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Austria 1986 legislative election

Final results from ParlGov, read : Social Democratic Party of Austria won 80 of 183 seats with 43.1% of the vote; 90.5% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 2.1 points on 1983.

Result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats± seats%± pointsVotes
Social Democratic Party of Austria80−1043.1−4.52,092,024
Austrian People's Party77−441.3−1.92,003,663
Freedom Party of Austria18+69.7+4.7472,205
The Greens84.8234,028
Communist Party of Austria00.735,104

± is the change against the Austria 1983 legislative election, party by party.

Votes by party
  • Social Democratic Party of Austria 2,092,024
  • Austrian People's Party 2,003,663
  • Freedom Party of Austria 472,205
  • The Greens 234,028
  • Communist Party of Austria 35,104

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

90.5% of the 5,461,414 registered voters cast a ballot (4,940,298 ballots), down 2.1 points on 1983. 4,852,188 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

  • Social Democratic Party of Austria43.1% of votes43.7% of seats
  • Austrian People's Party41.3% of votes42.1% of seats
  • Freedom Party of Austria9.7% of votes9.8% of seats
  • The Greens4.8% of votes4.4% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 0.9 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 2.7 by votes and 2.6 by seats; Social Democratic Party of Austria led Austrian People's Party by 1.8 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

Sources and licence

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