Austria 1962 legislative election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Austrian People's Party won 81 of 165 seats with 45.4% of the vote; 93.8% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 0.4 points on 1959.
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Austrian People's Party | 81 | +2 | 45.4 | +1.2 | 2,024,501 |
| Social Democratic Party of Austria | 76 | −2 | 44.0 | −0.8 | 1,960,685 |
| Freedom Party of Austria | 8 | 0 | 7.0 | −0.7 | 313,895 |
| Communist Party of Austria | 0 | 0 | 3.0 | −0.3 | 135,520 |
± is the change against the Austria 1959 legislative election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Austrian People's Party 2,024,501
- Social Democratic Party of Austria 1,960,685
- Freedom Party of Austria 313,895
- Communist Party of Austria 135,520
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
93.8% of the 4,805,351 registered voters cast a ballot (4,506,007 ballots), down 0.4 points on 1959. 4,456,131 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 Party45.4% of votes49.1% of seats
- Social Democratic Party of Austria44.0% of votes46.1% of seats
- Freedom Party of Austria7.0% of votes4.8% of seats
- Communist Party of Austria3.0% of votes0.0% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 4.0 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 2.5 by votes and 2.2 by seats; Austrian People's Party led Social Democratic Party of Austria by 1.4 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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