State election in Carinthia in 1953
The state elections in Carinthia in 1953 took place on February 22, 1953. The Socialist Party of Austria (SPÖ) was able to expand its first place and, by gaining three mandates, achieved half of all state parliament seats. The Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) was able to keep its second place, but lost a mandate to the SPÖ. The electoral party of the Independent (WdU) also lost two seats to the SPÖ and took third place. The Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ), which ran together with the Left Socialists and the Democratic Union under the name Wahlgemeinschaft Österreichische Volksopposition (VO), remained almost unchanged and was able to keep its mandate.
In 1953, 285,615 people were entitled to vote in the state elections, which meant an increase of 18,343 people entitled to vote. The turnout in 1953 was 90.86%, which is a significant decrease compared to 1949, when 93.99% of those eligible to vote took part in the election.
Overall result
| Results 1953 | Results 1949 | Differences | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eligible voters | 285,615 | 267.272 | + 18,343 | |||||||
| voter turnout | 90.86% | 93.99% | - 3.13% | |||||||
| be right | % | Mand. | be right | % | Mand. | be right | % | Mand. | ||
| Votes cast | 259.507 | 36 | 251.200 | 36 | + 8,307 | |||||
| Invalid | 5,904 | 2.28% | 2,990 | 1.19% | + 2,914 | + 1.09% | ||||
| Valid | 253,603 | 97.72% | 248.210 | 98.81% | + 5,393 | - 1.09% | ||||
| Political party | ||||||||||
| Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) | 122,245 | 48.20% | 18th | 101.146 | 40.75% | 15th | + 21,099 | + 7.45% | + 3 | |
| Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) | 72,321 | 28.52% | 11 | 79.093 | 31.87% | 12 | - 6,772 | - 3.35% | - 1 | |
| Elective Party of the Independent (WdU) | 42,877 | 16.91% | 6th | 51,012 | 20.55% | 8th | - 8,135 | - 3.64% | - 2nd | |
| Electoral Community People's Opposition (VO) | 10,337 | 4.08% | 1 | 9,910 | 3.99% | 1 | + 427 | + 0.09% | ± 0 | |
| Electoral Association of Opponents of Nationalization | 5,823 | 2.30% | 0 | not running | + 5,823 | + 2.30% | ± 0 | |||
|
Christian People's Party (CVP) Democratic Front of the Working People (DFC) |
not running | 7,049 | 2.84% | 0 | - 7,049 | - 2.84% | ± 0 | |||
| total | 253,603 | 100.00% | 36 | 248.210 | 100.00% | 36 | + 5,393 | |||
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Rauchberger (Ed.): Keyword Federal States - Federal Council. P. 371
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 3-9011-1105-0 .
Web links
- Office of the Carinthian Provincial Government State Office for Statistics. The state elections in Carinthia on March 7, 2004 (with a list of the state elections 1945-2004)
