Wöginger • Rendi-Wagner • Kickl • Maurer • Meinl-Reisinger •

Parliamentary elections were held in Austria on 9 October 1949.

A newly created party, the Electoral Party of Independents (WdU) (a predecessor of the Freedom Party of Austria) specifically targeted this group of voters and immediately won a large share of votes.

[1] The Austrian People's Party remained strongest party, although losing their absolute majority of seats.

Leopold Figl stayed as Chancellor, leading a coalition with the Socialist Party of Austria as junior partner.