Austria Presidential election 2022 — Results
Election day: October 9, 2022
- Alexander Van der Bellen: 56.69%
- Walter Rosenkranz: 17.68%
- Dominik Wlazny (Marco Pogo): 8.31%
- Tassilo Wallentin: 8.07%
- Gerald Grosz: 5.57%
- Michael Brunner: 2.11%
- Heinrich Staudinger: 1.59%
Turnout: 65.19%
About this election
The political system
The Austrian President is directly elected for a six-year term by a two-round majority system; a candidate winning more than half the valid votes in the first round is elected outright. The office is largely ceremonial but holds real reserve powers over the appointment and dismissal of governments — powers Van der Bellen had exercised prominently during the turbulence that followed the 2019 Ibiza affair. The 2022 election was the first test of his standing since those events and since the resignation of Chancellor Sebastian Kurz.
Compiled and reviewed from official results by ElectioMap. See our data methodology.
In numbers
- 39.01 points separated Alexander Van der Bellen from Walter Rosenkranz — 1,582,493 votes.
- The top two shared 74.37% of the vote between them, and 5 lists cleared 5%.
- Alexander Van der Bellen moved +2.90 points against the 2016 presidential election (53.79% → 56.69%).
- Support for Alexander Van der Bellen ranged from 65.42% in Wien to 46.79% in Kärnten — a spread of 18.63 points across 9 regions, and it led in 9 of 9.
Calculated from the official figures on this page and from the other elections of this type in our archive.
Understanding this election
- Presidential vs Parliamentary Elections — why forming a government takes months in some systems
- Why Official Results Sometimes Take Weeks — the stages between the count and the legal result
- Why Election Maps Look Different From the Popular Vote — why a map can look one-sided when the vote was close