National Council election in Austria 1995
The National Council election on December 17, 1995 was the 20th National Council election in the history of Austria . The strongest party was the SPÖ of Federal Chancellor Franz Vranitzky , which was able to gain votes and mandates. Second place went to the Austrian People's Party of Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel , recorded the also slight gains.
The FPÖ, which last ran with Jörg Haider as the top candidate for the National Council election, lost one mandate and came in third place. The Liberal Forum , with Heide Schmidt as the top candidate, came fourth with a slight loss of votes and mandates . Fifth place went to the Green Alternative with Madeleine Petrovic , who barely made it over the four percent hurdle .
Before the election
Even two years after the first letter bombs were detonated, right-wing extremist terror in Austria remained a political issue. On February 5, 1995, four Roma were killed by a booby trap in the most devastating terrorist attack of the Second Republic in Oberwart (see Franz Fuchs ).
After Erhard Busek's resignation , Wolfgang Schüssel was sworn in as Vice Chancellor and Foreign Minister in the federal government Vranitzky IV on May 4, 1995 . A few months later, the SPÖ / ÖVP government coalition broke up due to the disagreement over the budget for the next year.
As a result, re-election had to be held 14 months after the last National Council election. The National Council election in 1995 was the first nationwide election since Austria joined the EU on January 1, 1995.
Bottom line
Election result taking into account the re-election of October 13, 1996:
| Eligible voters | 5,768,099 |
| votes cast | 4,959,455 |
| voter turnout | 85.98% |
| invalid votes | 115.282 |
| valid votes | 4,844,173 |
| Candidates | be right | proportion of | Mandates | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | ± | 1995 | ± | ||
| Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) | 1,843,474 | 38.1% | + 3.2% | 71 | +6 |
| Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) | 1,370,510 | 28.3% | + 0.6% | 52 | ± 0 |
| Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) | 1,060,377 | 21.9% | −0.6% | 41 | −1 |
| Liberal Forum (LIF) | 267.026 | 5.5% | −0.5% | 10 | −1 |
| The Greens - The Green Alternative (GREEN) | 233.208 | 4.8% | −2.5% | 9 | −4 |
| Citizens' initiative No to the EU - exit now (NO) | 53,176 | 1.1% | +0.2 | 0 | ± 0 |
| Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ) | 13,938 | 0.29% | +0.03% | 0 | ± 0 |
| Austrian Nature Law Party (ÖNP) | 1,634 | 0.03% | −0.1% | 0 | ± 0 |
| The Best Party - Reinhard Eberhart (DBP) | 830 | 0.02% | + 0.01% | 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 | 44.6 | 40.8 | 37.9 | 38.1 | 32.6 | 39.7 | 27.3 | 22.9 | 44.0 |
| ÖVP | 31.9 | 18.5 | 34.5 | 29.5 | 29.1 | 29.5 | 31.3 | 34.1 | 19.5 |
| FPÖ | 16.9 | 32.7 | 17.3 | 21.6 | 25.4 | 21.2 | 27.0 | 27.4 | 20.1 |
| LIF | 3.3 | 3.6 | 5.0 | 4.4 | 6.1 | 4.2 | 6.2 | 7.1 | 8.6 |
| GREEN | 2.5 | 3.5 | 3.7 | 5.1 | 5.6 | 4.03 | 6.4 | 7.3 | 6.0 |
| NO | 0.6 | 0.6 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 1.0 | 1.5 | 1.0 | 1.1 |
| KPÖ | 0.1 | 0.20 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.4 |
| Public transport | 0.2 | ||||||||
| DBP | 0.24 |
consequences
After the election, the SPÖ and ÖVP continued the grand coalition that had existed since 1986 after long exploratory talks . Franz Vranitzky (SPÖ) remained Federal Chancellor . The office of Vice Chancellor continued to be held by Wolfgang Schüssel (ÖVP). The federal government Vranitzky V began its work on March 12, 1996. After the grand coalition lost the two-thirds majority required for constitutional amendments in the National Council election in 1994 , the SPÖ and ÖVP now again achieved more than 66.67% of the National Council mandates.
As a result of the poor election results of her party, Madeleine Petrovic resigned as federal spokeswoman for the Greens. Her successor was Christoph Canon .
In the same electoral term on January 28, 1997, the Federal Climate Government took over the business.
See also
- List of Members of the Austrian National Council (XX legislative period)
- National Council election regulations
