Austria
Every metric we have, chancellor by chancellor, since 1945.
In office
Christian Stocker since 3 March 2025
Party positions
Across, the economy: left parties want the state to play an active role, right parties a smaller one. Up and down, social values: progressive parties favour more personal freedoms, conservative ones order, tradition and religion. Point at a logo for the party’s views and its numbers.
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How this survey placed the parties
Things to keep in mind
- These are estimates. Experts placed the parties: the parties did not place themselves, and no votes are counted.
- Each survey shows one moment. The Global Party Survey asked in 2019 and CHES at the end of 2024, after the election of September 2024. JETZT – Liste Pilz, which only the Global Party Survey places, lost its seats at the election of September 2019.
- The surveys do not always agree. They asked different experts different questions, five years apart. Switch the survey to see how far a party moves: the FPÖ, for one, sits further towards order and tradition in CHES than in the Global Party Survey.
- Small parties are missing. The chart shows every party a survey placed, and the surveys leave out most small ones, the KPÖ among them.
- Two axes leave a lot out. A party can be left on one issue and right on another, and parties can be divided inside or change course with their leaders.
- The views come from Wikipedia, not the surveys. In the tooltip, the position and ideologies are how Wikipedia describes the party today.
Positions: CHES Europe and the Global Party Survey, as each survey's notes describe. Views: Wikipedia, linked from each party. Logos: Wikimedia Commons.
Seats in Parliament
One dot is one seat. The parties sit from left to right by where 12 political scientists placed them on one left-right scale in 2024; parties without a place sit last.
Today's count is the house as it is: a member who changed party counts for the new one, and a substitute in office for the member they stand in for.
The blocs join the seven bands that Bolognesi, Ribeiro and Codato drew on a left-right scale from 0, the far left, to 10, the far right. Left: up to 3, the far left and the left. Centre: 3.01 to 7, from the centre-left to the centre-right. Right: above 7, the right and the far right.
Seats: the open data of the Austrian Parliament (CC BY 4.0). Left and right: the 2024 Chapel Hill Expert Survey (CHES Europe), with the bands of Bolognesi, Ribeiro and Codato (Dados, 2023).
Government debt · Gross debt, % of GDP
Everything a country's governments owe, as a share of its GDP.
Source: IMF, World Economic Outlook (October 2026) · fetched 26 Oct 2026
A year counts for whoever was in office on 1 July. A term's change runs from the year before it began to its last year with data. The years above, or a name in the timeline, set the years of the chart and of every list below. The dashed line and the small change under each term are the comparison group, over the same years. BRICS, the G7 and the G20 are the average of their member countries, and count only in years when every member has data.
Ranked by the average change per year: the best first, or the highest where neither direction is better. Only years with data count. For growth that multiplies, like GDP, the average compounds; other changes are divided by the years.
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Leaders, dates and parties: Wikipedia, compiled by Data Mechanics · loaded 26 Oct 2026. Party logos from Wikimedia Commons; SPÖ logo by Kematen, CC0.
