2024 Austrian legislative election

2024 Austrian legislative election

29 September 2024 (2024-09-29)

All 183 seats in the National Council
92 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Turnout77.7% ( 2.1 pp)
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Herbert Kickl Karl Nehammer Andreas Babler
Party FPÖ ÖVP SPÖ
Last election 16.2%, 31 seats 37.5%, 71 seats 21.2%, 40 seats
Seats won 57 51 41
Seat change 26 20 1
Popular vote 1,408,514 1,282,734 1,032,234
Percentage 28.8% 26.3% 21.1%
Swing 12.7 pp 11.2 pp 0.1 pp

  Fourth party Fifth party
 
Leader Beate Meinl-Reisinger Werner Kogler
Party NEOS Greens
Last election 8.1%, 15 seats 13.9%, 26 seats
Seats won 18 16
Seat change 3 10
Popular vote 446,378 402,107
Percentage 9.1% 8.2%
Swing 1.0 pp 5.7 pp


Chancellor before election

Karl Nehammer
ÖVP

Chancellor after election

Christian Stocker
ÖVP

Legislative elections were held in Austria on 29 September 2024 to elect the 28th National Council, the lower house of Austria's bicameral parliament.

The election saw the far-right Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) place first, winning 28.8% of the vote and achieving the best result in the party's history. This was the first time that a far-right party won the most seats in a legislative election in Austria after World War II. The governing Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) lost 20 seats, while its coalition partner, the Greens, lost 10 seats. The centre-left Social Democratic Party (SPÖ) won just 21.1%, marking its worst result ever in terms of percentages and the place occupied (3rd), but it gained one seat compared to the previous election. NEOS slightly improved from 2019, rising from 15 to 18 seats. No other party was able to clear the 4% threshold to win seats.