The Austrian federal election of 1947 was a watershed election in Austria conducted on March 15, 1947 to elect the lower house of the Parliament of Austria. With the dissolution of the War Government the prior December following V-E Day in Europe in May of 1946, Austria had been governed for three months by a rough coalition of Worker's Party (AP) leader Adolf Hitler as Chancellor with a Cabinet of Christian Socialists, Social Democrats and Liberals. All four parties contested the election, along with the Communist Party, which was backed by the UBPR and had most of its support in non-German speaking regions of Austria.