State election in Vorarlberg 1974

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1974

   
A total of 36 seats

The state elections in Vorarlberg in 1974 took place on October 20, 1974. The Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) won the vote for the first time since 1954 and achieved a gain of 6.9%. With a share of the vote of 56.9%, the ÖVP also won two additional seats and subsequently provided 22 of the 36 MPs. The Socialist Party of Austria (SPÖ), however, remained almost unchanged. Although it lost 0.1%, it was able to win a mandate. With 27.6% she was entitled to 10 mandates. The loser in the election was the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ), which lost 7.1% and also lost three seats. With 13.9%, it only had four members of the state parliament. The Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ) failed with 0.9%, as did the Austrian Democratic Union (ÖDU) with 0.5% and the Social Justice Party (SGP) with 0.2%, which only existed in the constituency of Bregenz ran for.

The state parliament of the XXII. The legislative period was subsequently constituted on November 4, 1974 and on that day elected the state government Keßler III as the new Vorarlberg state government.

Overall result

Final result of the state elections in 1974
Results 1974 Results 1969 Differences
Eligible voters 159,630 153.022 + 6,608
voter turnout 94.17% 93.66% + 0.51%
be right % Mand. be right % Mand. be right % Mand.
Votes cast 150.323 143,326 + 6,997
Invalid 3,550 2.36%   3,709 2.59%   - 159 - 0.23%
Valid 146.773 97.64% 139,617 97.41%   + 7,156 + 0.23%
Political party
Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) 83,571 56.94% 22nd 69,861 50.04% 20th + 13,710 + 6.90% + 2
Socialist Party of Austria (SPÖ) 40,498 27.59% 10 38,718 27.73% 9 + 1,780 - 0.14% + 1
Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) 20,333 13.85% 4th 29,258 20.96% 7th - 8,925 - 7.11% - 3
Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ) 1.317 0.90% 0 not running + 1,317 + 0.90% ± 0
Austrian Democratic Union (ÖDU) 757 0.52% 0 not running + 757 + 0.52% ± 0
Social Justice Party (SGP) 297 0.20% 0 not running + 297 + 0.20% ± 0
Liberal Party of Austria (LPÖ) not running 1,780 1.27% 0 - 1,780 - 1.27% ± 0
total 146.773 100.00% 36 139,617 100.00% 36 + 7,156

literature

  • Josef Rauchberger (Ed.): Keyword Federal States - Federal Council. Elections and representative bodies of the federal states from 1945 to 2000. PR-Verlag, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-901111-05-0 .
  • Liaison office of the federal states at the office of the Lower Austrian provincial government: election statistics. The elections in the federal states since 1945. National Council and state parliaments. 8th edition. sn, Vienna 1994.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Election statistics. The elections in the federal states since 1945, p. 108

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