Next Austrian legislative election

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All 183 seats in the National Council 92 seats needed for a majority

Opinion polls

Leader	Christian Kern	Reinhold Mitterlehner	Heinz-Christian Strache
Party	SPÖ	ÖVP	FPÖ
Leader since	2016	2014	2005
Last election	52 seats, 26.82%	47 seats, 23.99%	40 seats, 20.51%


Leader	Eva Glawischnig	Frank Stronach	Matthias Strolz
Party	Greens	Stronach	NEOS
Leader since	2008	2012	2012
Last election	24 seats, 12.42%	11 seats; 5.73%	9 seats; 4,96%

Incumbent Chancellor

Christian Kern
SPÖ

The next Austrian legislative elections will be held in or before 2018. The leader of the strongest party in a formed coalition (if there is any) usually becomes Chancellor.

The 183 members of the National Council are elected by closed list proportional representation in nine multi-member constituencies based on the states (with varying in size from 7 to 36 seats) and 39 sub-constituencies. Seats are allocated using the Hare method at the sub-constituency level and the D'Hondt at the federal level, with an electoral threshold of 4% or one seat in one of the 39 sub-constituencies.

On 21 September 2016, comedian Roland Düringer announced he had founded a protest party called My Vote Counts (Meine Stimme gilt). At the announcement, Düringer was accompanied by Walter Naderer, a member of the Lower Austrian Landtag who had formerly been a member of Team Stronach before falling out with his colleagues. Analysts expected Düringer not to make it into parliament, but to most likely hurt the FPÖ's vote share.

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