Austrian legislative election, 1986

1983 ←

23 November 1986

→ 1990

183 seats in the National Council of Austria 92 seats were needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Fred Sinowatz	Alois Mock	Jörg Haider
Party	SPÖ	ÖVP	FPÖ
Leader since	1983	1979	1986
Last election	90 seats, 47.65%	81 seats, 43.22%	12 seats, 4.98%
Seats won	80	77	18
Seat change	10	4	6
Popular vote	2,092,024	2,003,663	472,205
Percentage	43.11%	41.29%	9.73%
Swing	4.54%	1.93%	4.75%

	Fourth party

Leader	Freda Meissner-Blau
Party	Greens
Leader since	1986
Last election	new
Seats won	8
Seat change	8
Popular vote	234,028
Percentage	4.82%
Swing	4.82%

Chancellor before election

Franz Vranitzky
SPÖ

Elected Chancellor

Franz Vranitzky
SPÖ

Early parliamentary elections were held in Austria on 23 November 1986. They were called by Chancellor Franz Vranitzky of the Social Democratic Party (SPÖ), as he was not prepared to continue the coalition government with new Freedom Party leader Jörg Haider, who had ousted Norbert Steger at the party convention.

The SPÖ won the most seats, and formed a grand coalition with the Austrian People's Party, as neither were willing to work with Haider. Voter turnout was 90.5%.

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