Austria Legislative election 2024 — Results
Election day: September 29, 2024
- Freedom Party (FPÖ): 28.85%, 57 seats
- People's Party (ÖVP): 26.27%, 51 seats
- Social Democrats (SPÖ): 21.14%, 41 seats
- NEOS: 9.14%, 18 seats
- The Greens: 8.24%, 16 seats
- Communist Party (KPÖ): 2.39%, 0 seats
- Beer Party: 2.01%, 0 seats
Turnout: 77.70%
About this election
The political system
The 183-member National Council is elected by proportional representation through three tiers — 39 regional districts, the nine states and a national apportionment — with a 4% threshold. Although the President appoints the Chancellor, the office-holder must be able to command a majority in the chamber, and Austria's strong tradition of coalition government means the largest party does not automatically govern. That distinction proved decisive in 2024, when other parties had pledged not to serve under Kickl.
Compiled and reviewed from official results by ElectioMap. See our data methodology.
In numbers
- 2.58 points separated Freedom Party (FPÖ) from People's Party (ÖVP) — 125,780 votes.
- Freedom Party (FPÖ) converted 28.85% of the vote into 57 of 183 seats (31.15%), 2.30 points more than its vote share.
- The top two shared 55.12% of the vote between them, and 5 lists cleared 5%.
- Freedom Party (FPÖ) moved +12.68 points against the 2019 legislative election (16.17% → 28.85%).
- Support for Freedom Party (FPÖ) ranged from 38.38% in Kärnten to 20.66% in Wien — a spread of 17.72 points across 9 regions, and it led in 4 of 9.
Calculated from the official figures on this page and from the other elections of this type in our archive.
Understanding this election
- How Electoral Systems Work Around the World — first-past-the-post, proportional and mixed systems, with real numbers
- Why Election Maps Look Different From the Popular Vote — why a map can look one-sided when the vote was close
- How a Constituency Map Gets Built — what happens when no boundary file matches the districts