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Austria 1949 legislative election

Final results from ParlGov, read : Austrian People's Party won 77 of 165 seats with 44.0% of the vote; 96.8% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 2.5 points on 1945.

Result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats± seats%± pointsVotes
Austrian People's Party77−844.0−5.81,846,581
Social Democratic Party of Austria67−938.7−5.91,623,524
Freedom Party of Austria1611.7489,273
Communist Party of Austria5+15.1−0.3213,066
Largest party without seats000.3+0.112,059

± is the change against the Austria 1945 legislative election, party by party.

Votes by party
  • Austrian People's Party 1,846,581
  • Social Democratic Party of Austria 1,623,524
  • Freedom Party of Austria 489,273
  • Communist Party of Austria 213,066
  • Largest party without seats 12,059

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.

Share of the vote

Turnout

96.8% of the 4,391,815 registered voters cast a ballot (4,250,616 ballots), up 2.5 points on 1945. 4,193,733 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

  • Austrian People's Party44.0% of votes46.7% of seats
  • Social Democratic Party of Austria38.7% of votes40.6% of seats
  • Freedom Party of Austria11.7% of votes9.7% of seats
  • Communist Party of Austria5.1% of votes3.0% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 3.1 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 2.8 by votes and 2.5 by seats; Austrian People's Party led Social Democratic Party of Austria by 5.3 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

Sources and licence

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