Election to the National Council in Austria in 1975
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 | 2.5 | 9.99 | 2.9 | 6.7 | 12.1 | 4.6 | 5.3 | 10.2 | 4.1 |
| KPÖ | 0.4 | 1.4 | 0.997 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 1.2 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 2.0 |
| GRM | 0.1 | ||||||||
| LFS | 0.2 |
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 .
