Austria

Results of the 2024 European elections

Political Party	European affiliation	Number of votes	Percentage of votes	Number of seats	Trend compared to 2019
Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs (FPÖ)	ID	893 754	25.4%	6	↑ 3
Österreichische Volkspartei (ÖVP)	EPP	864 072	24.5%	5	↓ 2
Sozialdemokratische Partei Österreichs (SPÖ)	S&D	818 287	23.2%	5	=
Die Grünen – Die Grüne Alternative (GRÜNE)	Greens/EFA	390 503	11.1%	2	=
NEOS – Das Neue Österreich und Liberales Forum	Renew Europe	357 214	10.1%	2	↑ 1

List of Austrian MEPs

MEP	Gender	National party	Political group in the European Parliament
Harald Vilimsky	m	Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs (FPÖ)	PFE
Petra Steger	f	FPÖ	PFE
Georg Mayer	m	FPÖ	PFE
Roman Hayder	m	FPÖ	PFE
Gerald Hauser	m	FPÖ	PFE
Elisabeth Dieringer-Granza	f	FPÖ	PFE
Reinhold Lopatka	m	Österreichische Volkspartei (ÖVP)	EPP
Angelika Winzig	f	ÖVP	EPP
Alexander Bernhuber	m	ÖVP	EPP
Sophia Kircher	f	ÖVP	EPP
Lukas Mandl	m	ÖVP	EPP
Schieder Andreas	m	Sozialdemokratische Partei Österreichs (SPÖ)	S&D
Evelyn Regner	f	SPÖ	S&D
Günther Sidl	m	SPÖ	S&D
Elisabeth Grossmann	f	SPÖ	S&D
Hannes Heide	m	SPÖ	S&D
Lena Schilling	f	Die Grünen – Die Grüne Alternative (GRÜNE)	Verts/ALE
Thomas Alexander Waitz	m	GRÜNE	Verts/ALE
Helmut Brandstätter	m	NEOS – Das Neue Europa (NEOS)	Renew Europe
Anna Stürgkh	f	NEOS	Renew Europe

Results of the 2019 European elections

Political parties	European affiliation	Number of votes	Percentage of votes	Number of seats	Trend compared with 2014
Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP)	EPP	1 130 527	34.60%	7	↑
Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ)	S&D	754 347	23.9 %	5	↓
Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ)	Identity and democracy	578 454	17.2 %	3	↓
The Greens	Greens/EFA	417 226	14.1 %	2	↓
NEOS – The New Austria and Liberal Forum	Renew Europe	260 547	8.4 %	1	=

Electoral Procedures for 2024

> Election Dates : 9 June 2024
> Number of MEPs: 20
> At what age can one vote? 16 years
> At what age can one be elected? 18 years
> Who can vote? Any Austrian citizen who as reached the age of 16 on election day and any European citizen living in Austria having the right to vote in his home Member State.

Electoral rules

> Voting method : Preferential vote
> Means for attributing seats : D’Hondt Method
> Can candidates be chosen from a list? Yes

Institutions and political situation

Federal democratic parliamentary republic
− Head of State : Alexander Van der Bellen
− Chancellor: Karl Nehammer

Economy

> Currency : Euro
> GDP : €447 061 million (2022)
> GDP per capita (PPS) : €38 310 (2022)
> GDP Growth : 4.8% (2023)
> Unemployment: 5.9% (September 2023)
> Inflation : 1.7% (September 2023)
> Government budget balance: -4.6% of the GDP (December 2022)

Geography and population

> Surface Area : 83, 871 km² (source : The CIA World Factbook)
> 9.1 million inhabitants (est. 2023)