Election to the National Council in Austria in 1962
The National Council election in Austria in 1962 took place on November 18, 1962 and was the tenth in the history of Austria .
The party with the most votes and seats was the ÖVP of Federal Chancellor Alfons Gorbach . With slight losses that landed SPÖ of Bruno Pitter man in second place. As a “third force”, the FPÖ was also able to assert itself in 1962 with the former SS Obersturmführer Friedrich Peter as the top candidate, which, however, also suffered a slight loss of votes. The KPÖ also continued to lose votes and failed to achieve a basic mandate for the second time since the Nazi era .
4,805,351 people were eligible to vote. The turnout was 92.73 percent (1959: 92.90 percent).
background
After Julius Raab resigned as Federal Chancellor on April 11, 1961, Alfons Gorbach became his successor. In the National Council election in 1962, he had to face the voters for the first time. In the election campaign, the ÖVP relied on anti-communism and attacked the SPÖ in this context. On the ÖVP posters there was an Austrian map, which is surrounded by barbed wire in the east . "Land on the red border - Austria must not turn red" was to be read on the posters, which thus brought the Social Democrats politically closer to the Eastern Bloc .
The SPÖ warned on their election posters against the sole rule of the ÖVP. The dominant election slogan was “Don't decide blindly!”, Illustrated by a man who wears the same lettering on a white blindfold.
The FPÖ took up the SPÖ's campaign motif and depicted a man with a red blindfold on its election posters. Next to it, the word “Where to?” Was written in large letters and the words “Schwarz Rote Proporz dictatorship” were slightly smaller.
The KPÖ campaigned with a compromise between Eastern and Western powers. “Not agitation, but understanding ensures disarmament and peace!” Was the slogan on the posters that were printed with a picture of John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev .
Bottom line
| Candidates | be right | proportion of | Mandates | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | ± | 1962 | ± | ||
| Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) | 2,024,501 | 45.4% | +1.2% | 81 | +2 |
| Socialist Party of Austria (SPÖ) | 1,960,685 | 44.0% | −0.8% | 76 | −2 |
| Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) | 313,895 | 7.0% | −0.7% | 8th | ± 0 |
| Communists and Left Socialists (KLS) | 135,520 | 3.04% | −0.23% | 0 | ± 0 |
| European Federalist Party of Austria (EFP) | 21,530 | 0.5% | 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 | 48.7 | 34.2 | 52.2 | 48.6 | 46.1 | 46.5 | 61.9 | 55.9 | 34.5 |
| SPÖ | 46.2 | 49.7 | 41.7 | 41.3 | 38.5 | 43.2 | 30.0 | 28.0 | 52.4 |
| FPÖ | 3,997 | 12.5 | 3.4 | 8.0 | 13.7 | 6.8 | 6.5 | 14.9 | 6.6 |
| KPÖ | 1.04 | 3.2 | 2.6 | 1.8 | 1.8 | 3.4 | 0.98 | 1.3 | 5.0 |
| EFP | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 1.4 |
consequences
The grand coalition of ÖVP and SPÖ was continued. The ÖVP continued to provide the Federal Chancellor , Alfons Gorbach . The Federal Government of Gorbach II began its work on March 27, 1963. On 2 April 1964, took over the Federal Government Klaus I .
The parties fought for influence on (red) television, which was initially underrated. During the coalition negotiations in 1963, a secret paper was also drawn up, according to which every post on radio and television had to be filled twice: a red head and a black deputy, or vice versa. After the text had been leaked to Hugo Portisch , then editor-in-chief of the Kurier , he initiated the radio referendum , which was held under the next government at the end of 1964. However, it was only implemented in 1966 under the sole government of Klaus I , the ÖVP .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Results by federal state
- ↑ Hugo Portisch: The referendum for the reform of broadcasting 1964. In: Haimo Godler, Manfred Jochum , Reinhard Schlögl, Alfred Driver (ed.): From steam radio to sound wallpaper. Contributions to 80 years of radio in Austria. Böhlau, Wien et al. 2004, ISBN 3-205-77239-3 , pp. 65–70, ( limited preview in the Google book search).
