All the postal votes have been counted and the final, definitive result of the Austrian General Election[de] is in. The headline is that the Greens have narrowly pipped the FPÖ to third place, the first time ever that they’ve managed …
SPÖ – 35.7 % – 68 Seats ÖVP – 34.2% – 66 Seats FPÖ – 11.2% – 21 Seats Grüne – 10.5% – 20 Seats BZÖ – 4.2% – 8 Seats As Peter Westenthaler has pointed out, there is technically …
17:30 – Doubt is now being expressed that the BZÖ will pick up a constituency seat in Kärnten and that might have knock on effects on whether they reach 4%. If they get wiped out of Parliament then a Red …
Austria – Exit Polls show totally hung Parliament Read more →
For anybody who’s interested, I’m thinking of live-blogging the Austrian Election results here between about 4 and 6pm UK time this afternoon (by which time we should probably know the outcome). Before that I’ve got an 8am BCP Communion, an …
And you thought campaigning was negative in the UK…
Yesterday I remarked on the resignation of Karin Gastinger from the BZOe (the coalition partner of the ruling OeVP, ahead of Sunday’s election). Today it appears that the Chancellor has asked her to stay on as a “non-partisan” minister, at …