State election in Upper Austria 1985
The state election in Upper Austria in 1985 took place on October 6, 1985 . The ÖVP regained an absolute majority with slight gains, while the Social Democratic Party of Austria suffered losses. The state parliament re-elected Josef Ratzenböck (ÖVP) as governor, who headed the state government of Ratzenböck III . For the first time, various green lists competed, but none of them could win mandates, even if together they received around 4 percent of the votes. The Freedom Party of Austria achieved the worst result in Upper Austria to date with 5 percent .
Results 1985 | Results 1979 | Differences | |||||||
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Eligible voters | 897.426 | 836.072 | + 61,354 | ||||||
voter turnout | 86.39% | 88.99% | - 2.60% | ||||||
be right | % | Mand. | be right | % | Mand. | be right | % | Mand. | |
Votes cast | 775.330 | 744.033 | + 31,297 | ||||||
Invalid | 21,690 | 2.80% | 10,239 | 1.38% | + 11,451 | + 1.42% | |||
Valid | 753.640 | 97.20% | 733.794 | 98.62% | + 19,846 | - 1.42% | |||
Political party | |||||||||
Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) | 392,839 | 52.13% | 30th | 378.745 | 51.61% | 29 | + 14.094 | + 0.52% | + 1 |
Socialist Party of Austria (SPÖ) | 286.022 | 37.95% | 23 | 303.945 | 41.42% | 23 | - 17,923 | - 3.47% | ± 0 |
Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) | 37,933 | 5.03% | 3 | 46,801 | 6.38% | 4th | - 8,868 | - 1.35% | - 1 |
United Green Austria (VGÖ) | 16,469 | 2.19% | - | not running | + 16,469 | + 2.19% | ± 0 | ||
Green alternative - Greens in Parliament (GAL) | 12,681 | 1.68% | - | not running | + 12,681 | + 1.68% | ± 0 | ||
Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ) | 4,919 | 0.65% | - | 4,303 | 0.59% | - | +1,998 | + 0.06% | ± 0 |
The Greens of Austria (DGÖ) | 2,816 | 0.37% | - | not running | + 2,816 | + 0.37% | ± 0 | ||
total | 753.640 | 100.00% | 56 | 733.794 | 100.00% | 56 | + 19,846 | - 1.42% | ± 0 |
Individual evidence
- ↑ [1] ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - Final result of the state elections in 1985
- ^ State elections in Upper Austria. An overview of the state elections in Upper Austria from 1945 to 2009. KPÖ Upper Austria, accessed on March 16, 2015 .