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Parliamentary elections were held inAustria on 5 October 1975.[1] TheSocialist Party (SPÖ) secured a second consecutivemajority government, winning 93 of 183 seats, withBruno Kreisky remainingChancellor. Voter turnout was 93%.[2]
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| Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
| Socialist Party of Austria | 2,326,201 | 50.42 | 93 | 0 | |
| Austrian People's Party | 1,981,291 | 42.95 | 80 | 0 | |
| Freedom Party of Austria | 249,444 | 5.41 | 10 | 0 | |
| Communist Party of Austria | 55,032 | 1.19 | 0 | 0 | |
| Group of Revolutionary Marxists [de] | 1,024 | 0.02 | 0 | New | |
| Steinacher Franz List | 440 | 0.01 | 0 | New | |
| Total | 4,613,432 | 100.00 | 183 | 0 | |
| Valid votes | 4,613,432 | 98.94 | |||
| Invalid/blank votes | 49,252 | 1.06 | |||
| Total votes | 4,662,684 | 100.00 | |||
| Registered voters/turnout | 5,019,277 | 92.90 | |||
| Source: Nohlen & Stöver | |||||
| State | SPÖ | ÖVP | FPÖ | KPÖ | Others | ||||
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 Burgenland | 51.8 | 45.3 | 2.5 | 0.4 | - | ||||
 Carinthia | 54.7 | 33.9 | 10.0 | 1.4 | - | ||||
 Lower Austria | 48.0 | 48.1 | 2.9 | 1.0 | - | ||||
 Upper Austria | 44.4 | 42.6 | 6.7 | 0.8 | - | ||||
 Salzburg | 45.2 | 42.5 | 12.1 | 0.7 | 0.2 | ||||
 Styria | 50.3 | 43.9 | 4.6 | 1.2 | - | ||||
| Tyrol | 37.2 | 56.8 | 5.3 | 0.7 | - | ||||
| Vorarlberg | 35.9 | 53.1 | 10.2 | 0.8 | - | ||||
| Vienna | 59.8 | 34.0 | 4.1 | 2.0 | 0.1 | ||||
 Austria | 50.4 | 43.0 | 5.4 | 1.2 | 0.0 | ||||
| Source: Institute for Social Research and Consulting (SORA)[3] | |||||||||
The SPÖ was able to keep their absolute majority in this election as well and continued to appointBruno Kreisky asChancellor. TheKreisky III Federal Government took office on 28 October 1975.
Following the elections,Simon Wiesenthal, at that time the head of the Jewish Documentation Center in Vienna, published a report on the Nazi past of the long-servingFreedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) leaderFriedrich Peter. This report revealed that Peter had served as an Obersturmbannführer in anSS unit associated with mass murders. Despite having been a victim of the Nazi regime, Kreisky defended Peter and accused Wiesenthal of employing "Mafia methods" and implied that he had collaborated with theGestapo.
This public dispute is today referred to as theKreisky–Peter–Wiesenthal affair. In 1978 Peter did not run again for the position of FPÖ federal party chairman. His successor was the Mayor ofGrazAlexander Götz [de].
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