Austrian legislative election, 1990

7 October 1990

183 seats in the National Council of Austria 92 seats were needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Franz Vranitzky	Josef Riegler	Jörg Haider
Party	SPÖ	ÖVP	FPÖ
Leader since	1988	1989	1986
Last election	80 seats, 43.11%	77 seats, 41.29%	18 seats, 9.73%
Seats won	80	60	33
Seat change	0	17	15
Popular vote	2,012,787	1,508,600	782,648
Percentage	42.78%	32.07%	16.64%
Swing	0.33%	9.22%	6.91%

	Fourth party

Leader	Johannes Voggenhuber
Party	Greens
Leader since	1988
Last election	8 seats, 4.82%
Seats won	10
Seat change	2
Popular vote	225,084
Percentage	4.78%
Swing	0.04%

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.^[1] The Social Democratic Party won the most seats, and retained the grand coalition with the Austrian People's Party. Voter turnout was 86.1%.^[2]

Results

Party	Votes	%	Seats	+/–
Social Democratic Party	2,012,787	42.8	80	0
Austrian People's Party	1,508,600	32.1	60	–17
Freedom Party of Austria	782,648	16.6	33	+15
Green Alternative-Freda Meissner-Blau List	225,084	4.8	10	+2
United Greens of Austria	92,277	2.0	0	0
Alliance of Welfare Beneficiaries	35,833	0.8	0	New
Communist Party of Austria	25,682	0.5	0	0
Christian Electoral Community	9,263	0.2	0	New
Christian Democratic Party	6,194	0.1	0	New
Grey Austrians' Election Platform	3,996	0.1	0	New
Fritz Georg	2,530	0.1	0	New
Invalid/blank votes	143,847	–	–	–
Total	4,848,741	100	183	0
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

Popular Vote

SPÖ			42.78%
ÖVP			32.07%
FPÖ			16.64%
GRÜNE			4.78%
VGÖ			1.96%
Other			1.77%

References

↑ Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p196 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
↑ Nohlen & Stöver, p216

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