State election in Styria 1957

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1953

1957

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A total of 48 seats

On March 10, 1957, state elections were held in Styria .

The ÖVP celebrated a landslide victory and achieved half of the seats in the state parliament. The SPÖ was also able to grow, but lagged behind the ÖVP.

The ÖVP received 46.4% of the votes (24 seats), the SPÖ received 43.6% of the votes (21 seats). The FPÖ , which took the place of the WDU for the first time , lost massively and only got 6.8% of the votes (3 seats). For the first time since 1945, the KPÖ failed to make it into the state parliament with 2.6%.

Two new parties stood in the state elections: The Free Styrian electoral community of the non-party could not win a mandate with 0.43%, just like the EPÖ., Which only stood in Graz and achieved 0.17% of the votes.

Election result

Final result of the state elections in 1957
Results 1957 Results 1953 Differences
Eligible voters 718,898
be right % Mand. be right % Mand. be right % Mand.
Votes cast 696.903 96.94% 48 680.151 unknown 48 + 16,752 unknown
Invalid votes 17,558 2.52%   20,232 2.97%   - 2,674 - 0.45%
Valid votes 679.345 97.48%   659.919 97.03%   + 19,426 + 0.45%
Political party                  
Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) 315.197 46.40% 24 268,546 40.69% 21st + 46,651 + 5.71% + 3
Socialist Party of Austria (SPÖ) 296,383 43.63% 21st 271.162 41.09% 20th 25,221 + 2.54% + 1
Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) 46.103 6.79% 3 89,837 13.61% 6th - 43,734 - 6.82% - 3
Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ) 17,590 2.59% 0 29,039 4.40% 1 - 11,449 - 1.81% - 1
Free Styrian electoral community of the non-party 2,926 0.43% 0 nk + 2,926 + 0.43%
EPÖ. 1,146 0.17% 0 nk + 1,335 + 0.17%

Individual evidence

  1. ^ State of Styria - final result of the state elections in 1957

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