List of political parties in Austria

The essence of the constitution of the Republic of Austria means that although political parties are mentioned in the Federal Constitutional Act , they are not defined there. This is done in the Political Parties Act , Section 1 of which has constitutional status:

(1) The existence and diversity of political parties are essential components of the democratic order of the Republic of Austria.

(2) A political party is a permanently organized association which aims to exert a comprehensive influence on state decision-making through joint activities, in particular through participation in elections for general representative bodies and the European Parliament, and whose statutes are deposited with the Federal Ministry of the Interior.

(3) The establishment of political parties is free, unless otherwise stipulated by federal constitutional law. Their activity must not be subject to any restrictions by special legal provisions.

There is, of course, a constitutional restriction under the Prohibition Act .

With the deposit of the statutes with the Federal Ministry of the Interior, the political party acquires legal personality . The statutes must contain: organs of the party and their power of representation (at least a general assembly, a management body and a control body must be defined), rights and obligations of the members, the structure of the party, provisions on the voluntary dissolution of the party.

Parties represented in parliaments

The following parties are represented in the National Council , in the European Parliament or in at least one state parliament:

logo	Political party	Abbreviation	Members (as of 2017)	State organ.	National Council mandates	European Parliament mandates	Landtag mandates	Year of foundation
	Social Democratic Party of Austria	SPÖ	180,000	9	40	5	132	1888
	Austrian People's Party	ÖVP	600,000	9	71	7th	136	1945
	Freedom Party of Austria	FPÖ	60,000	9	30th	3	110	1955
	The Greens - The Green Alternative	GREEN	7,000	9	26th	2	37	1986
	NEOS - The New Austria and Liberal Forum	NEOS	2,700	9	15th	1	15th	2012
	Communist Party of Austria	KPÖ	2,000	9	-	-	2	1918
	List Fritz Dinkhauser	FRITZ	?	1	-	-	2	2008
	Team Carinthia	TK	?	1	-	-	3	2017
	Team HC Strache - Alliance for Austria	HC	?	2	-	-	3	2019

Other parties

Further parties in the list of parties

A party must deposit its statutes in the Federal Ministry of the Interior to be founded. Since there are not many legal requirements, well over 1000 statutes of political parties are stored at the BMI (as of March 15, 2019).

Of these parties, the following parties ran for state parliament, national council or European elections between 2014 and 2019 (in alphabetical order):

• Alliance Future Austria (last National Council election 2019 only in Carinthia )
• Beer Party Austria ( National Council election 2019 only in Vienna )
• Christian Party of Austria (last National Council election 2019 only in Burgenland )
• The whites - the right comes from the people. We all decide in Austria. The People's Movement ( National Council election 2017 )
• EU exit party (last National Council election 2017 )
• family. The Tyrolean Family Party (most recently Tyrol 2018 )
• Free Party Salzburg (last Salzburg 2018 )
• Impuls-tirol (most recently Tyrol 2018 )
• Each vote is VALID (last National Council election 2019 only in Tyrol and Vorarlberg )
• Now - Pilz list (last National Council election 2019 )
• List of Burgenland (most recently Burgenland 2020 )
• Men's party (last National Council election 2017 )
• NBZ - New Movement for the Future ( National Council election 2017 )
• The reform conservatives ( 2014 European elections )
• Socialist Left Party (last National Council election in 2019 only in Upper Austria )
• Change (last National Council election 2019 )
• Austrian Labor Party  (PdA)

Electoral alliances and lists

Electoral parties can also be formed independently of political parties and run for elections:

• Free Democrats ( Vienna 2015 )
• FAIR (for all interested reformers) ( Carinthia 2018 )
• Together for Vienna ( Vienna 2015 )
• LEFT list ( 2004 European elections )
• Left ( National Council election 2008 )
• EUSTOP ( 2014 European elections )
• Europe different ( 2014 European elections )
• List Hans Mayr - Sbg - the Salzburg Citizens' Community ( Salzburg 2018 )
• Responsibility Earth ( Carinthia 2018 )
• Vienna different ( Vienna 2015 )
• WIR - platform for families ( state elections in Vorarlberg 2014 )
• We for Floridsdorf ( Vienna 2015 )
• We for Lower Austria ( Lower Austria 2018 )
• We want freedom of choice - Pollischansky List ( Vienna 2015 )
• Homeless people in politics ( National Council election 2017 , only in Vienna)

Other parties

The following still active parties competed in state parliament, national council or European elections:

• Working group for democratic politics
• Alliance of Neutral Free Austria
• Christian voter community
• Enotna Lista / Unit List (EL)
• Austrian and European animal rights party and animal protection party human-environment-animal protection
• Pirate Party of Austria

Historical

Historical parties

Historical parties that were active in the Republic of Austria or its predecessor state Cisleithanien :

• Alternative list of Austria (ALÖ)
• Christian Social Alliance (CSA)
• Christian Social Party (CS / CsP)
• Democratic Party of Austria (DPÖ)
• Democratic Union (DU)
• Democratic Economic Party (DWP)
• German Workers' Party (Austria-Hungary) (DAP)
• German Liberal Party
• German National Socialist Workers' Party (DNSAP)
• German National Parties (DnP)
• German-Austrian People's Party
• The Democrats
• The Independents - List Lugner (DU)
• The Freedom in Carinthia (FPK)
• Greater German People's Party (GDVP)
• Home block (HB)
• Jewish National Party (JNP)
• Party of the Carinthian Slovenes (KSS), also Carinthian Slovene Party (Slov. Koroška slovenska stranka )
• Land Federation for Austria (LBd)
• Liberal Forum (LIF)
• List Dr. Martin
• Marxist-Leninist Party of Austria (MLPÖ)
• National Democratic Party (NDP)
• National Socialist German Workers' Party of Austria - Hitler Movement (NSDAP Hitler Movement )
• Austrian Citizens and Business Party (ÖBWP)
• Socialist Workers' Party (SAP) ( commonly known as  Left Socialists)
• Estate farmers' association (StBV)
• Team Stronach (TS), between 2012 and 2017
• Ude Association (Ude)
• Patriotic Front (VF), unity party between 1934 and 1938
• United Green Austria (VGÖ)
• Association of Independents , also Elective Party of Independents (VdU, also WdU)
• Fourth Party ( Ergocrats )

Historic electoral alliances

• Unit list (EL)
• National Economic Bloc and Land Association (NWB)
• Völkisch Social Block (VSB)
• Electoral Community of the Austrian People's Opposition (VO)

literature

• Anton Pelinka , Fritz Plasser (Ed.): The Austrian party system (= studies on politics and administration . Volume 22). Böhlau, Vienna a. a. 1988, ISBN 3-205-08910-3 .
• Anton Pelinka, Helmut Reinalter (Ed.): Austrian Association and Party Lexicon (= interdisciplinary research . Volume 10). Studien-Verlag, Innsbruck 2002, ISBN 3-7065-1442-7 .

Web links

• Political Parties Act - PartG (PDF file; 19 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Political Parties Act 2012 - PartG, Federal Law Gazette I 2012/56, replaces the previously valid Federal Law Gazette No. 404/1975 from July 1, 2013, last amended by Federal Law Gazette I No. 111/2010
2. ↑ PartG 2012, §1 (4)
3. ↑ The value of the paying base . In: news.ORF.at . July 17, 2017 ( orf.at [accessed August 9, 2017]).
4. ↑ List of parties - as of March 15, 2019 (PDF) on the website of the Federal Ministry of the Interior , March 2019, accessed on June 26, 2019.