Social Democratic Party of Austria
Major political party in Austria
Follow Social Democratic Party of Austria on Notably News to receive short updates to your email — rarely!
| 2024 | Andreas Babler leads the party, winning 21.14% of votes and securing a position in a three-party majority government with ÖVP and NEOS. |
| 2024 | SPÖ wins just 21.1% in the Austrian legislative election, marking its worst result ever in the National Council. |
| 2024 | Andreas Babler leads the party in the National Council election, winning 21.14% of votes and 1 seat, with government formation yet to be determined. |
| 2024 | The party participated in the European Parliament election, receiving 818,287 votes (23.22%) and maintaining their existing seat, ranking third. |
| 2024 | Won 21.1% of votes in the Austrian legislative election, securing 40 of 183 seats in the National Council. |
| 2023 | Andreas Babler succeeds Pamela Rendi-Wagner as the SPÖ chairperson |
| 2023 | Continuing trend of reduced national support, with 21.2% in national elections and mixed regional performance, including a notable result in Carinthia at 38.9%. |
| June 2023 | Andreas Babler became the party leader. |
| March 15 2023 | A heated party executive meeting leads to a call for a new party leadership election, with a surprise candidacy from Andreas Babler. |
| 2020 | In the Vienna state election, the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) increased its vote share to 41.6%, while the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) doubled its vote share to 20.4%. |
| 2020 | The party maintains its reduced national support while seeing variations in regional election results, including a strong performance in Burgenland at 49.9%. |
| January 2020 | SPÖ regains absolute majority in the Burgenland state election, with Hans Peter Doskozil becoming Governor. |
| 2019 | Andreas Schieder led the party in the European Parliament election, receiving 903,151 votes (23.89%) and maintaining their existing seat. |
| 2019 | SPÖ loses 12 seats in the Austrian legislative election, shrinking to 21.2% of the vote. |
| 2019 | Pamela Rendi-Wagner leads the party, winning 21.18% of votes and losing 12 seats, continuing in opposition. |
| 2019 | In the Vorarlberg state election, the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) received 9.5% of the vote, which was a 0.7% increase from the previous election. The conservative ÖVP, led by governor Markus Wallner, won approximately 45% of the votes. |
| 2019 | Electoral support declines to 21.2% nationally, indicating challenges for the Social Democratic Party of Austria. |
| 2018 | In the Tyrolean state election, the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) received 17.3% of votes, losing to the conservative ÖVP led by Governor Günther Platter, who won 44.3% of the total vote. |
| 2018 | Pamela Rendi-Wagner becomes the SPÖ chairperson |
| 2017 | Became the primary opposition to ÖVP governments. |
| 2017 | The party sees a slight national electoral recovery, increasing to 26.9% in national elections. |
| 2017 | Christian Kern leads the party in the National Council election, winning 26.86% of votes, moving into opposition. |
| 2016 | Rudolf Hundstorfer ran for presidency, placing fourth with only 11.3% of votes. |
| 2016 | Christian Kern replaces Werner Faymann as SPÖ chairperson |
| 2015 | Party experiences shifts in regional support, with notable changes in provincial election results, particularly in Lower Austria and Vienna. |
| 2015 | SPÖ enters an unusual coalition with the FPÖ in Burgenland. |
| 2015 | In the State elections, the SPÖ lost the governorship of Styria to the ÖVP, with Hermann Schützenhöfer becoming the new governor (Landeshauptmann). |
| 2014 | Eugen Freund led the party in the European Parliament election, receiving 680,180 votes (24.09%) and losing 1 seat. |
| 2013 | The party sees a notable electoral performance, achieving 26.8% at the national level and maintaining strong regional results across multiple provinces. |
| 2013 | The SPÖ lost its majority to the ÖVP in the state elections. Subsequently, Wilfried Haslauer jun. from the ÖVP became the governor (Landeshauptmann). |
| 2010 | Social Democratic Party of Austria maintains significant regional support, with strong performances in European Union elections (23.7%) and various provincial elections. |
| 2010 | SPÖ loses its absolute majority in the Burgenland state election. |
| 2010 | Heinz Fischer won the presidential election with 79.3% of votes. |
This contents of the box above is based on material from the Wikipedia article Social Democratic Party of Austria, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.