State election in Lower Austria 1974
The state election in Lower Austria in 1974 took place on June 9th. As the election winner, the ÖVP was able to win back a mandate from the SPÖ. With 31 of the 56 mandates it achieved an absolute majority in the state parliament.
Accompanying parties
Four parties ran for election in Lower Austria:
- Austrian People's Party (ÖVP)
- Socialist Party of Austria (SPÖ)
- Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ)
- Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ)
As in previous elections, there were four constituencies.
Official end result
Results 1974 | Results 1969 | Differences | |||||||
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be right | % | Mand. | be right | % | Mand. | be right | % | Mand. | |
Eligible voters | 968.963 | 952,000 | + 16,963 | ||||||
Votes cast | 869.441 | 89.73% | 874,565 | 91.87% | - 5,124 | - 2.14% | |||
invalid votes | 10,904 | 1.13% | 10,768 | 1.13% | + 136 | ± 0% | |||
valid votes | 858,537 | 88.60% | 863.797 | 90.73% | - 5,260 | - 2.13% | |||
Political party | |||||||||
ÖVP | 447,444 | 52.12% | 31 | 435.138 | 50.38% | 30th | + 12.306 | + 1.74% | + 1 |
SPÖ | 376,648 | 43.87% | 25th | 385.174 | 44.59% | 26th | - 8,526 | - 0.72% | - 1 |
FPÖ | 25,563 | 2.98% | 0 | 27,798 | 3.22% | 0 | - 2,235 | - 0.24% | ± 0 |
KPÖ | 8,882 | 1.03% | 0 | 8,432 | 0.98% | 0 | + 450 | + 0.05% | ± 0 |
DFP | not running | 5,202 | 0.60% | 0 | - 5,202 | - 0.60% | ± 0 | ||
NDP | not running | 2,053 | 0.24% | 0 | - 2,053 | - 0.24% | ± 0 | ||
total | 858,537 | 100% | 56 |
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ SP was realistic - and slowed the trend in Lower Austria . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna June 11, 1974, p. 3 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ^ Lower Austrian Parliament on the elections since 1945
- ^ 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