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Austria 1953 legislative election

Final results from ParlGov, read : Austrian People's Party won 74 of 165 seats with 41.3% of the vote; 95.8% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 1.0 points on 1949.

Result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats± seats%± pointsVotes
Social Democratic Party of Austria73+642.1+3.41,818,517
Austrian People's Party74−341.3−2.71,781,777
Freedom Party of Austria14−210.9−0.8472,866
Communist Party of Austria4−15.3+0.2228,159
Largest party without seats000.1−0.15,809

± is the change against the Austria 1949 legislative election, party by party.

Votes by party
  • Social Democratic Party of Austria 1,818,517
  • Austrian People's Party 1,781,777
  • Freedom Party of Austria 472,866
  • Communist Party of Austria 228,159
  • Largest party without seats 5,809

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

95.8% of the 4,586,870 registered voters cast a ballot (4,395,519 ballots), down 1.0 points on 1949. 4,318,688 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

  • Austrian People's Party41.3% of votes44.8% of seats
  • Social Democratic Party of Austria42.1% of votes44.2% of seats
  • Freedom Party of Austria10.9% of votes8.5% of seats
  • Communist Party of Austria5.3% of votes2.4% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 4.0 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 2.8 by votes and 2.5 by seats; Social Democratic Party of Austria led Austrian People's Party by 0.8 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

Sources and licence

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