Austria 2019 legislative election

Final results from ParlGov, read 5 October 2026: Austrian People's Party won 71 of 183 seats with 37.5% of the vote; 75.6% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 4.4 points on 2017.

Austria
Held Sunday 29 September 2019

Result

92 for a majority

Seats and votes by party

Party	Seats	± seats	%	± points	Votes
Austrian People's Party	71	+9	37.5	+6.0	1,789,417
Social Democratic Party of Austria	40	−12	21.2	−5.7	1,011,868
Freedom Party of Austria	31	−20	16.2	−9.8	772,666
The Greens	26	+26	13.9	+10.1	664,055
NEOS	15	+5	8.1	+2.8	387,124
JETZT	0	−8	1.9	−2.5	89,169

± is the change against the Austria 2017 legislative election, party by party.

Votes by party

Austrian People's Party 1,789,417
Social Democratic Party of Austria 1,011,868
Freedom Party of Austria 772,666
The Greens 664,055
NEOS 387,124
JETZT 89,169

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

75.6% of the 6,396,812 registered voters cast a ballot (4,835,469 ballots), down 4.4 points on 2017. 4,777,246 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

Austrian People's Party37.5% of votes38.8% of seats
Social Democratic Party of Austria21.2% of votes21.9% of seats
Freedom Party of Austria16.2% of votes16.9% of seats
The Greens13.9% of votes14.2% of seats
NEOS8.1% of votes8.2% of seats

Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 1.8 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 4.2 by votes and 3.9 by seats; Austrian People's Party led Social Democratic Party of Austria by 16.3 points of the vote. How these are computed.

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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