Austrian legislative election, 1975

• SPÖ: 93
• Freedom Party: 10
• ÖVP: 80

The National Assembly elections on 5 October 1975, the fourteenth in the history of the Republic of Austria. Votes and most seats the party was the Social Democrats under Chancellor Bruno Kreisky. The second strongest party was the People's Party under Josef Taus. The Freedom Party, which contested with Friedrich Peter as a top candidate, was the third strongest party.

Were entitled to vote 5,019,277 people. The turnout was 91.92 ( 1971: 91.42 ).

Final result

N.k. = Not a candidate

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The Social Democratic Party in this election could also achieve an absolute majority and presented with Bruno Kreisky continued the Chancellor. The federal government Kreisky III participated in the 28 October 1975 on their work.

After the national election published Simon Wiesenthal, at that time head of the Jewish Documentation Center in Vienna, a report on the Nazi past of the long-standing FPÖ chief Friedrich Peter. From this report, it appeared that Peter had served as a Lieutenant Colonel in a standing associated with the mass murders SS unit. Chancellor Kreisky, himself persecuted by the Nazi regime, but defended Friedrich Peter and accused Simon Wiesenthal, to work with " mafia methods ", and asked him, mutatis mutandis collaboration with the Gestapo.

This public debate is now subsumed under the term Kreisky -Peter - Wiesenthal affair. 1978 Peter ran no more than federal party leader. His successor was the Mayor of Graz Alexander Götz.