Election to the National Council in Austria in 1959
The National Council election on May 10, 1959 was the ninth in the history of Austria . The party with the strongest votes was the SPÖ under Bruno Pittermann . In second place came the ÖVP under Chancellor Julius Raab , which, however, got one more mandate than the SPÖ due to the arithmetic of the elections. The FPÖ under the former SS- Obersturmführer Friedrich Peter was able to gain votes and mandates, while the KPÖ was unable to achieve a basic mandate for the first time.
4,696,603 people were eligible to vote. The turnout was 92.90 percent (1956: 94.31 percent).
Bottom line
| Candidates | be right | proportion of | Mandates | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 | ± | 1959 | ± | ||
| Socialist Party of Austria (SPÖ) | 1,953,935 | 44.8% | +1.8% | 78 | +4 |
| Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) | 1,928,043 | 44.2% | −1.8% | 79 | −3 |
| Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) | 336.110 | 7.7% | +1.2% | 8th | +2 |
| Communists and Left Socialists (KuL) | 142,578 | 3.27% | −1.15% | 0 | −3 |
| Association of Democratic Socialists (BDS) | 2,190 | 0.1% | nk | 0 | - |
nk = not running
Results in the federal states
The results in the federal states are listed here.
| Political party | B. | K | N | O | S. | St. | T | V | W. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SPÖ | 46.5 | 50.5 | 42.1 | 42.0 | 38.7 | 45.3 | 31.5 | 30.1 | 52.4 |
| ÖVP | 47.3 | 32.7 | 50.6 | 47.3 | 44.2 | 44.7 | 59.4 | 56.4 | 34.4 |
| FPÖ | 5.0 | 13.5 | 4.3 | 8.7 | 15.2 | 6.8 | 7.9 | 12.1 | 7.4 |
| KPÖ | 1.2 | 2.5 | 2.9 | 2.0 | 1.9 | 3.1 | 1.2 | 1.4 | 5.8 |
| BDS | 0.8 |
consequences
The grand coalition of ÖVP and SPÖ was continued. The ÖVP was allowed to continue to provide the Federal Chancellor with Julius Raab , but the SPÖ, which provided the Vice Chancellor with Bruno Pittermann, also received the Foreign Ministry . The federal government of Raab III began its work on July 16, 1959. The Raab IV federal government followed on November 3, 1960, and the Gorbach I federal government took over on April 11, 1961 .
