Country: | Austria |
Flag Year: | state |
Type: | parliamentary |
Previous Election: | 1959 Austrian legislative election |
Previous Year: | 1959 |
Next Election: | 1966 Austrian legislative election |
Next Year: | 1966 |
Seats For Election: | 165 seats in the National Council of Austria |
Majority Seats: | 83 |
Election Date: | 18 November 1962 |
Image1: | Alfons_Gorbach_1965.jpg |
Leader1: | Alfons Gorbach |
Party1: | Austrian People's Party |
Last Election1: | 44.19%, 79 seats |
Seats1: | 81 |
Seat Change1: | 2 |
Popular Vote1: | 2,024,501 |
Percentage1: | 45.43% |
Swing1: | 1.24pp |
Leader2: | Bruno Pittermann |
Party2: | Social Democratic Party of Austria |
Last Election2: | 44.79%, 78 seats |
Seats2: | 76 |
Seat Change2: | 2 |
Popular Vote2: | 1,960,685 |
Percentage2: | 44.00% |
Swing2: | 0.79pp |
Image3: | 3x4.svg |
Leader3: | Friedrich Peter |
Party3: | Freedom Party of Austria |
Last Election3: | 7.70%, 8 seats |
Seats3: | 8 |
Popular Vote3: | 313,895 |
Percentage3: | 7.04% |
Swing3: | 0.66pp |
Chancellor | |
Before Election: | Alfons Gorbach |
Before Party: | Austrian People's Party |
After Election: | Alfons Gorbach |
After Party: | Austrian People's Party |
Parliamentary elections were held in Austria on 18 November 1962.[1] The result was a victory for the Austrian People's Party, which won 81 of the 165 seats. Voter turnout was 94%.[2] Although the People's Party had come up only two seats short of an outright majority, Chancellor Alfons Gorbach (who had succeeded Julius Raab a year earlier) retained the grand coalition with the Socialists under Vice-Chancellor Bruno Pittermann.
. Elections in Europe: A data handbook . Nohlen . Dieter . Dieter Nohlen . Stöver . Philip . 31 May 2010 . Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft . 196 . 978-3-8329-5609-7.