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.

Polls suggest the far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ) could win Sunday's general election. But this is far from certain.

Austria's right-wing FPÖ wins the parliamentary election for the first time in history. However, the party with its leader Herbert Kickl would need to find a coalition partner in order to form a government.

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.

The far-right Freedom Party's historic victory in an Austrian parliamentary election has left it isolated and partly at the mercy of a powerful critic: the president, who must oversee efforts towards forming a viable coalition government.

Austria’s Freedom Party leads in the vote count, but may not be able to find coalition partners to form a government under provocative leader Herbert Kickl.

Austria's Freedom Party (FPÖ) is set to come out on top in the European country's national election on Sunday, according to early projections, marking the first-time a far-right party has won since the Nazis first came to power in Europe nearly eight decades ago.

Political parties on the European right celebrated Sunday's parliamentary election victory by Austria's Freedom Party (FPO) as a boost for national conservatives amid advances by the hard right fuelled by worries about immigration.

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.