The result of last Sunday's Austrian parliamentary elections followed the same pattern as the 2022 elections in Italy, 2023 in the Netherlands and 2024 in the German states of Thuringia, Saxony and Brandenburg.

It finished ahead of the governing conservatives Sunday after tapping into anxieties about immigration, inflation, Ukraine and other issues.

Herbert Kickl has made history, leading Austria’s far-right Freedom Party to its first win in the country’s general election. The party secured 29.2 per cent of the total votes. The 55-year-old now wishes to build ‘Fortress Austria’,

Austria's far-right has gained its first electoral win since WW2, as the Freedom Party has won parliamentary elections.

Austria's national election has left the country facing difficult coalition talks, with FPÖ's Herbert Kickl winning but struggling to find partners. So what's happens now the votes have been counted?

Supportive of the identitarian movement, the ultra-radical leader of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) is leading in the polls for Sunday's parliamentary elections in the Alpine country.

Austria's far-right Freedom Party won a national parliamentary election, but it will struggle to find other parties willing to form a coalition government.

Austria's far-right leader Herbert Kickl does not exactly cut a dashing figure but he has skilfully tapped into voter anxieties over migration, the war in Ukraine and the Covid pandemic.