1966 Austrian legislative election

none April 2017 Austria state parliamentary 1962 Austrian legislative election 1962 1970 Austrian legislative election 1970 All 165 seats in the National Council 83 6 March 1966 130x130px Josef_Klaus_1964.jpg Josef Klaus Austrian People's Party 45.43%, 81 seats 85 4 2,191,109 48.35% 2.92 pp Bruno_Pittermann.jpg Bruno Pittermann Social Democratic Party of Austria 44.00%, 76 seats 74 2 1,928,985 42.56% 1.44 pp 3x4.svg Friedrich Peter Freedom Party of Austria 7.04%, 8 seats 6 2 242,570 5.35% 1.69 pp 1966 Austrian legislative election - Results.svg Seats won by constituency and nationwide. Constituencies are shaded according to the most voted-for party. Chancellor Josef Klaus Austrian People's Party Josef Klaus Austrian People's Party Parliamentary elections were held in Austria on 6 March 1966. Elections in Europe: A data handbook Nohlen Dieter Dieter Nohlen Stöver Philip 31 May 2010 Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft 196 978-3-8329-5609-7 The result was a victory for the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP), which won 85 of the 165 seats. Voter turnout was 94%.Nohlen & Stöver, p215 During the campaign, ÖVP Chancellor Josef Klaus (who had succeeded Alfons Gorbach in 1964) had called for an end to the grand coalition with the Socialist Party of Austria (SPÖ) that had governed since 1945. The election results seemingly left Klaus free to break off the coalition; the ÖVP won an outright majority of three seats, enough to govern alone. However, Klaus reversed himself and proposed a new coalition agreement. The SPÖ leadership supported a renewed coalition, but talks failed when the SPÖ rank and file balked at the proposed coalition terms.Austria: a country study. Government Printing Office for the Library of Congress, 1994. Klaus then formed an exclusively ÖVP cabinet, the first one-party government of the Second Republic.Austria at Encyclopædia Britannica It was also the first purely centre-right government in Austria since before World War II. As of the 2024 elections, this is the only time in the ÖVP's history where it has governed in a single-party majority. The ÖVP had won a majority of seats once before, during the first postwar election in 1945, but opted to lead a grand coalition rather than govern alone. Results Austrian People's Party 2191109 85 +4 Socialist Party of Austria 1928985 74 –2 Freedom Party of Austria 242570 6 –2 Democratic Progressive Party 148528 0 New Communists and Left Socialists 18636 0 0 Liberal Party of Austria 1571 0 New Marxist–Leninist Party of Austria 486 0 New 52085 4886818 0 Nohlen & Stöver File:1966 Austrian Nationalrat.svg Results by state State ÖVP SPÖ FPÖ DFP Others Burgenland 51.1883216561841 1 45.3981280723446 1 2.40053517778534 1 0.898931436319219 1 0.114083657366758 1 Carinthia 36.9507097025083 1 49.5864698202828 1 11.4972500763868 1 1.9655704008222 1 - Lower Austria 54.0363876764301 1 41.422993482619 1 2.33517862723221 1 2.20544021371865 1 - Upper Austria 51.3210666283332 1 40.2946884209013 1 6.44145762955509 1 1.88571839286998 1 0.0570689283404011 1 Salzburg 48.0632556428998 1 36.116397738243 1 12.4828759251597 1 3.33747069369742 1 - Styria 49.7454871028204 1 43.7571124152089 1 4.87772224205641 1 1.58021130846126 1 0.0394669314530525 1 Tyrol 64.5055691667868 1 28.1625524146782 1 4.92989644026271 1 2.24688257053249 1 0.155099407739872 1 Vorarlberg 61.7892838409749 1 22.1213884877095 1 12.8652827775502 1 3.22404489376531 - Vienna 37.8809481218042 1 49.3699201751294 1 4.03171387025758 1 7.00207753656943 1 1.71534029623936 1 Austria 48.35 1 42.56 1 5.35 1 3.28 1 0.456609115191581 1 Source: Institute for Social Research and Consulting (SORA)Institute for Social Research and Consulting (SORA) National election results Austria 1919 - 2017 (OA edition) Austrian Social Science Data Archive (AUSSDA) 2019-07-24 de 10.11587/EQUDAL free References Category:Legislative elections in Austria Austria Legislative Austria