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Parliamentary elections were held in Austria on 9 October 1949. About 500,000 registered Nazis, who were not allowed to vote in 1945, regained their voting rights. A newly created party, the Electoral Party of Independents (WdU) (a predecessor of the Freedom Party of Austria) specifically targeted this group of voters and immediately won a large share of votes.[1] The Austrian People's Party remained strongest party, although losing their absolute majority of seats. Leopold Figl stayed as Chancellor, leading a coalition with the Socialist Party of Austria as junior partner.[2]
Results
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| Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
| Austrian People's Party | 1,846,581 | 44.03 | 77 | –8 | |
| Socialist Party of Austria | 1,623,524 | 38.71 | 67 | –9 | |
| Electoral Party of Independents | 489,273 | 11.67 | 16 | New | |
| Communist Party of Austria and Left Socialists | 213,066 | 5.08 | 5 | +1 | |
| Democratic Union | 12,059 | 0.29 | 0 | New | |
| Fourth Party | 7,134 | 0.17 | 0 | New | |
| Democratic Front of the Working People | 2,088 | 0.05 | 0 | New | |
| Democratic Party of Austria | 5 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | |
| Economic Party of House and Property Owners | 3 | 0.00 | 0 | New | |
| Austrian Patriotic Party | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | New | |
| Total | 4,193,733 | 100.00 | 165 | 0 | |
| Valid votes | 4,193,733 | 98.66 | |||
| Invalid/blank votes | 56,883 | 1.34 | |||
| Total votes | 4,250,616 | 100.00 | |||
| Registered voters/turnout | 4,391,815 | 96.78 | |||
| Source: Nohlen & Stöver[3] | |||||
Results by state
| State | ÖVP | SPÖ | WdU | Linksblock | DU | Others | |||
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 Burgenland | 52.6 | 40.5 | 3.9 | 2.9 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |||
 Carinthia | 34.0 | 41.1 | 20.8 | 4.1 | 0.1 | - | |||
 Lower Austria | 54.1 | 36.2 | 4.3 | 5.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |||
 Upper Austria | 44.9 | 30.8 | 20.8 | 3.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |||
 Salzburg | 43.7 | 33.6 | 18.6 | 3.3 | 0.3 | 0.6 | |||
 Styria | 42.9 | 37.4 | 14.5 | 4.5 | 0.5 | 0.1 | |||
| Tyrol | 56.3 | 23.8 | 17.4 | 1.6 | 0.7 | 0.2 | |||
| Vorarlberg | 56.4 | 18.9 | 21.9 | 2.4 | 0.4 | - | |||
| Vienna | 35.5 | 49.2 | 6.8 | 7.9 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |||
 Austria | 44.0 | 38.7 | 11.7 | 5.1 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |||
| Source: Institute for Social Research and Consulting (SORA)[4] | |||||||||
References
- The Development of Right-Wing Extremism After 1945 Documentation Archive of Austrian Resistance
- Austrian Cabinets since 1945 Austrian Chancellery
- Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, pp213–219 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