- Far-right wins in another country
- The end of the week should show the full results
Far-right wins in another country
According to preliminary results published by the Ministry of the Interior, the far-right Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) won the Austrian parliamentary elections with 29.9% of the vote.
The Austrian People's Party (ÖVP), the outgoing coalition government, came second with 26.5% of the vote.
Compared to the 2019 election results, the ÖVP lost 11% of the vote, while the FPÖ, which was ousted from government in 2019 due to a corruption scandal, gained 13 percentage points.
The end of the week should show the full results
In the provisional results, the Social Democrats (SPÖ) came third in terms of votes (21.1%, or 0.1 percentage point less).
The Liberal Party NEOS won 9% of the vote, 0.9% more than in 2019. The Greens, who formed a government with the Conservatives, won 8% of the vote, or 5.9% less than in the last election.
The provisional results consider most of the votes cast by postal vote, with the remaining votes expected to be counted by Thursday.
Based on ELTA reports
