State election in Lower Austria 1979

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(in %)

 %

60

50

40

30th

20th

10

0

49.63%
(-2.49  % p )

45.39%
(+1.52  % p )

3.23%
(+ 0.25  % p )

1.76%
(+0.73  % p )

ÖVP

SPÖ

FPÖ

Otherwise.

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1979



  

A total of 56 seats

• SPÖ : 27
• ÖVP : 29

The regional elections in Lower Austria in 1979 took place on March 25th together with the regional elections in Salzburg and the municipal council elections in Carinthia. The ÖVP lost two seats to the SPÖ and achieved its worst election result to date in Lower Austria. With 29 of the 56 seats, it still achieved an absolute majority in the state parliament.

Accompanying parties

Six parties ran for the election in Lower Austria:

• Austrian People's Party (ÖVP)
• Socialist Party of Austria (SPÖ)
• Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ)
• Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ)
• Electoral Community for Citizens' Initiatives and Environmental Protection (WBU)
• National Democratic Party (NDP)

Official end result

Official final result of the 1979 state election

	Results 1979			Results 1974			Differences
	be right	%	Mand.	be right	%	Mand.	be right	%	Mand.
Eligible voters	1,027,372			968.963			+ 58,409
Votes cast	899.491	87.55%		869.441	89.73%		+ 30,050	- 2.18%
invalid votes	9,987	0.97%		10,904	1.13%		- 917	- 0.16%
valid votes	889.504	88.60%		858,537	88.58%		+ 30,967	+ 0.02%
Political party
ÖVP	441.431	49.63%	29	447,444	52.12%	31	- 6,013	- 2.49%	- 2nd
SPÖ	403,708	45.39%	27	376,648	43.87%	25th	+ 27,060	+ 1.52%	+ 2
FPÖ	28,700	3.23%	0	25,563	2.98%	0	+ 3,137	+ 0.25%	± 0
KPÖ	7,034	0.79%	0	8,882	1.03%	0	- 1,848	- 0.24%	± 0
WBU	7,725	0.87%	0	not running			+ 7,725	+ 0.87%	± 0
NDP	906	0.10%	0	not running			+ 906	+ 0.10%	± 0
total	889.504	100%	56

See also

• List of Members of the Lower Austrian Parliament (XIth legislative period)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 31% of the voters are called to the polls . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 25, 1979, p. 3 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
2. ^ Lower Austria: SP took 2 mandates from VP - VP has never been so bad . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 26, 1979, p. 1 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
3. ^ Lower Austrian Parliament on the elections since 1945
4. ^ Hermann Riepl: Fifty Years of the Lower Austrian Parliament. Vol. 1. The Landtag in the First Republic. Vienna 1972
5. ^ 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