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1986 Austrian legislative election
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All 183 seats in the National Council
92 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party
 
Leader Franz Vranitzky Alois Mock
Party SPÖ ÖVP
Last election 47.65%, 90 seats 43.22%, 81 seats
Seats won 80 77
Seat change Decrease 10 Decrease 4
Popular vote 2,092,024 2,003,663
Percentage 43.12% 41.29%
Swing Decrease 4.53pp Decrease 1.93pp
  Third party Fourth party
 
Leader Jörg Haider Freda Meissner-Blau
Party FPÖ Greens
Last election 4.98%, 12 seats –
Seats won 18 8
Seat change Increase 6 New
Popular vote 472,205 234,028
Percentage 9.73% 4.82%
Swing Increase 4.75pp New
Results by state
Chancellor before election

Franz Vranitzky
SPÖ

Elected Chancellor

Franz Vranitzky
SPÖ

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Early parliamentary elections were held in Austria on 23 November 1986. They were called by Chancellor Franz Vranitzky of the Socialist Party (SPÖ), as he was not prepared to continue the coalition government with new Freedom Party (FPÖ) leader Jörg Haider, who had ousted Norbert Steger at the party convention.

The SPÖ won the most seats, and formed a grand coalition with the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP), as neither were willing to work with Haider. The Green Alternative won eight seats, marking the first time a party other than the SPÖ, ÖVP and FPÖ had entered parliament since 1959 election. Voter turnout was 90%.

Results

PartyVotes%Seats+/–
Socialist Party of Austria2,092,02443.1280–10
Austrian People's Party2,003,66341.2977–4
Freedom Party of Austria472,2059.7318+6
Green Alternative–Freda Meissner-Blau List234,0284.828New
Communist Party of Austria35,1040.7200
Action List – I've Had Enough8,1000.170New
Green Alternatives – Democratic List6,0050.120New
Carinthian Greens–VGÖ–VÖGA–Independent Councillors1,0590.0200
Total4,852,188100.001830
Valid votes4,852,18898.22
Invalid/blank votes88,1101.78
Total votes4,940,298100.00
Registered voters/turnout5,461,41490.46
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

Results by state

State SPÖ ÖVP FPÖ GRÜNE Others
 Burgenland 49.0 42.8 5.4 2.5 0.3
 Carinthia 47.2 27.2 20.9 3.8 0.9
 Lower Austria 42.4 47.3 6.1 3.6 0.6
 Upper Austria 42.0 41.5 11.0 4.9 0.6
 Salzburg 36.7 40.9 15.9 5.9 0.5
 Styria 44.1 41.0 9.9 4.1 0.9
 Tyrol 29.2 53.2 11.3 5.8 0.6
 Vorarlberg 25.5 53.1 11.9 8.8 0.7
 Vienna 52.4 33.2 5.8 6.1 2.6
 Austria 43.1 41.3 9.7 4.8 1.0
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, p216
  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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