1979 Austrian legislative election

1979 Austrian legislative election
6 May 1979
All 183 seats in the National Council
92 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Bruno Kreisky Josef Taus Alexander Götz
Party SPÖ ÖVP FPÖ
Last election 50.42%, 93 seats 42.95%, 80 seats, 5.41%, 10 seats,
Seats won 95 77 11
Seat change 2 3 1
Popular vote 2,413,226 1,981,739 286,789
Percentage 51.03% 41.90% 6.06%
Swing 0.61 pp 1.05 pp 0.65 pp
Results by state
Chancellor before election

Bruno Kreisky
SPÖ

 Elected Chancellor

Bruno Kreisky
SPÖ

Parliamentary elections were held in Austria on 6 May 1979. The Socialist Party won a fourth consecutive term in government, and its third as a majority government, winning 95 of 183 seats. Voter turnout was 92.2%. As of the 2024 election, the Socialist Party's result is the most seats that an Austrian party has won in a free election, as well as the last time that an Austrian political party has won an outright majority at the federal level.

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