Parliamentary elections were held in

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on 18 November 1962. The result was a victory for the

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, which won 81 of the 165 seats. Voter turnout was 94%.Nohlen & Stöver, p214 Although the People's Party had come up only two seats short of an outright majority,

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(who had succeeded

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a year earlier) retained the grand coalition with the Socialists under

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Results

References

Elections in Austria

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