Austria
Data on women
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Basic information > About parliament
Speaker
Speaker
Wolfgang
Sobotka
(Male)
Year of birth
1956
Additional information
Elected on 20 Dec. 2017, re-elected on 23 Oct. 2019.
Secretary general
Secretary General
Harald
Dossi
(Male)
Notes
Additional information about the Secretary General, in particular regarding their term.
1 March 2012 -
Members
Current number of members, by sex
Men
The number of male parliamentarians who currently hold seats in parliament.
Women
The number of female parliamentarians who currently hold seats in parliament.
Percentage of women
Calculated by dividing the current number of women by the current number of members.
Age
Average age of all members
Age at the time of the last election or renewal.
Youngest member (years)
Age at the time of the last election or renewal.
Youngest member
Yannick Shetty (Male)
Oldest member (years)
Age at the time of the last election or renewal.
69
Oldest member
Rudolf Taschner (Male)
Total number of MPs, 45 years of age or younger
Total number of MPs, 46 years of age or older
Total per sex
Total of male
Total of female
Total per age interval
18-20
0
21-30
31-40
41-45
46-50
51-60
61-70
81-90
0
91 and over
0
Number of members, by age
| 18 - 20 | 21 - 30 | 31 - 40 | 41 - 45 | 46 - 50 | 51 - 60 | 61 - 70 | 71 - 80 | 81 - 90 | 91 and over | Totals per gender | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Totals per age interval | 0 | 14 | 37 | 29 | 30 | 56 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Total <= 45: 80 | Total >= 46: 103 | ||||||||||
| Male | 0 | 7 | 20 | 14 | 19 | 38 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 111 |
| Female | 0 | 7 | 17 | 15 | 11 | 18 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 72 |
Reserved seats and quotas
Electoral quota for women
Quotas to promote the representation of women in parliament.
Notes
Voluntary political party quotas
Elections > Election results
Results
Members elected, by sex
Number of men elected
111
Number of women elected
72
Percentage of women elected
The percentage is calculated by dividing the number of women elected in the election and the number of seats at stake at the election.
39.34%
Number of women after election or renewal, by mode of designation
Women Directly Elected
72
New legislature
Total number of men after the election
The total number of male parliamentarians in this parliament/chamber following the election or renewal, regardless of their modes of designation.
111
Total number of women after the election
The total number of female parliamentarians in this parliament/chamber following the election or renewal, regardless of their modes of designation.
72
First Speaker of the new legislature
First Speaker of the new legislature
First name of the Speaker of the new legislature following the election or renewal.
Wolfgang
Sobotka
(Male)
Political party
People's Party (ÖVP)
Date of election
23.10.2019
Elections > Historical data on women
Women's suffrage
Women’s right to vote
Women’s right to vote
Year in which women obtained the right to vote
1918
National or local
Suffrage: National or Local
National
Restricted or unrestricted suffrage
Suffrage: Restricted or Universal
Universal
Women’s right to stand for election
Women's right to stand for election
Year in which women obtained the right to stand for election
1918
National or local
Stand for Election: National or Local
National
Notes
Stand for Election: Additional Notes on right to stand for election
First woman in parliament
First woman in parliament
Year in which first woman entered parliament
1919
First woman speaker
Year of first woman speaker
Date at which, for the first time in the country's parliamentary history, a woman became Presiding Officer of Parliament or of one of its Houses.
1927
Notes
Austria's parliament was the first in the world to have a woman Speaker.