This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding reliable references. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (July 2007)

Austria

This article is part of the series: Politics and government of Austria

Constitution Constitution of Austria Executive President Heinz Fischer Federal Government Chancellor Werner Faymann Vice-Chancellor Josef Pröll Parliament Parliament/Federal Assembly Federal Council National Council Political parties Elections 2008 legislative 2006 legislative 2004 presidential 2002 legislative 1999 legislative 1998 presidential Decentralized gov't States (Länder) Landtage Districts Foreign policy Foreign relations Politics of the European Union

Other countries · Atlas Politics portal view • talk • edit

The Austrian presidential election of 1998 was won by the incumbent president Thomas Klestil, who sought reelection as an independent candidate. The Austrian People's Party, who had originally put him up in 1992, reluctantly supported him again, while the Austrian Social Democratic Party and the Austrian Freedom Party did not propose any competing candidates. Klestils competitors were Heide Schmidt, leader of the Liberal Forum, Gertraud Knoll, the former Lutheran superintendent of Burgenland (supported by the Greens), socialite Richard Lugner and Karl Walter Nowak.

[edit] Election results

Candidate	Party	Share of votes
Thomas Klestil	independent	63.4%
Gertraud Knoll	Greens	13.6%
Heide Schmidt	LIF	11.1%
Richard Lugner	The Independents	9.9%
Karl Walter Nowak		1.9%

v • d • e Elections and referendums in Austria Parliamentary elections 1920 · 1923 · 1927 · 1930 · 1945 · 1949 · 1953 · 1956 · 1959 · 1962 · 1966 · 1970 · 1971 · 1975 · 1979 · 1983 · 1986 · 1990 · 1994 · 1995 · 1999 · 2002 · 2006  · 2008 Presidential elections 1951 · 1957 · 1963 · 1965 · 1971 · 1974 · 1980 · 1986 · 1992 · 1998 · 2004 · 2010 European elections 1996 · 1999 · 2004 · 2009 Referendums 1938 · 1978 · 1994

This Austrian elections-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. v • d • e