1998 Austrian presidential election

1998 Austrian presidential election

← 1992 19 April 1998 2004 →
 
Nominee Thomas Klestil Gertraud Knoll
Party Independent (ÖVP) Independent (Greens)
Popular vote 2,644,034 566,551
Percentage 63.42% 13.59%

 
Nominee Heide Schmidt Richard Lugner
Party LiF DU
Home state Vienna Vienna
Popular vote 464,625 413,066
Percentage 11.14% 9.91%


President before election

Thomas Klestil
Independent (ÖVP)

President-Elect

Thomas Klestil
Independent (ÖVP)

Presidential elections were held in Austria on 19 April 1998.[1] The result was a victory for the incumbent, President Thomas Klestil, who sought re-election 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. Klestil's 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.


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