National Council election in Austria 1994
The National Council election on October 9, 1994 was the 19th National Council election in the history of the Republic of Austria . The strongest party was the SPÖ under Chancellor Franz Vranitzky , despite a strong loss of votes . As in the last election, the ÖVP under Erhard Busek lost votes and seats and became the second strongest party.
The FPÖ benefited from the losses suffered by the governing parties SPÖ and ÖVP, gaining votes and seats with Jörg Haider as the top candidate. The fourth strongest party was the Green Alternative with Madeleine Petrovic , which was also able to gain votes and seats. At his first appearance at a parliamentary election which managed Liberal Forum of Heide Schmidt to jump over the four-percent threshold and was fifth strongest party.
5,774,000 people were eligible to vote. The turnout fell to 80.24 percent compared to the last National Council election (1990: 83.58).
background
The four years of the Vranitzky III federal government were marked by an increasingly xenophobic and historical revisionist opposition course by the FPÖ.
After a motion of censure of the ÖVP and SPÖ Joerg Haider lost the post of 1991 Carinthian provincial governor , which he has held since 1989th The reason for the motion of censure was a statement by Haider in a debate on unemployment in the Carinthian state parliament on June 13, 1991: “Well, that didn't happen in the Third Reich , because in the Third Reich you had a proper employment policy, which not even your government in Vienna did brings together. You have to say that once. "(Quoted from Czernin 2000, p. 31)
The anti-foreigner referendum “Austria first”, initiated by the FPÖ and carried out in January 1993, was signed by 416,531 Austrians (7.35% of those eligible to vote). In return, between 250,000 and 300,000 people took part in the “ Sea of Lights ” organized by SOS Mitmensch on January 23, 1993 to protest against the FPÖ's referendum. Another consequence of the popular initiative against foreigners was the split in the FPÖ. Heide Schmidt, Klara Motter , Friedhelm Frischenschlager , Hans Helmut Moser and Thomas Barmüller left the party and founded the Liberal Forum on February 4, 1993, which was the first to be elected.
On December 3, 1993, a series of attacks with a xenophobic background began. The perpetrator Franz Fuchs was not caught until the end of 1997 .
After the candidate of the last election, Norbert Gugerbauer , had resigned, the FPÖ nominated Jörg Haider again and advertised under the text "You are against him because he is for you". This is of interest because almost 15 years later the same slogan was reused by the FPÖ in the course of the 2008 National Council election.
The Socialist Party of Austria (SPÖ) renamed itself in 1991 to the Social Democratic Party of Austria . The Greens also changed their party name, since a statute change in 1993 their name has been Die Grünen - Die Grüne Alternative (Greens).
Bottom line
| Eligible voters | 5,774,000 |
| votes cast | 4,730,987 |
| voter turnout | 80.24% |
| invalid votes | 97,873 |
| valid votes | 4,633,114 |
| Candidates | be right | proportion of | Mandates | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | ± | 1994 | ± | ||
| Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) | 1,617,804 | 34.9% | −7.9% | 65 | −15 |
| Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) | 1,281,846 | 27.7% | −4.4% | 52 | −8 |
| Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) | 1,042,332 | 22.5% | + 5.9% | 42 | +9 |
| The Greens - The Green Alternative (GREEN) | 338,538 | 7.3% | + 2.5% | 13 | +3 |
| Liberal Forum (LIF) | 276,580 | 6.0% | nk | 11 | +11 |
| No - citizens' initiative against the sale of Austria (NO) | 41,492 | 0.9% | nk | 0 | - |
| Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ) | 11,919 | 0.26% | −0.29% | 0 | ± 0 |
| Christian voter community (CWG) | 9,051 | 0.20% | ± 0.0% | 0 | ± 0 |
| United Greens Austria - List Adi Pinter (VGÖ) | 5,776 | 0.13% | −1.9 | 0 | ± 0 |
| Austrian Nature Law Party (ÖNP) | 4,209 | 0.09% | nk | 0 | - |
| Bourgeois Greens Austria - Free Democrats (BGÖ) | 2,504 | 0.05% | nk | 0 | - |
| The Best Party (DBP) | 581 | 0.01% | nk | 0 | - |
| Fritz Georg | 482 | 0.01% | −0.09 | 0 | ± 0 |
nk = not running
Results in the federal states
The results in the federal states are listed here.
| Political party | B. | K | N | O | S. | St. | T | V | W. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SPÖ | 44.3 | 39.5 | 34.8 | 34.5 | 31.0 | 36.6 | 24.4 | 20.9 | 38.5 |
| ÖVP | 31.5 | 16.4 | 33.9 | 28.9 | 29.0 | 27.5 | 36.2 | 37.8 | 17.1 |
| FPÖ | 16.7 | 33.5 | 18.2 | 22.5 | 23.9 | 23.4 | 22.1 | 23.6 | 22.7 |
| GREEN | 3.8 | 5.9 | 5.735 | 7.6 | 8.1 | 6.2 | 9.5 | 9.0 | 9.8 |
| LIF | 3.0 | 3.8 | 5.745 | 4.7 | 6.4 | 4.9 | 5.3 | 6.5 | 10.1 |
| NO | 0.5 | 0.5 | 1.1 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 1.2 | 0.5 | 1.0 |
| KPÖ | 0.10 | 0.15 | 0.3 | 0.20 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.4 | ||
| CWG | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 0.8 | |||||
| VGÖ | 0.07 | 0.16 | 0.10 | 0.17 | 0.1 | 0.14 | 0.1 | 0.16 | 0.08 |
| Public transport | 0.18 | 0.3 | 0.26 | ||||||
| BGÖ | 0.0 | 0.08 | 0.07 | 0.22 | 0.09 | ||||
| DBP | 0.17 | 0.2 | |||||||
| FG | 0.30 |
consequences
After the election, the SPÖ and ÖVP continued the grand coalition that had existed since 1986 . Franz Vranitzky (SPÖ) remained Federal Chancellor . The office of Vice Chancellor continued to be held by Erhard Busek (ÖVP). The Federal Government Vranitzky IV began its work on November 29, 1994. For the first time in the Second Republic, the SPÖ and ÖVP together achieved less than two thirds of the seats in the National Council and were therefore unable to pass any more constitutional changes.
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.demokratiezentrum.org/bildstrategien/haben.html?dimension=&index=19
- ↑ https://derstandard.at/1216918644904/FPOe-plakatiert-Haider-Wahlspruch-aus-1994
- ↑ Results by federal state
