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Austria 1920 legislative election

Final results from ParlGov, read : Austrian People's Party won 85 of 183 seats with 41.8% of the vote; 80.3% of registered voters cast a ballot.

Result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats%Votes
Austrian People's Party8541.81,245,531
Social Democratic Party of Austria6936.01,072,709
Greater German People's Party2117.3514,127
one-seat11.442,826
Landbund7
Carinthian Farmers' Association0
National Socialist Workers' Party0
Votes by party
  • Austrian People's Party 1,245,531
  • Social Democratic Party of Austria 1,072,709
  • Greater German People's Party 514,127
  • one-seat 42,826
  • Landbund
  • Carinthian Farmers' Association
  • National Socialist Workers' Party

ParlGov lists parties with at least 1 percent of the vote or 2 seats, so the rows do not add up to the valid votes. How we read it.

ParlGov marks results before 1945 as experimental: they may need revision, so we compare them with no other election.

Share of the vote

Turnout

80.3% of the 3,752,212 registered voters cast a ballot (3,011,783 ballots). 2,980,328 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

  • Austrian People's Party41.8% of votes46.4% of seats
  • Social Democratic Party of Austria36.0% of votes37.7% of seats
  • Greater German People's Party17.3% of votes11.5% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 6.1 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.0 by votes and 2.7 by seats; Austrian People's Party led Social Democratic Party of Austria by 5.8 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

Sources and licence

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