National Council election in Austria 1953
The National Council election on February 22, 1953 was the seventh in the history of the Republic of Austria and at the same time the third after the time of National Socialism . The party with the largest number of votes was the SPÖ under Adolf Schärf , while the ÖVP under Chancellor Leopold Figl remained the party with the largest number of seats due to electoral arithmetic. The Association of Independents lost slightly, but was also the third-strongest party in its second appearance. Although the KPÖ , which ran together with the Left Socialists and the Democratic Union under the name Wahlgemeinschaft Österreichische Volksopposition, gained slight votes, it lost a mandate - also due to electoral arithmetic.
4,586,870 people were eligible to vote. The turnout was 94.15 percent (1949: 95.49 percent).
Bottom line
| Candidates | be right | proportion of | Mandates | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1953 | ± | 1953 | ± | ||
| Socialist Party of Austria (SPÖ) | 1,818,517 | 42.1% | + 3.4% | 73 | +6 |
| Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) | 1,781,777 | 41.3% | −2.7% | 74 | −3 |
| Elective Party of the Independent (WdU) | 472,866 | 10.9% | −0.8% | 14th | −2 |
| Electoral Community of the Austrian People's Opposition (VO) | 228.159 | 5.28% | + 0.20% | 4th | −1 |
| Non-partisan agreement of the center, electoral community of non-party personalities |
5,809 | 0.13% | nk | 0 | - |
| Christian Democratic Party (Krscanska demokratska stranka) | 3,668 | 0.08% | nk | 0 | - |
| Christian Social Party and Non-Party Personalities | 3,029 | 0.07% | nk | 0 | - |
| Electoral Free Democrats | 2,573 | 0.06% | nk | 0 | - |
| Union of Austrian Monarchists | 1,210 | 0.03% | nk | 0 | - |
| Austrian national republicans and non-party members | 1,054 | 0.02% | nk | 0 | - |
| Austrian Patriotic Union | 26th | 0.0% | 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 | 44.7 | 48.1 | 39.0 | 38.4 | 35.4 | 41.1 | 29.2 | 22.7 | 49.9 |
| ÖVP | 48.3 | 28.8 | 50.2 | 46.2 | 42.5 | 40.7 | 55.1 | 55.5 | 31.1 |
| WdU | 3.7 | 16.6 | 4.8 | 12.2 | 19.0 | 13.6 | 13.1 | 18.8 | 10.4 |
| KPÖ | 3.2 | 4.1 | 5.8 | 3.0 | 2.8 | 4.4 | 2.4 | 2.9 | 8.1 |
| ÜEM | 0.0 | 0.06 | 0.1 | 0.13 | 0.3 | 0.06 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.21 |
| KDS | 1.4 | ||||||||
| CSP | 0.1 | 0.15 | 0.15 | ||||||
| WFD | 0.14 | 0.00 | 0.17 | ||||||
| BÖM | 0.5 | ||||||||
| ÖNR | 0.07 | 0.03 | 0.06 | 0.02 | |||||
| PPU | 0.00 |
consequences
Leopold Figl resigned after eight years as Federal Chancellor and a little later as ÖVP party chairman. The grand coalition of ÖVP and SPÖ was continued and the ÖVP continued to provide the Federal Chancellor. On April 2, 1953, Julius Raab (ÖVP) was sworn in as the new Federal Chancellor, the Social Democrat Adolf Schärf became Vice Chancellor, and the Raab I federal government took up its business.
