Voters will go to the polls a week today in Austria’s largest region, Niederoesterreich (Lower Austria) in what will be the first electoral test for the new coalition government in Vienna led by Sebastian Kurz of the OVP (Austrian People’s Party). This will be the first in a series of regional elections in the Alpine […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Early Austrian election decision prompts ‘earthquake’ in polls
The first opinion research since this week’s agreement among Vienna’s parties to hold an October General Election shows an enormous movement in favour of Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz’s People’s Party (OVP). Described by one commissioning newspaper as an ‘earthquake’, the twin polls today from Unique Research and Research Affairs show 10 and 13 point gains […]
Kurz looms over Austrian poll calm
March’s mid-month polls from the country’s two main research organisations are out, with little movement among the parties. However the prospect of a transformational leadership change for the third-placed People’s Party (OVP) still provides intriguing interest. In the twice-monthly Research Affairs poll for the Oesterreich newspaper, released yesterday, there is scarely a whisper of movement, […]
Austria: Strache commands his party, voters prefer Hofer
Today’s fortnightly poll from Research Affairs coincides with the party conference of the populist Freedom Party (FPO), Austria’s leading force in voting intentions with all pollsters. Heinz-Christian Strache, who has headed the FPO since 2005, was triumphantly re-elected in Klagenfurt with 98.7 per cent support. But according to the poll, published in the […]