1979 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	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	2	3	1
Popular vote	2,413,226	1,981,739	286,789
Percentage	51.03%	41.90%	6.06%
Swing	0.61 pp	1.05 pp	0.65 pp

Results by state

Chancellor before election

Bruno Kreisky
SPÖ

Elected Chancellor

Bruno Kreisky
SPÖ

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Chairman: Andreas Babler

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Governor: Drexler (ÖVP)

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Governor: Mattle (ÖVP)

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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



Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Social Democratic Party of Austria	2,413,226	51.03	95	+2
	Austrian People's Party	1,981,739	41.90	77	–3
	Freedom Party of Austria	286,743	6.06	11	+1
	Communist Party of Austria	45,280	0.96	0	0
	Christian Social Labour Group	2,263	0.05	0	New
Total		4,729,251	100.00	183	0

Valid votes		4,729,251	98.85
Invalid/blank votes		54,922	1.15
Total votes		4,784,173	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		5,186,735	92.24
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

Results by state

State	SPÖ	ÖVP	FPÖ	KPÖ	CSA
State
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

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