Austrian legislative election, 1995

17 December 1995

All 183 seats in the National Council 92 seats needed for a majority

Turnout	4,959,455 (85.98%)^[1]
	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Franz Vranitzky	Wolfgang Schüssel	Jörg Haider
Party	SPÖ	ÖVP	FPÖ
Leader since	1988	1995	1986
Leader's seat	9 Vienna	9E Vienna South-West	2A Klagenfurt
Last election	65 seats, 34.92%	52 seats, 27.67%	42 seats, 22.50%
Seats won	71	52	41
Seat change	6	0	1
Popular vote	1,843,474	1,370,510	1,060,377
Percentage	38.06%	28.29%	21.89%
Swing	3.14%	0.62%	0.61%

	Fourth party	Fifth party

Leader	Heide Schmidt	Madeleine Petrovic
Party	LiF	Greens
Leader since	1993	1994
Leader's seat	9F Vienna North-West	9F Vienna North-West
Last election	11 seats, 5.97%	13 seats, 7.31%
Seats won	10	9
Seat change	1	4
Popular vote	267,026	233,208
Percentage	5.51%	4.81%
Swing	0.45%	2.50%

Chancellor before election

Franz Vranitzky
SPÖ

Elected Chancellor

Franz Vranitzky
SPÖ

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Early parliamentary elections were held in Austria on 17 December 1995,^[2] after the Grand Coalition between the Social Democratic Party (SPÖ) and Austrian People's Party collapsed over disagreements about the budget. The SPÖ remained the largest party in the National Council and the Grand Coalition was reformed. Voter turnout was 86.0%.^[3]

Results

Party	Votes	%	Seats	+/–
Social Democratic Party	1,843,474	38.1	71	+6
Austrian People's Party	1,370,510	28.3	52	0
Freedom Party of Austria	1,060,377	21.9	41	–1
Liberal Forum	267,026	5.5	10	–1
Green Alternative	233,208	4.8	9	–4
No - Civic Action Group against the sale of Austria	53,176	1.1	0	0
Communist Party of Austria	13,938	0.3	0	0
Austrian Natural Law Party	1,634	0.0	0	0
The Best Party	830	0.0	0	0
Invalid/blank votes	115,282	–	–	–
Total	4,959,455	100	183	0
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

Popular Vote

SPÖ			38.06%
ÖVP			28.29%
FPÖ			21.89%
LIF			5.51%
GRÜNE			4.81%
NEIN			1.10%
Other			0.34%

References

↑ "Stimmenergebnis unter Berücksichtigung der Wiederholungswahl vom 13. Oktober 1996". Website of the Austrian Ministry of the Interior (in German). Bundesministerium für Inneres. Retrieved 7 November 2014. line feed character in |title= at position 17 (help)
↑ 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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