Total Population
Population with a disability
according to World Health Organization’s 15% estimate2024
Ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Article 21, paragraph 1 states:
All men and women who are Austrian citizens are entitled to vote provided they have reached the age of 16 on the day of the election and have not been deprived of their right to vote…
Article 26 states:
(5) Exclusion from the right to vote or eligibility [for The National Council] …may only be provided by Federal Law as consequence of a final sentence by the courts.
(6) Persons entitled to vote presumably prevented on the day of election to cast their vote before the electoral authority, for example for absence, for reasons of health or staying abroad may make use of their right to vote by postal ballot upon application indicating the reason…