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1990 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 Josef Riegler [de] Party SPÖ ÖVP Last election 43.12%, 80 seats 41.29%, 77 seats Seats won 80 60 Seat change 0 17 Popular vote 2,012,787 1,508,600 Percentage 42.78% 32.06% Swing 0.34pp 9.23pp   Third party Fourth party   Leader Jörg Haider Johannes Voggenhuber Party FPÖ Greens Last election 9.73%, 18 seats 4.82%, 8 seats Seats won 33 10 Seat change 15 2 Popular vote 782,648 225,084 Percentage 16.63% 4.78% Swing 6.90pp 0.04pp
Seats won by state Popular vote by state
Chancellor before election Franz Vranitzky SPÖ Elected Chancellor Franz Vranitzky SPÖ

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Parliamentary elections were held in Austria on 7 October 1990. The Social Democratic Party won the most seats, and retained the grand coalition with the Austrian People's Party. Voter turnout was 86%.

Results

Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Socialist Party of Austria	2,012,787	42.78	80	0
	Austrian People's Party	1,508,600	32.06	60	–17
	Freedom Party of Austria	782,648	16.63	33	+15
	Green Alternative–Freda Meissner-Blau List	225,084	4.78	10	+2
	United Greens of Austria	92,277	1.96	0	0
	Alliance of Welfare Beneficiaries	35,833	0.76	0	New
	Communist Party of Austria	25,682	0.55	0	0
	Christian Electoral Community	9,263	0.20	0	New
	Christian Democratic Party	6,194	0.13	0	New
	Grey Austrians' Election Platform	3,996	0.08	0	New
	Fritz Georg	2,530	0.05	0	New
Total		4,704,894	100.00	183	0
Valid votes		4,704,894	97.03
Invalid/blank votes		143,847	2.97
Total votes		4,848,741	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		5,628,912	86.14
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

Results by state

State	SPÖ	ÖVP	FPÖ	GRÜNE	Others
Burgenland	49.9	35.4	11.1	2.5	1.1
Carinthia	46.1	18.5	30.3	3.0	2.1
Lower Austria	42.5	39.1	12.2	3.3	2.9
Upper Austria	42.0	33.3	16.0	4.1	4.5
Salzburg	37.8	32.1	20.5	7.3	2.2
Styria	43.3	33.2	16.8	3.9	2.7
Tyrol	30.5	40.7	17.1	6.3	5.3
Vorarlberg	28.8	40.4	17.2	5.2	8.4
Vienna	50.7	21.1	15.7	7.6	4.9
Austria	42.8	32.1	16.6	4.8	3.7
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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