Right-Wing Party Wins Austria Election, Preliminary Results Show

Published on September 30, 2024

VIENNA—Austrian voters handed a first-ever general election victory to the right-wing Freedom Party on Sunday, preliminary results showed. The Head of Freedom Party (FPO) held a slim lead in opinion polls for months over Chancellor Karl Nehammer’s ruling Austrian People’s Party (OVP) in a campaign dominated by immigration and worries about the economy. Led by the 55-year-old Herbert Kickl, the FPO won 28.8 percent of the vote, ahead of the OVP on 26.3 percent, and the Social Democrats (SPO) on 21.1 percent, according to a projection based on nearly all the vote by pollster Foresight for broadcaster ORF, a slightly bigger victory margin than final polls had indicated....

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