VIENNA, Oct 1: The opposition Social Democrat party was the winner of Austrian general elections on Sunday, according to Interior Ministry figures with 100 per cent of the votes counted, excluding absentee ballots.
The Social Democrats won 35.7 per cent of the vote to 34.2 per cent for Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel’s conservative People’s Party.
The far-right Freedom Party and nationalist Joerg Haider’s Alliance for Austria’s Future respectively pulled 11.2 and 4.2 per cent of the vote, while the environmental Greens grabbed 10.5 per cent.—AFP
