Herbert Kickl, head of the far-right FPÖ, is facing difficult coalition negotiations as the SPÖ, Green Party, and NEOS have dismissed collaboration, with the OVP agreeing to join only if Kickl is excluded.

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

Austria's Freedom Party leader Herbert Kickl hailed a "new era" after preliminary results showed Sunday that the FPÖ had become the first far-right party to win in the country's parliamentary election since World War II,

A projection for ORF public television, based on counting of over 90 percent of the votes, put support for the Freedom Party at 28.9 percent and Chancellor Karl Nehammer’s Austrian People’s Party at 26.

Austria's pro-Russia Freedom Party was celebrating Sunday night after it became the first far-right political party to win an election in the country since the Nazi era.

Austria’s far-right Freedom Party is forecast to win the most votes at a federal election for the first time, in what would be a bitter defeat for the nation’s two historical political groups that will likely herald a complicated stretch of coalition talks.

Herbet Kickl has told supporters it has opened the door to a new era following an unprecedented election victory.

The head of Austria's far-right Freedom Party, which won this week's parliamentary election, urged other parties on Saturday to accept that he should lead the next government and warned them against forming a "coalition of losers".

The leader of the far-right Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) on Saturday said he seeks to lead the next government as chancellor, days after the party topped parliamentary elections. Herbert Kickl made the comments after meeting with Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen for exploratory talks on Friday.