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.
  • 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 the parties in the Nationalrat.
  • 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.

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About the author

Hello there, I’m Klaus Jürgen Folz. I studied Mechanical Engineering at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) in Brazil, and I work in Austria as a lead Python and Power BI developer. I built Data Mechanics because good decisions start with facts. Public data is often scattered, hard to find or locked behind paywalls, and too much of what we read about the world is biased. Here, every number is shown as it was published, next to its source, so anyone can check it, compare countries and leaders, and draw their own conclusions.