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Austria 1975 legislative election

Final results from ParlGov, read : Social Democratic Party of Austria won 93 of 183 seats with 50.4% of the vote; 92.9% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 0.5 points on 1971.

Result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats± seats%± pointsVotes
Social Democratic Party of Austria93050.4+0.42,326,201
Austrian People's Party80042.9−0.21,981,291
Freedom Party of Austria1005.4−0.1249,444
Communist Party of Austria001.2−0.255,032

± is the change against the Austria 1971 legislative election, party by party.

Votes by party
  • Social Democratic Party of Austria 2,326,201
  • Austrian People's Party 1,981,291
  • Freedom Party of Austria 249,444
  • Communist Party of Austria 55,032

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

92.9% of the 5,019,277 registered voters cast a ballot (4,662,684 ballots), up 0.5 points on 1971. 4,613,432 of them were valid votes. The highest turnout since 1966 in our data. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

  • Social Democratic Party of Austria50.4% of votes50.8% of seats
  • Austrian People's Party42.9% of votes43.7% of seats
  • Freedom Party of Austria5.4% of votes5.5% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 1.1 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 2.3 by votes and 2.2 by seats; Social Democratic Party of Austria led Austrian People's Party by 7.5 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

Sources and licence

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