1930 Austrian legislative election

Parliamentary elections were held in Austria on 9 November 1930.[1] The Social Democratic Party emerged as the largest faction in the National Council, with 72 of the 165 seats. Voter turnout was 90.2%.[2]

9 November 1930

165 seats in the National Council of Austria
83 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party

Leader	Karl Seitz	Karl Vaugoin
Party	SPÖ	CS
Leader since	November 1918	30 September 1930
Last election	71, 42.28%	85, 48.24% (As Unity List)
Seats won	72	66
Seat change	1	19
Popular vote	1,517,146	1,314,956
Percentage	41.14%	35.65%
Swing	1.14%	12.41%

	Third party	Fourth party

Leader	Franz Dinghofer	Ernst Rüdiger Starhemberg
Party	NWB^[a]	HB
Leader since	8 August 1920	1930
Last election	9, 6.32% (As Landbund)	New Party
Seats won	19	8
Seat change	10	8
Popular vote	428,255	227,401
Percentage	11.61%	6.17%
Swing	5.28%	6.17%

Chancellor before election

Karl Vaugoin
CS

Elected Chancellor

Otto Ender
CS

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Results

Party	Votes	%	Seats	+/-
Social Democratic Party	1,517,146	41.1	72	+1
Christian Social Party	1,314,956	35.7	66	–
National Economy Bloc^[a]	428,255	11.6	19	–
Homeland Bloc	227,401	6.2	8	New
German National Socialist Workers' Party	111,627	3.0	0	0
Landbund for Austria	43,689	1.2	0	–
Communist Party of Austria	20,951	0.6	0	0
Austrian People's Party	14,980	0.4	0	New
Democratic Centre Party	6,719	0.2	0	New
Jewish List	2,133	0.1	0	New
Kaiser Loyalty People's Party	157	0.0	0	New
National Democratic Association	54	0.0	0	New
Invalid/blank votes	28,098	–	–	–
Total	3,716,166	100	165	0
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

^a The National Economic Bloc was an alliance of the Greater German People's Party and the Landbund

Popular vote

SDAP			41.14%
CS			35.65%
GdP/LB			11.61%
HB			6.17%
DNSAP			3.03%
LB			1.18%
Other			1.22%

Parliamentary seats

SDAP			43.64%
CS			40.00%
GdP/LB			11.52%
HB			4.85%

References

Nohlen, Dieter; Stöver, Philip (31 May 2010). Elections in Europe: A data handbook. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft. p. 196. ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7.
Nohlen & Stöver, p213

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