State election in Lower Austria in 1954
The state elections in Lower Austria in 1954 took place on October 17, together with the state elections in Salzburg and Vorarlberg and the municipal council elections in Vienna. Despite losing a mandate, the ÖVP was able to obtain an absolute majority in the state parliament and achieved 30 of the 56 mandates.
Acceding parties and constituencies
Four parties ran for election in Lower Austria:
- Austrian People's Party (ÖVP)
- Socialist Party of Austria (SPÖ)
- Electoral Community of the Austrian People's Opposition (VO)
- Elective Party of the Independent (WdU)
The KPÖ took part in this election as the “Electoral Community of the Austrian People's Opposition”. As in the 1949 state elections, four electoral districts were elected.
Preliminary election result
In order to illustrate the sometimes large differences in the constituencies, the provisional election results of October 19, 1954 are shown below. Since the remaining mandates have not yet been counted, the basic mandates are listed in the "Total" line and the remaining mandates after the plus.
| Political party | total | ÖVP | SPÖ | VO | WdU | |||||||||
| be right | Mand. | be right | % | Mand. | be right | % | Mand. | be right | % | Mand. | be right | % | Mand. | |
| District above the Manhartsberg | 157.157 | 10 | 97,866 | 62.27% | 7th | 52.011 | 33.09% | 3 | 4168 | 2.65% | 0 | 3112 | 1.98% | 0 |
| Quarter under the Manhartsberg | 187,703 | 11 | 110,889 | 59.08% | 7th | 63,850 | 34.02% | 4th | 8985 | 4.79% | 0 | 3979 | 2.12% | 0 |
| District above the Vienna Woods | 223,723 | 14th | 121.093 | 54.13% | 8th | 89.008 | 39.78% | 6th | 13,059 | 5.84% | 0 | 563 | 0.25% | 0 |
| District under the Vienna Woods | 287,948 | 17th | 106,820 | 37.10% | 7th | 148.265 | 51.49% | 9 | 23,501 | 8.16% | 1 | 9362 | 3.25% | 0 |
| Overall result | 856.531 | 52 (+4) | 436,668 | 50.98% | 29 (+1) | 353.134 | 41.23% | 22 (+1) | 49,713 | 5.8% | 1 (+2) | 17,016 | 1.99% | 0 |
Official end result
| Results 1954 | Results 1949 | Differences | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| be right | % | Mand. | be right | % | Mand. | be right | % | Mand. | |
| Eligible voters | 927.472 | 920.981 | + 6,491 | ||||||
| Votes cast | 878.855 | 94.76% | 892.672 | 96.93% | - 13,817 | - 2.17% | |||
| invalid votes | 17,419 | 1.88% | 10,304 | 1.12% | + 7,115 | + 0.76% | |||
| valid votes | 861.436 | 92.88% | 882.368 | 95.81% | - 20,932 | - 2.93% | |||
| Political party | |||||||||
| ÖVP | 436,686 | 50.69% | 30th | 463.053 | 52.48% | 31 | - 26,367 | - 1.79% | - 1 |
| SPÖ | 353.070 | 40.99% | 23 | 329,549 | 37.35% | 22nd | + 23,521 | + 3.64% | + 1 |
| VO | 49,641 | 5.76% | 3 | 48.217 | 5.46% | 3 | + 1,424 | + 0.30% | ± 0 |
| WdU | 22,039 | 2.56% | 0 | 38,779 | 4.40% | 0 | - 16,740 | - 1.84% | ± 0 |
| Democratic Union | not running | 1265 | 0.14% | 0 | - 1265 | - 0.14% | ± 0 | ||
| Fourth party | not running | 1505 | 0.17% | 0 | - 1505 | - 0.17% | ± 0 | ||
| total | 861.436 | 100% | 56 | 882.368 | 100% | 56 | + | ± 0 | ± 0 |
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Lower Austrian Parliament on the elections since 1945
- ^ The result in Lower Austria . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna October 19, 1954, p. 2 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ^ Hermann Riepl: Fifty Years of the Lower Austrian Parliament. Vol. 1. The Landtag in the First Republic. Vienna 1972
- ^ Josef Rauchberger (Ed.): Keyword Federal States - Federal Council. Elections and representative bodies of the federal states from 1945 to 2000. Vienna 2000. ISBN 3-901111-05-0
