State election in Lower Austria in 1959
The state election in Lower Austria in 1959 took place on May 10th, together with the National Council election in 1959 . There were two ballot papers: a white one for the National Council and a yellow one for the Landtag. While the KPÖ left the state parliament, the ÖVP and SPÖ were able to make profits. The ÖVP achieved an absolute majority in the state parliament with 31 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)
- Communists and Left Socialists (KLS)
- Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ)
The KPÖ stood in this election as “communists and left-wing socialists”. The FPÖ had only been founded three years earlier, and most of the party members came from the electoral party of the Independent (WdU). As in the last 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 May 12, 1959 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 | FPÖ | KLS | |||||||||
| be right | Mand. | be right | % | Mand. | be right | % | Mand. | be right | % | Mand. | be right | % | Mand. | |
| District above the Manhartsberg | 156,541 | 11 | 95,633 | 61.09% | 7th | 52,804 | 33.73% | 4th | 6,606 | 4.22% | 0 | 1,498 | 0.96% | 0 |
| Quarter under the Manhartsberg | 183.279 | 11 | 108,660 | 59.29% | 7th | 64,893 | 35.41% | 4th | 6.336 | 3.46% | 0 | 3,390 | 1.85% | 0 |
| District above the Vienna Woods | 232.301 | 14th | 123.046 | 52.97% | 8th | 94,810 | 40.81% | 6th | 8,209 | 3.53% | 0 | 6.236 | 2.68% | 0 |
| District under the Vienna Woods | 290.252 | 16 | 111,285 | 38.34% | 7th | 152.084 | 52.40% | 9 | 12,821 | 4.42% | 0 | 14,062 | 4.84% | 0 |
| Overall result | 862.373 | 52 (+4) | 438.624 | 50.86% | 29 (+2) | 364,591 | 42.28% | 23 (+2) | 33,972 | 3.94% | 0 | 25.186 | 2.92% | 0 |
Official end result
| Results 1959 | Results 1954 | Differences | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| be right | % | Mand. | be right | % | Mand. | be right | % | Mand. | |
| Eligible voters | 929.059 | 927.472 | + 1,587 | ||||||
| Votes cast | 886.422 | 95.41 | 878.855 | 94.76% | + 7,567 | + 0.74% | |||
| invalid votes | 24,057 | 2.59 | 17,419 | 1.88% | + 6,638 | + 0.71% | |||
| valid votes | 862.365 | 92.82 | 861.436 | 92.88% | + 929 | - 0.06% | |||
| Political party | |||||||||
| ÖVP | 438.625 | 50.86% | 31 | 436,686 | 50.69% | 30th | + 1,939 | + 0.17% | + 1 |
| SPÖ | 364,589 | 42.28% | 25th | 353.070 | 40.99% | 23 | + 11,519 | + 1.29% | + 2 |
| FPÖ | 34,059 | 3.95% | 0 | 22,039 | 2.56% | 0 | + 12,020 | + 1.39% | ± 0 |
| KLS | 25.092 | 2.91% | 0 | 49,641 | 5.70% | 3 | - 24,549 | - 2.79% | - 3 |
| total | 862.365 | 100% | 56 | 861.436 | 100% | 56 | + 929 | ± 0 | ± 0 |
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ In Lower Austria . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna May 10, 1959, p. 1 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ^ Lower Austrian Parliament on the elections since 1945
- ^ In Lower Austria: The socialists win two state parliament mandates . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna May 12, 1959, p. 3 ( 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 3-9011-1105-0
