Election to the National Council in Austria in 1986
The National Council election on November 23, 1986 was the 17th National Council election in the history of Austria . The strongest party was the SPÖ of Federal Chancellor Franz Vranitzky , which however lost votes and seats. The People's Party of Alois Mock , who took second place, lost votes and seats. The FPÖ, which ran for the first time with Jörg Haider as the top candidate, took third place and was able to almost double its share of the vote compared to the last election. After neither the United Greens of Austria nor the Alternative List of Austria succeeded in winning a basic mandate in the National Council election in 1983 , the Green Alternative with top candidate Freda Meissner-Blau made it into the National Council for the first time in 1986 .
5,461,414 people were eligible to vote. The turnout was 88.85 percent (1983: 91.29).
background
1986 was marked by major political upheavals. On June 8, 1986 Kurt Waldheim was elected Federal President in the second ballot as a candidate for the ÖVP with a majority of 53.9%. The election was preceded by a broad public debate about Waldheim's past during the National Socialist era , which went down in recent history as the “ Waldheim Affair ”. Federal Chancellor Fred Sinowatz (SPÖ) resigned as Federal Chancellor following the Waldheim election and recommended Franz Vranitzky as his successor. This accepted and initially continued the coalition government with the FPÖ (see also Federal Government Vranitzky I ).
On September 13, 1986 Jörg Haider was elected as the new party chairman in a voting vote at a party congress in Innsbruck with the support of the German national wing of the FPÖ . Haider replaced the party chairman , trade minister and vice-chancellor Norbert Steger as chairman of the FPÖ - many FPÖ functionaries considered too liberal . After Steger voted out, Vranitzky ended the coalition with the FPÖ and started new elections.
Bottom line
| Candidates | be right | proportion of | Mandates | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | ± | 1986 | ± | ||
| Socialist Party of Austria (SPÖ) | 2,092,024 | 43.1% | −4.5% | 80 | −10 |
| Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) | 2,003,663 | 41.3% | −1.9% | 77 | −4 |
| Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) | 472.205 | 9.7% | + 4.7% | 18th | +6 |
| The Green Alternative - List Freda Meissner-Blau (GREEN) | 234.028 | 4.8% | nk | 8th | +8 |
| Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ) | 35,104 | 0.72% | +0.06% | 0 | ± 0 |
| Action list "I've had enough!" (MIR) | 8,100 | 0.2% | nk | 0 | - |
| The Green Alternatives - Democratic List (GAL) | 6.005 | 0.1% | −1.3% | 0 | ± 0 |
| VGÖ - VÖGA - Independent municipal councils | 1,059 | 0.02% | −1.98% | 0 | ± 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 | 49.0 | 47.2 | 42.4 | 42.0 | 36.7 | 44.1 | 29.2 | 25.5 | 52.4 |
| ÖVP | 42.8 | 27.2 | 47.3 | 41.5 | 40.9 | 41.0 | 53.2 | 53.1 | 33.2 |
| FPÖ | 5.4 | 20.9 | 6.1 | 11.0 | 15.9 | 9.9 | 11.3 | 11.9 | 5.8 |
| GREEN | 2.5 | 3.8 | 3.6 | 4.9 | 5.9 | 4.1 | 5.8 | 8.8 | 6.1 |
| KPÖ | 0.3 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 1.02 |
| ME | 0.9 | ||||||||
| GAL | 0.7 | ||||||||
| VGÖ | 0.3 |
consequences
After the election, the SPÖ and ÖVP agreed to form a grand coalition , the FPÖ had to join the opposition. Franz Vranitzky (SPÖ) remained Federal Chancellor , Alois Mock (ÖVP) became Vice Chancellor and Foreign Minister (see also Federal Government Vranitzky II ).
In addition to the strong profits for the FPÖ, the entry of a Green Party into the Austrian National Council for the first time also attracted great media attention. The outward appearance of the Green Mandatars did not correspond to that of the rest of the MPs. Instead of suits and ties , the MPs wore normal street clothes. Initially, the Greens relied heavily on actionism . For example, they initially refused to appoint a parliamentary club chairman and instead offered a straw doll to choose from. An action by Andreas Wabl , who unrolled a swastika flag on the lectern of the National Council in protest against Federal President Kurt Waldheim , received worldwide attention .
In the following years, diplomatic tasks that were actually the responsibility of the Federal President had to be increasingly taken over by Federal Chancellor Franz Vranitzky due to Kurt Waldheim's international ostracism. He succeeded in normalizing relations both with the USA , which had put Waldheim on the watch list in April 1987 , and with Israel , which withdrew its ambassador after Waldheim was elected.
