1962 Austrian legislative election
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165 seats in the National Council of Austria 83 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Results of the election, showing seats won by constituency and nationwide. Constituencies are shaded according to the first-place party. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Parliamentary elections were held in Austria on 18 November 1962.[1] The result was a victory for the Austrian People's Party, which won 81 of the 165 seats. Voter turnout was 94%.[2] Although the People's Party had come up only two seats short of an outright majority, Chancellor Alfons Gorbach (who had succeeded Julius Raab a year earlier) retained the grand coalition with the Socialists under Vice-Chancellor Bruno Pittermann.
Results
[edit]Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
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Austrian People's Party | 2,024,501 | 45.43 | 81 | +2 | |
Socialist Party of Austria | 1,960,685 | 44.00 | 76 | –2 | |
Freedom Party of Austria | 313,895 | 7.04 | 8 | 0 | |
Communists and Left Socialists | 135,520 | 3.04 | 0 | 0 | |
European Federal Party of Austria | 21,530 | 0.48 | 0 | New | |
Total | 4,456,131 | 100.00 | 165 | 0 | |
Valid votes | 4,456,131 | 98.89 | |||
Invalid/blank votes | 49,876 | 1.11 | |||
Total votes | 4,506,007 | 100.00 | |||
Registered voters/turnout | 4,805,351 | 93.77 | |||
Source: Nohlen & Stöver |
References
[edit]- ^ Nohlen, Dieter; Stöver, Philip (31 May 2010). Elections in Europe: A data handbook. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft. p. 196. ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7.
- ^ Nohlen & Stöver, p214