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  1. $Title{Table 1.: Elections}
  2.  
  3. Election year        Seats          Government
  4. ______________________________________________________________________
  5.  
  6. 1962                 OVP 81        "large coalition" of OVP and SPO
  7.                      SPO 76
  8.                      FPO 8
  9. 1966                 OVP 85        OVP government
  10.                      SPO 74
  11.                      FPO 6
  12. 1970                 SPO 81        SPO (minority) government
  13.                      OVP 78
  14.                      FPO 6
  15.  
  16.      The parliamentary elections of 1970 gave the SPO a relative majority for
  17. the first time. In the same year the SPO and FPO agreed on the so-called
  18. "small electoral reform" which set out to implement a more equitable
  19. distribution of mandates. The total number of mandates was raised to 183.
  20.  
  21. 1971                 SPO 93        SPO government
  22.                      OVP 80
  23.                      FPO 10
  24. These elections gave the SPO its first absolute majority.
  25. 1975                 SPO 93        SPO government
  26.                      OVP 80
  27.                      FPO 10
  28. 1979                 SPO 95        SPO government
  29.                      OVP 77
  30.                      FPO 11
  31. 1983                 SPO 90        "small coalition"
  32.                      OVP 81        of SPO and FPO
  33.                      FPO 12
  34. 1986                 SPO 80        "large coalition"
  35.                      OVP 77        of SPO and OVP
  36.                      FPO 18
  37.                      Greens 8
  38.