Austrian legislative election, 1945
- KPO: 4
- SPÖ: 76
- ÖVP: 85
The first parliamentary elections in the Second Republic was held on 25 November 1945. The ÖVP under Leopold Figl emerged victorious from the election and achieved an absolute majority mandate. Second was the SPÖ under state Chancellor Karl Renner. The Communist Party remained well below expectations and managed to barely a place in the National Council.
In total there were slightly less than 3.5 million Austrians to vote. The turnout was 93.27 percent.
Background
The general election in 1945 was the first democratic election after the military defeat of the Nazis, while the fifth general election in the history of Austria. At the same time she was the first democratic election since received as "self- dissolution of parliament " in the history of Austro-fascist coup by Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in 1933.
With the re- establishment of an independent Austrian state in late April 1945 the first Social Democrat Karl Renner was used by the occupying powers as chancellor of a Provisional Government of the SPÖ, ÖVP and the Communist Party. The NSDAP was banned by the Prohibition Act immediately after the war and could therefore no longer compete on the elections. About 800,000 former NSDAP members were not eligible to vote in the first parliamentary election in 1945. 118 Of the 165 MPs were former political prisoners and resistance fighters.
Final result
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About three weeks after the election, on 19 December 1945, the Parliament held its inaugural meeting, which the Federal Constitution came into force again. The next day, was Leopold Figl of the People's Party, which had reached the absolute majority of mandates, Chancellor. On the same day the new federal government Figl I was appointed to his suggestion. Just as the provisional previous government there was a concentration of government ÖVP, SPÖ and KPO. The SPÖ stood next to the Vice- Chancellor ( Adolf Scharf ) and the Minister of the Interior ( Oskar Helmer ); compared to the first concentration government under Karl Renner, the influence of the Communist Party waned significantly, which only made a minister with Karl Altmann henceforth.