The first national poll in Austria since parliamentary elections nearly four weeks ago is released tonight. Voting intentions have moved little in the Research Affairs survey for Oesterreich, with the exception of the list of Peter Pilz, the former Green politician who won eight seats in Vienna. After Pilz sensationally resigned his seat following sexual […]
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Election result: Austrian Parliament 2017
Austria’s centre-right People’s Party (OVP) achieved its expected victory in parliamentary elections on Sunday. Provisional final results, published only this morning after the counting of an unprecedented number of postal votes, showed Sebastian Kurz’s rebranded party winning 31.5 per cent of the vote, up 7.5 points from 2013 and enough to gain 15 extra seats […]
Final polling for the Austrian election: OVP lead still solid, battle on for second
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 […]
‘Dirty’ campaign leaves Austria’s SPO trailing in third
In the final campaign poll from Research Affairs, Austria’s most regular pollster, the Social Democrats of the SPO continue to trail in third place behind the centre-right OVP and the populist Freedom Party (FPO). There is a minor uptick of a sole percentage point for the party of current premier Christian Kern, but nothing to […]