Sounds like he’s beating the far lefty.
The vote counting is finished for today. All the votes left at the polling stations have been counted. Hofer (FPÖ) has 52% and van der Bellen ( the Greens and all the others) has 48%. That gives Hofer a lead by 144000 votes. However, no postal votes have been counted so far. A total of 880 000 postal vote cards have been handed out. I have been looking all over at the web-sites of the Austrian papers to see how many postal votes have been received, but no one has reported that number.
So, if 100% of the vote forms actually have been used then van der Bellen needs 58% of those votes to make up his deficit. The fewer postal votes the higher the percentage needed.
The postal votes will be counted tomorrow. Lots of fun and games remaining. We do remember what Stalin said about vote counters....