National Council election in Austria in 1990
The National Council election on October 7, 1990 was the 18th National Council election in the history of the Republic of Austria . The strongest party was the SPÖ under Chancellor Franz Vranitzky . The SPÖ lost votes, but was able to keep its number of seats. The ÖVP under Josef Riegler suffered heavy losses, becoming the second largest party. The FPÖ benefited from the losses suffered by the ÖVP, gaining mandates and votes with Norbert Gugerbauer as the top candidate. The Green Alternative managed by Johannes Voggenhuber again a place in the National Council, lost votes, but was able to gain two seats.
5,628,912 people were eligible to vote. The turnout fell to 83.58 percent (1986: 88.85).
Bottom line
| Candidates | be right | proportion of | Mandates | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | ± 4 | 1990 | ± | ||
| Socialist Party of Austria (SPÖ) | 2,012,787 | 42.8% | −0.3% | 80 | ± 0 |
| Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) | 1,508,600 | 32.1% | −9.2% | 60 | −17 |
| Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) | 782,648 | 16.6% | + 6.9% | 33 | +15 |
| The Green Alternative - Greens in Parliament (GREEN) | 225.084 | 4.8% | ± 0.0% | 10 | +2 |
| United Greens Austria / The Environment Citizens' Forum (VGÖ) | 92,277 | 2.0% | +1.8% | 0 | ± 0 |
| Association of the Social Insured (VDS) | 35,833 | 0.8% | nk | 0 | - |
| Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ) | 25,682 | 0.55% | −0.17% | 0 | ± 0 |
| Christian Voter Community (CWG) | 9,263 | 0.2% | nk | 0 | - |
| Christian Democratic Party (CDP) | 6,194 | 0.1% | nk | 0 | - |
| Election platform of the gray of Austria (WGÖ) | 3,996 | 0.1% | nk | 0 | - |
| Fritz Georg | 2,530 | 0.1% | 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 | 49.9 | 46.1 | 42.5 | 42.0 | 37.8 | 43.3 | 30.5 | 28.8 | 50.7 |
| ÖVP | 35.4 | 18.5 | 39.1 | 33.3 | 32.1 | 33.2 | 40.7 | 40.4 | 21.1 |
| FPÖ | 11.1 | 30.3 | 12.2 | 16.0 | 20.5 | 16.8 | 17.1 | 17.2 | 15.7 |
| GREEN | 2.5 | 3.0 | 3.3 | 4.1 | 7.3 | 3.9 | 6.3 | 5.2 | 7.6 |
| VGÖ | 0.9 | 1.3 | 1.6 | 2.6 | 1.3 | 1.1 | 3.2 | 4.6 | 2.2 |
| VDS | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.85 | 0.9 | 1.5 | ||||
| KPÖ | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.8 |
| CWG | 0.76 | 1.9 | |||||||
| CDP | 0.8 | 0.4 | |||||||
| WGÖ | 0.6 | 0.7 | |||||||
| FG | 1.3 |
consequences
After the election, the SPÖ and ÖVP continued the grand coalition that had existed since 1986 . Franz Vranitzky (SPÖ) remained Federal Chancellor . The Federal Government of Vranitzky III began work on December 17, 1990. Josef Riegler (ÖVP) remained Vice Chancellor until 1991, followed by Erhard Busek .
