Election to the National Council in Austria in 1949
The National Council election on October 9, 1949 was the sixth in the history of the Republic of Austria and at the same time the second after the time of National Socialism . The strongest party was the ÖVP with Federal Chancellor Leopold Figl , which, however, lost votes and lost its absolute mandate majority. The SPÖ under Adolf Schärf lost about as many votes as the ÖVP and became the second largest party. The newly founded electoral party of the Independents made the leap over the basic mandate hurdle straight away and became the third strongest force even before the KPÖ , which had entered into an electoral alliance with the left- wing socialists ("Left Bloc") and whose share of the vote remained roughly the same.
4,391,815 people were eligible to vote. The turnout was 95.49 percent (1945: 93.27 percent).
background
In 1949, 90 percent of the approximately 556,000 Austrian National Socialists (the former National Socialists classified as less exposed ) were eligible to vote again. With the electoral party of the Independents, the predecessor party of the FPÖ , there was a party that became a reservoir for the former NSDAP members. However, the ÖVP and SPÖ also campaigned for the votes of the former National Socialists. The SPÖ had hundreds of thousands of leaflets printed with a "question of conscience" "to every former National Socialist", with which the votes of the former National Socialists were intensively advertised ("Anyone who has forgotten that we were national and socialist will go to the ÖVP today.") .
In November 1947, the KPÖ left the concentration government that had existed since December 1945. The only communist minister, Karl Altmann , resigned from his post as head of the Ministry of Energy and Electrification. The reason for this was his protest against the second currency reform, which had led to a financial disadvantage for the lower income groups. The ÖVP and SPÖ subsequently formed a grand coalition that stood up to the electorate for the first time in 1949.
The state elections in the nine federal states took place on the same day as the National Council election.
Bottom line
Candidates | be right | proportion of | Mandates | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1949 | ± | 1949 | ± | ||
Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) | 1,846,581 | 44.0% | −5.8% | 77 | −8 |
Socialist Party of Austria (SPÖ) | 1,623,524 | 38.7% | −5.9% | 67 | −9 |
Elective Party of the Independent (WdU) | 489.273 | 11.7% | nk | 16 | +16 |
Communist Party of Austria a . Left Socialists (left bloc) | 213.066 | 5.1% | −0.3% | 5 | +1 |
Democratic Union (DU) | 12,059 | 0.28% | nk | 0 | - |
Fourth party | 7.134 | 0.17% | nk | 0 | - |
Democraticna fronta delovnegna ljudstva (DF) | 2,088 | 0.04% | nk | 0 | - |
Democratic Party of Austria (DPÖ) | 5 | 0.00% | -0.2% | 0 | - |
Economic Party of Home Owners (Economic Party) | 3 | 0.00% | nk | 0 | - |
Austrian Patriotic Union (ÖPU) | 0 | 0.00% | 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. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
ÖVP | 52.6 | 33.7 | 54.1 | 44.9 | 43.7 | 42.9 | 56.3 | 56.4 | 35.6 |
SPÖ | 40.5 | 40.7 | 36.2 | 30.8 | 33.6 | 37.4 | 23.8 | 18.9 | 49.2 |
WdU | 3.9 | 20.6 | 4.3 | 20.8 | 18.6 | 14.5 | 17.4 | 21.9 | 6.8 |
KPÖ | 2.9 | 4.02 | 5.1 | 3.1 | 3.3 | 4.5 | 1.6 | 2.4 | 7.9 |
YOU | 0.08 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.3 |
VP | 0.12 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | ||
DF | 0.8 | ||||||||
DPÖ | 0.0 | ||||||||
WP | 0.0 |
consequences
The ÖVP continued to provide the Federal Chancellor , Leopold Figl . A grand coalition of ÖVP and SPÖ was formed. The Federal Government Figl II officiated from November 8, 1949. The Federal Government Figl III took over the business on October 28, 1952.
See also
- State election in Burgenland 1949
- State election in Carinthia in 1949
- State election in Lower Austria in 1949
- State election in Upper Austria in 1949
- State election in Salzburg 1949
- State election in Styria in 1949
- State election in Tyrol 1949
- State election in Vorarlberg 1949
- Election to the state and municipal council in Vienna in 1949
literature
- Eleonore Gläser: Propaganda for the Austrian elections in 1949. Parties, propaganda, course . Dissertation. University of Vienna, Vienna 1951.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Out of honest conviction". In: diepresse.com. January 23, 2009, accessed September 19, 2019 .
- ↑ Results by federal state