2024 war ein Superwahljahr in Österreich. Die Ergebnisse der Nationalratswahlen im September entsprechen den jüngsten internationalen Trends: Die Regierungsparteien verlieren, die Rechtspopulisten gewinnen an Boden, die linke Mitte ist zersplittert und sinkt weiter.
15. September 20252024 war ein Superwahljahr in Österreich. Die Ergebnisse der Nationalratswahlen im September entsprechen den jüngsten internationalen Trends: Die Regierungsparteien verlieren, die Rechtspopulisten gewinnen an Boden, die linke Mitte ist zersplittert und sinkt weiter.
Abstract
2024 was a super election year in Austria. The results of the National Council elections in September are in line with recent international trends: government parties are losing, right-wing populists are gaining ground, the center-left is fragmented and continuing to decline. However, the strength of the right-wing populist vote is not a surprising result. What is new is that right-wing populism is consolidated as a party, making government demands, and positioning itself far to the right in terms of content. This article describes the thematic posi-tioning of the parties during negotiations to form the government and analyzes the election results along urban-rural differences and the proportion of foreign votes. The ÖVP has lost the “spatial ownership” of the rural areas. In districts with a low proportion of foreign resi-dents, the FPÖ and ÖVP are comparatively strong, in those with larger proportions, the SPÖ, Abstract 2024 was a super election year in Austria. The results of the National Council elections in September are in line with recent international trends: government parties are losing, right-wing populists are gaining ground, the center-left is fragmented and continuing to decline.
However, the strength of the right-wing populist vote is not a surprising result. What is new is that right-wing populism is consolidated as a party, making government demands, and positio ning itself far to the right in terms of content. This article describes the thematic positioning of the parties during negotiations to form the government and analyzes the election results along urban-rural differences and the proportion of foreign votes. The ÖVP has lost the “spatial ownership” of the rural areas. In districts with a low proportion of foreign residents, the FPÖ and ÖVP are comparatively strong, GREENS and NEOS are comparatively stronger.
Österreichs Rechtspopulismus im Aufwind ist kein Einzelfall.
Unser Text will dazu beitragen, die Demokratie schwächenden Entwicklungen in Europa am Beispiel der nationalen Wahl in Österreich und einer seit Jahrzehnten stimmenstarken autoritär rechtspopulistischen Partei, der FPÖ, besser zu verstehen. Wir kontextualisieren eingangs die Nationalratswahlen (Abschnitt 2) und verorten anschließend die im Wettbewerb stehenden politischen Parteien über Nähe bzw. Ferne ihrer wirtschaftlichen und kulturellen Positionen
Sieglinde Rosenberger/Gilg, Seeber: Trendig rechtsautoritär: Die Nationalratswahl 2024 in Österreich, in: Politika. Südtiroler Jahrbuch für Politik 2025; S. 235–252
