The presidential election in Austria was held yesterday. There were no surprises. Incumbent president, Heinz Fischer from the SPÖ (Social Democrats), was standing for a second term. No second-term presidential candidate has ever been defeated in Austria.

As reported in a previous post, the main opposition party, the ÖVP (Christian Democrats), did not stand a candidate against him. Therefore, the opposition came from the extreme-right, or at least the nationalist right, FPÖ (Freedom Party) in the form of Barbara Rosenkranz. There was also a third candidate, Rudolf Gehring from the Christian party.

Anyway, the Interior Ministry is reporting the following results:

Heinz Fischer, 78.9%
Barbara Rosenkranz, 15.6%
Rudolf Gehring, 5.4%

There is a really nice article on the election at The Monkey Cage.