National Council election in Austria 1970
The National Council election on March 1, 1970 was the twelfth in the history of Austria . The party with the most votes and seats was the SPÖ led by Bruno Kreisky . Second place went to the ÖVP of Josef Klaus , lost votes and seats. The FPÖ, which ran as the top candidate with the former SS Obersturmführer Friedrich Peter , was able to record slight votes.
5,045,841 people were eligible to vote. The turnout was 90.95 percent (1966: 92.74). After the election, Kreisky formed the Kreisky I federal government ; he remained Federal Chancellor until April / May 1983 .
Bottom line
Result taking into account the repeat elections of October 4, 1970
| Candidates | be right | proportion of | Mandates | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | ± | 1970 | ± | ||
| Socialist Party of Austria (SPÖ) | 2,221,981 | 48.4% | + 5.8% | 81 | +7 |
| Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) | 2,051,012 | 44.7% | −3.3% | 78 | −7 |
| Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) | 253.425 | 5.5% | + 0.1% | 6th | ± 0 |
| Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ) | 44,750 | 0.98% | +0.57% | 0 | ± 0 |
| Democratic Progressive Party (DFP List Franz Olah ) | 14,925 | 0.3% | −3.0% | 0 | ± 0 |
| National Democratic Party (NDP) | 2,631 | 0.1% | nk | 0 | - |
| For humanity, justice and freedom in Austria ( Adolf Glantschnig ) | 237 | 0.01% | nk | 0 | - |
nk = not running
According to the original election result, the SPÖ received 48.2% of the vote and 81 seats, the ÖVP 44.8% and 79 seats, the FPÖ 5.5% and 5 seats. Due to a ruling by the Constitutional Court on June 24, 1970, the National Council election was declared invalid in three Vienna constituencies and the election there was repeated on October 4, 1970. The re-election gave the FPÖ an additional seat at the expense of the ÖVP.
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 | 48.8 | 53.2 | 45.2 | 46.5 | 42.5 | 47.9 | 35.9 | 31.0 | 58.7 |
| ÖVP | 47.8 | 35.7 | 50.9 | 46.0 | 43.6 | 45.6 | 57.9 | 54.7 | 34.9 |
| FPÖ | 2.7 | 9.7 | 2.7 | 6.7 | 13.0 | 5.0 | 5.5 | 13.6 | 4.1 |
| KPÖ | 0.4 | 1.2 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 1.2 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 1.5 |
| DFP | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.8 | |
| NDP | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | ||||||
| MRF | 0.1 |
consequences
After lengthy coalition negotiations with the ÖVP, the SPÖ formed a minority government with the support of the FPÖ . It is speculated that Kreisky had this goal from the start and only negotiated with the ÖVP on the surface. The price for the support of the FPÖ was a change in the electoral law that put smaller parties like the FPÖ at a less disadvantage and the associated increase in the number of seats in the National Council. Bruno Kreisky became Federal Chancellor and was to remain so until 1983. The Kreisky I federal government began work on April 21, 1970. In 1970, Josef Klaus resigned from the chairmanship of the ÖVP, followed by his previous deputy Hermann Withalm .
reporting
It was the first national election after by the broadcast referendum required 1964 and 1966 adopted the Broadcasting Act . The Austrian Broadcasting Corporation ran an unprecedented effort from 4:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. with branch offices in the party headquarters of the two major parties (the FPÖ was in the interior ministry), in all provincial capitals, as well as a main studio in the interior ministry. All branch offices with 4 outside broadcast vehicles, 6 reportage camera vans and a total of 20 cameras were connected by 15 radio links for picture and sound and 45 post audio lines for various purposes. For the second time there was an extrapolation, this time with the largest computer in Austria at the time, a System / 360 at IBM on the Danube Canal, the "extrapolation center". The comparative data of the previous elections were stored on magnetic disks, the current results were entered with punch cards and the result was printed out. (Computer screens were not yet common.) Gerhart Bruckmann and Hugo Portisch presented the extrapolation results and remained “supercomputer of the nation” until the 1980s. The terminal of a Bull GE-53 computer from the ORF was set up in the small meeting room of the Ministry of the Interior , which, in cooperation with the Institute for Empirical Social Research (IFES), provided cross-sectional analyzes ( multivariate procedures for age, women / men, income, etc.) for the first time .
The first published extrapolation at 5 p.m. produced the following result for 8.4% of the votes counted:
| Candidates | Mandates (HR 17:00) |
|---|---|
| Socialist Party of Austria (SPÖ) | 82-83 |
| Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) | 76-77 |
| Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) | 5 - 6 |
A maximum deviation from one mandate was forecast from the result, for example 81 to 84 mandates for the SPÖ. At the FPÖ, Bruckmann was pretty sure that there would be 6 mandates. This result was already evident when projecting at 2 p.m.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Publication by the Ministry of the Interior on the National Council election of March 1, 1970 (PDF; 7.5 MB)
- ↑ Supplementary part to the publication of the Ministry of the Interior on the National Council election 1970 (PDF; 647 kB)
- ↑ Results by federal state
- ^ Results in Vienna after the supplementary election
- ↑ Great Moments - Portisch and the 'Electronic Brain'. (No longer available online.) In: greatmoments.orf.at. October 13, 2015, archived from the original on October 16, 2015 ; Retrieved October 17, 2015 (text and video). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
- www.bmi.gv.at Result of the National Council election in 1970
- Historical election report of ORF TVthek in 8 parts; Youtube (6 hours)
