[1] The result was a victory for the Socialist Party (SPÖ), which won 93 of the 183 seats.

[2] The SPÖ was able to keep their absolute majority in this election as well and continued to appoint Bruno Kreisky as Chancellor.

Following the elections, Simon Wiesenthal, at that time the head of the Jewish Documentation Center in Vienna, published a report on the Nazi past of the long-serving Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) leader Friedrich Peter.

This report revealed that Peter had served as an Obersturmbannführer in an SS unit associated with mass murders.

Despite having been a victim of the Nazi regime, Kreisky defended Peter and accused Wiesenthal of employing "Mafia methods" and implied that he had collaborated with the Gestapo.