Austrian legislative election, 1966

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Parliamentary elections were held in Austria on 6 March 1966.^[1] The result was a victory for the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP), which won 85 of the 165 seats. Voter turnout was 93.8%.^[2] Although the ÖVP had enough seats to govern alone, ÖVP leader and Chancellor Josef Klaus initially wanted to continue the grand coalition with the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) that had governed since 1945. When talks for a renewed coalition failed, Klaus formed an exclusively ÖVP cabinet, the first one-party government of the Second Republic.^[3]

Results

Party	Votes	%	Seats	+/–
Austrian People's Party	2,191,109	48.3	85	+4
Socialist Party of Austria	1,928,985	42.6	74	–2
Freedom Party of Austria	242,570	5.4	6	–2
Democratic Progressive Party	148,528	3.3	0	New
Communists and Left Socialists	18,636	0.4	0	0
Liberal Party of Austria	1,571	0.0	0	New
Marxist–Leninist Party of Austria	486	0.0	0	New
Invalid/blank votes	52,085	–	–	–
Total	4,583,970	100	165	0
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

Popular vote

ÖVP			48.35%
SPÖ			42.56%
FPÖ			5.35%
DFP			3.28%
KLS			0.41%
Other			0.05%

Parliamentary seats

ÖVP			51.52%
SPÖ			44.85%
FPÖ			3.64%

References

↑ 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, p215
↑ Austria at Encyclopædia Britannica

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