Early results released Sunday evening in Austria, just after the polls had closed, found Van der Bellen with a 7-point lead over Hofer – far higher than any pre-election polls had suggested ...

Election campaign posters of far-right Freedom Party candidate Norbert Hofer, defaced to make him look like Adolf Hitler, stand in a street in Vienna, on November 24. HEINZ-PETER BADER / Reuters ...

Norbert Hofer ran on an anti-immigration "Austria First" platform. — -- Austrians have elected a pro-European former Green Party leader, Alexander Van der Bellen, as their next president over ...

On Monday afternoon, far-right politician Norbert Hofer was only a whisker away from becoming president of Austria. Hofer lost during a run-off with Independent, former Green party spokesperson ...

He’s the smiling, anti-refugee presidential candidate who was hoping to sweep into power in Sunday’s Austrian election. But Freedom Party candidate Norbert Hofer has instead conceded defeat ...

Recent polls indicate that Freedom Party candidate Norbert Hofer, 45, has a strong chance of defeating Green Party-backed Alexander Van der Bellen, 72, to win Austria's presidency.

Right-wing Austrian presidential candidate Norbert Hofer has lost a runoff election against liberal opponent Alexander Van der Bellen 50.3 percent to 49.7 percent, the country’s interior ...

Hollande is not running for re-election. Le Pen tweeted her congratulations to the loser of Austria's vote, Norbert Hofer of the euroskeptic Freedom Party, saying they "fought with courage.

On Friday far-right politician Norbert Hofer was given renewed hope that he could become Austria's president, and therefore be the first far-right head of state in Europe since the Second World War.