Austrian Election Maps

[Georg Ebner]

In 1951 the ÖVP-candidate was PM in UpperA., what gave him an extra bounce. In 2004 she had grown up in Salzburg (small plus) and at that time we had a coalition of ÖVP with FPÖ federally, what explains the comparatively strong result for ÖVP in Carinthia.

[Georg Ebner]

Presidential elections, ÖVP-SPÖ (only RunOffs; always the same 3%-InterVals):

[Georg Ebner]

ÖVP&FPÖ have always had a SeatMajority in parliament (except the 1970ies); nonetheless their candidates have always lost in the RunOffs of the PresidentialElections (less 1986 and 1992). Here is a map comparing the combined %-shares of ÖVP&FPÖ in rounds I and II:



Demonstrating a very strong CorRelation with the WdU, so many VdU-voters opted for the SPÖ-candidate or stood at home.
In later elections the picture is less clear.

[Georg Ebner]

The same Presidential Election of 1951 ("a" = round I, "b" = round II), compared with the Parliamentary Elections of 1949 & 1953:

[Georg Ebner]

The same as before: ÖVP&FPÖ's %-share (measured at eligible votes, not at the valid ones) in presidential elections compared to the parliamentary ones before and afterwards:

[Georg Ebner]

Striking is, that the ÖVP/FPÖ-candidates usually underperformed in EastStyria & InnViertel (=western UpperA.), although especially in these areas lots of german-nationalistic & liberal farmers and bourgeois were after 1945 absorbed by ÖVP:

The german-nationalistic & liberal/nonclerical farmers ("LandBund") alone (in 1927):

Plus the german-nationalistic & liberal/anticlerical bourgeoisie ("GroßDeutscheVolksPartei/GDVP"):

Plus the NationalSocialists:

Plus the authoritarian "HeimBlock/HB":