Austria

Lists of candidates for the 2024 European elections, on the 9th of June

Parties	Lead candidate	Full list
Österreichische Volkspartei (ÖVP)	Reinhold Lopatka	List
Sozialdemokratische Partei Österreichs (SPÖ)	Andreas Schieder	List
Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs (FPÖ)	Harald Wilimsky
Die Grünen – Die Grüne Alternative (GRÜNE)	Lena Schilling	List
NEOS – Das Neue Österreich und Liberales Forum	Helmut Brandstatter
Kommunistische Partei Österreichs (KPÖ)	Günther Hopfgartner
Volt Österreich (VOLT)	Nini Tsiklauri & Alexander Harrer
Öxit – EU-Austritt für Österreich	Christian Ebner	List
Demokratisch, Neutral, Authentisch (DNA)	Maria Hubmer-Mogg	List

Results of the 26 May 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)

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