1994 Austrian legislative election

Parliamentary elections were held in Austria on 9 October 1994.[1] The Social Democratic Party won the most seats, and retained the grand coalition with the Austrian People's Party. Voter turnout was 81.9%.[2]

9 October 1994

183 seats in the National Council of Austria
92 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Franz Vranitzky	Erhard Busek	Jörg Haider
Party	SPÖ	ÖVP	FPÖ
Leader since	1988	1991	1986
Leader's seat	9 Vienna	9A Vienna Inner-city-South	2A Klagenfurt
Last election	80 seats, 42.78%	60 seats, 32.07%	33 seats, 16.64%
Seats won	65	52	42
Seat change	15	8	9
Popular vote	1,617,804	1,281,846	1,042,332
Percentage	34.92%	27.67%	22.50%
Swing	7.86%	4.40%	5.86%

	Fourth party	Fifth party

Leader	Madeleine Petrovic	Heide Schmidt
Party	Greens	LiF
Leader since	1994	1993
Leader's seat	9F Vienna North-West	9F Vienna North-West
Last election	10 seats, 4.78%	new
Seats won	13	11
Seat change	3	11
Popular vote	338,538	276,580
Percentage	7.31%	5.96%
Swing	2.53%	5.96%

Results of the election, showing seats won by state and nationwide. States are shaded according to the first-place party.

Chancellor before election

Franz Vranitzky
SPÖ

Elected Chancellor

Franz Vranitzky
SPÖ

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Results

Party	Votes	%	Seats	+/–
Social Democratic Party	1,617,804	34.9	65	–15
Austrian People's Party	1,281,846	27.7	52	–8
Freedom Party of Austria	1,042,332	22.5	42	+9
Green Alternative	338,538	7.3	13	+3
Liberal Forum	276,580	6.0	11	New
No - Civic Action Group against the sale of Austria	41,492	0.9	0	New
Communist Party of Austria	11,919	0.3	0	0
Christian Electoral Community	9,051	0.2	0	0
United Greens of Austria	5,776	0.1	0	0
Austrian Natural Law Party	4,209	0.1	0	New
Centrist Greens of Austria	2,504	0.1	0	New
The Best Party	581	0.0	0	0
Fritz Georg	482	0.0	0	0
Invalid/blank votes	97,873	–	–	–
Total	4,730,987	100	183	0
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

Popular vote

SPÖ			34.92%
ÖVP			27.67%
FPÖ			22.50%
GRÜNE			7.31%
LIF			5.96%
NEIN			0.90%
Other			0.75%

Parliamentary seats

SPÖ			35.52%
ÖVP			28.42%
FPÖ			22.95%
GRÜNE			7.10%
LIF			6.01%

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References

Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p196 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
Nohlen & Stöver, p216

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