The far-right has won the most votes in an Austrian election for the first time since the Nazi era, as the pro-Kremlin, anti-Islam Freedom Party (FPÖ) beat the ruling centre-right People's Party (ÖVP).

Austria’s Freedom Party leads in the vote count, but may not be able to find coalition partners to form a government under provocative leader Herbert Kickl.

The result of last Sunday's Austrian parliamentary elections followed the same pattern as the 2022 elections in Italy, 2023 in the Netherlands and 2024 in the German states of Thuringia, Saxony and Brandenburg.

The governing conservative Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) secured 26.5% of the votes, a decrease of 11% compared to the 2019 elections, while the FPÖ gained an additional 13%. Read also: Austrian Chancellor opposes ‘preferential treatment’ for Kyiv in EU accession negotiations The Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) came in third with 21% of

The FPÖ emerged as the winner of the country’s recent general elections. But a three-party coalition could still block its rise to power

The far-right Freedom Party's historic victory in an Austrian parliamentary election has left it isolated and partly at the mercy of a powerful critic: the president, who must oversee efforts towards forming a viable coalition government.

Austria's Freedom Party (FPÖ) is set to come out on top in the European country's national election on Sunday, according to early projections, marking the first-time a far-right party has won since the Nazis first came to power in Europe nearly eight decades ago.

Austria's far-right Freedom Party won a national parliamentary election, but it will struggle to find other parties willing to form a coalition government.

Political parties on the European right celebrated Sunday's parliamentary election victory by Austria's Freedom Party (FPO) as a boost for national conservatives amid advances by the hard right fuelled by worries about immigration.