4 May 1986 (first round) 8 June 1986 (second round)
1992 →
Nominee
Kurt Waldheim
Kurt Steyrer
Party
Independent (ÖVP)
SPÖ
Popular vote
2,464,787
2,107,023
Percentage
53.91%
46.09%
Second round results by state
First round results by state
President before election
Rudolf Kirchschläger
SPÖ
Elected President
Kurt Waldheim
Independent (ÖVP)
Presidential elections were held in Austria on 4 May 1986 with a second round on 8 June 1986. Kurt Waldheim, former Secretary-General of the United Nations, endorsed by the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) was elected, the first time the ÖVP had won a direct presidential election. Following Waldheim's victory, Chancellor Fred Sinowatz and other government members of the defeated Socialist Party stepped down, including the Minister of Foreign Affairs Leopold Gratz, who said he refused to "direct the Austrian foreign service in the defense of President Waldheim."[1] The revelation of Waldheim's service in Greece and Yugoslavia, as an intelligence officer in Nazi Germany's Wehrmacht during World War II, caused international controversy.[2]
^Jill Smolowe. Reported by Gertraud Lessing/Vienna and Robert Slater/Jerusalem (21 July 1986) AUSTRIA LAST HURRAHS Few smiles after a big victory, TIME, retrieved 26 May 2010.
^Pulzer, Peter (1986). "The Austrian presidential election of 1986". Electoral Studies. 5 (3): 302–304. doi:10.1016/0261-3794(86)90018-1. ISSN 0261-3794.
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