Austria 1959 legislative election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Austrian People's Party won 79 of 165 seats with 44.2% of the vote; 94.2% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 1.7 points on 1956.
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Social Democratic Party of Austria | 78 | +4 | 44.8 | +1.8 | 1,953,935 |
| Austrian People's Party | 79 | −3 | 44.2 | −1.8 | 1,928,043 |
| Freedom Party of Austria | 8 | +2 | 7.7 | +1.2 | 336,110 |
| Communist Party of Austria | 0 | −3 | 3.3 | −1.1 | 142,578 |
± is the change against the Austria 1956 legislative election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Social Democratic Party of Austria 1,953,935
- Austrian People's Party 1,928,043
- Freedom Party of Austria 336,110
- Communist Party of Austria 142,578
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
94.2% of the 4,696,603 registered voters cast a ballot (4,424,658 ballots), down 1.7 points on 1956. 4,362,856 of them were valid votes. The lowest turnout of this kind in our data, which begins in 1945. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Austrian People's Party44.2% of votes47.9% of seats
- Social Democratic Party of Austria44.8% of votes47.3% of seats
- Freedom Party of Austria7.7% of votes4.8% of seats
- Communist Party of Austria3.3% of votes0.0% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 4.4 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 2.5 by votes and 2.2 by seats; Social Democratic Party of Austria led Austrian People's Party by 0.6 points of the vote. How these are computed.
Sources and licence
Sources and licence
- ParlGov 2024 Release (Döring and Manow), Harvard Dataverse (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal
- Wikidata, party colours (P465) (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal
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