6.4 million Austrian voters will go to the polls tomorrow to elect 183 members of the lower house of parliament, or Nationalrat. Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz’s rebranded OVP retains a comfortable lead in the final opinion polling, as it has done throughout a successful campaign. The centre-right OVP’s numbers are practically unchanging, coming in at […]
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OVP lead solid with two weeks to polling day
Austria’s conservative OVP continues to sail serenely towards victory on 15 October, when the country will elect a new Nationalrat. Under Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz, the party has polled a consistent 32 to 34 per cent across ten surveys during September, leaving its SPO (social democrat) and FPO (populist right) rivals battling for second place […]
SPO closes gap as Greens fall behind Neos
Austria’s centre-right People’s Party (OVP) continues to hold a decent lead over the Social Democrats (SPO) in the race for October’s parliamentary election, according to today’s quarterly Oesterreich Trend poll for ATV, carried out by Peter Hajek. The gap has narrowed since June, however, to five points, with the populist Freedom Party (FPO) unchanged in […]