41.9 6.1 1.0 0.1
Source: Institute for Social Research and Consulting (SORA)

References

  1. Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p196 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
  2. Nohlen & Stöver, p215
  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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