Austria Legislative election 2017 — Results
Election day: October 15, 2017
- People's Party (ÖVP): 31.47%, 62 seats
- Social Democrats (SPÖ): 26.86%, 52 seats
- Freedom Party (FPÖ): 25.97%, 51 seats
- NEOS: 5.30%, 10 seats
- Peter Pilz List: 4.41%, 8 seats
- The Greens: 3.80%, 0 seats
Turnout: 80.00%
About this election
The political system
Austria is a federal parliamentary republic. The lower house, the National Council (Nationalrat), has 183 members elected for five-year terms by proportional representation. Seats are allocated in three tiers — 39 regional districts, the nine federal states (Länder) and a final national apportionment — with a 4% national threshold (or a direct regional seat) required to enter parliament. The President, elected separately, appoints the government, but in practice the Chancellor is the leader able to command a majority in the Nationalrat. Voting is from age 16, among the lowest thresholds in the world.
Compiled and reviewed from official results by ElectioMap. See our data methodology.
In numbers
- 4.61 points separated People's Party (ÖVP) from Social Democrats (SPÖ) — 233,780 votes.
- People's Party (ÖVP) converted 31.47% of the vote into 62 of 183 seats (33.88%), 2.41 points more than its vote share.
- The top two shared 58.33% of the vote between them, and 4 lists cleared 5%.
- Support for People's Party (ÖVP) ranged from 38.42% in Tirol to 21.60% in Wien — a spread of 16.82 points across 9 regions, and it led in 6 of 9.
- Turnout of 80.00% is the highest of the 3 legislative elections covered here since 2017.
Calculated from the official figures on this page and from the other elections of this type in our archive.
Understanding this election
- How Live Election Data Is Collected and Verified — from ballot box to published figure
- Why Official Results Sometimes Take Weeks — the stages between the count and the legal result
- Why Turnout Figures Disagree — why two sources publish different turnout for one election