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1983 Austrian legislative election
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All 183 seats in the National Council
92 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Bruno Kreisky Alois Mock Norbert Steger
Party SPÖ ÖVP FPÖ
Last election 51.03%, 95 seats 41.90%, 77 seats 6.06%, 11 seats
Seats won 90 81 12
Seat change Decrease 5 Increase 4 Increase 1
Popular vote 2,312,529 2,097,808 241,789
Percentage 47.65% 43.22% 4.98%
Swing Decrease3.38 pp Increase1.32 pp Decrease1.08 pp
Results by state
Chancellor before election

Bruno Kreisky
SPÖ

Elected Chancellor

Fred Sinowatz
SPÖ

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Parliamentary elections were held in Austria on 24 April 1983. The result was a victory for the Socialist Party, which won 90 of the 183 seats. However, the Socialists lost the outright majority they had held since 1971, prompting Bruno Kreisky to stand down as SPÖ leader and Chancellor in favour of Fred Sinowatz. The SPÖ stayed in office by entering into a coalition government with the Freedom Party of Austria, which at this point was a liberal party. Voter turnout was 93%.

Results

PartyVotes%Seats+/–
Socialist Party of Austria2,312,52947.6590–5
Austrian People's Party2,097,80843.2281+4
Freedom Party of Austria241,7894.9812+1
United Greens of Austria93,7981.930New
Alternative List Austria65,8161.360New
Communist Party of Austria31,9120.6600
Austria Party5,8510.120New
Stop Immigrants Movement3,9140.080New
Total4,853,417100.001830
Valid votes4,853,41798.60
Invalid/blank votes69,0371.40
Total votes4,922,454100.00
Registered voters/turnout5,316,43692.59
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

Results by state

State SPÖ ÖVP FPÖ Others
 Burgenland 51.4 44.3 2.2 2.2
 Carinthia 52.9 32.1 10.7 4.3
 Lower Austria 45.9 48.1 3.0 3.0
 Upper Austria 46.3 43.5 6.0 4.2
 Salzburg 41.3 46.1 8.0 4.6
 Styria 49.4 42.3 4.0 4.3
 Tyrol 34.8 57.4 4.4 3.4
 Vorarlberg 27.3 60.3 7.2 5.2
 Vienna 56.6 33.6 4.4 5.4
 Austria 47.7 43.2 5.0 4.1
Source: SORA

References

  1. Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p196 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
  2. Sully, Melanie A. (1984). "The 1983 Austrian election". West European Politics. 7 (1): 119–123. doi:10.1080/01402388408424462. ISSN 0140-2382.
  3. Pulzer, Peter (1983). "The Austrian general election of 1983". Electoral Studies. 2 (3): 275–280. doi:10.1016/S0261-3794(83)80035-3. ISSN 0261-3794.
  4. Fred Sinowatz: Reluctant chancellor of Austria The Independent, 7 September 2008
  5. Nohlen & Stöver, p215
  6. "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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