Election to the National Council in Austria in 1975

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1971National Council election 19751979
 %
60
50
40
30th
20th
10
0
50.42
(+0.38)
42.94
(-0.18)
5.41
(-0.04)
1.19
(-0.17)
0.03
(-0.01)
Otherwise.
1971

1975

   
A total of 183 seats

The National Council election on October 5, 1975 was the fourteenth in the history of the Republic of Austria . The party with the largest number of votes and mandates was the SPÖ under Federal Chancellor Bruno Kreisky . The second strongest party was the ÖVP under Josef Taus . The FPÖ , which ran with Friedrich Peter as the top candidate, became the third largest party.

5,019,277 people were eligible to vote. The turnout was 91.92 (1971: 91.42).

Bottom line

Candidates be right proportion of Mandates
1975 ± 1975 ±
Socialist Party of Austria (SPÖ) 2,326,201 50.4% + 0.4% 93 ± 0
Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) 1,981,291 42.9% −0.2% 80 ± 0
Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) 249,444 5.4% −0.1% 10 ± 0
Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ) 55.032 1.19% −0.17% 0 ± 0
Revolutionary Marxists Group (GRM) 1,024 0.0% nk 0 -
List Franz Steinacher 440 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 51.8 54.7 48.0 48.8 44.4 50.3 37.2 35.9 59.8
ÖVP 45.3 33.9 48.1 43.7 42.6 43.9 56.8 53.1 34.0
FPÖ 02.5 009.99 02.9 06.7 12.1 04.6 05.3 10.2 04.1
KPÖ 00.4 01.4 0000.997 00.8 00.7 01.2 00.7 00.8 02.0
GRM 00.1
LFS 00.2

consequences

The SPÖ was able to achieve an absolute majority in this election and continued to provide the Federal Chancellor with Bruno Kreisky . The Kreisky III federal government began its work on October 28, 1975.

After the National Council election, Simon Wiesenthal , at that time head of the Jewish Documentation Center in Vienna, published a report on the Nazi past of long-time FPÖ leader Friedrich Peter. From this report it emerged that Peter had served as Obersturmbannführer in an SS unit associated with mass murders . Federal Chancellor Kreisky, himself persecuted by the Nazi regime, defended Friedrich Peter, accused Simon Wiesenthal of working with “mafia methods” and accordingly assumed that he was collaborating with the Gestapo .

This public debate is now subsumed under the term Kreisky-Peter-Wiesenthal affair . In 1978, Peter no longer ran for federal party chairman. His successor was the mayor of Graz , Alexander Götz .

Individual evidence

  1. Results by federal state

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