State and municipal council elections in Vienna in 1959
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The state and municipal council elections in Vienna in 1959 were held on October 25, 1959. The Socialist Party of Austria (SPÖ) was able to make profits for the second time in a row, increasing by 1.8% and one mandate. With a share of the vote of 54.4%, the SPÖ subsequently provided 60 of the 100 members of the state parliament. The Austrian People's Party (ÖVP), on the other hand, lost its share of the vote for the second time in a row and had to give up two seats after losing 0.8%. It achieved a total of 32.4% and reached 33 mandates. The Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ), which ran for the first time, achieved 8.0% and entered the state parliament with four seats. Compared to its predecessor organization, the electoral party of the independents (WdU), the FPÖ was able to improve by 3.4%. The Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ), on the other hand, lost 3.0% and lost half of its previous six seats.
The Vienna Landtag and City Council of the 8th electoral term was constituted on December 11, 1959 and on that day elected the provincial government Jonas III as the new Viennese provincial government.
Results
| Results 1959 | Results 1954 | Differences | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eligible voters | 1,230,257 | 1,197,966 | + 32,291 | ||||||
| voter turnout | 84.81% | 93.04% | - 8.23% | ||||||
| be right | % | Mand. | be right | % | Mand. | be right | % | Mand. | |
| Votes cast | 1,043,356 | 1,114,533 | - 71,177 | ||||||
| Invalid | 16,911 | 1.62% | 35,545 | 3.19% | - 18,634 | - 1.57% | |||
| Valid | 1,026,445 | 98.38% | 1,078,988 | 96.81% | - 52,543 | + 1.57% | |||
| Political party | |||||||||
| Socialist Party of Austria (SPÖ) | 558,521 | 54.41% | 60 | 568.266 | 52.67% | 59 | - 9,745 | + 1.74% | +1 |
| Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) | 332.027 | 32.35% | 33 | 357.944 | 33.17% | 35 | - 25,917 | - 0.82% | - 2nd |
| Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) | 82,322 | 8.02% | 4th | 50.002 | 4.63% | 0 | + 32,320 | + 3.39% | + 4 |
| Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ) | 53,575 | 5.22% | 3 | 89.161 | 8.26% | 6th | - 35,586 | - 3.04% | - 3 |
| Freedom Collection of Austria (FSÖ) | not running | 13,369 | 1.24% | 0 | - 13,369 | - 1.24% | ± 0 | ||
| Radical Socialist Labor Movement of Austria (RSA) | not running | 246 | 0.02% | 0 | - 246 | - 0.02% | ± 0 | ||
| no longer running parties | not running | 5,856 | 0.51% | 0 | - 5,856 | - 0.51% | ± 0 | ||
| total | 1,026,445 | 100.00% | 100 | 1,078,988 | 100.00% | 100 | - 52,543 | ||
Individual evidence
- ↑ Election statistics. The elections in the federal states since 1945. 1994, p. 111.
literature
- Josef Rauchberger (Ed.): Keyword Federal States - Federal Council. Elections and representative bodies of the federal states from 1945 to 2000. PR-Verlag, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-901111-05-0 .
- Liaison office of the federal states at the office of the Lower Austrian provincial government: election statistics. The elections in the federal states since 1945. National Council and state parliaments. 8th edition. Vienna 1994.
Web links
- Election results in Vienna - statistics ( Memento from December 5, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
