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Austria 1999 legislative election

Final results from ParlGov, read : Social Democratic Party of Austria won 65 of 183 seats with 33.2% of the vote; 80.4% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 5.6 points on 1995.

Result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats± seats%± pointsVotes
Social Democratic Party of Austria65−633.2−4.91,532,448
Freedom Party of Austria52+1126.9+5.01,244,087
Austrian People's Party52026.9−1.41,243,672
The Greens14+57.4+2.6342,260
Liberal Forum0−103.7−1.8168,612
The Independents01.046,943

± is the change against the Austria 1995 legislative election, party by party.

Votes by party
  • Social Democratic Party of Austria 1,532,448
  • Freedom Party of Austria 1,244,087
  • Austrian People's Party 1,243,672
  • The Greens 342,260
  • Liberal Forum 168,612
  • The Independents 46,943

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

80.4% of the 5,838,373 registered voters cast a ballot (4,695,225 ballots), down 5.6 points on 1995. 4,622,354 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 Austria33.2% of votes35.5% of seats
  • Austrian People's Party26.9% of votes28.4% of seats
  • Freedom Party of Austria26.9% of votes28.4% of seats
  • The Greens7.4% of votes7.7% of seats
  • Liberal Forum3.7% of votes0.0% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 3.5 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.8 by votes and 3.4 by seats; Social Democratic Party of Austria led Austrian People's Party by 6.3 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

Sources and licence

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