Parliamentary elections were held in Austria on 22 February 1953. They were the elections in which the Socialist Party received the most votes since 1920. However, the Austrian People's Party won the most seats. The grand coalition between the two parties was continued with Julius Raab replacing Leopold Figl as Chancellor of Austria, who had had to resign after facing criticism from his own party, and Adolf Schärf of the Socialist Party remaining Vice Chancellor.[1][2]
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22 February 1953
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Results
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| Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
| Socialist Party of Austria | 1,818,517 | 42.11 | 73 | +6 | |
| Austrian People's Party | 1,781,777 | 41.26 | 74 | –3 | |
| Electoral Party of Independents | 472,866 | 10.95 | 14 | –2 | |
| Austrian People's Opposition | 228,159 | 5.28 | 4 | –1 | |
| Bipartisan Agreement of the Centre | 5,809 | 0.13 | 0 | New | |
| Christian Democratic Party | 3,668 | 0.08 | 0 | New | |
| Christian Social Party and Non-Party Personalities | 3,029 | 0.07 | 0 | New | |
| Free Democrats | 2,573 | 0.06 | 0 | New | |
| Association of Austrian Monarchists | 1,210 | 0.03 | 0 | New | |
| Austrian National Republicans and Independents | 1,054 | 0.02 | 0 | New | |
| Austrian Patriotic Party | 26 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | |
| Total | 4,318,688 | 100.00 | 165 | 0 | |
| Valid votes | 4,318,688 | 98.25 | |||
| Invalid/blank votes | 76,831 | 1.75 | |||
| Total votes | 4,395,519 | 100.00 | |||
| Registered voters/turnout | 4,586,870 | 95.83 | |||
| Source: Nohlen & Stöver[3] | |||||
Results by state
edit| State | SPÖ | ÖVP | WdU | VO | Others | ||||
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 Burgenland | 44.7 | 48.3 | 3.7 | 3.2 | 0.5 | ||||
 Carinthia | 48.1 | 28.8 | 16.6 | 4.1 | 2.3 | ||||
 Lower Austria | 39.0 | 50.2 | 4.8 | 5.8 | 0.1 | ||||
 Upper Austria | 38.4 | 46.2 | 12.2 | 3.0 | 0.2 | ||||
 Salzburg | 35.2 | 42.3 | 18.9 | 2.8 | 0.8 | ||||
 Styria | 41.1 | 40.7 | 13.6 | 4.4 | 0.2 | ||||
| Tyrol | 29.2 | 55.1 | 13.1 | 2.4 | 0.2 | ||||
| Vorarlberg | 22.7 | 55.5 | 18.8 | 2.9 | 0.1 | ||||
| Vienna | 50.0 | 31.1 | 10.5 | 8.1 | 0.5 | ||||
 Austria | 42.1 | 41.3 | 11.0 | 5.3 | 0.4 | ||||
| Source: Institute for Social Research and Consulting (SORA)[4] | |||||||||
References
edit- ↑ Leopold Figl Encyclopedia of Austria
- ↑ Austrian Chancellors and Cabinets since 1945 Austrian Federal Chancellery
- ↑ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, pp214–219 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
- ↑ Institute for Social Research and Consulting (SORA) (2019-07-24), National election results Austria 1919 - 2017 (OA edition) (in German), Austrian Social Science Data Archive (AUSSDA), doi:10.11587/EQUDAL