According to a recent report by the APA, Christoph Hofinger (SORA) and Franz Sommer (ARGE Wahl) expect to be able to predict the election result quite accurately next Sunday at 5:15 p.m.

According to the pollsters, however, one factor of uncertainty remains: for NOW, things are getting tight. Whether the party of list founder Peter Pilz breaks the four percent hurdle and thus manages to re-enter the National Council could therefore depend on very few votes. The outcome of such a tight race may not yet be predicted in the first projection. Another factor of uncertainty is postal ballots. Up to 0.7 percent up or down could still move for NOW after election night. So it remains exciting. In 1999, only a few hundred votes voted in second place. In the end, very few votes could decide this time.