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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‘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 […]
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 […]
Kurz in clear lead with three months to go
Ahead of Austria’s Nationalrat election on 15 October, the pace of both campaigning and polling is stepping up, with seven surveys already published in July. OVP leader and Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz continues to lead by large margins in the three polls published yesterday and today, with the SPO (Social Democrats) and FPO (Freedom Party) […]
Prospect of Pilz list troubles Austrian Greens
With 100 days to go until Austria’s parliamentary election, the Green Party faces further difficulties following its recent decision to drop historical star personality Peter Pilz as a candidate. The first opinion research testing the prospect of an independent ‘Pilz list’ competing in October shows the Greens would be hard hit, losing one third of […]