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8 May 2008, no. 30, 2007-08, ISSN 1834-9854

Commonwealth Election 2007 Scott Bennett and Stephen Barber Politics and Public Administration and Statistics and Mapping Sections

Executive summary

This paper follows a similar format to the Parliamentary Library studies of the 1998, 2001 and 2004 Commonwealth elections. The paper is divided into two parts.

Part One is written by Scott Bennett of the Politics and Public Administration Section.

It is written as:

• a journal of record

• a discussion of the election campaign and

• a discussion of the election outcome.

Appendices give:

• the election timetable

• names of the departing Members of the House of Representatives and Senators

• details of the new members of each house and

• details of the number of women in the two chambers, including comparisons with the previous three parliaments.

Part Two comprises a comprehensive set of statistics compiled by Stephen Barber of the Statistics and Mapping Section.

Tables contain:

• national, state and regional vote summaries

• details concerning electoral divisions

• two-party preferred figures and

• the party strengths in the two houses of the Commonwealth Parliament.

Two appendices complete this section of the research paper.

• the first shows the classification for each electoral division for the various classifications used in the paper and

• the second gives figures for Senate and House of Representatives elections held from 1946 to 2007.

Contents

Executive summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 

Part One: The Election . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 

The background to the election . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 

Redistributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 

Changes to the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 

Aid for blind and visually-impaired voters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 

Remote Australian Defence Force voting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 

When would it be? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 

The election begins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 

The House of Representatives—the battle for government . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 

The Challengers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 

Beazley is dropped . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 

A new type of Labor campaign . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 

The incumbents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 

The Government’s claim to be re-elected . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 

Coalition negativism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 

Had the campaign been called earlier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 

The diminution of the significance of policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 

The media and the election . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 

Playing the media game differently . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 

The use of new media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 

The House of Representatives result . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 

States and Territories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 

Local contests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 

The Senate—in whose hands? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 

The setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 

Senate results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 

Some factors in the election outcome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 

Leadership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 

The economy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 

The Green vote . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 

Regional sentiment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 

The Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 

The next election . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 

Further reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 

Appendix 1: 2007 election timetable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 

Appendix 2: The passing parade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 

Part Two: Statistical tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 

Symbols and abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 

Table 1: House of Representatives: National summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 

Table 2: House of Representatives: State summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 

Table 3: House of Representatives: Regional summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 

Table 4: House of Representatives: Party status summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 

Table 5: House of Representatives: Socio-economic status summary (a) . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 

Table 6a: House of Representatives: Electoral division summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 

Table 6b: House of Representatives: Electoral division summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 

Table 7: House of Representatives: Electoral division detail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 

Table 8: House of Representatives: Two-party preferred vote: State summary . . . . . . . 102 

Table 9: House of Representatives: Two-party preferred vote: Regional summary . . . . 102 

Table 10: House of Representatives: Two-party preferred vote: Party status summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 

Table 11: House of Representatives: Two-party preferred vote: Socio-economic status summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 

Table 12: House of Representatives: Two-party preferred vote: Electoral division summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 

Table 13: House of Representatives: Electoral pendulum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 

Table 14: House of Representatives: Electoral divisions ranked by two-party preferred swing to ALP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 

Table 15: Senate: National summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 

Table 16: Senate: State summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 

Table 17: Senate: Composition from 1 July 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 

Table 18: Senate: Candidate details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 

Table 19: Comparison of House of Representatives and Senate votes by division . . . . 141 

Appendix 1: Electoral division classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 

Appendix 2a: House of Representatives: Elections 1946-2007 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 

Appendix 2b: Senate: Elections 1946-2007 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 

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Introduction

This paper follows a similar format to the Parliamentary Library studies of the 1998, 2001 and 2004 Commonwealth elections.1

The paper is divided into two parts.

Part One is:

• a journal of record,

• a discussion of the election campaign and

• a discussion of the election outcome.

Part Two comprises a comprehensive set of statistics. These include

• vote summaries

• electoral division details

• two-party preferred figures and

• the party strengths in the new Parliament.

The paper also includes comparative figures for all Senate and House of Representatives elections held from 1946 to 2007.

An appendix lists the departing Members of the House of Representatives and Senators, together with their replacements.

1. Scott Bennett, Andrew Kopras and Gerard Newman, ‘Federal Elections 1998’, Research Paper, no. 9, Parliamentary Library, Canberra, 1998-99; Scott Bennett, Gerard Newman and Andrew Kopras, ‘Commonwealth Election 2001’, Research Paper, no. 11, Parliamentary Library, Canberra, 2001-02; Scott Bennett, Gerard Newman and Andrew Kopras, ‘Commonwealth Election 2004’, Research Brief, no. 13, Parliamentary Library, Canberra, 2004-05.

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Part One: The Election

The background to the election

Redistributions

There had been redistributions in the Australian Capital Territory, NSW and Queensland since the 2004 election.

As seven years had passed since the previous ACT redistribution, there was a legislative requirement that one be held in the two electorates that are located in the national capital. At its completion, it was clear that there had been minimal change to party prospects, with the Australian Labor Party holding a comfortable two-party preferred margin in each electorate.2

By contrast, there were apparent winners and losers in the redistribution for NSW brought about by the reduction of the number of the state’s electorates to 49 (from 50). The ‘Federation’ electorate of Gwydir,3 held for the Nationals by former Deputy Prime Minister, John Anderson, was the electorate to be abolished, causing much alteration to nearby electorates. Calare, for example, held between 1996 and 2007 by independent MP, Peter Andren4, became nominally a Nationals’ electorate (10.0 per cent margin). In a ripple-on effect, the neighbouring Liberal electorate of Macquarie shifted to the nominal Labor list (0.5 per cent), while Greenway became much safer for the Liberal sitting member whose margin increased to 11.4 per cent.5 Elsewhere, other electorates, such as Bennelong, held by Prime Minister, John Howard (4.1 per cent), and Wentworth, held by the Environment Minister, Malcolm Turnbull (2.5 per cent), became more marginal, while the Labor electorate of Parramatta became a nominal Liberal electorate (0.9 per cent).

The continuing rapid population growth of Queensland increased that state’s representation by one to 29, requiring the state’s fifth redistribution since 1990.6 The new electorate of Flynn extended—‘like a mutant sausage’7—from Gladstone on the coast to Winton in the west, and included Longreach, Emerald and Gayndah in the south-east section. Nominally, it

2. This, and other estimates, is based on two-party preferred votes in the 2004 Commonwealth election.

3. ‘Federation’ seats are those whose names have been in use since the first Commonwealth elections. With the disappearance of Gwydir, there are now just 38 of the original 63 names still in use.

4. Andren resigned Calare on 17 October 2007. He died on 3 November.

5. Scott Bennett, ‘“Save Country Seats”: the NSW redistribution 2005-06’, Research Brief, no. 8, Parliamentary Library, Canberra, 2006-07; Stephen Barber, ‘Electoral pendulum 2007’, Research Paper, no. 8, Parliamentary Library, Canberra, 2007-08.

6. Queensland’s tally of House of Representatives seats rose from 24 to 29 in the period 1990- 2007. A 30th seat is likely to be added during the 42nd Parliament.

7. Paul Williams, ‘Moving the party goalposts’, Courier Mail, 30 September 2006.

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was a Nationals gain, with a two-party preferred margin of 7.7 per cent. In the south, the near-Brisbane Liberal electorates of Moreton (2.8 per cent margin), Blair (5.7 per cent) and Longman (6.7 per cent) were all made more marginal.

In national terms, the three redistributions made the Coalition Government’s chances of holding on to office a little less certain, with the Opposition’s national two-party preferred swing target reduced from five per cent to 4.8 per cent. As always, the key question was from where any votes that might be gained by the challenging party would come. It seemed that a swing spread across the nation might be necessary, for the 16 most vulnerable ‘Coalition’8 electorates (not including Macquarie) were to be found in NSW (five), South Australia (three), Queensland, Western Australia and Tasmania (two each) and Victoria and the Northern Territory (one each). To be sure of victory, Labor probably needed to improve its standing in Queensland, where it had won just six of 28 electorates in 2004, for another poor showing in the state would severely limit the party’s chances.

Changes to the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

Several changes had been made to electoral legislation since the previous election. The alteration which caused most consternation to the Opposition involved changes relating to enrolment. Previously, once a writ had been issued for an election, people seeking to enrol had seven days in which to do so. Changes legislated in 2006 included a reduction of this period to 8 pm on the third working day after the writ’s issuance. Controversially, however, the only people who could make use of this were those whose 18th birthdays fell in the period between the issuing of the writ and polling day, or those who became Australian citizens in that period. For the vast majority of new enrolments, the deadline was to be 8 pm on the day the writ was issued. With younger voters said to be strongly supportive of the Labor Opposition, this was interpreted by many critics as an attempt to deny enrolment to these voters.9 The Government justified the change by claiming that it would reduce the chance of enrolment fraud. Liberal Senator Eric Abetz also argued that it would remove the ‘incredible pressure’ that was placed

on the Australian Electoral Commission as it sought to check and assess the veracity of enrolment claims in such a short time.10

Aid for blind and visually-impaired voters

For the first time, blind and visually-impaired voters were able to vote confidentially in a Commonwealth election. This was due to the introduction of electronically-assisted voting machines in 29 of the 150 electorates. Machines told the voter the candidates’ names, with voters registering their vote by means of a telephone-style key pad. Voters could practise with the machine before they recorded their vote and electoral officials were on hand to assist

where needed.

8. This includes Parramatta, held by the ALP.

9. Brian Costar, ‘Integrity of electoral system not in doubt’, Canberra Times, 8 December 2005.

10. Abetz quoted by Senator Mason (Lib), Senate, Debates, 16 June 2006, p. 16.

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Remote Australian Defence Force voting

The election also saw the trialling of remote electronic voting for Australian Defence Force personnel in Afghanistan, Iraq, the Solomon Islands and Timor-Leste. The trial used secure satellite and ground-based communication and information technology to transmit encrypted electronic voting data to the Australian Electoral Commission.

When would it be?

Every House of Representatives may continue for no more than three years from the date of the first meeting of the House after an election.11 However, some Prime Ministers have delayed the date sufficiently for there to be more than three years between elections. Prior to

2007, there had been 12 such occasions, one of which was Prime Minister John Howard’s choice of 10 November 2001, which was three years, one month and seven days after the 1998 date. In 2007, there was much speculation as to the date to be chosen. With October or November seeming to be the most likely month, it was probable that the 2007 date would be the seventh occasion when there was a period greater than three years between election dates.

The last date the Prime Minister could choose was 19 January 2008. From mid-September, the election date became an issue in the media as Howard refused to nominate a date—though he was quite adamant that it would not be in January. All the while he continued to travel the country announcing many policies and funding arrangements for projects, a large proportion of which were in marginal electorates. As he explained, from his perspective there was a practical need to make many announcements before the election announcement:

If I announce something now and … the election is held X number of weeks after I’ve made the announcement, the bureaucracy can implement that decision because it’s not been made during the caretaker period. 12

There was some risk for the Government in this strategy. On the one hand, it meant that government largesse could continue to be spread, with the hope that the opinion polls would begin to show increased support. On the other hand, there was some danger in antagonising

voters. Certainly there were some vocal critics, ranging from former Queensland Premier, Peter Beattie, who spoke of the impression of a government that was unwilling to face the voters, to the head of Woolworths, who was concerned about December sales who called on Mr Howard to give his sector an election-free December.13 Some were upset by the late spreading of largesse, with an Australian headline referring to ‘the Prime Minister’s obscene

waste’, while a writer in the Advertiser criticised ‘this multibillion-dollar swindle’.14 On the

11. Constitution, s. 28.

12. Michelle Grattan, Misha Schubert and Katherine Murphy, ‘Poll delay means work continues’, Age, 11 October 2007.

13. Peter Beattie, ‘If only you had done it my way’, Courier Mail, 24 November 2007; Jessica Irvine, ‘Woolies wants election-free December’, Sydney Morning Herald, 5 October 2007.

14. Mike Steketee, ‘Vote now to end the PM’s obscene waste’, Australian, 11 October 2007; Steve Lewis, ‘PM’s $2bn ad blitz’, Advertiser, 5 October 2007.

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third anniversary of the 2004 election, Labor’s Anthony Albanese chose to ignore the constitutional position that allows a gap of more than three years between elections. He noted that the three years were up since the people last voted and implied that the Prime Minister was afraid to face the people.15

The election date issue spawned a series of press articles on the need to change the constitutional arrangements to fixed terms, as is now the case in NSW, Victoria, South Australia and the ACT. The Labor and Australian Democrat leaders both stated that this change should be made. Coincidentally, Sir Menzies Campbell of the British Liberal Democrats made a similar call in the United Kingdom after the debacle of the British ‘election that never was’ in September-October 2007, when Prime Minister Gordon Brown had led the British public to expect an early election.16 Eventually, the ALP Opposition leader promised that a Labor Government would hold a referendum giving voters the chance to vote for four-year, fixed parliamentary terms simultaneously with the election scheduled for 2010.17

The election begins

The Prime Minister visited Government House on Sunday 14 October to advise the Governor-General that the election date would be Saturday 24 November 2007. This meant that there would be an official campaign period of 41 days, mirroring the length of the 2004 campaign. The 2007 election would thus be three years, one month and 15 days after the 2004 election date. Mr Howard’s announcement stated that the rolls would close on 22 October, but Australian Electoral Commission checks established that there was a full-day official public holiday for the Flinders Island Show on that day. This necessitated the close of rolls deadline be moved to the following day, 23 October (for the election timetable, see Appendix 1).18

Despite speculation about the election date, the 2007 election campaign effectively had begun at the moment of Kevin Rudd’s elevation to the Labor leadership on 4 December 2006 and ended 11 months and 20 days later on polling day. As Rudd and his team began to produce policies, the Government moved to respond to these and to announce its own policies, many months before there was any likelihood of the Prime Minister announcing the election date. As the months passed, many observers complained about a contest seemingly without end, with the hope that it would soon reach its climax. On 16 October 2007, Canberra Times cartoonist, Geoff Pryor, gave his view of what became known as the ‘never-ending campaign’; what one journalist called ‘the strangest, longest-running play in the land.19

15. ‘Breakfast with Fran Kelly’, ABC Radio National, 9 October 2007.

16. Menzies Campbell, ‘It needs to be fixed’, Guardian, 8 October 2007.

17. Phillip Coorey, ‘Vote on fixed term pledged’, Sydney Morning Herald, 11 October 2007.

18. Adam Gartrell, Peter Veness and Max Blenkin, ‘Error in roll closing date’, Mercury, 15 October 2007.

19. Tony Wright, ‘A man among the men’, Age, 18 October 2007.

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Geoff Pryor, Canberra Times, 16 October 2007

The House of Representatives—the battle for government

As always, in the House of Representatives contest the major party opponents had different electoral aims in their battle to retain or win office. With 76 of the 150 electorates needed to take control of the House, the Coalition could only afford to lose 11 seats. By contrast, the ALP was required to win 16 electorates to lift its total to the minimum target number. There was speculation that in a close contest, either side might need to reach an arrangement with the two independents, both of whom were likely to retain their seats. However, the likelihood of Bob Katter (Kennedy, Qld) or Tony Windsor (New England, NSW) coming into calculations seemed to be quite low, for it was likely that the winning party would be able to govern without having to rely on the independents.

An interesting feature of the speculation about the election outcome was the emphasis that many observers put on the probable importance of local campaigns. Writing soon after Kevin Rudd’s election as party leader, academics Peter van Onselen and Peter Senior stated that as elections were won ‘in individual seats not on national results’, analysis of marginal electorates led them to believe that it was ‘difficult to see Rudd getting over the line’.20 In the months following, the same view was expressed by a number of journalists. Paul Kelly referred, for example, to a seat-by-seat campaign being conducted by the Coalition, the consequence of which was that ‘the election is not a foregone conclusion’. Andrew Fraser and John Lyons spoke of ‘discontent’ with the Howard Government. But they did not find ‘sufficient anger for the landslide swing of 16 electorates [that] Labor needs’. Sue Neales

20. Peter van Onselen and Philip Senior, ‘Poll popularity is not enough to win elections’, Age, 13 February 2007.

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claimed that ‘in an era of personality politics, name recognition is everything’. Most strikingly, and counter-intuitively, Jennifer Hewett wrote of there being different levels of support nationally and locally and that ‘the fight on the ground has been much more evenly matched’ than the national campaign.21 Many in fact predicted that it would be the efforts by

local candidates that would ensure the Coalition’s return to office. For instance, the MP for Longman, Mal Brough, Minister for Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, was often spoken of as being certain of re-election, a claim that seemed to be influenced by general media support of his role in the intervention in indigenous communities in the Northern Territory. In regard to the view that for every marginal electorate held by the Government, so Labor’s task became harder, Peter Brent of mumble.com.au believed that it was all caused by ‘federal election-watchers determined to construct that nail-biting finish’.22 It certainly ignores the research by David Charnock of Curtin University:

The overall extent to which voting variations are attributable to the divisional level shows none of the consistent patterns of change that would point to increasing local candidate effects or personal vote effects. Party ‘brand’ continues to be dominant … 23

The Challengers

Beazley is dropped

Kim Beazley had replaced Mark Latham as the Labor leader in late January 2005. Despite the general media view that this ‘doomed’ Labor to at least one more term of opposition after the forthcoming 2007 election, opinion polls suggested there was a gradual improvement in the party’s electoral position in the months that followed. In the 47 Newspolls that were conducted during Beazley’s second leadership term (January 2005-December 2006), Labor’s two-party preferred vote exceeded the Coalition’s on 23 occasions, with the parties tied at 50 per cent on four occasions. In the six months before Beazley was challenged by Kevin Rudd, Labor’s two-party preferred vote exceeded the Coalition’s on ten of 14 occasions, with the parties tied on two occasions.24

On the other hand, Labor’s first preference figures during this period were invariably poor, with the party struggling to lift its vote over 40 per cent, and the party usually sitting about five percentage points behind the Government. For the entire period of the second Beazley term the Coalition’s average first preference vote was 42.8 per cent, with the Labor Party well

21. Paul Kelly, ‘The pitch’, Weekend Australian, 17-18 November 2007; Andrew Fraser and John Lyons, ‘One happy Howard voter and counting’, Weekend Australian, 10-11 November 2007; Sue Neales, ‘Parties take a back seat as names to fore’, Mercury, 10 November 2007; Jennifer Hewett, ‘Tireless Rudd drags ALP into striking distance’, Weekend Australian, 17-18 November 2007.

22. Peter Brent, ‘Marginals factor is marginal’, Australian Financial Review, 26 September 2007.

23. David Charnock, ‘Plus ça change…? Institutional, Political and Social Influences on Local Spatial Variations in Australian Federal Voting’, Australian Journal of Political Science, vol. 42, no. 4, December 2007, p. 602.

24. Newspoll, http://www.newspoll.com.au/, accessed on 11 February 2008.

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behind on 38.9 per cent. This was a reminder that the party had averaged only 38.6 per cent in the previous four Commonwealth elections and was seemingly mired at a sub-40 per cent level. Despite some press encouragement that a vote of 40 per cent could win government for Labor, previous elections suggested that it would need at least 43 per cent to be considered a reasonably strong contender.25 For much of the period this modest target was not reached. However, during the last six months of 2006 the gap narrowed, with Labor’s vote rising to 40.1 per cent, just 1.6 per cent behind the Coalition. It was some comfort for Beazley that he seemed to be improving his party’s standing, though it did little to change journalists’ expectations concerning Labor’s likely defeat at the next election.

This slight improvement in Labor’s public support was not matched by voters’ views when they were asked to nominate their ‘preferred Prime Minister’. Invariably John Howard’s approval rating topped 50 per cent and sat at about double the rating for his opponent. In addition, on what was generally regarded as the key policy indicator—economic management—the Coalition invariably was comfortably ahead. Labor thus had recovered quite well from its disappointing 2004 election performance, but it was by no means certain that the party could mount a strong enough challenge in the election that was due some time in the second half of 2007.26

Although Beazley expressed confidence about Labor’s chances at the next election, press speculation in the last half of 2006 began to focus on the question of whether he would be replaced as leader. For some time there was a stand-off in the party between the Beazley supporters, who proclaimed that their man would not be moving, and dissidents, who doubted that the leader who had taken them to defeat in 1998 and 2001 was ever likely to lead Labor to government. There were even signs that unhappy party members were prepared to undermine Beazley by suggesting that the state of his health was a relevant leadership issue.27 Labor’s shadow minister for foreign affairs, international security and trade, Kevin Rudd,

seemed the most likely replacement, with some pushing a replacement leadership team of him and Julia Gillard, the party’s health spokesperson.

On 17 November, Beazley took a door-stop interview opportunity, intending to express his sympathy for the death of the wife of entertainer, Rove McManus, but referred to US White House staffer, Karl Rove, by mistake. A not-unsympathetic journalist observed that barely had the stumble occurred, than it was ‘quickly being employed to good use’ by Beazley’s opponents in the Labor Caucus.28 Other journalists were more critical, with a Sydney Morning Herald writer reminding readers that in the previous few months Beazley had confused the governor of the Reserve Bank with the Minister for Industry who shared the same name, and

25. Michael Costello, ‘An art to reading the polls’, Australian, 26 May 2006; Bennett, Newman and Kopras, ‘Commonwealth Election 2004’, op. cit., pp. 11-12.

26. Paul D. Williams, ‘The 2007 Australian Federal Election: The Story of Labor’s Return from the Electoral Wilderness’, Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol. 54, no. 1, March 2008, p. 107.

27. Cynthia Banham and Andrew Clennell, ‘Knives are not out for Beazley, say Labor MPs after Rove gaffe’, Sydney Morning Herald, 20 November 2006.

28. Matt Price, ‘Cynical ploy rebounds on Bomber’, Weekend Australian, 18-19 November 2006.

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had referred to Michelle Leslie, just-released from jail in Bali, as Michelle Lee.29 For the next two weeks, the press carried much debate and speculation about Beazley’s future.

On 30 November, Tony Abbott claimed that the Labor leader was being ‘beset by ambitious careerists who will neither mount a challenge nor rule one out’.30 On the following day, Rudd challenged. Three days later he replaced Beazley as leader, with Gillard as his deputy. The West Australian regretted the dropping of a man it believed to be ‘well known and well liked’, and while conceding politics to be ‘notoriously unpredictable’, stated that it was ‘hard to escape the conclusion that, in effect, Labor yesterday conceded the next election.’31

A new type of Labor campaign

Throwing over the past

Kevin Rudd expressed his intention to pursue a quite different approach to government from the traditional ways of Labor Party leaders. Most noteworthy was his announcement that he would be selecting his own front bench and, therefore, his Cabinet colleagues, in the event of Labor coming to power.32 Despite some unhappiness expressed in the wider labour movement, he had thus effectively ignored the pretensions of the Labor Party factions— labelled the ‘totalitarian monster’ by one observer.33 Rudd (Right) and Gillard (Left) also announced that they would not attend meetings of their respective factions and that selection

or non-selection for the party’s frontbench would not be either a matter of reward or punishment. In doing so, Rudd, effectively gave himself leadership powers equal to those enjoyed by a Liberal Party leader. At a stroke, an old criticism of the party made by its conservative opponents was pushed aside.

If that were not remarkable enough, Rudd worked to make irrelevant the long-standing claim that Labor was a socialist party. In the first decade after Federation Prime Minister George Reid warned Australians about the dangers of the ‘Socialist Tiger’. Since then, Labor members had to battle their opponents’ claims that ‘socialism’ posed some type of threat to Australian society. The early intra-party struggle over the ‘Socialisation Objective’ had provided ready-made ammunition for the party’s opponents. By contrast, when stating that Australians needed to know the values for which Labor stood, Rudd emphasised that ‘socialism isn’t one of them’:

We believe radically in equality of opportunity, that is that every kid from every working family has a decent start in life. We believe in solidarity, which means that, if you run into one of life’s brick walls, that there should be a decent and humane helping hand extended to

29. Stephanie Peatling, ‘Wrong Rove: Beazley’s tribute mix-up’, Sydney Morning Herald, 18 November 2006.

30. Misha Schubert, ‘Leadership in twilight zone’, Age, 1 December 2006.

31. ‘Labor has all but conceded the next election’, editorial, West Australian, 5 December 2006.

32. Mungo MacCallum, Poll Dancing. The Story of the 2007 Election, Black, Melbourne, 2007, p. 234.

33. ibid, p. 14.

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you to pick you up and bring you back rather than just be cast on the dung heap of the market … I think it’s far better therefore we construct our future vision for the party around those principles, rather than some 19th-century arcane view of doctrinaire socialism.

To make it quite clear where he stood, personally, Rudd also asserted:

I am not a socialist. I have never been a socialist and I never will be a socialist. 34

As if to emphasise Rudd’s ‘difference’, a regular photo opportunity, that was unusual in the Australian political landscape, came to be that of Rudd and his wife leaving their local church after Sunday morning worship. This was a Queensland-appropriate image according to the Australian’s George Megalogenis. According to another journalist, people on the right of politics were interested in Rudd’s ‘unapologetic Christianity’ and his critique of Howard from a conservative standpoint. Such matters have not been a normal feature of the Australian political landscape.35

Thus did the new Labor leader work to throw over much of his party’s heritage, giving it a new image and at the same time make himself more powerful than any previous leader. Remarkably, there was no obvious opposition to him from other party members. The silence in his party seemed to suggest that victory in 2007 was rather more important to Rudd’s colleagues than any defence of the old party ways.

Labor’s ‘me-tooism’ and avoidance of the ‘wedge’

When asked, Australian electors will often express frustration at the ‘negativism’ of election battles and especially the apparent inability of the two major parties to agree on any issue. Everything offered by one party is likely to be scorned by the other. The 2007 election was notable for a significant reduction of such campaigning—at least on the Labor side.

A recurring problem for Labor over the years has been the way in which it has been portrayed as ‘dangerous’ by its conservative party opponents. Whether it was its ‘support’ for communism in the 1940s and 1950s, its close links with ‘dangerous’ trade unions, or its policies that threatened established parts of society such as private schools, the ALP has had difficulty in persuading voters that it posed no threat to Australian society. At the same time, Labor has been accused of being ‘its own worst enemy’, in being prepared to push policies that were clearly out of step with the views of many Australians. Perhaps the most famous of these was its determined opposition in the 1966 Commonwealth election to Australia’s participation in the Vietnam War, which was cited as an example of the party being ‘soft’ on communism and which helped produce its lowest vote for over thirty years.36

34. Michael Gordon and Michelle Grattan, ‘Rudd rejects socialism’, Age, 14 December 2006.

35. George Megalogenis, ‘Rudd prepares for the battle of Queensland’, Australian, 14 April 2007; Peter Hartcher, ‘Bipolar nation. How to win the 2007 election’, Quarterly Essay, 25, 2007, pp. 3-4.

36. Tom Frame, The Life and Death of Harold Holt, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2005, p. 167.

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Coalition politicians have been adept at using such issues to put doubts into the minds of many voters. In recent times, such a tactic has become known as ‘wedging’.37 The siphoning-off of so-called ‘Howard’s battlers’ in the Howard era has been said to have been largely due to successful wedging of the party by the Coalition on many social issues. A 2004 election example was the way in which Labor’s support for environmental issues was used against it in the Tasmanian electorate of Bass in relation to the issue of logging.

What was particularly noteworthy in the 2007 election was the large number of occasions on which the Opposition leader expressed himself as essentially supportive of the Government’s position on an issue. The term ‘me-tooism’ was not new in Australian political parlance, but it received a great deal of use during the campaign, as bemused journalists marvelled at how often Rudd would agree with—and occasionally praise—a Howard Government policy. This tactic began soon after Rudd’s election as leader, with an early example being the decision to

respond to the carbon emissions environmental problem in a fashion similar to the Government. This received praise in an editorial, though the editorial writer noted that Labor was criticised by some as participating in ‘an exercise in me-tooism’, foreshadowing what became a common aspect of the campaign.38 From then on there was a steady increase in the number of occasions where Labor accepted the Government’s main stance on an issue. The range of examples was wide, involving policy proposals/decisions such as the Commonwealth takeover of water resources, the retention of the ‘positive’ aspects of WorkChoices, support for Howard’s move to override Queensland laws on the forced amalgamation of local government councils, declaration of his party’s support for the three controversial Tasmanian issues of the Tamar pulp mill, the takeover of the Mersey Hospital and the Regional Forests Agreement, retention of the private school funding model and protection of the private health insurance rebate. In effect, Rudd was signalling that his party was moderate and of the mainstream and, hence, not a threat to the continued stability of the nation and its economy. Gradually there emerged a general, if occasionally grudging, acceptance of the ‘me-too’ tactic’s usefulness in helping Labor avoid the dangers of being wedged on any major issues. Paul Kelly summed up the tactic:

Me-tooism is about tactical decisions and strategic redesign that goes to party identity. For 11 years Howard has beaten Labor on values and now Rudd, with his grasp of conservative Australia, is denying this attack. Howard thrives when Labor fights him on cultural, economic and class issues, and these are the battles that Rudd refuses to fight.

It highlights the significance of the Rudd phenomenon. Rudd seeks to consign to history most of the old Labor radicalism based on class, along with much of the recent Labor progressivism that fought Howard over values. Rudd wants to change the atmospherics of politics and escape the old tribalisms.

37. That is where an issue is raised that Labor feels obliged to support, even though it drives a ‘wedge’ between the party and a significant part of its electoral support.

38. ‘Carbon reality check’, editorial, Australian, 27 February 2007.

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The title of Kelly’s article summed up what was turning out to be an increasingly frustrating campaign for the Government: ‘No room for a wedge’.39

Labor’s cautious, conservative, ‘me-too’ style of campaigning therefore was probably the single most remarkable feature of the Labor campaign, not least because it ran the risk of opening up the leader and his party to claims of having no ideas of their own. It also could have upset Labor’s long-term supporters who might have resented an apparent throwing-over of the party’s traditions. It also seemed to be letting off the Government lightly in regard to such headline-catching issues as the Australian Wheat Board corruption claims, the treatment of long-time Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks, and the incarceration and cancelling of the visa of Dr Mohamed Haneef, who had been accused of having links with British bomb plots.40 Despite this, the party’s effort was tightly controlled, generally avoiding the temptation to ‘lash out’ at opponents. An intriguing 2007 election question will remain: what might have been the outcome had Labor’s campaigning taken a more normal, largely negative, stance vis-a-vis government policies and performance?

The incumbents

The Government’s claim to be re-elected

Essentially, the Howard Government based its campaign on four factors:

• It made much of its safe hands in regard to the economy and national security, asking

voters whether it was worth risking a booming economy and the high international regard that were the consequence of 11 years of outstanding leadership. A key assumption behind this aspect of the Coalition’s campaign was that voters do not turn away from a

government when the economy is doing well. Party strategists put a great reliance on the fact that polls continually put the Coalition ahead of Labor as the best economic managers. Liberal backbencher Don Randall warned that if people returned a Labor government, they ‘will lose their houses. People are betting their houses at this election’.41

• Associated with this were the continuing benefits to be gained from the experience and

strong leadership of the Prime Minister. Although there were some Liberals who wondered if Howard should have resigned in favour of Treasurer Costello in 2006 (see below), many more in his party considered him central to the Liberals’ chances, citing his outstanding record in office since the Coalition came to power in March 1996. Randall summed up such views:

39. Paul Kelly, ‘No room for a wedge’, Australian, 3 November 2007.

40. Caroline Overington, Kickback: inside the Australian Wheat Board scandal, Allen & Unwn, 2007; Leigh Sales, Detainee 002: the case of David Hicks, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2007.

41. Patricia Karvelas, ‘Tuckey warned not to mention the L-word’, Australian, 10 September 2007.

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Howard is by far and away the best prime minister Australia has had in history. There is no one like him. You’ve got to stay with what has been tested and works. 42

• Working with Howard was the very experienced leadership team, featuring Treasurer

Peter Costello, Deputy Prime Minister Mark Vaile, Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer and Health Minister Tony Abbott. Many Liberals pointed to the absence, as they saw it, of any sound reason for the voters to throw over this experience. Abbott, for instance, described the Howard Government as possessing, ‘the best leadership team that Australia has ever had’.43

• Finally, there was a faith that voters were appreciative of the handout of government

funds, referred to above, that were distributed in the form of payments to local communities. The 2007 election seemed to produce a marked increase in this type of campaigning that had been a fundamental part of the Coalition’s 2004 campaign.44 The examples were various, with many promises dealing with matters beyond the direct powers of the Commonwealth Government, such as when the Liberal candidate in Parramatta promised ‘to crack down on hoons’.45 Coalition pledges made in the so-called ‘bellwether’ electorate of Eden-Monaro (NSW),46 illustrated the extent of such local community promises. The Eden-Monaro list included a traffic strategy for Queanbeyan, funds for a Cooma skate park and refurbishment of its swimming pool, overhaul of Braidwood’s sewerage system, help for autistic children, funding for a charity working with the socially isolated, assistance to a local timber mill, improvement of camping facilities for Bungendore Showground, upgrading of roads in the Tumut area and the restoration of environmental flows in the Snowy River. There was confidence among many Liberals that such gifts to local communities would aid the party, as they were believed to have done in previous elections. The possible undermining of the federal system of government was a matter for some future time.

Coalition negativism

It is a commonplace that a party’s tactics in an election campaign need to be a blend of positive and negative messages. A party’s strategy will often attempt to plant doubts about its opponents in voters’ minds early in the campaign, after which there will be a focus on a more positive, uplifting vision of the future to match the proclaimed benefits of the party’s own policies. A matter of wonder for some observers in 2007, however, was that although the Coalition campaign did give such a blend, the dominant impression was a message of fear

42. ibid.

43. ‘Liberal MPs want Howard to stay on: Abbott’, 6 August 2007, http://www.theage.com.Simi,/news/national/hes-in-his-prime-ministers/2007/08/06/1186252612964.html, accessed 16 January 2008.

44. Scott Bennett, ‘The politics of the Australian federal system’, Research Brief, no. 4, Parliamentary Library, Canberra, 2006-07, p. 15.

45. David McLennan, ‘Reshuffle has seat in the balance’, Canberra Times, 21 November 2007.

46. Eden-Monaro had been won by the election-winning party in all elections since 1972.

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rather than one of hope. Peter Beattie noted that, although there was much of a positive nature that came from the Coalition, the overall impression was largely one of negativism.47 Retiring Liberal MP, Bruce Baird, who had contested many state and Commonwealth elections, called for a more positive pitch in his party’s advertising campaign. He advised his party to talk more of the benefits of promised tax cuts rather than spending so much time on the ‘dangers’

of a Labor government. The Prime Minister’s former chief of staff, Arthur Sinodinos, stated that it was important that the Coalition ‘put out a positive agenda’.48 Despite this, the Coalition parties clearly put much focus on the damage that would be done to Australia were Labor to win office—for, as the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, Joe Hockey, put it, the Liberals’ ‘fear campaign was based on fact’.49

Coalition negativism was linked to a number of factors:

‘Wall-to-wall Labor’

A constant theme of the Government’s message was that if Labor won Commonwealth office, the country would have the ‘disaster’ of ‘wall-to-wall Labor governments’.50 The problem with this argument in 2007 was that all of the state and territory Labor governments had been in place for at least two terms and none seemed to have lost much popular support. Four (Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and Tasmania) had been comfortably re-elected in 2006. The NSW Government had been re-elected as recently as March 2007. With such a level of support for the ALP, voters might not accept that ‘wall-to-wall’ Labor governments would be the disaster that was implied by Liberal advertisements.

The union ‘threat’

The second ‘threat’ that received much publicity was that of the rampant unionism that was likely to hit the country if the restraining hand of the Coalition Government were removed. Publicity was given to controversies involving various union leaders, notably Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy (CFMEU) Assistant Secretary Joe McDonald in Western Australia.51 Television advertisements constantly asserted that as 70 per cent of a Rudd Cabinet would be former union officials, it would be in thrall to the union movement. This, according to a Liberal candidate, would put Australia in a position where ‘the union bosses dictate similar to the way Hitler did during the world war about how we should live our

47. Beattie, op. cit.

48. Michelle Grattan, ‘Lib ads must focus on positives: Baird’, Age, 30 October 2007.

49. Michelle Grattan, ‘Hockey’s job vow is hard to take seriously’, Age, 6 November 2007.

50. See, for example, Liberal advertisement, Herald Sun, 22 November 2007.

51. Chistopher Bantick, ‘Weak Rudd bluffed by union bully boys’, Daily Telegraph, 24 October 2007.

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life’.52 Queensland Nationals MP, Bruce Scott, warned his constituents in Maranoa that the actions of the Queensland state government,

… sends a clear message to all Queenslanders about how the unions will … dominate and dictate to any future Federal Labor Government. 53

Some of this anti-union rhetoric produced echoes of past Australian elections. In an intriguing flashback to an earlier political time when the ‘red menace’ featured strongly in Australian elections, the word ‘communist’ was heard at least twice in the campaign. Deputy Prime Minister Mark Vaile likened Labor’s proclaimed ‘education revolution’ to ‘something you’d hear in a communist country’,54 while the Treasurer pointed out that when deputy Labor leader Julia Gillard had been a student, she had been ‘affiliated with communists’.55 Education Minister, Julie Bishop, apparently believed that ‘themes emerging in school curriculum …[were] straight from Chairman Mao’.56 A variation came in a pamphlet from

former minister, Bronwyn Bishop, which was delivered to voters in her electorate of Mackellar. The pamphlet warned:

Our youth have never experienced a socialist government with its continuous barrage of laws, rules and regulations, the never-ending interference of government and unions in our lives and the soul-destroying unemployment as our living standard drops ... It would be sad to have the old failed socialist, union-driven government influencing our youth.

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All of which were reminders of Coalition ‘anti-socialist’ warnings of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. It is difficult to know how this approach affected voters’ perceptions of the Labor Party, but one journalist lampooned the Coalition’s effort, noting that ‘Howard’s men’ were warning,

… that socialists and unionists are coming, pikes raised, torches aflame. They are everywhere. I look under my bed, just in case. 58

Would the anti-union attack affect votes? One writer has suggested that while it is possible that some voters were scared enough to stay with the Coalition, polls suggest that this did not apply to most. This may have been due to the prominence of some unionists in activities that were positive for their image. This included the work of Greg Combet, candidate for

52. Angelo Kakouros, candidate for Corio, quoted Rick Wallace, ‘Offending the voters: both sides show how’, Australian, 17 October 2007.

53. Bruce Scott MP, Stanthorpe Border Post, 25 September 2007.

54. Tony Wright, ‘All that’s left now is the smell of mothballs’, Age, 13 November 2007.

55. Andrew Fraser, ‘PM lines up rookie Rudd in prize fight’, Canberra Times, 18 October 2007.

56. Elizabeth Bellamy, ‘Minister retreats on Mao remark’, Canberra Times, 7 October 2006.

57. Phillip Coorey, ‘A party losing its youthful appeal resorts to hysteria’, Sydney Morning Herald, 22 November 2007.

58. Warwick McFadyen, ‘Notes from the armchair’, in The Age in association with the University of Melbourne, The Rudd revolution, supplement in Age, 27 November 2007, p. 35.

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Charlton, in support of asbestos campaigner Bernie Banton, or Bill Shorten, candidate for Maribyrnong, working in the aftermath of the Beaconsfield mine collapse. In addition, polling suggested that many Australians, particularly younger voters, ‘simply do not understand the point’ of attacking unions.59

Ironically, it has been claimed that the anti-union legislative activity by the Howard Government weakened its own case against unions, in that it had effectively ‘outlawed self-harm by unions’. It is also likely that their ‘ability to frighten people also diminished’ as a consequence of such legislation.60 If there was any political outcome from the Government’s efforts in 2007, it is possible that it ensured that the Opposition would work to distance itself from unionism during the campaign, as when Kevin Rudd insisted that McDonald be expelled from the party. Keen to keep the issue alive, the Prime Minister thereupon challenged Labor to return donations given the party by the CFMEU.61

The Green-Labor ‘menace’

A theme expressed by conservative parties in recent Australian elections has been the threat to society posed by the Australian Greens.62 The 2007 election produced similar warnings from the Government, notably from the Minister for Finance and Administration, Senator Nick Minchin. Apart from the claim that if the Greens controlled the balance of power in the Senate the upper house would be ‘mired in chaos’, he warned that a preference deal between the Greens and Labor would impose a ‘frightening reality’ on a Labor Government. Inevitably, Labor would be held to ransom so as to implement what Minchin described as the Greens’ ‘dangerous policy agenda’:

This is the first time in Australian history that a radical left-wing party like the Greens have been poised to gain such an unprecedented level of power in the Senate. 63

Coalition warnings were echoed by Family First Senator, Steve Fielding, who labelled the Greens ‘anti-family and anti-small business’, and warned that they sought to open ‘drug shooting galleries’, give free heroin to addicts and remove all criminal sanctions for drug users.64

59. Michael Bachelard, ‘The Liberals did themselves in with the union scare campaign’, Age, 28 November 2007.

60. ibid.

61. Paul Murray, Nick Butterly and Daniel Emerson, ‘PM challenges Rudd to return union donations’, West Australian, 30 October 2007.

62. See for example, Bennett, Newman and Kopras, ‘Commonwealth Election 2004’, op. cit., pp. 27-8.

63. Michelle Grattan, ‘The small fry start swim upstream’, Age, 29 October 2007; Ross Peake, ‘Brown flags Labor preference deal’, Canberra Times, 29 October 2007.

64. Steve Fielding, ‘Pro-drugs, anti-business party poses a danger’, Weekend Australian, 19-20 May 2007.

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A misreading of Rudd?

Only two Prime Ministers had less parliamentary experience than Kevin Rudd before assuming office.65 Although this suggested an immaturity, the fifty-year-old Queensland politician had a varied working experience before entering the House of Representatives. As well as work in the diplomatic service, he had been chief of staff to a Premier, director-general of a Cabinet office and a consultant with KPMG. Despite this, the Coalition chose to attack the Labor leader as ‘inexperienced’. To the Treasurer, Rudd was a ‘lightweight’, the Foreign Affairs Minister described him as ‘a phoney’, the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations called him ‘mad’, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister saw him as ‘union-controlled’ and the Minister for Health called him ‘vicious and Machiavellian’. The Prime Minister suggested that his opponent was ‘a man whose core beliefs are obscure and unknown to the Australian public and perhaps to … himself’.66

How does one explain this unusually high level of criticism directed at an Australian party leader? Coalition research, leaked to a journalist, indicates that this was planned by those responsible for Coalition campaign tactics. Crosby Textor research noted that with Rudd leading Howard as preferred Prime Minister in the opinion polls there was a need for the Coalition to do two things. First, it should draw attention to the relative strengths of the opposing team, and, secondly, it should concentration ‘on highlighting Rudd’s inexperience and influences—unions, Left factions and state premiers’.67

Although this campaign tactic was said to be based on survey research, the Australian editorialised that the Government had made at least two major, though interrelated, miscalculations in its campaign. Firstly, it had presumed that the 2007 campaign was simply ‘a rematch of the 2004 campaign’, when the Labor Party under the leadership of Mark Latham was far more divided. Secondly, the Government had ‘misread’ Rudd since his accession to the leadership, a misreading that was based on its failure to recognise that Rudd

was ‘a very different opponent from Mr Latham’.68 Four days later, the same newspaper suggested that a serious flaw in the Coalition’s effort was that it chose to overlook the fact

65. Bob Hawke had been an MP for 874 days, Stanley Bruce for 1735 days and Rudd 3348 days at the time of swearing in as Prime Minister. Edmund Barton, John Watson, Andrew Fisher and Joe Lyons had served as state MPs for some time before being elected to the Commonwealth Parliament.

66. Peter Costello quoted in Matthew Franklin and Patricia Karvelas, ‘PM unveils his exit strategy’, Australian, 13 September 2007; Alexander Downer quoted in Phillip Coorey, ‘Howard’s rally call: we can win’, Sydney Morning Herald, 19 September 2007; Joe Hockey quoted in Malcolm Farr, ‘Rudd’s red-tape trap’, Daily Telegraph, 19 April 2007; Tony Smith, ‘From the blue corner: Conservative claim a “con”’, Sunday Age, 28 October 2007; Tony Abbott quoted in ‘They said it’, Canberra Times, 17 November 2007; John Howard quoted in Michelle Grattan and Katharine Murphy, ‘Howard splurges another $9bn’, Age, 13 November 2007.

67. Crosby Textor material by quoted George Megalogenis, ‘Pendulum of a kind’, Weekend Australian, 15-16 December 2007.

68. ‘Howard almost out of time’, editorial, Weekend Australian, 17-18 November 2007; ‘Determined Rudd is on message’, editorial, Australian, 21 November 2007.

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that Rudd actually had more ‘real-world’ experience than the Prime Minister himself.69 Such a comment perhaps indicated that the Coalition attack on the Labor leader had not succeeded.

An obsession with Gillard?

The Coalition parties were not only distracted by Labor’s leader; its deputy leader, Julia Gillard, caused them some angst as well. In May 2006 Liberal Senator Bill Heffernan spoke of Gillard, then shadow minister for health, as ignorant of ‘what life’s about’, due to the fact that she had chosen to remain ‘deliberately barren’. It was a comment that produced much criticism of Heffernan and his party. The Senator later explained his view by noting that a leader has to understand a community and that one of ‘the great understandings’ in any community is ‘family, and the relationship between mum, dads [sic] and a bucket of nappies’. Lacking this, Gillard was unqualified for leadership.70 The criticism of Heffernan did not see an end to the campaign against Gillard, however. Tony Abbott pointed to her ‘obsession’ with politics ‘for the whole of her adult life’. He claimed that ‘average’ people ‘would look askance at such a political animal’. Abbott, in fact, echoed the ‘communist’ claims about Labor referred to above, when he produced a word from Soviet Union times in describing Gillard as ‘a political apparatchik’.71 It is probable that in attacking a female politician in this fashion, the Liberal MPs were more likely to draw criticism of their own words than of the object of their criticism. It seemed to be an unnecessary diversion from the task of retaining office.

Had the campaign been called earlier

In a political system which grants the Prime Minister the power to nominate election day, the incumbent is expected to use this power to his or her party’s advantage. Should Prime Minister Howard have called the election earlier? It was reported that some Liberals were dismayed by his ‘appalling misjudgement’ in the choice of election date. Why, it was asked, did he not call an election before the date when the Reserve Bank board would be considering the September quarter’s consumer price index figure, with its possible sixth increase in interest rates since the 2004 election? Apparently there were Labor strategists who were equally puzzled.72 The probable answer to the question is that Howard presumably saw his government as being hurt if he called an early election—and hurt if he did not. If he went early, he would avoid a possible interest rate rise, but would be confronted by opinion polls still indicating strong preference for his opponents. By contrast, going late might see a favourable shift in the opinion polls, only to have the negative impact of an interest rate jump. Whichever he chose, the Government’s chances were likely to be lessened.

69. ‘Determined Rudd …’, Australian, op. cit.

70. Greg Bearup, ‘Hard man of the Hill’, Age 27 May 2006; John Lyons, ‘Excellent Adventure’, Bulletin, 8 May 2007, p. 28.

71. Steve Lewis, ‘Family feud’, Daily Telegraph, 6 October 2007; ‘apparatchik’ was a colloquial term in the USSR for an agent of the governmental or party apparatus (‘apparat’) during the rule of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

72. Shaun Carney, ‘The Long March’, in The Rudd Revolution, op. cit, p. 9; Laurie Oakes, ‘Coalition’s interesting times’, Bulletin, 20 November 2007.

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Another view of the choice of election date was that of a journalist, who wondered whether Howard had ‘let Rudd get too far ahead to be able to run him down in the straight’.73 Such a view suggests that the Prime Minister had a greater control over public opinion than the polls were showing. They had put Labor well ahead from the accession of Rudd (see below), and there had been nothing that the Prime Minister could do to lessen this lead.

The diminution of the significance of policy

The 2007 Commonwealth election was therefore one in which policy matters, and the differences between the parties, seemed to play a lesser role than is often the case. This is not to suggest that there were no obvious differences between the opponents, but it is difficult to describe the announcement of any particular policy or policies as important in explaining the result of the election. While this is sometimes a factor in a campaign run by the government of the day when the decision is made to stand on its record—as with the Coalition in 1980—it is unusual for a government’s opponents. Such a party usually feels the need to sell itself to the electorate, often earning criticism for negativism in its determination to appear different from its opponent, as suggested earlier in this paper. The traditional approach leaves little room for a party leader to praise an opponent, even when there are aspects of policy with which there is general agreement. As University of Sydney academic, Rod Tiffen, notes, ‘The logic of inter-party conflict often leads to an exaggeration of policy differences’, where ‘the appearance of polarisation is constant.’74

Another question for Australian election-watchers is whether Labor’s campaign style, with its dampening of the importance of policy, will be a model for future Australian elections.

The media and the election

Polls indicate changing trends—media forecasts vary

Tiffin predicted accurately that many in the media would base their coverage of the 2007 contest on the assumption that the early gap between the parties would narrow, was narrowing, and finally, had closed, even if Labor were to remain in a position to win a comfortable victory. Tiffin claimed that this was

… partly because the media have an interest in building the sense of an exciting contest, partly because the current polls are so deviant from recent patterns that many believe they must narrow—perhaps partly reflecting wishful thinking by some in the media. 75

73. Malcolm Colless, ‘PM still has a chance, but this race looks all but run’, Australian, 6 November 2007.

74. Rodney Tiffen, News and Power, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1989, p. 128.

75. Rodney Tiffen, ‘Polls and elections: a primer for the perplexed’, Australian Policy Online, 2007 Election Backgrounder, www.apo.org.au, accessed 5 May 2008; see also Andrew Clark, ‘The clouds roll in’, Australian Financial Review, 21 October 2006.

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Media commentators through the election period reflected on changing voting preferences identified in the findings of various polls. The importance of poll results was suggested by Dennis Shanahan:

The Coalition has fought back after John Howard’s dramatic undertaking to retire as prime minister during the next term and can now make a fight of the election … Labor still has a clear election-winning lead on a two-party preferred basis of 55 per cent to the Coalition’s 45, and Kevin Rudd is well clear of Mr Howard as preferred prime minister.

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Early predictions that if the economy was healthy, the government was very likely to retain office 77

were moderated as polls indicated that the Coalition would lose the election. The picture was not completely clear, however, with the parties polling quite differently on a range of issues, as Dennis Shanahan further noted:

The Coalition has stretched its commanding lead over Labor on the key vote-changing issues of the economy and national security. And although Labor continues to hold a comfortable lead over the Government on social issues such as education and health, the Coalition appears to have negated the union movement's multi-million-dollar anti-Work Choices advertising campaign.

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As it unfolded, therefore, the progress of the 2007 election campaign proved to be judged on many specific issues including the economy, industrial relations, social issues such as education and health, Medicare, water planning, education and the environment.

Two days before polling day commentators noted that Labor had worked successfully on many policy issues:

months of strict discipline and superb political tactics … have diverted and frustrated the Coalition. 79

Making predictions had proved difficult through the campaign. It seemed that some observers had some difficulty in dealing with contradictory trends. Brad Norington, of the Australian, observed:

What appears to be upsetting the commentators is that the polls have not followed their past course over the last nine months before the election by shifting in the Coalition’s favour. Uncertain, they have become more polarised about how the Coalition should mount a rescue operation.

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76. ‘Howard gets back into the fight’, Australian, 18 September 2007.

77. See for example, James McConvill, ‘Why John Howard will win next year’s federal election’, Age, 5 October 2006.

78. ‘PM’s stock rises on IR, economy’, Australian, 17 October 2007.

79. Dennis Shanahan, ‘It’s time for him to take no chances’, Australian, 22 November 2007.

80. Brad Norington, ‘Print warriors turning on themselves’, Australian, 24 October 2007.

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For Robert Macklin in the Canberra Times, it all signalled the disturbing transformation of media figures into ‘participants in the game’. 81

Playing the media game differently

One interesting feature of the Rudd campaign was the strategy of using popular, well-frequented media in preference to the established media news outlets—Nine’s ‘Sunday’, interviews with Laurie Oakes, or the Ten Network’s Rove programme for example. Figures prepared by Media Monitors indicated that Rudd strongly favoured ‘top 40’-style FM stations, such as Nova FM, and Fox FM. This put some journalists off-side, notably Barrie Cassidy, who was clearly frustrated by the Labor leader’s failure to appear on the ABC Sunday programme, ‘Insiders’. A week before polling day he complained that:

The strategy is to avoid as many as possible of the longer, considered interviews that he can … Compare that to [John] Howard's approach; he will always do those interviews. Perhaps it is a sign of his maturity and Kevin Rudd’s lack of experience. 82

To another journalist, however, the Opposition leader’s tactics were sound. Rudd was able in this way to reach many Australians who might not normally be within reach of politicians through the mainstream news media.83

The use of new media

Early in the campaign there was much interest in the Prime Minister’s use of YouTube for the announcement of policy, with speculation that the use of such new media might be an important feature of the election. However, in the aftermath of the election some Liberal Party members were of the view that Howard’s use of YouTube may have actually hurt the party, due to the stilted way it was used.84 In fact, relatively little was heard of this as the campaign

progressed and it is impossible to estimate if it had any effect at all. Certainly, there was far less apparent use than in the US presidential election primary contests being fought at the same time as the Australian campaign.

There was some speculation that the difficulty for the parties was their tendency to use the Internet as if it was an extension of television, with the same static, apparently inflexible, performance by the politician that is so familiar to television viewers.85 There was also a tendency for politicians to post material online, but not to allow or tolerate feedback from readers of the material. Professor Jim Macnamara of University of Technology Sydney (UTS)

81. Robert Macklin, ‘Our new media: the journalist as political player’, Canberra Times, 10 November 2007; see also Laura Tingle, quoted on ABC ‘4 Corners’, 12 November 2007.

82. Samantha Maiden, ‘Spurned TV host urges Rudd war’, news.com.au, 17 November 2007, http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22771423-5012863,00.html, accessed 7 April 2008.

83. Matthew Franklin, ‘Rudd grabs air supremacy’, Australian, 25 October 2007.

84. Josh Gordon, ‘Libs look to net to get party restarted’, Sunday Age, 6 April 2008.

85. See for example, Liberal Party of Australia, http://youtube.com/watch?v=-W90bfVeNhY, posted on 14 October 2008, accessed on 1 February 2008.

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reported that Malcolm Turnbull was the only Commonwealth MP to provide a modern level of interactivity, being prepared to tolerate negative responses and to engage in dialogue with critics.86 In addition, there was little or no effort to copy the overseas experience that tends to

make humour a major feature of political advertising. This does not mean that humour was absent, but it was the material put online by lobby groups, rather than the parties, that attempted a humorous take on the election contest. An example was GetUp ridiculing the

Government’s efforts in regard to climate change: ‘We’re making a commitment not to make any commitment [on climate change]’, or ‘Creating an ad campaign to make the government look cleaner? I can do that!’87

The Australian Centre for Public Communication at UTS reported that most candidates either did not use the Internet at all, or else used it in a very limited way. Within four days of polling day, one-third of Commonwealth MPs had not created a personal website, 90 per cent did not have a MySpace page and only a handful (6.6 per cent) had a blog. Fewer than six per cent had a Facebook site, a podcast or had posted a least one video on YouTube.88 It was also noted that the most successful and innovative postings were those of bloggers and election commentators, such as Antony Green of the ABC.89 All of which suggests that use of the Net by politicians has some distance to go before it is a major influence on electoral outcomes in Australia.

One interesting report that showed the potential difficulties for politicians who were used to certain types of media, concerned the Liberal member for Corangamite, Stewart McArthur. The MP complained about an incorrect profile about himself which had been posted on the

MySpace site by people he labelled ‘anonymous keyboard cowards’. McArthur wrote to the Australian Electoral Commission to complain that there was no official authorisation for what was written, as required by electoral law:

The Internet can provide positive opportunities for direct political communication between the public and their representatives but site operators must exercise a duty of care. 90

McArthur’s Labor opponent wondered if the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 actually covered issues involving new media.91

86. ‘Internet not yet a force for pollies’, AAP News, 1 February 2008.

87. GetUpAustralia, http://youtube.com/watch?v=-W90bfVeNhY, posted on 24 September 2008, accessed on 1 February 2008.

88. ‘Internet not yet a force for pollies’, op.cit. For an overview of the Internet and the election, see Edgar Crook, ‘The 2007 Australian Federal Election on the Internet’, National Library of Australia, http://www.nla.gov.au/nla/staffpaper/2007/documents/Election2007.pdf, accessed on 4 February 2008.

89. Jason Wilson, Barry Saunders and Axel Bruns, ‘Club Bloggery pt 8: scoring the e-election’, http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/11/23/2098738.htm, accessed on 4 February 2008.

90. Rachel Rodger, ‘McArthur continues fight with MySpace’, Colac Herald, 20 August 2007.

91. Jeff Whalley, ‘Internet stand-off’, Geelong Advertiser, 21 August 2007.

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The House of Representatives result

Significant aspects of the result included:

• The Labor Party won office with a total of 83 of the 150 House of Representatives seats,

an increase of 23 on its 2004 total. It lost two seats, both in Western Australia. Despite a first preference gain of 5.7 per cent, the party’s national vote of 43.4 per cent was 1.5 per cent lower than its vote in the 1993 election under the leadership of Paul Keating, and was ahead of only its 1990 victory as the party’s second-lowest winning vote since Federation. It was Labor’s first vote above 40 per cent in four elections.

• In winning, Labor had achieved the ‘wall-to-wall Labor governments’ referred to earlier,

for the first time. In the days before the two territories had gained self-government, between May 1969 and June 1970 the Liberal and Country Parties shared in different governments in all six states and at the Commonwealth level.

• The Liberal Party’s total of 55 seats was 19 less than it won in 2004, with its first

preference vote of 36.3 per cent being a drop of 4.2 per cent. Overall, though, the vote was just below its average vote of 37.3 per cent during 1996-2004. In only two elections since 1975 have the Liberals topped 40 per cent (1975, 2004).

• With a vote of 5.5 per cent and only ten seats won, a nett fall of two seats, the Nationals’

House of Representatives position is now the party’s weakest since 1943. The last four elections have seen their vote positioned in the narrow range of 5.3-5.9 per cent. Although their vote rose marginally in their flagship state of Queensland (+0.3 per cent), their vote of 10.1 per cent in that state was well behind their best-ever vote of 31.7 per cent achieved in 1984.

• Several ministers lost their seats, including Prime Minister John Howard (Bennelong,

NSW), Minister for Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, Mal Brough (Longman, Qld), Minister for Local Government, Territories and Roads, Jim Lloyd (Robertson, NSW), and Special Minister of State, Gary Nairn (Eden-Monaro, NSW).

• The Prime Minister’s loss of his seat was the second occasion when such an event has

occurred. In 1929, Prime Minister Bruce (Nationalist) lost his seat of Flinders to the prominent trade unionist, Ted Holloway.

• Other office-holders to lose their seats included Assistant Minister for Immigration and

Citizenship, Teresa Gambaro (Petrie, Qld), and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Transport and Regional Services, De-Anne Kelly (Dawson, Qld).

• On 3 December 2007, Kevin Rudd (Griffith, Qld) became the 10 th Australian Labor Party

leader to become Prime Minister. He was the third Queenslander to assume the office after Andrew Fisher (ALP, 1908-09, 1910-13, 1914-15) and Frank Forde (ALP, 1945).

• On the same day, Labor’s Deputy Leader, Julia Gillard (Lalor, Vic), became Australia’s

first female Deputy Prime Minister.

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States and Territories

Seats changed hands in all jurisdictions except the ACT. Only in Tasmania did Labor’s first preference vote fall (-1.8 per cent).

In NSW seven seats were lost to Labor by the Liberal Party and one was lost by the Nationals. Labor’s 28 of the state’s 49 seats is a return to the type of share it enjoyed in the Hawke-Keating years. The Labor first preference vote (44.1 per cent) was its best return since 1993, though 4.2 per cent lower than in that year. The Liberal vote of 32.6 per cent was close to its average of all elections since 1990 (32.5 per cent), while the Nationals’ vote fell by 1.3 per cent. The Liberal Party’s 15 seats was its lowest return since 1993, while the Nationals’ five seats was that party’s poorest-ever return. The Green vote fell slightly (-0.2 per cent).

Labor’s vote of 44.7 per cent in Victoria was its highest since 1993. Two seats were won from the Liberal Party and its 21 seats were its highest tally since 1987. The Liberal vote (38.1 per cent) fell by 5.2 per cent—only in South Australia was its fall greater—and its 14 seats were, not surprisingly, its lowest return since 1987. For the last four elections the Nationals’ vote has been below four per cent. As in New South Wales, the Greens would have been disappointed with a minimal rise in their vote (+0.7 per cent).

The Liberal Queensland strength that emerged with the first Howard victory, and had been sustained since, largely dissipated, with seven seats lost to Labor. With the loss of the seat of Dawson, the Nationals’ return of three seats is the rural party’s lowest since the 1946 election. Labor’s modest vote was only 42.9 per cent, yet this gave the party its largest vote increase in any jurisdiction (8.1 per cent), was its highest vote in the state since 1987, and its first vote above 40 per cent in five elections. In winning 15 seats it equalled its 1990 tally, though there were five more Queensland House of Representatives seats being contested than in that year. To retain office at the next election, Labor probably has most to gain in this state, where three of the five most marginal Coalition seats are to be found. The Green vote of 5.6 per cent (+0.6 per cent) was the party’s poorest effort anywhere in Australia.

As indicated in the polls before and during the campaign, Western Australia proved to be much tougher for Labor than all other states. Labor’s 36.8 per cent (+2.1 per cent) was its poorest performance, being six per cent behind its next highest vote, in Tasmania. Labor regained Hasluck, which it held between 2001 and 2004, with the help of Green preferences, but lost Cowan and Swan, both held since 1998. Despite the Greens winning a healthy 8.9 per cent, the Liberal Party’s hold on most of its seats was sufficiently strong for the Green vote to be less of a factor in this state than in most.

Labor’s vote in South Australia rose to 43.2 per cent (+6.4 per cent), exceeding 40 per cent for the first time since the 1987 election. It now holds a majority of the state’s 11 seats and leads the Liberal vote for the first time since the same election. The Liberal vote fell by 5.6 per cent, though is only 1.4 per cent below that for the ALP. It is, however, the lowest vote by the party since the 1974 election and it holds its smallest proportion of South Australian seats since 1987. The Green vote rose by 1.5 per cent.

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Both major parties’ votes fell in Tasmania, with Labor’s 42.8 per cent being its poorest effort since 1990. The Liberal’s 38.2 per cent was a fall of 3.8 per cent. One might speculate that the Tamar pulp mill issue hurt both, for the Green vote climbed 3.6 per cent to 13.5 per cent, the party’s highest state vote on record, eclipsing the 9.9 per cent gained in the state in the previous election. In Bass, the electorate wherein the mill was to be located, the Green vote reached 15.3 per cent, a climb of 7.2 per cent.

In each of the two ACT seats Labor received 51.1 per cent, 17.9 per cent ahead of the Liberals’ average figure. The most notable result was the Green vote of 13.2 per cent (+2.4 per cent) which, with the high vote in 2004, was presumably a consequence of the strong Senate campaigns run by the Greens in both years (see below).

The Greens played an important role in the Northern Territory, where a strong showing in Solomon (9.1 per cent) helped the Labor Party win the seat by fewer than 200 votes. Labor’s territory-wide vote was its highest since 1998. The Country Liberal Party vote fell by 2.8 per cent.

Local contests

Bennelong (NSW)

In 2007, the electorate of Bennelong was very different from when it was won by John Howard in 1974. On the one hand, redistributions over the years had gradually made it less safe for the Liberal Party. In the 1970s, such well-to-do suburbs as Hunters Hill, Wollstonecraft and Crows Nest, were an integral part of the electorate, but over the years Bennelong’s boundaries had been moved north and west to include voters far less supportive of the Prime Minister. The 2005-06 redistribution continued the shift, with psephologist Malcolm Mackerras suggesting as early as July 2006 that Howard might not be able to retain the electorate.92 A second significant change was that Bennelong had become one of 25 electorates in which at least one-quarter of the population spoke a non-English language at home. Labor held 24 of these electorates. Today, of all Bennelong residents, 42 per cent have English as a second language.93 None of this seemed likely to help the Prime Minister’s chances, something the ALP appreciated with its nomination of prominent journalist, Maxine McKew as its candidate. McKew campaigned hard for many months, and an indication of the pressure Howard was under was the regularity of his campaign appearances in the electorate. He even held a community forum to invite voters’ questions.

In the event, the result was close, but decisive. The Liberal vote fell by 4.1 per cent, while Labor’s vote rose by 16.2 per cent.94 Although Howard was ahead of McKew on first

92. Margot Saville, The Battle for Bennelong. The Adventures of Maxine McKew, aged 50something, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2007, pp. 34-5; Malcolm Mackerras, ‘New federal boundaries will weaken Howard’s grip, Canberra Times, 25 July 2006.

93. Dean Jaensch, ‘Post-election analysis uncovers new truths’, Advertiser, 23 January 2008.

94. In 2004 the Labor vote was unusually low due to the nomination for the Greens of prominent Iraq war opponent, Andrew Wilkie.

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preferences, and still led after the penultimate count, 75.4 per cent of Green preferences pushed McKew ahead by 2434 votes (two-party preferred margin 2.8 per cent).

Bonner, Bowman and Moreton (all Qld)

In March 2007, the offices of the Liberal members for Bonner (Ross Vasta), Bowman (Andrew Laming) and Moreton (Gary Hardgrave) were entered by Australian Federal Police in relation to alleged misuse of their electorate allowances. The offices of a printing firm and a graphic artist were also entered. The MPs denied any wrongdoing but, unfortunately for the three men, the issue took quite a time to be settled. After a six-month investigation by the Australian Federal Police, it was announced in September that Hardgrave and Vasta were cleared of any suspicion in the matter. Several weeks later Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions announced that there was insufficient evidence for a reasonable chance of securing a conviction against Laming. Irrespective of this, journalists speculated that these three seats might well be lost, with these events playing a significant part in such an outcome.

Vasta (-2.2 per cent, first preferences) and Hardgrave (-5.4 per cent) were defeated in the election; Laming (-4.3 per cent) was returned by 64 votes, after the distribution of preferences. The average first preference figure for the three was 43.5 per cent, or an average fall of -3.9 per cent. By contrast, the Liberal statewide first preference vote was 34.4 per cent, which represented a fall of 5.0 per cent, with some candidates experiencing a double digit fall. With their party doing so poorly across Queensland, it is difficult to claim that the ‘electorate allowances’ issue was a key factor in the defeat of these two MPs, particularly as Hardgrave had the extra burden of an unhelpful redistribution that had given him a narrow margin of less than three per cent.

Boothby (SA)

The Labor Party’s 2007 campaign featured an unusual number of what the press called ‘celebrity’ candidates: Bill Shorten in Maribyrnong, Major Mike Kelly in Eden-Monaro and Greg Combet in Charlton, for example. In the southern Adelaide seat of Boothby, Labor nominated Nicole Cornes, Sunday Mail columnist, described in the press as ‘glamorous’, and wife of a South Australian ‘football legend’. Cornes was quoted as saying that she had ‘voted for John Howard in the past’, but that it was ‘time for a change.’ She also stated that ‘when you read in the newspapers about what is going on in the world you start to form opinions’. To Kevin Rudd, Cornes was ‘South Australian through and through’, as well as being ‘bright’ and ‘articulate’.95

Unfortunately for Cornes and her party, she began to have campaign problems, many of her own making. The ‘detail-challenged’ candidate confused Labor’s industrial relations policy with WorkChoices, she refused an ABC interview because she was ‘not prepared for anything heavy’, and when questioned on her party’s industrial relations policy responded: ‘What is it that people don’t get? Is it specific policy details? We can all go to a website and do that.’ She received front-page coverage when she turned heads with her revealing dress worn to the farewell Government House dinner for the Governor and polls suggested that many female

95. Brad Crouch, ‘Labor finds its secret weapon’, Sunday Mail, 29 April 2007.

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voters did not respond well to her. In addition, some Labor Party members were said to be unhappy with her preselection, due to her having attacked Labor values in her newspaper column. As Cornes’ joint campaign manager noted, ‘she was an easy target’.96

Cornes did not win the seat, and Labor’s first preference vote fell by 1.7 per cent, trailing 12 per cent behind the sitting member’s effort. Boothby was the only South Australian seat where there was a drop in Labor’s first preference vote.

Corangamite (Vic)

Many electorates can change over time, so that they become safer or more marginal for a particular party—as in the case of Bennelong. This can be brought about by redistribution of boundaries; it can also be affected by population changes within the existing boundaries. In the case of Corangamite, originally a wholly-rural seat held by conservative parties for all but five years since Federation, change came about largely as a consequence of the physical growth of Geelong, combined with the arrival of ‘sea-changers’ on the Bellarine Peninsula.

The Liberal sitting member, Stewart McArthur, won Corangamite in 1984, and in the five elections 1984-96 averaged a first preference vote of 51.5 per cent. In the elections of 1998- 2004 this fell to 48.5 per cent, though the 2004 contest saw him winning on first preferences once again. By the time of the 2007 election Corangamite was being described as a ‘mortgage belt’ seat, ripe for plucking by the Labor Party, which signified its hopes by the announcement of a marked increase in proposed campaign spending in the electorate. Despite McArthur criticising his challenger, Darren Cheeseman, as a Ballarat-residing union official rather than a local, Labor gained enough first preferences (41.9 per cent) to be within three per cent of the sitting member, and be able to win narrowly on the back of Green preferences. Cheeseman is the first ALP member for Corangamite since 1931. McArthur blamed the media for the result, claiming that it did not give Kevin Rudd the same harsh treatment it handed out to the Prime Minister.97

Corio (Vic)

In Victoria various Labor candidates lost pre-selection to prominent party newcomers. Gavan O’Connor, sitting member for Corio since 1993, lost pre-selection to ACTU assistant secretary, Richard Marles, Australian Workers Union secretary, Bill Shorten, defeated Bob Sercombe, member for Maribyrnong since 1996 and Ann Corcoran, sitting member for Isaacs since 2000, was defeated by prominent Melbourne lawyer, Mark Dreyfus.

Unlike Sercombe and Corcoran, who publicly accepted their loss of pre-selection, O’Connor attacked what he described as Labor’s ‘rampant branch-stacking, rorting of democratic process, illicit fund-raising, money laundering and grubby backyard deals’ and nominated as

96. John Wiseman, ‘Candidate confused on party policy, but “no one’s perfect”’, Australian, 28 September 2007; ‘Nic dressed to kill female vote’, Advertiser, 17 July 2007; ‘Mark Kenny, ‘Women voters shun Cornes’, Advertiser, 26 September 2007; Jamie Walker and Andrew Faulkner, ‘“No fair go” for Boothby loser’, Australian, 25 February 2008.

97. ‘Tough losing to an out-of-towner’, Herald Sun, 26 November 2007.

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an independent candidate. Labor’s margin was 5.7 per cent and was therefore close enough to concern the party, though publicly it expressed confidence that the seat would be retained. More concerning was the Liberal Party’s use of these events to illustrate the danger of unions exerting undue influence over Labor.98 In the event, Labor fears of the possible harm done to the party’s chances of retaining a seat it had held since 1967, were off the mark. In fact, O’Connor’s main impact seems to have been to strip votes from the Liberals rather than the ALP. He received 12.7 per cent of the vote, with Labor’s vote falling by only 1.2 per cent to 45.5 per cent, and the Liberal vote tumbling by 10.7 per cent to just 29.6 per cent. Labor retained Corio with ease, aided by 52 per cent of O’Connor’s preferences.

Forde (Qld)

In 1996, the Liberals’ Kay Elson won Forde, in a semi-rural area south of Brisbane, with a first preference vote of 40.8 per cent. After having her vote increase in each following election to reach 54.8 per cent in 2004, the undefeated 60 year-old chose not to re-contest in 2007. With the help of a redistribution, Elson had left her seat in good shape, for the ALP would need to achieve an 11.5 per cent two-party preferred swing to win seat.

The Liberal candidate, Wendy Creighton, not only faced the Labor Party’s Brett Raguse, but also a Nationals candidate, Hajnal Ban—none of Elson’s victories had involved a three-cornered contest. All was apparently not well with Creighton’s campaign efforts, for there were soon reports of local Liberals being so dismayed by their candidate that they were said to have ‘abandoned’ her and to be focussing their efforts on assisting her Nationals opponent. There were suggestions that this followed instructions from the Liberal Party’s national headquarters.99 Creighton’s eventual vote of 34 per cent was a drop of 19.1 per cent in Liberal first preferences, but the combined Coalition first preference vote still topped that for the ALP by 1.8 per cent. However, Creighton was unable to lever a Liberal win, with Labor scoring a large two-party preferred swing of 14.4 per cent—which included a ‘leakage’ of Nationals’ preferences of 28.4 per cent.

Greenway and Macquarie (both NSW)

In the 2005-06 redistribution of NSW electorates there was some local unhappiness at various changes. One was the Redistribution Committee’s proposal to push Macquarie past its traditional Blue Mountains border so as to place west of the Great Dividing Range towns like Lithgow, Oberon and Bathurst into what had been a Blue Mountains seat. There also was dismay that the five historic ‘Macquarie towns’ of Richmond, Windsor, Pitt Town, Wilberforce and Castlereagh were all being moved east into the seat of Greenway. Objections to the proposed changes to Macquarie were not accepted by the Redistribution Committee. The outcome was that Macquarie seemed far less safe for its Liberal sitting member and Greenway much safer for its Liberal MP.

The outcome in the two seats was as generally predicted. Despite a 5.1 per cent loss of Liberal votes, Louise Markus was re-elected for Greenway on first preferences; in 2004 her

98. Paul Austin, ‘In Victoria, a safe seat just ain’t what it used to be’, Age, 22 October 2007.

99. Michael McKenna, ‘Libs lose faith and turn to Nats’, Australian, 21 November 2007.

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first preference vote had been less than 44 per cent. In the previous election, Kerry Bartlett had won Macquarie with over 53 per cent of first preferences. In 2007, the Liberal first preference vote in Bartlett’s redistributed electorate rose by 4.9 per cent, but was still only 37.8 per cent. Bartlett lost to former NSW Attorney-General, Bob Debus, by more than 12 000 votes after the distribution of preferences. Clearly, the redistribution had altered the political makeup of these two electorates.

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Lindsay (NSW)

A few days before the election it was revealed that the husband of the retiring Liberal MP for Lindsay (NSW), Jackie Kelly, together with the husband of the new Liberal candidate, had distributed a document purporting to come from a fictitious body, the ‘Islamic Australia Foundation’. The document asked recipients to vote ALP and thanked Labor for its support ‘to forgive our Muslim brothers who have been unjustly sentenced to death for the Bali bombing’. It also thanked the party for its support over the building of a controversial mosque in the area. The press was critical of these events that later became subject to court proceedings.100

Lindsay duly was lost to Labor which enjoyed a first preference swing of 11.7 per cent, one of the largest in the state. This may have been partly due to the retirement of the popular sitting member, Jackie Kelly, combined with the fact that the electorate was vulnerable due to the high level of exposure of many of its residents to financial stress.101 However, it seems likely that these last-minute events sealed the loss of the seat by the Liberal Party and played

a part in giving the Labor Party its first vote in excess of 50 per cent in Lindsay since 1993. It was a remarkable instance of a party losing momentary control over a local campaign in a way that may have sealed the defeat of its candidate.

Longman (Qld)

The electorate of Longman, centring on the Caboolture and Bribie Island region of Queensland, had been held for the Liberals by Mal Brough since 1996. He had retained the seat in 2004 with a 51.9 first preference vote, but the seat had been made less secure in the 2006 redistribution, giving it a two-party preferred margin of 6.7 per cent. In 2007 despite Brough being opposed by Jon Sullivan, a Queensland MLA between 1989 and 1998, the media consensus was that the sitting member’s chances of re-election were good. Brough clearly was not so certain, for there was speculation that he might seek to push Peter Slipper out of the nearby electorate of Fairfax.102

In the event, Brough’s public standing seemed to be irrelevant to the result, for he lost Longman after a first preference drop of 7.3 per cent and a two-party preferred shift of -10.3 per cent. However, Longman was just one of a number of Liberal seats in the immediate north and west of Brisbane which were held by seemingly-competent sitting members and in

100. Nicholas Stuart, What Goes Up. Behind the 2007 election, Scribe Publications, Melbourne, 2007, Prologue.

101. Mark Davis, ‘Hip pocket could swing western voters’, Sydney Morning Herald, 2 October 2007.

102. Paul Williams, ‘Moving the party goalposts’, Courier Mail, 30 September 2006.

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which the party vote fell quite substantially.103 The figures in Table 1 suggest that Brough was swept out by circumstances in which his personal standing was largely irrelevant.

Table 1: Liberal votes in near-Brisbane electorates

Electorate First preferences (%) +/- 2PP (%) +/-

Longman 43.8 -7.3 46.4 -10.3

Petrie 44.9 -7.4 48.0 -9.5

Blair 42.2 -5.2 45.5 -10.2

Dickson 46.2 -6.7 50.1 -8.8

Fisher 44.1 -10.1 53.1 -7.9

Fairfax 46.8 -6.9 53.0 -9.4

Source: Australian Electoral Commission

McEwen (Vic)

The result in McEwen fluctuated during the counting. After leading on first preferences by 5.3 per cent, the Liberal sitting member, Minister for Small Business and Tourism Fran Bailey, lost by seven votes after the distribution of preferences. Bailey’s party challenged the result and after a recount she was confirmed as the winner by 12 votes. However, Labor’s national secretary claimed that the Australian Electoral Commission had wrongly excluded votes that the Labor Party had believed to be valid.

On 29 January 2008 it was announced that the defeated Labor candidate, Rob Mitchell, had filed a petition with the High Court as the Court of Disputed Returns, challenging the final result. The plaintiff was concerned with the way in which 643 ballot papers had been treated during the count. On 21 February 2008, Crennan J of the High Court decided that in the first instance the issue should be remitted to the Federal Court of Australia. Crennan noted the difficult matter in which neither the plaintive nor the defendant might have access to the 643 ballot papers that were in dispute. At the time of writing the Federal Court of Australia has set down 1 May 2008 as the day for a directions hearing of the matter.104

Wentworth (NSW)

In 2004, Malcolm Turnbull won Liberal pre-selection for Wentworth from the sitting member, Peter King, who then contested the election as an independent. Turnbull took the

103. The seats of Longman, Petrie and Blair were lost; Dickson, Fisher and Fairfax were narrowly retained. To the south of the capital, Forde was also lost, but in this case, referred to above, there were different circumstances, including the retirement of the sitting member.

104. The closest result in any House of Representatives contest has been Nationalist MP Edwin Kerby’s one vote margin in Ballarat (Vic) in 1919. In 1903, Robert Blackwood (Free Trade) led in Riverina (NSW) by five votes. Both results were voided, causing by-elections to be held, with Kerby and Blackwood both being defeated. The closest margin allowed to stand was that of seven votes, when John Lynch (ALP) was victorious in Werriwa (NSW) in 1914. A 1939 by-election in Griffith (Qld) saw William Conelan (ALP) win by eight votes. In more recent times, Ian Viner (Lib) won Stirling (WA) by 12 votes in 1974, and Chris Gallus (Lib) won Hawker (SA) by 14 votes in 1990.

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seat with a first preference vote of 41.8 per cent and a majority of King’s preferences. The 2005-06 NSW redistribution seemed to have made the seat much more marginal than it had been, giving Turnbull a margin prior to the 2007 election of barely 2.5 per cent.

In 2007, the sitting member had ten opponents, including an apparently stronger Labor opponent in George Newhouse, Mayor of Waverley, a prominent member of the local Jewish community. The contest was confused by a number of potentially-important factors. Wentworth was said to have a strong environmental community and the vocal Australian Green campaign was supported by prominent businessman turned environmentalist, Geoff Cousins. The major party candidates were both aware of the relatively large gay community in the electorate, many of whom had been residents in the adjacent seat of Sydney prior to the redistribution. Newhouse was opposed by his former partner, who nominated as an independent, but more significantly, there were suggestions that he had not resigned from several government appointments at the time of his nomination as a candidate. His nomination was therefore possibly invalid. Newhouse handled questions on the issue very awkwardly and without much conviction. In the end, despite a fall in the Liberal vote across the nation, Turnbull won on first preferences with 50.4 per cent, only 1.7 per cent fewer than King’s vote in the 2001 election.

The Senate—in whose hands?

The setting

After the 2004 election, the Coalition’s 39 Senate seats gave it control over the upper house, the first time this had been achieved since 1981. However, the nett loss of a single seat in 2007 would see this relinquished. As the election drew closer, polls suggested that a fall in support for the Coalition, combined with the strong likelihood that in Tasmania, at least, Labor and the Greens would win four of that state’s seats, would strip control from the Coalition.

By contrast, Labor had no realistic chance of gaining control of the Senate. If it were to win government, the best Senate result that it could achieve was three seats from each state and one from each territory. The party would not achieve the statewide vote of 57.1 per cent needed to win four of a state’s six seats, let alone the two-thirds vote to win both of a territory’s two seats. Consequently, the best that an incoming Labor Government could hope for was to hold 34 seats in the post July-2008 Senate—five short of an absolute majority. Even this seemed unlikely, however, for polls suggested that the party might have difficulty in winning three seats in Western Australia.

There is a certain predictability to Senate contests, but in 2007 several developments made the contest and outcome more interesting than usual.

In South Australia, the unexpected nomination of poker machine opponent, Nick Xenophon, produced speculation about a likely increase in the minor party vote in that state. Xenophon had won a Legislative Council seat in 1997 and had easily been re-elected in 2006 on a 20.5 per cent group vote. With the Australian Greens optimistic of winning a seat, the Australian Democrats clinging on to their Senate membership in the state that had been kindest to them

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and Family First hopeful of performing well, it seemed that the battle for each of the major parties would be to manage to win a third seat.

In Victoria, Australian Democrats leader, Senator Lyn Allison, seemed likely to be defeated. By contrast, the Australian Greens were confident that their ticket, headed by Richard di Natale, twice narrowly beaten for a Legislative Assembly seat, would be successful. It was felt that the Greens’ statewide vote of ten per cent in the 2006 state election would be the base upon which the state’s first Green senator would be elected. However, it seemed unlikely that both the Australian Democrats and the Greens would win a seat.

In 2004 Family First had surprised by winning its only Senate seat in Victoria and the party was keen to repeat the feat. Although this seemed improbable, Family First preferences might be very important in the final result.

In Queensland, the Coalition had unexpectedly won four seats in 2004, thanks to the strong effort of the separate Liberal ticket.105 With a joint Coalition ticket being run in 2007 it was very unlikely that this could be repeated, even if a healthy parcel of preferences was to be gained from the other parties. At the same time, the Greens’ optimism about winning the party’s first Queensland Senate seat was strong. A possible wild card was the nomination of former One Nation leader, Pauline Hanson as leader of ‘Pauline’s United Australia Party’, the official abbreviation of which ‘Pauline’.

The position in the ACT was also of great interest. Territory senators take up their seats immediately the Parliament resumes after an election, unlike state senators whose terms begin on 1 July following the election. Advertisements calling on voters to ‘Save Our Senate’ began to appear in Canberra. Greens leader Bob Brown, Democrats leader Lyn Allison and ACT Labor senator Kate Lundy called on voters to support one of their candidates in order to remove control of the upper house from the Coalition from the beginning of the new parliament: ‘it’s time to restore the balance in our house of review’. This unusual joint call was aided by the grassroots political movement GetUp, which apparently paid for the advertisements.106 If the Liberals lost the seat, it was likely to be won by former Greens MLA, Kerrie Tucker. She had led a Green Senate ticket in 2004, which gained 16.4 per cent of the vote, or virtually half a quota.

Senate results

The major parties won 18 Senate seats each which meant that the Coalition will lose control of the upper house after 1 July 2008. Despite the large number of minor party candidates, and the success of four of these in winning seats, the major party share of the vote (80.3 per cent) remained remarkably stable, showing a fall of just 0.2 per cent.

Labor’s 40.3 per cent was its highest national Senate vote since 1993, and the only time the party has topped 40 per cent in the past five elections. Its performance was only moderate, however, for in each of Western Australia and South Australia it failed to win three seats.

105. Bennett, Newman and Kopras, ‘Commonwealth Election 2004’, op. cit., p. 29.

106. Jason Koutsoukis, ‘Three parties unite to “save our Senate”’, Age, 28 October 2007.

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The Coalition vote of 39.9 per cent was its fifth-lowest since 1949, and only its second sub-40 per cent return since the election of 1984. It failed to win three seats in South Australia and Tasmania.

The Australian Greens won their first seat in South Australia and that, together with a seat won in each of Western Australia and Tasmania, gave the party five seats in the new Senate, it highest-ever figure. Victoria and Queensland are the states yet to send a Green to the national upper house. Nick Xenophon won a South Australian seat. He and Bob Brown, both won their seats on the first count, a relatively unusual outcome for minor party candidates. The failure of the Labor and Liberal Parties each to win a third seat in South Australia was only the second time that both major teams have failed to win a third seat in a particular state; the first occasion had been in Queensland in 1998.

Since the ACT and the Northern Territory gained two senators in 1974, the Labor and major non-Labor party have always shared each territory’s two seats. This continued in the 2007 election, for the ‘Save Our Senate’ campaign, referred to above, failed to strip Liberal Senator Gary Humphries of his ACT seat. The ACT Greens gained a respectable 21.5 per cent of first preferences (+5.1 per cent), but both major party candidates achieved the quota of 33.3 per cent on the first count.

The Australian Democrat national vote was 1.3 per cent, with its highest state return being 1.9 per cent in Queensland. No candidate was elected. Andrew Murray (WA) and Natasha Stott Despoja (SA) had announced they would not recontest; Lyn Allison (Vic) and Andrew Bartlett (Qld) were both defeated. As no party member had been elected in 2004, this means that the party will have no presence in the parliament for the first time since gaining two Senate places in the 1977 election.

After the new Senate members have taken their seats on 1 July 2008, the Coalition parties will have 37 seats, Labor will have 32, the Australian Greens tally will be five, Family First will have one and there will be one independent. The Government will therefore need the support of all non-Coalition senators to be certain of the passage of legislation.

Some factors in the election outcome

Leadership

John Howard (and Peter Costello)

Speculation about the Liberal leadership was an awkward burden that the Coalition Government carried through most of the final Howard term. Journalists asked the Prime Minister many times about his future, to which he would respond along the lines of: ‘I will remain leader of the Liberal Party as long as my party wants me to and it’s in the party’s best interests that I do so’.107 In July 2006, it was reported that in 1994 a former Howard Government Minister had ‘witnessed a leadership deal’ between Peter Costello and Howard.

107. For example, see Malcolm Farr, ‘PM not ready to give up job’, Mercury, 17 May 2006, Kerry-Anne Walsh, ‘In full truth, it’s yadda yadda yadda to the nth degree’, Sun-Herald, 16 July 2006.

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Costello was said to have agreed that he would not contest the leadership at that time were Howard to nominate once more, but was said to have been guaranteed a chance to lead the Liberals when the older man retired halfway through his second term.108 Although the Prime Minister later denied that any such deal had been struck, there was enough press speculation throughout his final term for the issue to become an unfortunate distraction from the battle to retain office.

With opinion polls in mid-July 2007 indicating a marked drop in the Government’s standing, the press reported that Howard had confronted his Cabinet colleagues with the question, ‘Is it me?’—with the implied question of whether or not he should remain in office. Two months later the public learned of soundings having been taken by the Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer, in September 2007, on the question of whether or not Howard should remain in office. When Downer reported that a majority of Cabinet preferred that he step aside for Costello, the Prime Minister chose to remain, reportedly after discussions with his family. On 12 September, Howard told radio 2GB that at a Liberal party meeting there had been ‘absolutely no evidence … of any desire on the part of the party for any change in the current leadership team’.109 Despite this, the Prime Minister unexpectedly announced on the ABC’s ‘7.30 Report’ on the same day, that he would be retiring during the next term if his government was re-elected:

… what I’m saying to the Australian people is I want to be re-elected, there are a lot of things I want to do for them. But well into my term, I would come to the conclusion that it would be in the best interests of everybody if I retired, and in those circumstances, I would expect Peter to take over, but that would be a matter for the Party. Now, that is the honest truth, and I think most of your viewers believe it would be the case.

With Howard thus remaining in his position for the election, there was now much more of an effort made by the Liberal Party to present a picture of a united leadership team. When the Party’s website altered its front page by replacing a photograph of Howard with one of Howard and Costello, it caused one journalist to speak of there being ‘a genuine two-faced Liberal leader, the Howard-Costello model’.110 In addition, journalists noted the awkward relationship of the two men when participating in a joint television interview, reminiscent of that given by Prime Minister Bob Hawke and Paul Keating at a time of similar leadership tensions. Daily Telegraph cartoonist, Warren Brown, pictured two dolls for sale: ‘Prime Minister. Elect one get one free’.111 It was all an unnecessary distraction, which cannot have helped the Government’s re-election chances, particularly as it produced headlines suggesting that the leadership ‘team’ was anything but united. Many in the Coalition were dismayed

108. Wayne Errington and Peter Van Onselen, John Winston Howard, Melbourne University Press, 2007, pp. 384-7.

109. ‘Australian PM plans to retire after elections’, USA Today, 12 September 2007, http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-09-12-australian-pm_N.htm, accessed on 14 February 2008.

110. Alan Ramsey, ‘PM bowled over by the bright side of life’, Sydney Morning Herald, 15 September 2007.

111. ‘Prime Minister. Elect one get one free’, cartoon, Daily Telegraph, 14 September 2007.

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when the eye-catching headline, ‘Pass baton to Costello’, headed an Australian piece by Janet Albrechtsen, one of the most significant of Howard-supporting journalists.112

The failure of the Prime Minister to leave office before the election has been described by his successor as a powerful factor in the Coalition’s defeat: ‘Eleven-and-a-half years in the modern era is an eternity to the everyday Australian’.113 Liberal Senator Helen Coonan believed ‘the boss stayed too long’.114

What might have been the electoral situation had Costello become Liberal Party leader and hence, Prime Minister?115 Although the replacement of Sir Charles Court by Ray O’Connor as Western Australian Premier in 1982, and Mike Ahern as Queensland Premier by Russell Cooper in 1989 did not result in the retention of government at the next election in each state, it was argued at the time that such moves gave their parties a greater chance than if no change had been made. The Costello case may have been the same. However, many of his colleagues were opposed to such a leadership change, primarily it seems, because they feared for their seats. In a Newspoll conducted in April 2006, Costello had barely headed Kim Beazley when respondents were asked who would make the better Prime Minister. In 2007, about one-third of respondents claimed they would be less likely to vote for the Coalition were Costello to replace Howard as Prime Minister. It was findings such as these that Liberal MPs who supported the Prime Minister were said to have used when opposing leadership change within the party. According to such partisans, it seemed clear that the Government’s best chance of re-election rested with Howard.116

There were at least two factors that could suggest that a change of leadership might have lessened the leadership problem for the Government. Costello was recognised favourably for his work as Treasurer and were he to have become Prime Minister, his standing in the polls would probably have improved at least in the short term. This is because a person in the job is likely to produce more favourable responses than if he is not. Kevin Rudd’s perceived suitability to serve as Leader of the Opposition jumped immediately he replaced Beazley, as had Mark Latham’s. The same might well have occurred for Costello. Alexander Downer appeared to concede this point when he was quoted as saying that appointment of the Treasurer to the Prime Ministership, ‘must at least give us chance [of retaining office]’.117 The second change of leadership factor related to the failure of Howard to make any impact once Rudd had become leader. It was argued by Costello supporters that their man could have broken the impasse and helped reduce Labor’s lead.

112. Janet Albrechtsen, ‘‘Pass baton to Costello’, Australian, 7 September 2007.

113. Andrew Fraser, ‘Howard’s end was overdue: Nelson’, Canberra Times, 29 January 2008.

114. Coonan quoted in Samantha Maiden, ‘Leader ignored advice of insiders’, Australian, 26 November 2007.

115. See, for example, Dennis Shanahan, ‘Pleas for PM to quit fell on deaf ears’, Australian, 1 December 2007; Glenn Milne, ‘High farce as “tired” PM neutered cabinet’, Australian, 10 December 2007.

116. Paul Kelly, ‘The defeat’, op. cit.

117. ibid.

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The Howard/Costello issue will remain one of the intriguing ‘what if’ questions of Australian politics of the early 21st century. It certainly allowed Labor ‘to grab ownership of the future’, as noted by Labor’s National Secretary, Tim Gartrell.118 The retirement of the Prime Minister would have lessened, if not removed, this advantage.

Kevin Rudd

The replacement of Kim Beazley with a relatively unknown leader, seemed to be the event that pushed Labor into the winning position that it held until polling day. This suggests that many voters had been looking for a non-Beazley alternative to the Prime Minister. Newspoll figures indicate how marked and sudden public acceptance of the change proved to be. The final poll of the Beazley term (24-26/11/2006) had the Coalition leading in first preferences,

41-39 per cent; the first poll of the Rudd term (8-12/1/2007) had the Coalition trailing 39-46 per cent. Table 2 provides these figures in more depth, comparing the average of the final ten Newspolls of the Beazley period with the first ten polls of the Rudd leadership:

Table 2: Party standings before and after the election of Kevin Rudd as leader (Newspoll)

First preference vote Two-party preferred vote

Coalition Labor Coalition Labor

28-30 July to 24-26 November 2006

41.8 40.1 48.8 51.2

8-12 December 2006 to 11-13 May 2007

37.4 47.9 43.0 57.0

Source: Newspoll

In addition, Rudd was ahead of Howard on the ‘preferred Prime Minister’ measure by mid-March. The accession of Rudd therefore made it seem much more likely that the Government could be defeated. But could the Opposition remain united and error-free for the 10-11 months that remained before the election was likely to be held? Sol Lebovic of Newspoll spoke of many voters, who had actually ‘parked’ their vote with Labor for the time being while they decided to watch its performance on the way to the election. Lebovic believed that the campaign would indicate whether or not such voters were satisfied by what they saw and heard.119

In fact, the final result was a confirmation of what had been clear from the advent of Rudd’s term as Labor leader, namely that enough swinging voters seemed to have been satisfied by the change, and remained so.120 Table 3 suggests that enough of Lebovic’s ‘parked voters’ remained with the challenger throughout the campaign to see Labor home, though the gap apparently had narrowed marginally by polling day. In fact, Newspoll findings suggested that perhaps as many as 53 per cent of voters had decided over half a year in advance how they would vote—and followed through on 24 November.121 This suggests that many voters had

118. John Lyons, ‘ALP’s ‘Operation Target Costello’, Australian, 23 November 2007.

119. Sol Lebovic, ‘History shows folly of writing off Howard’, Australian, 19 September 2007.

120. Williams, op. cit., p. 104.

121. Matthew Franklin, ‘ALP plan defeated Howard backlash’, Australian, 4 December 2007.

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been looking to shift their support from the Howard Government well before Kevin Rudd was chosen Labor leader. It also suggests that Labor’s campaign, which so often saw Rudd avoiding the typical ‘we’re right and they’re wrong’ stance of the past, was an important part of his party’s victory.

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Table 3: Party standings December 2006 - November 2007 (Newspoll)

First preference vote Two-party preferred vote

Coalition Labor Coalition Labor

Entire period 38.8 47.9 43.9 56.1

Last poll prior to election announcement 39.0 48.0 44.0 56.0

First poll after election announcement 38.0 51.0 42.0 58.0

Election 2007 42.1 43.4 47.3 52.7

Source: Newspoll

The 2007 election was therefore significant for its lack of volatility in the polls and its general air of predictability—despite the views of those observers who seemed to believe that the gap between the parties would eventually disappear.

The economy

Interest rates

There are two ‘economies’ that can be relevant to election outcomes. As noted earlier in this paper, when asked about the ‘big picture’—the national economy and the macroeconomic issues—the Coalition invariably was preferred in polling returns. When looking below the national level, however, the picture seemed to be different at the local/personal level for, as has been since noted, the Opposition picked up a number of seats from the Government where ‘mortgages mattered’. Here, it has been suggested, people in outer metropolitan areas, who had supported the Prime Minister in his 2004 promise to keep interest rates low, responded strongly against the rise in rates since that election, with the mid-campaign rise on 7 November biting hard.122 It was always likely to be difficult for the Government to cope with the rise, but the issue lingered longer than it would have preferred. With headlines

talking of Howard and Costello having apologised to those Australians who had been hit with the mortgage rise, the Prime Minister kept the issue alive by stating that his use of the word ‘sorry’ was a expression of regret, but did not mean that he was apologising for the rise. Media comment was not kind to the Coalition.123 The Age’s veteran reporter, Michelle Grattan, believed the interest rate affair would hurt the Government, for:

… the extra mortgage payment burden will add to the disillusionment of voters already sick of Howard. Rudd’s line about the PM deceiving people in 2004 will resonate with many people, regardless of Howard’s protestations about precisely what he promised.

122. Tim Colebatch, ‘Landslide marks election where regional vote-buying never mattered less’, Age, 1 December 2007.

123. For example, Gerard McManus and John Ferguson, ‘PM “sorry”’, Herald Sun, 8 November 2007; Clinton Porteous, ‘When “sorry” is not an apology’, Courier Mail, 9 November 2007.

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Grattan went on to wonder whether:

… this may be one election too many for the Government line that Coalition policies would always keep rates lower than Labor policies. 124

WorkChoices

At the Australasian Political Science Association conference in late September 2007, one of the authors of this research paper was struck by the apparent unanimity of the assembled political science academics that WorkChoices and the introduction of Australian Workplace Agreements (AWA) had been a crucial mistake for the Howard Government. Opinion polls no doubt underpinned the academics’ views. In an October 2005 Newspoll, 40 per cent of respondents said WorkChoices was ‘somewhat bad’ or ‘very bad’; by April 2006, this had climbed to 48 per cent. Even 22 per cent of Coalition voters labelled the legislation as ‘bad’. Perhaps most significantly, of people earning in excess of $70 000, 43 per cent registered their dislike. This was presumably because this workplace legislation impacted in particular on younger workers—it brought wage issues into the homes of relatively well-to-do Australians. All of which was presumably reinforced by difficulties with the legislation faced both by managers and workers. The later introduction of a new ‘fairness test’, itself an acknowledgement that the original legislation was hurting wage earners, did not restore Coalition support. In fact, 16 per cent of those earning in excess of $70 000 claimed it made them less likely to vote for the Coalition at the next election.125 Many other critics agreed with the political scientists. The legislation had been the result of a prime ministerial ‘rush of blood’ according to one critical journalist:

… when Howard attacked overtime, penalty rates and shift allowances, he turned IR from an economic issue into a cultural issue.

It was a move that threatened to strip people of conditions and benefits that were part of their way of life: penalty rates for working the midnight shift; overtime to pay for a holiday or family pizza on a Friday night; weekend allowances to compensate for not getting to the kids’ sport … WorkChoices was a flawed policy and Howard, normally sensitive to the aspirations of the Howard battlers, was blinded by his own ideological conviction.

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This suggests that the union campaign which ran its first advertisements as early as 15 June 2005 and which spent $21m in financial year 2006-07 alone, probably hurt the Government.

WorkChoices, of itself, may not have caused the destruction of the Government, but it was probably a major factor in its fall. This legislation would not have been passed in the form that it had, if the Government had failed to gain control of the Senate in the 2004 election. Professor Judith Brett of La Trobe University has claimed that in pushing for the passage of the legislation, Howard ‘handed the middle ground to Labor’.127 In post-election comments

124. Michelle Grattan, ‘The rise — then come in spinner’, Age, 8 November 2007.

125. Newspoll, http://www.newspoll.com.au/, accessed on 5 May 2008.

126. Gerard McManus, ‘The PM who fell to pride’, Herald Sun, 29 November 2007.

127. Judith Brett, ‘Exit Right. The Unravelling of John Howard’, Quarterly Essay, 28, 2007, p. 76.

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about the election, the Senate, and WorkChoices, Liberal MP, Andrew Robb, called the Howard Government’s control of the Senate as a ‘poisoned chalice’.128 Liberal Federal Director, Brian Loughnane, acknowledged ‘significant public concern over the legislation,129 while columnist, Andrew Bolt, described WorkChoices as ‘Howard’s suicide note’.130 For a writer in Local Government FOCUS: ‘ideology overtook common sense’.131

Government baggage

The reasons why some voters reject a government at election time are various, and it is probably more likely to be a collection of factors rather than a single issue that turns people away—or discourages voters from shifting their vote to a particular government. The longer a government remains in office, the more that it is likely to antagonise or frustrate members of the public. The Howard Government’s experience was no different, and although on some controversial issues its opponent was inclined to present a ‘me-too’ face to the voters, it is likely that some issues, in addition to those that have already been referred to above, played a part in its election defeat. Among the most publicised were:

• the presence of troops supporting the anti-terrorist battle in Iraq and Afghanistan and the

loss of two soldiers in action in the latter

• the case of the Guantanamo Bay detainee, David Hicks, brought home prior to the election

in an effort to defuse the issue of his treatment by US officials

• claims of corruption in the Australian Wheat Board, of which the Government apparently

had no knowledge

• the military-style ‘intervention’ into certain Northern Territory indigenous communities by

the Commonwealth Government

• the apparent reluctance of the Government—and in particular Prime Minister Howard—to

accept the need to confront the issue of climate change, and

• the treatment of Indian doctor, Mohamed Haneef, accused of having links with British

bomb plots.

According to opinion poll findings, all of these were issues that concerned many Australians and were likely to cause their votes to shift.

128. Sandra O’Malley and Susanna Dunkerley, ‘We went too far, Libs reformer says of WorkChoices’, Canberra Times, 14 December 2007.

129. Loughnane quoted in Leo Shanahan, ‘Selling of WorkChoices tops blame list’, Age, 26 November 2007.

130. Andrew Bolt, ‘Libs on a long, hard road’, Herald Sun, 26 November 2007.

131. Rod Brown, ‘The Coalition implodes’, Local Government FOCUS, December 2007, p. 4.

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The Green vote

As referred to above, the Labor Party’s first preference vote (43.4 per cent) was not high, being the party’s second-lowest winning vote since Federation. As a consequence, preferences played an important role, for only half the seats were decided on first preferences.

Although the Australian Green vote for the lower house was lower than the party hoped for, it played a significant role due to the relatively low vote achieved by the Labor Party. Across the nation, 79.7 per cent of Green preferences went to Labor (the highest being 82.9 per cent in Victoria), and these votes were important in pushing the ALP two-party preferred vote to 52.7 per cent, Labor’s highest figure since 1993. In seats such as Richmond (NSW), Leichhardt (Qld) and Franklin (Tas), it was the final parcel of preferences from the Greens that confirmed the Labor candidate’s first preference lead enjoyed from the first count. In some seats, however, the Labor candidate was trailing the Coalition candidate after the penultimate count, and it was Green preferences that clinched the seat finally for the Rudd team. Such seats included Bennelong, Page and Robertson (all NSW), Corangamite and Deakin (Vic), Hasluck (WA) and Bass and Braddon (both Tas). In Bass, Labor’s Jodie Campbell saw her party’s first preference share fall by two per cent to 37.2 per cent and she was still six per cent behind the sitting member with only the Green preferences to be distributed. Ultimately, 74.1 per cent of those preferences pushed her to 51 per cent of the two-party preferred vote. Although Labor would have won the national election without such a generous allocation of Green preferences, the fact that they received them made their final seat tally healthier than it probably would otherwise have been.

Regional sentiment

A final note on regional attitudes may be relevant to this result. There are elections when a state seems to have produced a result that might have been affected by local matters—Labor’s dismal performance in Tasmania in the 1983 election is a well-known example. We can still wonder if the impressive 57.6 per cent gained by the United Australia Party in Tasmania in 1931, that was 12.2 per cent higher than the Nationalist vote in 1929, might have been influenced by Tasmanians’ pleasure in having a Tasmanian as the party’s leader. Labor’s largest vote in 1943 was in Western Australia, home of party leader, John Curtin. In 2007, Labor’s greatest jump in votes occurred in Queensland (+8.1 per cent). Although it can be argued that the party had performed so poorly in the state in 2001 that this was simply a catch-up effort, might it also have been helped by some voters’ reaction to having a Queenslander as a party leader and hence, a possible Prime Minister? Such a possibility is unlikely to be a factor in the two largest states, but in the four others, who knows what local pride might do to some voters’ preferences?132

132. George Megalogenis, ‘Rudd prepares for the battle of Queensland’, Weekend Australian, 14-15 April 2007; Chris Hammer, ‘State of disarray’, Bulletin, 5 June 2007.

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The Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

Provisional votes

Provisional votes generally are believed to favour Labor candidates over their opponents. In 2007 rejected provisional votes outnumbered the final margin of votes in the seats of Bowman, Dickson, Herbert and McEwen. A case can be made that the marked increase in the proportion of provisional votes that were removed from the count helped save the seats of the Coalition members who held these seats.133 The increase in provisional vote rejection in 2007 was striking:

Table 4: Rejected provisional votes 2001-2007

Election Provisional votes issued Provisional votes admitted to count Rejected (%)

2001 165,238 81,266 50.8

2004 180,878 90,512 50.0

2007 167,682 24,212 85.6

Source: Australian Electoral Commission

Possible amendments

Two possible alterations to the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 may well be soon on the Parliament’s schedule:

• The marked reduction in the time available for new voters to enrol after the calling of an

election may well be reversed, and

• Pauline Hanson’s receipt of $213 095 of electoral funding based on receiving 4.2 per cent

of the Queensland Senate vote was likely to be be an issue for early discussion by the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters.

The next election

As soon as one election result is known, analysts—political, media, academic—begin wondering about the election that is to follow. Although the Rudd Labor Government has a healthy majority in the House of Representatives, its vote margin over the Coalition parties is not large. Its opponents might see more of an opportunity to turn around the result at the first opportunity than observers currently believe is likely.134 One factor they may well consider is that since 1949 four of the incoming governments have suffered a fall in their first preference vote at the next election. All five have seen a fall in their two-party preferred vote:

133. Andrew Fraser, ‘Howard’s electoral rules could save Lib MPs’, Canberra Times, 12 December 2007.

134. Williams, op. cit., p. 120.

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Table 5: The first election after coming to power

Winning Election Next election First preference swing (govt) Two-party swing (govt)

1949 1951 +0.1 -0.3

1972 1974 -0.3 -1.0

1975 1977 -4.9 -1.1

1983 1984 -2.2 -1.5

1996 1998 -7.7 -4.6

Source: Australian Electoral Commission

Further reading

The Age, ‘The Rudd Revolution. The story of Election 07, charting Labor's long march and the end of the Howard era’, 27 November 2007.

Brett, Judith, ‘Exit Right. The Unravelling of John Howard’, Quarterly Essay, 28, 2007.

Keenan, Elizabeth, ‘Australia’s New Order’, Time, 3 December 2007.

MacCallum, Mungo, Poll Dancing. The Story of the 2007 Election, Black, Melbourne, 2007.

Megalogenis, George, ‘Why we cast out Libs’, Weekend Australian, 3-4 May 2008.

Saville, Margot, The Battle for Bennelong. The adventures of Maxine McKew, aged 50something, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2007.

Stuart, Nicholas, What Goes Up. Behind the 2007 election, Scribe, Melbourne, 2007.

Williams, Paul D., ‘The 2007 Australian Federal Election: The Story of Labor’s Return from the Electoral Wilderness’, Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol. 54, no. 1, March 2008, pp. 104-25.

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Appendix 1: 2007 election timetable

The election timetable was as follows:

14 October 2007 Announcement by the Prime Minister of an election for the House of Representatives and half the Senate, for the 42nd Parliament

17 October 2007 Electoral writs issued

23 October 2007 Close of rolls

1 November 2007 Close of nominations

2 November 2007 Declaration of nominations

24 November 2007 Polling day

21 December 2007 Return of electoral writs

12 February 2008 Meeting of Parliament

Source: Australian Electoral Commission

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Appendix 2: The passing parade

In every new parliament there is a change of personnel. The following Members and Senators died, retired, were defeated, were elected to the Parliament for the first time, or were re-elected to Parliament after an absence.

House of Representatives

Table 1: Deceased Member

Deceased Member Electoral Division Party Term

Andren, Peter* Calare, NSW Ind 1996-2007

*The former Member of the House of Representatives retired on 17 October 2007 and died 3 November 2007.

Table 2: Retired Members

Retired Member Electoral Division Party Term

Anderson, John Gwydir, NSW Nat 1989-2007

Baird, Bruce Cook, NSW Lib 1998-2007

Beazley, Kim

Swan, WA Brand, WA ALP

1980-1996 1996-2007

Cadman, Alan Mitchell, NSW Lib 1974-2007

Causley, Ian Page, NSW Nat 1996-2007

Corcoran, Ann Isaacs, Vic ALP 2000-2007

Draper, Trish Makin, SA Lib 1996-2007

Edwards, Graham Cowan, WA ALP 1998-2007

Elson, Kay Forde, Qld Lib 1996-2007

Entsch, Warren Leichhardt, Qld Lib 1996-2007

Hatton, Michael Blaxland, NSW ALP 1996-2007

Hoare, Kelly Charlton, NSW ALP 1998-2007

Jull, David

Bowman, Qld, Fadden, Qld Lib

1975-1983 1984-2007

Kelly, Jackie Lindsay, NSW Lib

1996 1996-2007

Lawrence, Carmen Fremantle, WA ALP 1994-2007

Prosser, Geoff Forrest, WA Lib 1987-2007

Quick, Harry Franklin, Tas ALP 1993-2007

Sawford, Rod Port Adelaide, SA ALP 1988-2007

Sercombe, Bob Maribrynong, Vic ALP 1996-2007

Wakelin, Barry Grey, SA Lib 1993-2007

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Table 3: Defeated Members

Defeated Member Electoral Division Party Term

Baker, Mark Braddon, Tas Lib 2004-2007

Barresi, Phil Deakin, Vic Lib 1996-2007

Bartlett, Kerry Macquarie, NSW Lib 1996-2007

Brough, Mal Longman, Qld Lib 1996-2007

Fawcett, David Wakefield, SA Lib 2004-2007

Ferguson, Michael Bass, Tas Lib 2004-2007

Gambaro, Teresa Petrie, Qld Lib 1996-2007

Hardgrave, Gary Moreton, Qld Lib 1996-2007

Henry, Stuart Hasluck, WA Lib 2004-2007

Howard, John Bennelong, NSW Lib 1974-2007

Kelly, De-Anne Dawson, Qld Nat 1996-2007

Lloyd, Jim Robertson, NSW Lib 1996-2007

McArthur, Stuart Corangamite, Vic Lib 1984-2007

Nairn, Gary Eden-Monaro, NSW Lib 1996-2007

O’Connor, Gavan Corio, Vic Ind (ALP) 1993-2007

Richardson, Kym Kingston, SA Lib 2004-2007

Thompson, Cameron Blair, Qld Lib 1998-2007

Ticehurst, Ken Dobell, NSW Lib 2001-2007

Tollner, David Solomon, NT CLP 2001-2007

Vasta, Ross Bonner, Qld Lib 2004-2007

Wilkie, Kim Swan, WA ALP 1998-2007

Table 4: New Members

New Member Electoral Division Party

Bidgood, James Dawson (Qld) ALP

Bradbury, David Lindsay (NSW) ALP

Butler, Mark Port Adelaide (SA) ALP

Campbell, Jodie Bass (Tas) ALP

Champion, Nick Wakefield (SA) ALP

Cheeseman, Darren Corangamite (Vic) ALP

Clare, Jason Blaxland (NSW) ALP

Collins, Julie Franklin (Tas) ALP

Combet, Greg Charlton (NSW) ALP

Coulton, Mark Parkes (NSW) Nat

D’Ath, Yvette Petrie (Qld) ALP

Debus, Bob*** Macquarie (NSW) ALP

Dreyfus, Mark Isaacs (Vic) ALP

Gray, Gary Brand (WA) ALP

Hale, Damian Solomon (NT) ALP

Hawke, Alex Mitchell (NSW) Lib

Irons, Steve Swan (WA) Lib

Jackson, Sharryn* Hasluck (WA) ALP

Kelly, Mike Eden-Monaro (NSW) ALP

Marino, Nola Forrest (WA) Lib

Marles, Richard Corio (Vic) ALP

McKew, Maxine Bennelong (NSW) ALP

Morrison, Scott Cook (NSW) Lib

Neal, Belinda** Robertson (NSW) ALP

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New Member Electoral Division Party

Neumann, Shayne Blair (Qld) ALP

Parke, Melissa Fremantle (WA) ALP

Perrett, Graham Moreton (Qld) ALP

Raguse, Brett Forde (Qld) ALP

Ramsey, Rowan Grey (SA) Lib

Rea, Kerry Bonner (Qld) ALP

Rishworth, Amanda Kingston (SA) ALP

Robert, Stuart Fadden (Qld) Lib

Saffin, Janelle*** Page (NSW) ALP

Shorten, Bill Maribyrnong (Vic) ALP

Sidebottom, Sid* Braddon (Tas) ALP

Simpkins, Luke Cowan (WA) Lib

Sullivan, Jon*** Longman (Qld) ALP

Symon, Mike Deakin (Vic) ALP

Thomson, Craig Dobell (NSW) ALP

Trevor, Chris Flynn (Qld) ALP

Turnour, Jim Leichhardt (Qld) ALP

Zappia, Tony Makin (SA) ALP

* former Member of House of Representatives ** former Senator *** former member state parliament

Senate

Table 5: Retired Senators

Retired Semator State or Territory Party Term

Campbell, George NSW ALP 1997-2008

Kemp, Rod Vic Lib 1990-2008

Kirk, Linda SA ALP 2002-2008

Lightfoot, Ross WA Lib 1997-2008

Macdonald, Sandy NSW Nat

1993-1999 2000-2008

Murray, Andrew WA AD 1996-2008

Patterson, Kay Vic Lib 1987-2008

Ray, Robert Vic ALP 1981-2008

Stott Despoja, Natasha SA AD 1995-2008

Watson, John Tas Lib 1978-2008

Table 6: Defeated Senators

Defeated Senator State or Territory Party Term

Allison, Lyn Vic AD 1996-2008

Bartlett, Andrew Qld AD 1997-2008

Chapman, Grant* SA Lib 1987-2008

Nettle, Kerry NSW AG 2002-2008

Webber, Ruth WA ALP 2002-2008

* also former member of the House of Representatives

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Table 7: New Senators

Senator State or Territory Party

Arbib, Mark NSW ALP

Bilyk, Catryna Tas ALP

Cameron, Doug NSW ALP

Cash, Michaelia WA Lib

Collins, Jacinta** Vic ALP

Farrell, Don SA ALP

Feeney, David Vic ALP

Furner, Mark Qld ALP

Hanson-Young, Sarah SA AG

Kroger, Helen Vic Lib

Ludlam, Scott WA AG

Pratt, Louise*** WA ALP

Ryan, Scott Vic Lib

Williams, John NSW Nat

Xenophon, Nick*** SA Ind

** former Senator *** former member state parliament

Women

Women represent 26.1 per cent of new members of the House of Representatives and 40 per cent of new Senators.

The number of women elected to the Parliament is now higher than in any previous parliament. More than one-third of the Senate members are female.

Table 8: Women elected

House of Representatives Senate Parliament

Election Men Women Women% Men Women Women% Women %

1998 115 33 22.3 54 22 28.9 25.0

2001 112 38 25.3 53 23 30.3 27.0

2004 113 37 24.7 54 22 28.9 26.1

2007 110 40 26.7 49 27 35.5 29.6

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Part Two: Statistical tables

Symbols and abbreviations

AFLP Australian Fishing and Lifestyle Party ALP Australian Labor Party ASP The Australian Shooters Party CA Carers Alliance

CCC Climate Change Coalition CCE Conservatives for Climate and Environment Incorporated CDP Christian Democratic Party (Fred Nile Group) CEC Citizens Electoral Council of Australia CLP Northern Territory Country Liberal Party DEM Australian Democrats

DLP Democratic Labor Party (DLP) of Australia FFP Family First Party

FPY The Fishing Party

GRN Australian Greens

HOV Hear Our Voice

IND Independent

LDP Liberty and Democracy Party LNP Liberal/The Nationals LP Liberal Party of Australia

LP/NP Liberal Party/The Nationals (National Party)/Northern Territory Country Liberal Party Coalition NCP Non-Custodial Parents Party NDP Nuclear Disarmament Party of Australia NP The Nationals (National Party) ON One Nation

PUA Pauline's United Australia Party SAL Socialist Alliance

SEP Socialist Equality Party SFP The Australian Shooters Party/Australian Fishing and Lifestyle Party SOL Senator On-Line

WWW What Women Want (Australia)

.. nil or rounded to zero

* sitting member for division

^ sitting member standing in another division # party holding or notionally holding division

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Table 1: House of Representatives: National summary

Australia

Party Candidates Seats won Votes Per cent Swing

Australian Labor Party 150 83 5 388 147 43.38 +5.74

Liberal Party/National Party Coalition

Liberal Party of Australia 132 55 4 506 236 36.28 -4.19

The Nationals (National Party) 24 10 682 424 5.49 -0.40

Northern Territory Country Liberal Party 2 40 298 0.32 -0.02

Total Coalition 158 65 5 228 958 42.09 -4.61

Australian Greens 150 967 781 7.79 +0.60

Family First Party 129 246 792 1.99 -0.02

Christian Democratic Party (Fred Nile Group) 63 104 705 0.84 +0.22

Australian Democrats 86 89 810 0.72 -0.52

One Nation 35 32 650 0.26 -0.93

Citizens Electoral Council of Australia 81 27 879 0.22 -0.14

Liberty and Democracy Party 47 17 041 0.14 +0.14

Socialist Alliance 17 9 973 0.08 -0.04

Climate Change Coalition 7 9 470 0.08 +0.08

Democratic Labor Party (DLP) of Australia 4 6 018 0.05 +0.04

Socialist Equality Party 9 4 283 0.03 +0.03

What Women Want (Australia) 4 3 870 0.03 +0.03

Conservatives for Climate and Environment Incorporated 4 3 239 0.03 +0.03

The Fishing Party 2 2 083 0.02 +0.00

Non-Custodial Parents Party 2 795 0.01 +0.00

Others 106 2 276 369 2.23 -0.66

Formal 12 419 863 96.05 +1.23

Informal 510 951 3.95 -1.23

Total/turnout 1054 150 12 930 814 94.76 +0.44

Enrolled 13 646 539

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Table 2: House of Representatives: State summary

New South Wales

Party Candidates Seats won Votes Per cent Swing

Australian Labor Party 49 28 1 791 171 44.12 +7.42

Liberal Party/National Party Coalition

Liberal Party of Australia 40 15 1 324 311 32.62 -3.54

The Nationals (National Party) 9 5 321 182 7.91 -1.28

Total Coalition 49 20 1 645 493 40.53 -4.81

Australian Greens 49 320 031 7.88 -0.21

Christian Democratic Party (Fred Nile Group) 44 77 903 1.92 +0.70

Family First Party 32 35 469 0.87 +0.10

Australian Democrats 12 11 106 0.27 -0.80

Climate Change Coalition 7 9 470 0.23 +0.23

Citizens Electoral Council of Australia 24 9 045 0.22 -0.08

One Nation 8 8 426 0.21 -1.19

Liberty and Democracy Party 12 4 906 0.12 +0.12

Socialist Alliance 5 3 970 0.10 -0.01

Socialist Equality Party 6 3 435 0.08 +0.08

Conservatives for Climate and Environment Incorporated 3 2 074 0.05 +0.05

The Fishing Party 1 1 073 0.03 -0.04

Non-Custodial Parents Party 2 795 0.02 -0.01

Others 41 1 135 119 3.33 -1.56

Formal 4 059 486 95.05 +1.17

Informal 211 519 4.95 -1.17

Total/turnout 344 49 4 271 005 94.99 +0.29

Enrolled 4 496 208

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Table 2: House of Representatives: State summary continued

Victoria

Party Candidates Seats won Votes Per cent Swing

Australian Labor Party 37 21 1 416 215 44.69 +4.24

Liberal Party/National Party Coalition

Liberal Party of Australia 35 14 1 206 926 38.09 -5.15

The Nationals (National Party) 2 2 95 859 3.02 -0.49

Total Coalition 37 16 1 302 785 41.11 -5.64

Australian Greens 37 258 846 8.17 +0.72

Family First Party 37 95 663 3.02 +0.64

Australian Democrats 33 38 811 1.22 +0.15

Citizens Electoral Council of Australia 22 8 655 0.27 -0.20

Democratic Labor Party (DLP) of Australia 4 6 018 0.19 +0.14

Liberty and Democracy Party 8 3 273 0.10 +0.10

Socialist Alliance 3 2 290 0.07 -0.05

What Women Want (Australia) 1 1 825 0.06 +0.06

Christian Democratic Party (Fred Nile Group) 2 1 211 0.04 +0.02

Socialist Equality Party 2 691 0.02 +0.02

One Nation 1 433 0.01 -0.13

Others 18 32 183 1.02 -0.10

Formal 3 168 899 96.74 +0.84

Informal 106 721 3.26 -0.84

Total/turnout 242 37 3 275 620 95.17 +0.30

Enrolled 3 441 822

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Table 2: House of Representatives: State summary continued

Queensland

Party Candidates Seats won Votes Per cent Swing

Liberal Party/National Party Coalition

Liberal Party of Australia 24 10 818 438 34.40 -5.01

The Nationals (National Party) 10 3 239 504 10.07 +0.32

Total Coalition 34 13 1 057 942 44.47 -4.68

Australian Labor Party 29 15 1 020 665 42.91 +8.13

Australian Greens 29 133 938 5.63 +0.57

Family First Party 29 54 058 2.27 -1.40

Australian Democrats 29 22 427 0.94 -0.43

One Nation 8 8 619 0.36 -1.62

Citizens Electoral Council of Australia 14 3 668 0.15 -0.21

Liberty and Democracy Party 12 3 531 0.15 +0.15

Socialist Alliance 3 1 174 0.05 -0.01

The Fishing Party 1 1 010 0.04 +0.04

Christian Democratic Party (Fred Nile Group) 2 753 0.03 +0.03

Others 26 1 71 068 2.99 -0.57

Formal 2 378 853 96.44 +1.60

Informal 87 708 3.56 -1.60

Total/turnout 216 29 2 466 561 94.41 +0.67

Enrolled 2 612 504

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Table 2: House of Representatives: State summary continued

Western Australia

Party Candidates Seats won Votes Per cent Swing

Liberal Party/National Party Coalition

Liberal Party of Australia 15 11 545 365 46.31 -1.82

The Nationals (National Party) 1 13 459 1.14 +0.51

Total Coalition 16 11 558 824 47.46 -1.30

Australian Labor Party 15 4 433 342 36.80 +2.05

Australian Greens 15 105 106 8.93 +1.26

Christian Democratic Party (Fred Nile Group) 15 24 838 2.11 -0.14

Family First Party 15 14 215 1.21 +0.97

One Nation 15 13 529 1.15 -1.37

Citizens Electoral Council of Australia 13 3 115 0.26 -0.34

Liberty and Democracy Party 6 2 730 0.23 +0.23

Socialist Alliance 3 1 141 0.10 -0.05

What Women Want (Australia) 1 590 0.05 +0.05

Socialist Equality Party 1 157 0.01 +0.01

Others 10 19 950 1.69 -1.39

Formal 1 177 537 96.15 +1.47

Informal 47 152 3.85 -1.47

Total/turnout 125 15 1 224 689 93.26 +0.47

Enrolled 1 313 201

South Australia

Party Candidates Seats won Votes Per cent Swing

Australian Labor Party 11 6 426 639 43.18 +6.43

Liberal Party/National Party Coalition

Liberal Party of Australia 11 5 412 621 41.76 -5.64

The Nationals (National Party) 2 12 420 1.26 +0.24

Total Coalition 13 5 425 041 43.01 -5.41

Australian Greens 11 68 640 6.95 +1.51

Family First Party 11 40 031 4.05 -0.25

Australian Democrats 11 14 957 1.51 -0.37

One Nation 3 1 643 0.17 -0.96

Liberty and Democracy Party 6 1 637 0.17 +0.17

What Women Want (Australia) 2 1 455 0.15 +0.15

Conservatives for Climate and Environment Incorporated 1 1 165 0.12 +0.12

Others 5 6 944 0.70 -1.37

Formal 988 152 96.22 +1.78

Informal 38 830 3.78 -1.78

Total/turnout 74 11 1 026 982 95.42 +0.63

Enrolled 1 076 220

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Tasmania

Party Candidates Seats won Votes Per cent Swing

Australian Labor Party 5 5 139 077 42.77 -1.81

Liberal Party of Australia 5 124 280 38.22 -3.76

Australian Greens 5 43 893 13.50 +3.62

Family First Party 5 7 356 2.26 -0.58

Citizens Electoral Council of Australia 5 1 856 0.57 +0.20

Socialist Alliance 2 859 0.26 -0.09

Liberty and Democracy Party 2 606 0.19 +0.19

Others 2 7 215 2.22 +2.22

Formal 325 142 97.08 +0.67

Informal 9 796 2.92 -0.67

Total/turnout 31 5 334 938 95.76 +0.11

Enrolled 349 753

Australian Capital Territory

Party Candidates Seats won Votes Per cent Swing

Australian Labor Party 2 2 114 244 51.10 +0.85

Liberal Party of Australia 2 74 295 33.23 -2.00

Australian Greens 2 29 424 13.16 +2.40

Australian Democrats 1 2 509 1.12 -1.28

Citizens Electoral Council of Australia 2 1 295 0.58 +0.21

Socialist Alliance 1 539 0.24 -0.75

Others 1 1 275 0.57 +0.57

Formal 223 581 97.69 +1.13

Informal 5 289 2.31 -1.13

Total/turnout 11 2 228 870 95.85 +0.90

Enrolled 238 786

Northern Territory

Party Candidates Seats won Votes Per cent Swing

Australian Labor Party 2 2 46 794 47.65 +3.38

Northern Territory Country Liberal Party 2 40 298 41.03 -2.81

Australian Greens 2 7 903 8.05 +1.84

Liberty and Democracy Party 1 358 0.36 +0.36

Citizens Electoral Council of Australia 1 245 0.25 -0.01

Others 3 2 615 2.66 -2.77

Formal 98 213 96.15 +0.60

Informal 3 936 3.85 -0.60

Total/turnout 11 2 102 149 86.53 +2.28

Enrolled 118 045

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Table 3: House of Representatives: Regional summary

Inner metropolitan

Party Candidates Seats won Votes Per cent Swing

Australian Labor Party 42 29 1 603 416 45.85 +4.15

Liberal Party of Australia (a) 42 13 1 359 088 38.87 -3.22

Australian Greens 42 376 071 10.75 +0.82

Family First Party 33 40 918 1.17 +0.08

Australian Democrats 23 29 707 0.85 -0.73

Others 114 87 592 2.50 -1.12

Formal 3 496 792 95.81 +1.36

Informal 152 841 4.19 -1.36

Total/turnout 296 42 3 649 633 94.09

Enrolled 3 878 769

Outer metropolitan

Party Candidates Seats won Votes Per cent Swing

Australian Labor Party 45 25 1 732 311 46.28 +6.15

Liberal Party of Australia 45 20 1 545 061 41.28 -5.32

The Nationals (National Party) 1 6 177 0.17 +0.05

Australian Greens 45 241 821 6.46 +0.32

Family First Party 43 91 104 2.43 +0.04

Australian Democrats 30 30 087 0.80 -0.50

Others 98 96 234 2.57 -0.72

Formal 3 742 795 96.02 +1.44

Informal 155 106 3.98 -1.44

Total/turnout 307 45 3 897 901 95.08

Enrolled 4 099 683

Total metropolitan

Party Candidates Seats won Votes Per cent Swing

Australian Labor Party 87 54 3 335 727 46.08 +5.19

Liberal Party of Australia (a) 87 33 2 904 149 40.11 -4.29

The Nationals (National Party) 1 6 177 0.09 -0.01

Australian Greens 87 617 892 8.53 +0.54

Family First Party 76 132 022 1.82 +0.07

Australian Democrats 53 59 794 0.83 -0.60

Others 212 183 826 2.54 -0.93

Formal 7 239 587 95.92 +1.40

Informal 307 947 4.08 -1.40

Total/turnout 603 87 7 547 534 94.60

Enrolled 7 978 452

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Table 3: House of Representatives: Regional summary continued

Provincial

Party Candidates Seats won Votes Per cent Swing

Australian Labor Party 21 16 812 400 46.36 +6.95

Liberal Party of Australia 20 4 643 031 36.69 -4.56

The Nationals (National Party) 2 1 53 858 3.07 -0.81

Australian Greens 21 131 811 7.52 +0.42

Family First Party 19 36 243 2.07 -0.39

Australian Democrats 11 8 421 0.48 -0.50

Others 60 66 721 3.81 -1.09

Formal 1 752 485 96.29 +1.11

Informal 67 596 3.71 -1.11

Total/turnout 154 21 1 820 081 95.16

Enrolled 1 912 714

Rural

Party Candidates Seats won Votes Per cent Swing

Australian Labor Party 42 13 1 240 020 36.18 +6.22

Liberal Party of Australia (a) 27 18 999 354 29.15 -3.97

The Nationals (National Party) 21 9 622 389 18.16 -0.81

Australian Greens 42 218 078 6.36 +0.80

Family First Party 34 78 527 2.29 -0.01

Australian Democrats 22 21 595 0.63 -0.33

Others 109 2 247 828 7.23 -1.90

Formal 3 427 791 96.20 +0.93

Informal 135 408 3.80 -0.93

Total/turnout 297 42 3 563 199 94.88

Enrolled 3 755 373

Total non-metropolitan

Party Candidates Seats won Votes Per cent Swing

Australian Labor Party 63 29 2 052 420 39.62 +6.48

Liberal Party of Australia (a) 47 22 1 642 385 31.70 -4.16

The Nationals (National Party) 23 10 676 247 13.05 -0.84

Australian Greens 63 349 889 6.75 +0.67

Family First Party 53 114 770 2.22 -0.14

Australian Democrats 33 30 016 0.58 -0.38

Others 169 2 314 549 6.07 -1.65

Formal 5 180 276 96.23 +0.99

Informal 203 004 3.77 -0.99

Total/turnout 451 63 5 383 280 94.98

Enrolled 5 668 087

(a) Includes the Northern Territory Country Liberal Party.

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Table 4: House of Representatives: Party status summary

Safe ALP held seats

Party Candidates Seats won Votes Per cent Swing

Australian Labor Party 19 19 915 643 57.93 +5.00

Liberal Party of Australia 18 376 680 23.83 -4.79

The Nationals (National Party) 1 22 328 1.41 -0.17

Australian Greens 19 176 603 11.17 +0.55

Family First Party 13 26 810 1.70 +0.48

Australian Democrats 10 14 570 0.92 -0.28

Others 43 48 075 3.04 -0.77

Formal 1 580 709 94.81 +1.29

Informal 86 495 5.19 -1.29

Total/turnout 123 19 1 667 204 94.22

Enrolled 1 769 543

Fairly safe ALP held seats

Party Candidates Seats won Votes Per cent Swing

Australian Labor Party 18 18 795 093 53.95 +5.08

Liberal Party of Australia (a) 18 477 620 32.41 -4.78

Australian Greens 18 121 719 8.26 +0.67

Family First Party 13 25 610 1.74 +0.33

Australian Democrats 7 6 381 0.43 -1.15

Others 43 47 438 3.22 -0.13

Formal 1 473 861 95.60 +1.27

Informal 67 776 4.40 -1.27

Total/turnout 117 18 1 541 637 94.24

Enrolled 1 635 868

Marginal ALP held seats

Party Candidates Seats won Votes Per cent Swing

Australian Labor Party 23 21 931 047 48.46 +4.70

Liberal Party of Australia 22 2 680 938 35.44 -4.08

The Nationals (National Party) 2 45 798 2.38 -1.02

Australian Greens 23 151 627 7.89 +0.95

Family First Party 20 39 564 2.06 -0.05

Australian Democrats 15 16 315 0.85 -0.24

Others 56 55 970 2.92 -0.25

Formal 1 921 259 96.26 +1.26

Informal 74 707 3.74 -1.26

Total/turnout 161 23 1 995 966 94.74

Enrolled 2 106 778

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Total ALP held seats

Party Candidates Seats won Votes Per cent Swing

Australian Labor Party 60 58 2 641 783 53.09 +4.92

Liberal Party of Australia (a) 58 2 1 535 238 30.86 -4.52

The Nationals (National Party) 3 68 126 1.37 -0.45

Australian Greens 60 449 949 9.04 +0.74

Family First Party 46 91 984 1.85 +0.23

Australian Democrats 32 37 266 0.75 -0.52

Others 142 151 483 3.04 -0.40

Formal 4 975 829 95.60 +1.27

Informal 228 978 4.40 -1.27

Total/turnout 401 60 5 204 807 94.42

Enrolled 5 512 189

Safe LP held seats

Party Candidates Seats won Votes Per cent Swing

Australian Labor Party 37 2 1 027 951 33.37 +6.37

Liberal Party of Australia 37 35 1 582 102 51.35 -5.60

The Nationals (National Party) 6 44 908 1.46 +0.64

Australian Greens 37 229 276 7.44 +0.57

Family First Party 36 68 060 2.21 -0.10

Australian Democrats 23 21 926 0.71 -0.62

Others 92 106 599 3.46 -1.22

Formal 3 080 822 96.42 +1.43

Informal 114 458 3.58 -1.43

Total/turnout 268 37 3 195 280 94.89

Enrolled 3 367 326

Fairly safe LP held seats

Party Candidates Seats won Votes Per cent Swing

Australian Labor Party 16 3 542 863 40.63 +6.61

Liberal Party of Australia 16 13 641 260 47.99 -3.93

Australian Greens 16 92 181 6.90 +0.26

Family First Party 16 23 109 1.73 -0.40

Australian Democrats 10 9 369 0.70 -0.52

Others 39 27 404 2.05 -2.02

Formal 1 336 186 96.60 +1.29

Informal 47 096 3.40 -1.29

Total/turnout 113 16 1 383 282 94.65

Enrolled 1 461 396

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Marginal LP held seats

Party Candidates Seats won Votes Per cent Swing

Australian Labor Party 22 17 777 102 43.47 +6.09

Liberal Party of Australia (a) 22 5 776 084 43.42 -2.97

Australian Greens 22 133 860 7.49 +0.59

Family First Party 21 38 413 2.15 -0.24

Australian Democrats 13 13 306 0.74 -0.49

Others 71 48 864 2.75 -2.98

Formal 1 787 629 96.17 +1.29

Informal 71 163 3.83 -1.29

Total/turnout 171 22 1 858 792 95.16

Enrolled 1 953 338

Total LP held seats

Party Candidates Seats won Votes Per cent Swing

Australian Labor Party 75 22 2 347 916 37.84 +6.32

Liberal Party of Australia (a) 75 53 2 999 446 48.34 -4.47

The Nationals (National Party) 6 44 908 0.72 +0.02

Australian Greens 75 455 317 7.34 +0.51

Family First Party 73 129 582 2.09 -0.21

Australian Democrats 46 44 601 0.72 -0.56

Others 202 182 867 2.93 -1.63

Formal 6 204 637 96.38 +1.35

Informal 232 717 3.62 -1.35

Total/turnout 552 75 6 437 354 94.92

Enrolled 6 782 060

Safe NP held seats

Party Candidates Seats won Votes Per cent Swing

Australian Labor Party 6 136 984 28.02 +4.17

The Nationals (National Party) 6 6 271 369 55.52 +0.10

Australian Greens 6 25 004 5.12 +0.74

Family First Party 3 11 261 2.30 +0.08

Australian Democrats 3 4 046 0.83 -0.15

Others 16 40 137 8.21 -4.96

Formal 488 801 95.96 +0.29

Informal 20 562 4.04 -0.29

Total/turnout 40 6 509 363 95.47

Enrolled 533 555

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Fairly safe NP held seats

Party Candidates Seats won Votes Per cent Swing

Australian Labor Party 5 2 174 072 41.92 +8.52

Liberal Party of Australia 1 11 850 2.85 +1.84

The Nationals (National Party) 5 3 181 125 43.62 -4.47

Australian Greens 5 22 689 5.46 +0.80

Family First Party 5 11 507 2.77 -0.14

Australian Democrats 3 2 383 0.57 -0.73

Others 9 11 614 2.79 -5.85

Formal 415 240 96.27 +0.88

Informal 16 106 3.73 -0.88

Total/turnout 33 5 431 346 95.18

Enrolled 453 166

Marginal NP held seats

Party Candidates Seats won Votes Per cent Swing

Australian Labor Party 1 1 35 636 41.67 +8.60

The Nationals (National Party) 1 36 813 43.05 -6.68

Australian Greens 1 6 930 8.10 -1.46

Family First Party 1 784 0.92 +0.76

Australian Democrats 1 910 1.06 +0.79

Others 5 4 437 5.19 -2.03

Formal 85 510 95.70 -0.22

Informal 3 842 4.30 +0.22

Total/turnout 10 1 89 352 95.67

Enrolled 93 398

Total NP held seats

Party Candidates Seats won Votes Per cent Swing

Australian Labor Party 12 3 346 692 35.04 +6.46

Liberal Party of Australia 1 11 850 1.20 -1.91

The Nationals (National Party) 12 9 489 307 49.45 -2.46

Australian Greens 12 54 623 5.52 +0.57

Family First Party 9 23 552 2.38 +0.06

Australian Democrats 7 7 339 0.74 -0.31

Others 30 56 188 5.67 -2.41

Formal 989 551 96.07 +0.49

Informal 40 510 3.93 -0.49

Total/turnout 83 12 1 030 061 95.37

Enrolled 1 080 119

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Independent held seats

Party Candidates Seats won Votes Per cent Swing

Australian Labor Party 3 51 756 20.72 +3.18

The Nationals (National Party) 3 1 80 083 32.05 +4.51

Australian Greens 3 7 892 3.16 -0.02

Family First Party 1 1 674 0.67 -0.57

Australian Democrats 1 604 0.24 +0.01

Others 7 2 107 837 43.17 -7.09

Formal 249 846 96.62 +0.24

Informal 8 746 3.38 -0.24

Total/turnout 18 3 258 592 95.01

Enrolled 272 171

(a) Includes the Northern Territory Country Liberal Party .

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Table 5: House of Representatives: Socio-economic status summary (a)

Low

Party Candidates Seats won Votes Per cent Swing

Australian Labor Party 37 17 1 196 119 39.90 +5.25

Liberal Party of Australia (b) 23 8 740 921 24.71 -4.43

The Nationals (National Party) 17 10 556 742 18.57 -0.44

Australian Greens 37 179 565 5.99 +0.77

Family First Party 28 74 652 2.49 +0.15

Australian Democrats 17 17 682 0.59 -0.33

Other 96 2 232 334 7.75 -0.98

Formal 2 998 015 95.71 +0.84

Informal 134 407 4.29 -0.84

Total/turnout 255 37 3 132 422 95.10

Enrolled 3 293 683

Lower middle

Party Candidates Seats won Votes Per cent Swing

Australian Labor Party 38 31 1 549 729 49.56 +6.94

Liberal Party of Australia 36 7 1 047 305 33.49 -5.07

The Nationals (National Party) 6 119 505 3.82 -0.72

Australian Greens 38 219 931 7.03 +0.72

Family First Party 36 76 990 2.46 +0.12

Australian Democrats 21 20 011 0.64 -0.44

Other 91 93 409 2.97 -1.59

Formal 3 126 880 95.75 +1.29

Informal 138 688 4.25 -1.29

Total/turnout 266 38 3 265 568 94.62

Enrolled 3 451 329

Upper middle

Party Candidates Seats won Votes Per cent Swing

Australian Labor Party 38 18 1 372 630 43.33 +5.96

Liberal Party of Australia (b) 38 20 1 358 157 42.87 -4.46

The Nationals (National Party) 1 6 177 0.19 -0.05

Australian Greens 38 247 233 7.80 +0.62

Family First Party 36 62 119 1.96 -0.21

Australian Democrats 24 25 498 0.80 -0.51

Other 104 96 017 3.03 -1.37

Formal 3 167 831 96.19 +1.50

Informal 125 608 3.81 -1.50

Total/turnout 279 38 3 293 439 94.72

Enrolled 3 476 891

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H i g h

Party Candidates Seats won Votes Per cent Swing

Australian Labor Party 37 17 1 269 669 40.60 +4.73

Liberal Party of Australia 37 20 1 400 151 44.77 -3.16

Australian Greens 37 321 052 10.27 +0.31

Family First Party 29 33 031 1.06 -0.14

Australian Democrats 24 26 619 0.85 -0.78

Other 90 76 615 2.45 -0.95

Formal 3 127 137 96.53 +1.27

Informal 112 248 3.47 -1.27

Total/turnout 254 37 3 239 385 94.59

Enrolled 3 424 636

(a) For an explanation of the socio-economic status classification see: G Newman and A Kopras, ‘Socio-economic indexes for electoral divisions: 2001 Census (2003 boundaries)’, Current Issues Brief, no. 1, Department of Parliamentary Services, Canberra, 2004-05. (b) Includes the Northern Territory Country Liberal Party.

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Table 6a: House of Representatives: Electoral division summary

Number

First preference votes Formal Informal Total Electors

Division ALP LP NP GRN FFP DEM Others votes votes votes enrolled

New South Wales

Banks 45 059 27 728 ... 4 612 ... ... 5 102 82 501 5 608 88 109 92 720

Barton 45 292 27 425 ... 6 784 ... ... 2 465 81 966 4 829 86 795 91 451

Bennelong 39 408 39 551 ... 4 811 289 610 2 267 86 936 5 764 92 700 97 584

Berowra 25 563 44 525 ... 7 653 1 049 974 3 581 83 345 4 188 87 533 91 690

Blaxland 47 495 18 665 ... 5 004 1 183 ... 5 109 77 456 8 126 85 582 91 858

Bradfield 22 509 49 817 ... 9 495 759 ... 1 751 84 331 3 501 87 832 93 405

Calare 20 266 ... 39 941 2 351 ... ... 19 829 82 387 2 933 85 320 89 088

Charlton 44 156 26 353 ... 6 708 ... ... 5 966 83 183 4 066 87 249 91 109

Chifley 51 568 19 092 ... 2 897 1 016 ... 5 775 80 348 6 976 87 324 92 569

Cook 30 921 45 116 ... 5 342 596 ... 4 132 86 107 3 465 89 572 93 393

Cowper 32 276 ... 39 444 9 359 759 ... 2 919 84 757 3 510 88 267 92 762

Cunningham 44 835 22 438 ... 12 326 1 203 ... 3 427 84 229 3 471 87 700 91 665

Dobell 38 168 34 865 ... 4 429 1 407 ... 3 527 82 396 3 719 86 115 90 369

Eden-Monaro 37 724 36 863 ... 6 303 657 ... 3 107 84 654 3 239 87 893 91 584

Farrer 28 238 49 794 ... 4 169 2 657 ... 1 401 86 259 3 427 89 686 93 915

Fowler 50 180 21 706 ... 4 289 ... ... 1 932 78 107 6 490 84 597 89 217

Gilmore 30 386 40 513 ... 6 070 407 ... 3 021 80 397 3 536 83 933 87 489

Grayndler 46 509 17 485 ... 15 675 ... 1 407 2 764 83 840 5 333 89 173 95 070

Greenway 30 973 40 338 ... 4 617 1 312 ... 3 282 80 522 3 908 84 430 88 265

Hughes 35 087 40 334 ... 4 646 1 033 ... 2 419 83 519 3 712 87 231 91 154

Hume 31 882 41 344 ... 6 414 1 958 ... 2 465 84 063 2 946 87 009 90 404

Hunter 49 561 ... 22 328 5 265 ... ... 5 523 82 677 3 710 86 387 90 199

Kingsford Smith 45 831 29 402 ... 8 995 ... ... 2 498 86 726 4 884 91 610 97 340

Lindsay 41 991 31 176 ... 2 759 915 ... 4 868 81 709 4 791 86 500 90 366

Lowe 38 766 31 518 ... 6 774 ... ... 1 616 78 674 4 098 82 772 87 146

Lyne 25 358 ... 41 319 5 649 ... ... 6 736 79 062 4 220 83 282 86 814

Macarthur 33 688 35 996 ... 3 334 1 323 618 1 663 76 622 4 347 80 969 84 652

Mackellar 20 439 47 343 ... 9 840 ... 933 5 378 83 933 4 150 88 083 92 415

Macquarie 38 672 33 197 ... 9 092 465 ... 6 301 87 727 3 240 90 967 94 672

Mitchell 25 211 46 115 ... 4 302 1 022 ... 4 629 81 279 3 278 84 557 88 400

New England 8 368 ... 19 850 2 892 ... ... 54 030 85 140 2 522 87 662 91 370

Newcastle 42 936 21 611 ... 8 463 1 926 891 8 718 84 545 3 930 88 475 93 422

North Sydney 30 372 44 177 ... 7 851 352 ... 2 511 85 263 3 061 88 324 94 213

Page 35 636 ... 36 813 6 930 784 910 4 437 85 510 3 842 89 352 93 398

Parkes 20 922 ... 38 574 2 496 ... ... 20 477 82 469 3 617 86 086 89 771

Parramatta 43 083 32 155 ... 4 288 888 ... 4 766 85 180 5 981 91 161 96 305

Paterson 35 291 40 466 ... 4 344 559 ... 3 256 83 916 3 106 87 022 90 483

Prospect 46 135 24 705 ... 3 618 2 655 ... 2 187 79 300 6 648 85 948 90 635

Reid 47 739 21 516 ... 4 160 1 301 1 123 3 599 79 438 6 508 85 946 92 784

Richmond 35 699 ... 30 134 12 168 ... 950 2 535 81 486 3 647 85 133 90 103

Riverina 24 471 ... 52 779 4 130 ... ... 2 978 84 358 3 361 87 719 91 324

Robertson 37 437 39 792 ... 6 279 708 ... 2 994 87 210 3 109 90 319 94 295

Shortland 48 525 26 620 ... 7 097 1 644 ... 1 655 85 541 3 714 89 255 93 176

Sydney 37 506 20 440 ... 15 854 ... 874 1 890 76 564 3 286 79 850 87 904

Throsby 52 275 18 266 ... 7 308 ... ... 2 598 80 447 4 446 84 893 88 502

Warringah 23 317 46 398 ... 10 660 456 1 095 3 165 85 091 3 162 88 253 94 301

Watson 49 652 20 957 ... 5 302 2 011 ... 2 412 80 334 7 997 88 331 94 785

Wentworth 26 903 44 463 ... 13 205 255 721 2 725 88 272 4 548 92 820 100 315

Werriwa 46 892 24 046 ... 3 022 1 920 ... 3 830 79 710 5 569 85 279 90 357

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Number

First preference votes Formal Informal Total Electors

Division ALP LP NP GRN FFP DEM Others votes votes votes enrolled

Victoria

Aston 33 332 43 519 ... 4 492 2 978 1 246 245 85 812 2 601 88 413 91 728

Ballarat 44 191 33 402 ... 7 008 3 207 ... ... 87 808 2 170 89 978 93 644

Batman 45 551 16 439 ... 13 674 2 090 1 619 288 79 661 3 167 82 828 87 930

Bendigo 42 410 34 562 ... 6 521 3 190 577 2 710 89 970 3 305 93 275 97 129

Bruce 41 754 30 257 ... 4 102 2 295 1 012 1 111 80 531 3 106 83 637 88 434

Calwell 51 952 22 906 ... 3 761 3 747 799 3 105 86 270 4 399 90 669 95 608

Casey 29 949 41 897 ... 6 112 3 501 1 546 533 83 538 2 389 85 927 89 302

Chisholm 38 439 31 514 ... 6 765 1 953 1 053 150 79 874 2 139 82 013 86 084

Corangamite 37 886 40 408 ... 7 202 3 217 1 512 169 90 394 2 347 92 741 96 133

Corio 37 778 24 591 ... 4 910 3 291 628 11 843 83 041 3 213 86 254 90 390

Deakin 34 451 36 501 ... 6 978 2 589 1 205 586 82 310 1 756 84 066 87 670

Dunkley 33 055 43 024 ... 6 695 2 235 1 395 ... 86 404 2 328 88 732 93 176

Flinders 30 073 48 343 ... 7 529 1 988 822 ... 88 755 2 538 91 293 95 653

Gellibrand 50 681 19 220 ... 7 898 1 700 1 088 3 569 84 156 3 712 87 868 93 322

Gippsland 32 214 ... 42 632 4 881 3 802 ... 4 612 88 141 2 710 90 851 94 967

Goldstein 28 734 45 141 ... 8 846 970 1 422 186 85 299 2 112 87 411 92 049

Gorton 58 732 23 063 ... 5 775 3 746 ... 3 516 94 832 4 405 99 237 104 549

Higgins 25 367 43 761 ... 8 777 627 990 2 107 81 629 2 150 83 779 89 345

Holt 51 689 31 785 ... 3 823 4 076 1 155 347 92 875 3 430 96 305 100 916

Hotham 44 853 27 451 ... 5 572 1 657 800 998 81 331 2 772 84 103 88 723

Indi 27 203 46 052 ... 6 416 3 232 1 434 354 84 691 2 332 87 023 90 841

Isaacs 44 056 34 762 ... 5 636 2 308 1 970 1 629 90 361 3 092 93 453 98 189

Jagajaga 42 154 32 870 ... 8 971 2 065 979 496 87 535 2 196 89 731 93 740

Kooyong 24 599 45 172 ... 9 686 1 261 1 056 154 81 928 1 756 83 684 88 273

La Trobe 34 448 39 636 ... 7 539 2 423 1 012 225 85 283 2 896 88 179 92 005

Lalor 57 208 28 435 ... 3 836 4 199 879 969 95 526 3 457 98 983 103 729

Mallee 18 187 ... 53 227 3 468 5 435 2 323 600 83 240 3 101 86 341 90 038

Maribyrnong 45 528 23 741 ... 5 396 2 039 1 242 1 141 79 087 3 277 82 364 87 484

McEwen 38 819 44 165 ... 8 379 2 398 948 1 809 96 518 4 116 100 634 104 570

McMillan 30 743 40 254 ... 4 839 2 370 1 206 1 203 80 615 2 859 83 474 87 064

Melbourne 43 363 20 577 ... 19 967 878 1 255 1 543 87 583 2 521 90 104 98 477

Melbourne Ports 36 556 34 154 ... 12 941 731 1 527 172 86 081 1 903 87 984 95 930

Menzies 29 249 43 393 ... 5 291 2 036 822 3 297 84 088 2 385 86 473 89 937

Murray 19 429 50 021 ... 2 377 2 674 416 5 675 80 592 4 461 85 053 88 852

Scullin 51 680 19 910 ... 4 918 3 859 868 386 81 621 3 452 85 073 88 899

Wannon 30 852 44 834 ... 5 953 3 663 ... ... 85 302 2 266 87 568 90 838

Wills 49 050 21 166 ... 11 912 1 233 2 005 851 86 217 3 902 90 119 96 204

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Number

First preference votes Formal Informal Total Electors

Division ALP LP NP GRN FFP DEM Others votes votes votes enrolled

Queensland

Blair 40 663 35 133 ... 3 262 1 718 735 1 768 83 279 3 352 86 631 90 979

Bonner 40 784 35 031 ... 4 094 1 612 837 1 222 83 580 2 558 86 138 90 358

Bowman 36 207 37 886 ... 4 475 2 405 676 433 82 082 2 873 84 955 88 989

Brisbane 37 715 32 989 ... 9 882 1 183 1 266 703 83 738 2 554 86 292 91 638

Capricornia 47 508 15 416 15 664 2 481 1 508 422 2 081 85 080 2 960 88 040 92 750

Dawson 38 423 ... 33 948 3 489 2 398 1 216 432 79 906 3 156 83 062 87 453

Dickson 36 438 38 507 ... 5 006 2 118 797 581 83 447 2 380 85 827 89 358

Fadden 28 106 40 813 6 177 3 748 1 743 504 2 342 83 433 3 754 87 187 92 901

Fairfax 29 960 38 470 ... 7 011 3 287 764 2 675 82 167 2 852 85 019 90 202

Fisher 27 074 35 182 ... 4 474 1 728 655 10 596 79 709 2 418 82 127 86 736

Flynn 35 892 11 850 26 907 1 577 1 662 535 1 764 80 187 3 385 83 572 87 958

Forde 34 721 26 576 9 550 3 756 1 756 419 1 510 78 288 3 782 82 070 87 283

Griffith 43 957 28 133 ... 6 496 654 819 2 739 82 798 2 457 85 255 91 065

Groom 28 994 43 880 ... 4 028 3 649 608 2 091 83 250 2 627 85 877 89 963

Herbert 35 838 37 397 ... 4 201 1 283 476 2 640 81 835 3 575 85 410 90 776

Hinkler 35 267 ... 38 194 3 383 2 886 632 1 887 82 249 3 345 85 594 90 026

Kennedy 23 122 ... 20 292 2 649 1 674 604 33 978 82 319 3 291 85 610 91 713

Leichhardt 35 762 32 187 3 302 6 219 1 087 472 3 914 82 943 4 417 87 360 94 312

Lilley 43 058 31 944 ... 5 654 1 376 1 015 455 83 502 2 548 86 050 90 749

Longman 39 434 36 009 ... 3 486 1 525 1 153 576 82 183 2 950 85 133 89 774

Maranoa 23 288 ... 46 293 2 646 3 034 1 004 2 774 79 039 2 920 81 959 86 727

McPherson 29 798 45 979 ... 4 986 1 282 791 793 83 629 2 727 86 356 92 372

Moncrieff 24 397 48 594 ... 5 048 1 440 731 1 091 81 301 3 186 84 487 91 665

Moreton 37 908 33 921 ... 5 548 1 113 1 015 961 80 466 2 611 83 077 88 268

Oxley 47 128 26 297 ... 4 128 1 682 951 289 80 475 3 535 84 010 89 233

Petrie 38 988 37 299 ... 3 890 1 516 814 647 83 154 2 546 85 700 90 048

Rankin 44 858 27 299 ... 3 773 2 827 590 736 80 083 3 764 83 847 89 764

Ryan 30 619 41 646 ... 7 933 1 120 1 207 1 573 84 098 1 842 85 940 90 563

Wide Bay 24 758 ... 39 177 6 615 2 792 719 6 572 80 633 3 343 83 976 88 881

Western Australia

Brand 38 131 31 882 ... 7 110 1 482 ... 4 027 82 632 3 354 85 986 91 945

Canning 31 699 42 639 ... 6 396 1 112 ... 3 952 85 798 2 925 88 723 94 661

Cowan 35 633 38 872 ... 4 778 1 452 ... 4 123 84 858 3 679 88 537 93 421

Curtin 19 419 46 912 ... 10 649 394 ... 1 778 79 152 1 542 80 694 86 138

Forrest 25 883 38 928 ... 7 150 1 150 ... 12 639 85 750 2 954 88 704 93 680

Fremantle 36 102 28 042 ... 11 645 1 145 ... 2 967 79 901 3 548 83 449 88 984

Hasluck 30 471 31 541 ... 6 258 863 ... 4 329 73 462 3 397 76 859 82 333

Kalgoorlie 26 653 31 565 ... 4 045 820 ... 2 488 65 571 2 785 68 356 80 821

Moore 22 902 38 262 ... 5 906 811 ... 2 390 70 271 2 151 72 422 76 871

O'Connor 15 541 34 876 13 459 5 188 991 ... 6 012 76 067 3 702 79 769 84 466

Pearce 27 111 43 874 ... 7 277 1 239 ... 5 182 84 683 3 505 88 188 94 557

Perth 36 684 28 163 ... 8 320 838 ... 4 261 78 266 3 757 82 023 88 156

Stirling 32 737 38 220 ... 6 123 524 ... 3 347 80 951 4 178 85 129 91 098

Swan 29 544 32 183 ... 7 365 579 ... 3 005 72 676 3 497 76 173 81 758

Tangney 24 832 39 406 ... 6 896 815 ... 5 550 77 499 2 178 79 677 84 312

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Number

First preference votes Formal Informal Total Electors

Division ALP LP NP GRN FFP DEM Others votes votes votes enrolled

South Australia

Adelaide 42 774 34 056 ... 8 641 1 801 1 353 ... 88 625 2 840 91 465 96 700

Barker 28 475 44 329 9 695 4 796 5 418 1 984 ... 94 697 3 793 98 490 102 624

Boothby 30 501 41 343 ... 9 137 2 183 1 380 4 853 89 397 2 639 92 036 96 190

Grey 34 466 42 132 2 725 3 669 4 009 1 094 1 050 89 145 3 961 93 106 98 058

Hindmarsh 42 818 36 356 ... 6 335 1 925 1 818 1 452 90 704 3 618 94 322 98 899

Kingston 42 212 35 961 ... 5 132 5 169 859 1 158 90 491 3 505 93 996 97 939

Makin 44 890 33 390 ... 3 751 3 096 1 198 930 87 255 3 705 90 960 95 078

Mayo 27 957 45 893 ... 9 849 3 615 1 369 1 165 89 848 2 550 92 398 96 370

Port Adelaide 52 732 22 830 ... 7 935 5 230 1 822 ... 90 549 4 724 95 273 100 422

Sturt 37 565 42 731 ... 5 806 3 102 1 064 327 90 595 3 249 93 844 98 184

Wakefield 42 249 33 600 ... 3 589 4 483 1 016 1 909 86 846 4 246 91 092 95 756

Tasmania

Bass 23 764 27 769 ... 9 745 930 ... 1 627 63 835 2 142 65 977 68 937

Braddon 28 948 29 152 ... 5 392 2 135 ... 634 66 261 2 116 68 377 70 999

Denison 31 001 18 974 ... 11 898 1 360 ... 737 63 970 1 640 65 610 68 848

Franklin 27 990 27 742 ... 9 769 1 504 ... 627 67 632 1 893 69 525 72 545

Lyons 27 374 20 643 ... 7 089 1 427 ... 6 911 63 444 2 005 65 449 68 424

Australian Capital Territory

Canberra 58 711 40 359 ... 14 878 ... ... 953 114 901 2 660 117 561 122 447

Fraser 55 533 33 936 ... 14 546 ... 2 509 2 156 108 680 2 629 111 309 116 339

Northern Territory (a)

Lingiari 25 213 16 189 ... 3 231 ... ... 2 070 46 703 2 381 49 084 60 404

Solomon 21 581 24 109 ... 4 672 ... ... 1 148 51 510 1 555 53 065 57 641

(a) The Northern Territory Country Liberal Party is shown under LP.

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Per cent

First preference votes Formal Informal Total/

Division ALP LP NP GRN FFP DEM Others votes votes turnout

New South Wales

Banks 54.62 33.61 ... 5.59 ... ... 6.18 93.64 6.36 95.03

Barton 55.26 33.46 ... 8.28 ... ... 3.01 94.44 5.56 94.91

Bennelong 45.33 45.49 ... 5.53 0.33 0.70 2.61 93.78 6.22 95.00

Berowra 30.67 53.42 ... 9.18 1.26 1.17 4.30 95.22 4.78 95.47

Blaxland 61.32 24.10 ... 6.46 1.53 ... 6.60 90.51 9.49 93.17

Bradfield 26.69 59.07 ... 11.26 0.90 ... 2.08 96.01 3.99 94.03

Calare 24.60 ... 48.48 2.85 ... ... 24.07 96.56 3.44 95.77

Charlton 53.08 31.68 ... 8.06 ... ... 7.17 95.34 4.66 95.76

Chifley 64.18 23.76 ... 3.61 1.26 ... 7.19 92.01 7.99 94.33

Cook 35.91 52.40 ... 6.20 0.69 ... 4.80 96.13 3.87 95.91

Cowper 38.08 ... 46.54 11.04 0.90 ... 3.44 96.02 3.98 95.15

Cunningham 53.23 26.64 ... 14.63 1.43 ... 4.07 96.04 3.96 95.67

Dobell 46.32 42.31 ... 5.38 1.71 ... 4.28 95.68 4.32 95.29

Eden-Monaro 44.56 43.55 ... 7.45 0.78 ... 3.67 96.31 3.69 95.97

Farrer 32.74 57.73 ... 4.83 3.08 ... 1.62 96.18 3.82 95.50

Fowler 64.25 27.79 ... 5.49 ... ... 2.47 92.33 7.67 94.82

Gilmore 37.79 50.39 ... 7.55 0.51 ... 3.76 95.79 4.21 95.94

Grayndler 55.47 20.86 ... 18.70 ... 1.68 3.30 94.02 5.98 93.80

Greenway 38.47 50.10 ... 5.73 1.63 ... 4.08 95.37 4.63 95.66

Hughes 42.01 48.29 ... 5.56 1.24 ... 2.90 95.74 4.26 95.70

Hume 37.93 49.18 ... 7.63 2.33 ... 2.93 96.61 3.39 96.24

Hunter 59.95 ... 27.01 6.37 ... ... 6.68 95.71 4.29 95.77

Kingsford Smith 52.85 33.90 ... 10.37 ... ... 2.88 94.67 5.33 94.11

Lindsay 51.39 38.15 ... 3.38 1.12 ... 5.96 94.46 5.54 95.72

Lowe 49.27 40.06 ... 8.61 ... ... 2.05 95.05 4.95 94.98

Lyne 32.07 ... 52.26 7.15 ... ... 8.52 94.93 5.07 95.93

Macarthur 43.97 46.98 ... 4.35 1.73 0.81 2.17 94.63 5.37 95.65

Mackellar 24.35 56.41 ... 11.72 ... 1.11 6.41 95.29 4.71 95.31

Macquarie 44.08 37.84 ... 10.36 0.53 ... 7.18 96.44 3.56 96.09

Mitchell 31.02 56.74 ... 5.29 1.26 ... 5.70 96.12 3.88 95.65

New England 9.83 ... 23.31 3.40 ... ... 63.46 97.12 2.88 95.94

Newcastle 50.78 25.56 ... 10.01 2.28 1.05 10.31 95.56 4.44 94.70

North Sydney 35.62 51.81 ... 9.21 0.41 ... 2.95 96.53 3.47 93.75

Page 41.67 ... 43.05 8.10 0.92 1.06 5.19 95.70 4.30 95.67

Parkes 25.37 ... 46.77 3.03 ... ... 24.83 95.80 4.20 95.90

Parramatta 50.58 37.75 ... 5.03 1.04 ... 5.60 93.44 6.56 94.66

Paterson 42.06 48.22 ... 5.18 0.67 ... 3.88 96.43 3.57 96.17

Prospect 58.18 31.15 ... 4.56 3.35 ... 2.76 92.27 7.73 94.83

Reid 60.10 27.09 ... 5.24 1.64 1.41 4.53 92.43 7.57 92.63

Richmond 43.81 ... 36.98 14.93 ... 1.17 3.11 95.72 4.28 94.48

Riverina 29.01 ... 62.57 4.90 ... ... 3.53 96.17 3.83 96.05

Robertson 42.93 45.63 ... 7.20 0.81 ... 3.43 96.56 3.44 95.78

Shortland 56.73 31.12 ... 8.30 1.92 ... 1.93 95.84 4.16 95.79

Sydney 48.99 26.70 ... 20.71 ... 1.14 2.47 95.88 4.12 90.84

Throsby 64.98 22.71 ... 9.08 ... ... 3.23 94.76 5.24 95.92

Warringah 27.40 54.53 ... 12.53 0.54 1.29 3.72 96.42 3.58 93.59

Watson 61.81 26.09 ... 6.60 2.50 ... 3.00 90.95 9.05 93.19

Wentworth 30.48 50.37 ... 14.96 0.29 0.82 3.09 95.10 4.90 92.53

Werriwa 58.83 30.17 ... 3.79 2.41 ... 4.80 93.47 6.53 94.38

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Number

First preference votes Formal Informal Total/

Division ALP LP NP GRN FFP DEM Others votes votes turnout

Victoria

Aston 38.84 50.71 ... 5.23 3.47 1.45 0.29 97.06 2.94 96.39

Ballarat 50.33 38.04 ... 7.98 3.65 ... ... 97.59 2.41 96.09

Batman 57.18 20.64 ... 17.17 2.62 2.03 0.36 96.18 3.82 94.20

Bendigo 47.14 38.42 ... 7.25 3.55 0.64 3.01 96.46 3.54 96.03

Bruce 51.85 37.57 ... 5.09 2.85 1.26 1.38 96.29 3.71 94.58

Calwell 60.22 26.55 ... 4.36 4.34 0.93 3.60 95.15 4.85 94.83

Casey 35.85 50.15 ... 7.32 4.19 1.85 0.64 97.22 2.78 96.22

Chisholm 48.12 39.45 ... 8.47 2.45 1.32 0.19 97.39 2.61 95.27

Corangamite 41.91 44.70 ... 7.97 3.56 1.67 0.19 97.47 2.53 96.47

Corio 45.49 29.61 ... 5.91 3.96 0.76 14.26 96.27 3.73 95.42

Deakin 41.86 44.35 ... 8.48 3.15 1.46 0.71 97.91 2.09 95.89

Dunkley 38.26 49.79 ... 7.75 2.59 1.61 ... 97.38 2.62 95.23

Flinders 33.88 54.47 ... 8.48 2.24 0.93 ... 97.22 2.78 95.44

Gellibrand 60.22 22.84 ... 9.38 2.02 1.29 4.24 95.78 4.22 94.16

Gippsland 36.55 ... 48.37 5.54 4.31 ... 5.23 97.02 2.98 95.67

Goldstein 33.69 52.92 ... 10.37 1.14 1.67 0.22 97.58 2.42 94.96

Gorton 61.93 24.32 ... 6.09 3.95 ... 3.71 95.56 4.44 94.92

Higgins 31.08 53.61 ... 10.75 0.77 1.21 2.58 97.43 2.57 93.77

Holt 55.65 34.22 ... 4.12 4.39 1.24 0.37 96.44 3.56 95.43

Hotham 55.15 33.75 ... 6.85 2.04 0.98 1.23 96.70 3.30 94.79

Indi 32.12 54.38 ... 7.58 3.82 1.69 0.42 97.32 2.68 95.80

Isaacs 48.76 38.47 ... 6.24 2.55 2.18 1.80 96.69 3.31 95.18

Jagajaga 48.16 37.55 ... 10.25 2.36 1.12 0.57 97.55 2.45 95.72

Kooyong 30.03 55.14 ... 11.82 1.54 1.29 0.19 97.90 2.10 94.80

La Trobe 40.39 46.48 ... 8.84 2.84 1.19 0.26 96.72 3.28 95.84

Lalor 59.89 29.77 ... 4.02 4.40 0.92 1.01 96.51 3.49 95.42

Mallee 21.85 ... 63.94 4.17 6.53 2.79 0.72 96.41 3.59 95.89

Maribyrnong 57.57 30.02 ... 6.82 2.58 1.57 1.44 96.02 3.98 94.15

McEwen 40.22 45.76 ... 8.68 2.48 0.98 1.87 95.91 4.09 96.24

McMillan 38.14 49.93 ... 6.00 2.94 1.50 1.49 96.57 3.43 95.88

Melbourne 49.51 23.49 ... 22.80 1.00 1.43 1.76 97.20 2.80 91.50

Melbourne Ports 42.47 39.68 ... 15.03 0.85 1.77 0.20 97.84 2.16 91.72

Menzies 34.78 51.60 ... 6.29 2.42 0.98 3.92 97.24 2.76 96.15

Murray 24.11 62.07 ... 2.95 3.32 0.52 7.04 94.76 5.24 95.72

Scullin 63.32 24.39 ... 6.03 4.73 1.06 0.47 95.94 4.06 95.70

Wannon 36.17 52.56 ... 6.98 4.29 ... ... 97.41 2.59 96.40

Wills 56.89 24.55 ... 13.82 1.43 2.33 0.99 95.67 4.33 93.67

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Number

First preference votes Formal Informal Total/

Division ALP LP NP GRN FFP DEM Others votes votes turnout

Queensland

Blair 48.83 42.19 ... 3.92 2.06 0.88 2.12 96.13 3.87 95.22

Bonner 48.80 41.91 ... 4.90 1.93 1.00 1.46 97.03 2.97 95.33

Bowman 44.11 46.16 ... 5.45 2.93 0.82 0.53 96.62 3.38 95.47

Brisbane 45.04 39.40 ... 11.80 1.41 1.51 0.84 97.04 2.96 94.17

Capricornia 55.84 18.12 18.41 2.92 1.77 0.50 2.45 96.64 3.36 94.92

Dawson 48.09 ... 42.48 4.37 3.00 1.52 0.54 96.20 3.80 94.98

Dickson 43.67 46.15 ... 6.00 2.54 0.96 0.70 97.23 2.77 96.05

Fadden 33.69 48.92 7.40 4.49 2.09 0.60 2.81 95.69 4.31 93.85

Fairfax 36.46 46.82 ... 8.53 4.00 0.93 3.26 96.65 3.35 94.25

Fisher 33.97 44.14 ... 5.61 2.17 0.82 13.29 97.06 2.94 94.69

Flynn 44.76 14.78 33.56 1.97 2.07 0.67 2.20 95.95 4.05 95.01

Forde 44.35 33.95 12.20 4.80 2.24 0.54 1.93 95.39 4.61 94.03

Griffith 53.09 33.98 ... 7.85 0.79 0.99 3.31 97.12 2.88 93.62

Groom 34.83 52.71 ... 4.84 4.38 0.73 2.51 96.94 3.06 95.46

Herbert 43.79 45.70 ... 5.13 1.57 0.58 3.23 95.81 4.19 94.09

Hinkler 42.88 ... 46.44 4.11 3.51 0.77 2.29 96.09 3.91 95.08

Kennedy 28.09 ... 24.65 3.22 2.03 0.73 41.28 96.16 3.84 93.35

Leichhardt 43.12 38.81 3.98 7.50 1.31 0.57 4.72 94.94 5.06 92.63

Lilley 51.57 38.26 ... 6.77 1.65 1.22 0.54 97.04 2.96 94.82

Longman 47.98 43.82 ... 4.24 1.86 1.40 0.70 96.53 3.47 94.83

Maranoa 29.46 ... 58.57 3.35 3.84 1.27 3.51 96.44 3.56 94.50

McPherson 35.63 54.98 ... 5.96 1.53 0.95 0.95 96.84 3.16 93.49

Moncrieff 30.01 59.77 ... 6.21 1.77 0.90 1.34 96.23 3.77 92.17

Moreton 47.11 42.16 ... 6.89 1.38 1.26 1.19 96.86 3.14 94.12

Oxley 58.56 32.68 ... 5.13 2.09 1.18 0.36 95.79 4.21 94.15

Petrie 46.89 44.86 ... 4.68 1.82 0.98 0.78 97.03 2.97 95.17

Rankin 56.01 34.09 ... 4.71 3.53 0.74 0.92 95.51 4.49 93.41

Ryan 36.41 49.52 ... 9.43 1.33 1.44 1.87 97.86 2.14 94.90

Wide Bay 30.70 ... 48.59 8.20 3.46 0.89 8.15 96.02 3.98 94.48

Western Australia

Brand 46.15 38.58 ... 8.60 1.79 ... 4.87 96.10 3.90 93.52

Canning 36.95 49.70 ... 7.45 1.30 ... 4.61 96.70 3.30 93.73

Cowan 41.99 45.81 ... 5.63 1.71 ... 4.86 95.84 4.16 94.77

Curtin 24.53 59.27 ... 13.45 0.50 ... 2.25 98.09 1.91 93.68

Forrest 30.18 45.40 ... 8.34 1.34 ... 14.74 96.67 3.33 94.69

Fremantle 45.18 35.10 ... 14.57 1.43 ... 3.71 95.75 4.25 93.78

Hasluck 41.48 42.94 ... 8.52 1.17 ... 5.89 95.58 4.42 93.35

Kalgoorlie 40.65 48.14 ... 6.17 1.25 ... 3.79 95.93 4.07 84.58

Moore 32.59 54.45 ... 8.40 1.15 ... 3.40 97.03 2.97 94.21

O'Connor 20.43 45.85 17.69 6.82 1.30 ... 7.90 95.36 4.64 94.44

Pearce 32.01 51.81 ... 8.59 1.46 ... 6.12 96.03 3.97 93.26

Perth 46.87 35.98 ... 10.63 1.07 ... 5.44 95.42 4.58 93.04

Stirling 40.44 47.21 ... 7.56 0.65 ... 4.13 95.09 4.91 93.45

Swan 40.65 44.28 ... 10.13 0.80 ... 4.13 95.41 4.59 93.17

Tangney 32.04 50.85 ... 8.90 1.05 ... 7.16 97.27 2.73 94.50

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Number

First preference votes Formal Informal Total/

Division ALP LP NP GRN FFP DEM Others votes votes turnout

South Australia

Adelaide 48.26 38.43 ... 9.75 2.03 1.53 ... 96.89 3.11 94.59

Barker 30.07 46.81 10.24 5.06 5.72 2.10 ... 96.15 3.85 95.97

Boothby 34.12 46.25 ... 10.22 2.44 1.54 5.43 97.13 2.87 95.68

Grey 38.66 47.26 3.06 4.12 4.50 1.23 1.18 95.75 4.25 94.95

Hindmarsh 47.21 40.08 ... 6.98 2.12 2.00 1.60 96.16 3.84 95.37

Kingston 46.65 39.74 ... 5.67 5.71 0.95 1.28 96.27 3.73 95.97

Makin 51.45 38.27 ... 4.30 3.55 1.37 1.07 95.93 4.07 95.67

Mayo 31.12 51.08 ... 10.96 4.02 1.52 1.30 97.24 2.76 95.88

Port Adelaide 58.24 25.21 ... 8.76 5.78 2.01 ... 95.04 4.96 94.87

Sturt 41.46 47.17 ... 6.41 3.42 1.17 0.36 96.54 3.46 95.58

Wakefield 48.65 38.69 ... 4.13 5.16 1.17 2.20 95.34 4.66 95.13

Tasmania

Bass 37.23 43.50 ... 15.27 1.46 ... 2.55 96.75 3.25 95.71

Braddon 43.69 44.00 ... 8.14 3.22 ... 0.96 96.91 3.09 96.31

Denison 48.46 29.66 ... 18.60 2.13 ... 1.15 97.50 2.50 95.30

Franklin 41.39 41.02 ... 14.44 2.22 ... 0.93 97.28 2.72 95.84

Lyons 43.15 32.54 ... 11.17 2.25 ... 10.89 96.94 3.06 95.65

Australian Capital Territory

Canberra 51.10 35.13 ... 12.95 ... ... 0.83 97.74 2.26 96.01

Fraser 51.10 31.23 ... 13.38 ... 2.31 1.98 97.64 2.36 95.68

Northern Territory (a)

Lingiari 53.99 34.66 ... 6.92 ... ... 4.43 95.15 4.85 81.26

Solomon 41.90 46.80 ... 9.07 ... ... 2.23 97.07 2.93 92.06

(a) The Northern Territory Country Liberal Party is shown under LP.

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Adelaide (SA)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

SOLLY, P GRN 8 641 9.75 1.76

ELLIS, K * ALP 42 774 48.26 6.34

BIAR, S DEM 1 353 1.53 -0.06

SLAPE, D FFP 1 801 2.03 -0.03

MARSH, T LP 34 056 38.43 -6.86

Final count

ELLIS, K * ALP 51 868 58.53 7.20

MARSH, T LP 36 757 41.47 -7.20

Formal 88 625 96.89 1.29

Informal 2 840 3.11 -1.29

Total/turnout 91 465 94.59

Enrolled 96 700

Aston (Vic)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

AZA, R DEM 1 246 1.45 0.22

MITCHELL, D CEC 245 0.29 -0.39

PEARCE, C * LP 43 519 50.71 -7.84

RALEIGH, G ALP 33 332 38.84 7.67

LAKE, P FFP 2 978 3.47 0.66

PEPPER, A GRN 4 492 5.23 0.37

Final count

PEARCE, C * LP 47 243 55.05 -8.10

RALEIGH, G ALP 38 569 44.95 8.10

Formal 85 812 97.06 1.26

Informal 2 601 2.94 -1.26

Total/turnout 88 413 96.39

Enrolled 91 728

Ballarat (Vic)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

COATES, B GRN 7 008 7.98 1.25

MCINTOSH, S LP 33 402 38.04 -6.53

KING, C * ALP 44 191 50.33 5.33

BUTTERFIELD, D FFP 3 207 3.65 1.50

Final count

MCINTOSH, S LP 36 752 41.85 -5.92

KING, C * ALP 51 056 58.15 5.92

Formal 87 808 97.59 0.93

Informal 2 170 2.41 -0.93

Total/turnout 89 978 96.09

Enrolled 93 644

Banks (NSW)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

NGUYEN, H CEC 1 430 1.73 1.68

NGUYEN, D LDP 492 0.60 0.60

MORROW, B LP 27 728 33.61 -6.60

MELHAM, D * ALP 45 059 54.62 8.37

ROBERTS, S GRN 4 612 5.59 0.91

CHAVURA, S CDP 3 180 3.85 0.27

Final count

MORROW, B LP 32 109 38.92 -7.86

MELHAM, D * ALP 50 392 61.08 7.86

Formal 82 501 93.64 1.57

Informal 5 608 6.36 -1.57

Total/turnout 88 109 95.03

Enrolled 92 720

Barker (SA)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

SNEATH, J DEM 1 984 2.10 0.62

JENNINGS, A GRN 4 796 5.06 0.98

LOCK, K ALP 28 475 30.07 8.60

SECKER, P * LP 44 329 46.81 -6.36

THIELE, D NP 9 695 10.24 -0.35

CORNISH, P FFP 5 418 5.72 -0.10

Final count

LOCK, K ALP 38 396 40.55 10.43

SECKER, P * LP 56 301 59.45 -10.43

Formal 94 697 96.15 2.02

Informal 3 793 3.85 -2.02

Total/turnout 98 490 95.97

Enrolled 102 624

Barton (NSW)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

McKENZIE, M GRN 6 784 8.28 1.34

SVOLOS, C CDP 2 465 3.01 3.01

La MELA, J LP 27 425 33.46 -5.94

McCLELLAND, R * ALP 45 292 55.26 5.61

Final count

La MELA, J LP 31 064 37.90 -4.53

McCLELLAND, R * ALP 50 902 62.10 4.53

Formal 81 966 94.44 1.43

Informal 4 829 5.56 -1.43

Total/turnout 86 795 94.91

Enrolled 91 451

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Bass (Tas)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

WIENER, S IND 1 123 1.76 1.76

WATTS, A CEC 219 0.34 -1.02

CAMPBELL, J ALP 23 764 37.23 -1.99

MILLEN, T GRN 9 745 15.27 7.17

de HAAN, I FFP 930 1.46 -0.37

BENNETT, S LDP 285 0.45 0.45

FERGUSON, M * LP 27 769 43.50 -5.63

Final count

CAMPBELL, J ALP 32 553 51.00 3.63

FERGUSON, M * LP 31 282 49.00 -3.63

Formal 63 835 96.75 0.65

Informal 2 142 3.25 -0.65

Total/turnout 65 977 95.71

Enrolled 68 937

Batman (Vic)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

HASSAN, D DEM 1 619 2.03 0.57

KERIN, P FFP 2 090 2.62 1.49

CAREY, P GRN 13 674 17.17 3.24

FERGUSON, M * ALP 45 551 57.18 1.65

PEART, J LP 16 439 20.64 -5.31

BARWICK, R CEC 288 0.36 0.13

Final count

FERGUSON, M * ALP 60 503 75.95 4.63

PEART, J LP 19 158 24.05 -4.63

Formal 79 661 96.18 2.02

Informal 3 167 3.82 -2.02

Total/turnout 82 828 94.20

Enrolled 87 930

Bendigo (Vic)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

GIBBONS, S * ALP 42 410 47.14 3.61

JARVIS, T FFP 3 190 3.55 -0.12

GALE, C LDP 210 0.23 0.23

BYRNE, T GRN 6 521 7.25 0.32

CONSANDINE, P IND 304 0.34 0.34

GUYMER, E DEM 577 0.64 0.64

VEITCH, A IND 331 0.37 0.37

KENNEDY, P LP 34 562 38.42 -7.02

RATHJEN, E IND 1 865 2.07 2.07

Final count

GIBBONS, S * ALP 50 504 56.13 5.17

KENNEDY, P LP 39 466 43.87 -5.17

Formal 89 970 96.46 -0.67

Informal 3 305 3.54 0.67

Total/turnout 93 275 96.03

Enrolled 97 129

Bennelong (NSW)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

PETERS, L GRN 4 811 5.53 -10.08

GOLDFINCH, P DEM 610 0.70 -0.56

LEYONHJELM, D LDP 89 0.10 0.10

SPENCER, G CEC 70 0.08 0.08

WATERSON, V ON 261 0.30 0.23

MARKWELL, L FFP 289 0.33 0.24

CORDINER, G IND 239 0.27 0.27

ALLEN, D IND 123 0.14 0.14

TAHIR, Y 97 0.11 0.11

HOWARD, J * LP 39 551 45.49 -4.14

TRACANELLI, M CCC 269 0.31 0.31

PEEBLES, R CDP 1 119 1.29 -1.06

McKEW, M ALP 39 408 45.33 16.18

Final count

HOWARD, J * LP 42 251 48.60 -5.53

McKEW, M ALP 44 685 51.40 5.53

Formal 86 936 93.78 -0.24

Informal 5 764 6.22 0.24

Total/turnout 92 700 95.00

Enrolled 97 584

Berowra (NSW)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

ELLIS, S FFP 1 049 1.26 0.15

RUDDOCK, P * LP 44 525 53.42 -4.38

GALLAGHER, M IND 1 456 1.75 1.75

McMURDO, W GRN 7 653 9.18 0.00

McFARLANE, R DEM 974 1.17 -0.65

COLNAN, M ALP 25 563 30.67 5.71

LEVICK, R CDP 2 125 2.55 -0.52

Final count

RUDDOCK, P * LP 49 122 58.94 -4.88

COLNAN, M ALP 34 223 41.06 4.88

Formal 83 345 95.22 0.89

Informal 4 188 4.78 -0.89

Total/turnout 87 533 95.47

Enrolled 91 690

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Blair (Qld)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

THOMPSON, C * LP 35 133 42.19 -5.17

NEUMANN, S ALP 40 663 48.83 11.99

LUXTON, P GRN 3 262 3.92 0.68

SMITH, B FFP 1 718 2.06 -1.56

WHITE, D DEM 735 0.88 -0.44

THIES, R CEC 143 0.17 -0.41

SWANBOROUGH, D LDP 196 0.24 0.24

CHORLEY, D IND 1 429 1.72 1.72

Final count

THOMPSON, C * LP 37 910 45.52 -10.17

NEUMANN, S ALP 45 369 54.48 10.17

Formal 83 279 96.13 2.28

Informal 3 352 3.87 -2.28

Total/turnout 86 631 95.22

Enrolled 90 979

Blaxland (NSW)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

KY, J GRN 5 004 6.46 1.14

MAJEWSKI, M LP 18 665 24.10 -5.34

VINNICOMBE, B ON 1 202 1.55 -1.86

KENT, G FFP 1 183 1.53 1.53

McLACHLAN, C CDP 1 850 2.39 -0.14

STAVRINOS, H IND 1 535 1.98 1.98

CLARE, J # ALP 47 495 61.32 5.09

BASSI, R SAL 522 0.67 0.17

Final count

MAJEWSKI, M LP 24 503 31.63 -3.14

CLARE, J # ALP 52 953 68.37 3.14

Formal 77 456 90.51 0.78

Informal 8 126 9.49 -0.78

Total/turnout 85 582 93.17

Enrolled 91 858

Bonner (Qld)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

REA, K ALP 40 784 48.80 6.05

CHARLES, L LDP 212 0.25 0.25

VASTA, R * LP 35 031 41.91 -2.22

GELLATLY, S FFP 1 612 1.93 -2.43

STOCKS, V DEM 837 1.00 -0.40

BOESE, S FPY 1 010 1.21 1.21

WYATT, D GRN 4 094 4.90 -0.03

Final count

REA, K ALP 45 576 54.53 5.04

VASTA, R * LP 38 004 45.47 -5.04

Formal 83 580 97.03 2.67

Informal 2 558 2.97 -2.67

Total/turnout 86 138 95.33

Enrolled 90 358

Boothby (SA)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

McGHEE, R IND 4 390 4.91 4.91

BOSSIE, C DEM 1 380 1.54 -0.49

PANNACH, B ON 309 0.35 -0.32

CORNES, N ALP 30 501 34.12 -1.72

HUMPHREYS, D LDP 154 0.17 0.17

KIRKBY, J GRN 9 137 10.22 3.11

SOUTHCOTT, A * LP 41 343 46.25 -4.37

COLE, A FFP 2 183 2.44 -0.54

Final count

CORNES, N ALP 42 075 47.07 2.44

SOUTHCOTT, A * LP 47 322 52.93 -2.44

Formal 89 397 97.13 1.54

Informal 2 639 2.87 -1.54

Total/turnout 92 036 95.68

Enrolled 96 190

Bowman (Qld)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

LAMING, A * LP 37 886 46.16 -4.27

LUCAS, A FFP 2 405 2.93 -1.03

SCOTT, B GRN 4 475 5.45 0.67

YOUNG, J ALP 36 207 44.11 8.37

CHIDGEY, D ON 433 0.53 0.53

HOLLAND, P DEM 676 0.82 -0.25

Final count

LAMING, A * LP 41 073 50.04 -8.86

YOUNG, J ALP 41 009 49.96 8.86

Formal 82 082 96.62 1.56

Informal 2 873 3.38 -1.56

Total/turnout 84 955 95.47

Enrolled 88 989

Braddon (Tas)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

de BOMFORD, W FFP 2 135 3.22 -0.76

BAKER, M * LP 29 152 44.00 -3.36

O'HALLORAN, P GRN 5 392 8.14 2.53

SIDEBOTTOM, S ALP 28 948 43.69 0.64

DICK, S CEC 313 0.47 0.47

CUNNINGHAM, P LDP 321 0.48 0.48

Final count

BAKER, M * LP 32 176 48.56 -2.57

SIDEBOTTOM, S ALP 34 085 51.44 2.57

Formal 66 261 96.91 0.52

Informal 2 116 3.09 -0.52

Total/turnout 68 377 96.31

Enrolled 70 999

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Bradfield (NSW)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

BROOKMAN, V ALP 22 509 26.69 5.11

NELSON, B * LP 49 817 59.07 -3.41

GEMMELL, S GRN 9 495 11.26 0.01

TURNBULL, J FFP 759 0.90 -0.88

WISZNIEWSKI, W CDP 1 466 1.74 1.45

BUTLER, R CEC 285 0.34 0.34

Final count

BROOKMAN, V ALP 30 819 36.55 4.10

NELSON, B * LP 53 512 63.45 -4.10

Formal 84 331 96.01 0.53

Informal 3 501 3.99 -0.53

Total/turnout 87 832 94.03

Enrolled 93 405

Brand (WA)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

TREMAIN, B CDP 2 061 2.49 0.36

NEWHOUSE, A FFP 1 482 1.79 1.79

TOTTEN, R CEC 295 0.36 -0.64

GROSSMITH, H LDP 350 0.42 0.42

SCOTT, R ON 1 321 1.60 -1.16

GRAY, G # ALP 38 131 46.15 -0.94

EDMAN, P LP 31 882 38.58 -1.31

JECKS, D GRN 7 110 8.60 3.77

Final count

GRAY, G # ALP 45 959 55.62 0.97

EDMAN, P LP 36 673 44.38 -0.97

Formal 82 632 96.10 1.90

Informal 3 354 3.90 -1.90

Total/turnout 85 986 93.52

Enrolled 91 945

Brisbane (Qld)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

SAUNDERS, E SAL 566 0.68 0.28

O'BRIEN, T LP 32 989 39.40 -0.58

BEVIS, A * ALP 37 715 45.04 2.58

CONTARINO, N CEC 137 0.16 0.06

GUTHRIE, E GRN 9 882 11.80 2.47

WHITE, M FFP 1 183 1.41 -0.94

SINNAMON, D DEM 1 266 1.51 -0.10

Final count

O'BRIEN, T LP 36 212 43.24 -2.82

BEVIS, A * ALP 47 526 56.76 2.82

Formal 83 738 97.04 1.27

Informal 2 554 2.96 -1.27

Total/turnout 86 292 94.17

Enrolled 91 638

Bruce (Vic)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

RANDALL, A LP 30 257 37.57 -5.52

RAWLINS, B FFP 2 295 2.85 0.22

GROSSI, R DEM 1 012 1.26 -0.12

HERRMANN, S CDP 678 0.84 0.84

GRIFFIN, A * ALP 41 754 51.85 4.55

SMITH, N ON 433 0.54 0.54

CASSIDY, R GRN 4 102 5.09 -0.15

Final count

RANDALL, A LP 33 565 41.68 -4.84

GRIFFIN, A * ALP 46 966 58.32 4.84

Formal 80 531 96.29 0.72

Informal 3 106 3.71 -0.72

Total/turnout 83 637 94.58

Enrolled 88 434

Calare (NSW)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

SIMPSON, D CEC 794 0.96 0.13

ALLEN, M ALP 20 266 24.60 4.76

BUCKINGHAM, J GRN 2 351 2.85 0.17

COBB, J ^ NP 39 941 48.48 10.06

PRIESTLEY, G IND 19 035 23.10 23.10

Final count

ALLEN, M ALP 31 263 37.95 -0.64

COBB, J ^ NP 51 124 62.05 0.64

Formal 82 387 96.56 0.19

Informal 2 933 3.44 -0.19

Total/turnout 85 320 95.77

Enrolled 89 088

Calwell (Vic)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

BULLER, A FFP 3 747 4.34 1.98

CUTLER, P IND 624 0.72 0.72

YOHANNA, S CEC 1 817 2.11 -0.09

VAMVAKINOU, M * ALP 51 952 60.22 10.21

MUSOLINO, V DEM 799 0.93 -0.56

SHAUNE, B GRN 3 761 4.36 -0.90

HAMPSHIRE, D IND 391 0.45 0.45

GAGLIOTI, F SEP 273 0.32 0.32

LIVETT, D LP 22 906 26.55 -10.62

Final count

VAMVAKINOU, M * ALP 59 807 69.33 11.14

LIVETT, D LP 26 463 30.67 -11.14

Formal 86 270 95.15 0.39

Informal 4 399 4.85 -0.39

Total/turnout 90 669 94.83

Enrolled 95 608

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Canberra (ACT)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

BRESNAN, A GRN 14 878 12.95 2.65

COLBERT, N LP 40 359 35.13 -1.56

ELLIS, A * ALP 58 711 51.10 1.17

HOLDER, J CEC 953 0.83 0.13

Final count

COLBERT, N LP 43 871 38.18 -1.91

ELLIS, A * ALP 71 030 61.82 1.91

Formal 114 901 97.74 1.11

Informal 2 660 2.26 -1.11

Total/turnout 117 561 96.01

Enrolled 122 447

Canning (WA)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

HUGHES, J ALP 31 699 36.95 4.07

McCARTHY, B CEC 261 0.30 -0.56

HARDIE, D GRN 6 396 7.45 2.40

SWARTS, K CDP 2 427 2.83 0.42

GRASSO, R FFP 1 112 1.30 0.29

RANDALL, D * LP 42 639 49.70 -3.04

DEANE, B ON 1 264 1.47 -1.26

Final count

HUGHES, J ALP 38 109 44.42 3.96

RANDALL, D * LP 47 689 55.58 -3.96

Formal 85 798 96.70 2.41

Informal 2 925 3.30 -2.41

Total/turnout 88 723 93.73

Enrolled 94 661

Capricornia (Qld)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

KILPATRICK, S LP 15 416 18.12 6.96

OAKES, B IND 1 859 2.19 2.19

INGREY, B CEC 222 0.26 -0.52

LIVERMORE, K * ALP 47 508 55.84 9.89

BAMBRICK, P GRN 2 481 2.92 0.67

PRANGE, A DEM 422 0.50 -0.87

EATON, J FFP 1 508 1.77 -2.13

MILLS, R NP 15 664 18.41 -10.99

Final count

LIVERMORE, K * ALP 53 355 62.71 8.70

MILLS, R NP 31 725 37.29 -8.70

Formal 85 080 96.64 1.16

Informal 2 960 3.36 -1.16

Total/turnout 88 040 94.92

Enrolled 92 750

Casey (Vic)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

INGLESE, T DEM 1 546 1.85 0.60

MORAN, G CDP 533 0.64 0.64

SMITH, T * LP 41 897 50.15 -6.12

BEARD, D ALP 29 949 35.85 6.17

CRAIG, S GRN 6 112 7.32 -0.55

HARRISON, D FFP 3 501 4.19 0.14

Final count

SMITH, T * LP 46 726 55.93 -5.42

BEARD, D ALP 36 812 44.07 5.42

Formal 83 538 97.22 1.07

Informal 2 389 2.78 -1.07

Total/turnout 85 927 96.22

Enrolled 89 302

Charlton (NSW)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

ULRICH, S IND 2 008 2.41 2.41

PRITCHARD, S GRN 6 708 8.06 -0.71

STOW, D CEC 294 0.35 -0.23

COOK, T SEP 404 0.49 0.49

COMBET, G # ALP 44 156 53.08 6.47

PATERSON, L LP 26 353 31.68 -3.49

BARRY, P IND 1 253 1.51 1.51

KENDALL, J CDP 2 007 2.41 2.41

Final count

COMBET, G # ALP 52 298 62.87 4.47

PATERSON, L LP 30 885 37.13 -4.47

Formal 83 183 95.34 0.46

Informal 4 066 4.66 -0.46

Total/turnout 87 249 95.76

Enrolled 91 109

Chifley (NSW)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

COGAN, J SEP 1 069 1.33 1.33

JEWELL, E FFP 1 016 1.26 -0.24

HYLAND, W IND 484 0.60 -0.24

VINCENT, D CDP 2 751 3.42 -0.29

DIAZ, J LP 19 092 23.76 -6.62

KEDWELL, L ON 1 183 1.47 -0.53

TANDA, A IND 288 0.36 0.36

PRICE, R * ALP 51 568 64.18 10.12

FORRESTER, J GRN 2 897 3.61 -1.66

Final count

DIAZ, J LP 23 572 29.34 -8.69

PRICE, R * ALP 56 776 70.66 8.69

Formal 80 348 92.01 2.90

Informal 6 976 7.99 -2.90

Total/turnout 87 324 94.33

Enrolled 92 569

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Chisholm (Vic)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

ONG, G FFP 1 953 2.45 0.56

BURKE, A * ALP 38 439 48.12 4.13

KING, M LP 31 514 39.45 -4.16

BERK, D DEM 1 053 1.32 -0.69

THYSTRUP, L CEC 150 0.19 0.01

McCASKILL, A GRN 6 765 8.47 1.13

Final count

BURKE, A * ALP 45 833 57.38 4.73

KING, M LP 34 041 42.62 -4.73

Formal 79 874 97.39 0.74

Informal 2 139 2.61 -0.74

Total/turnout 82 013 95.27

Enrolled 86 084

Cook (NSW)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

STRANG, G IND 693 0.80 0.23

KATSOULAS, A FFP 596 0.69 0.69

POULOS, P IND 394 0.46 0.46

WAIZER, N GRN 5 342 6.20 -0.82

SMITH, B CDP 1 929 2.24 -0.17

BUTTIGIEG, M ALP 30 921 35.91 7.69

MORRISON, S # LP 45 116 52.40 -5.11

PUTRAL, R ON 1 116 1.30 -0.63

Final count

BUTTIGIEG, M ALP 37 396 43.43 6.71

MORRISON, S # LP 48 711 56.57 -6.71

Formal 86 107 96.13 1.59

Informal 3 465 3.87 -1.59

Total/turnout 89 572 95.91

Enrolled 93 393

Corangamite (Vic)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

KILLEEN, G DEM 1 512 1.67 1.67

CHEESEMAN, D ALP 37 886 41.91 5.16

EDWARDS, J FFP 3 217 3.56 0.82

McARTHUR, S * LP 40 408 44.70 -7.35

NELSON, F GRN 7 202 7.97 0.46

SABHLOK, S LDP 169 0.19 0.19

Final count

CHEESEMAN, D ALP 45 968 50.85 6.17

McARTHUR, S * LP 44 426 49.15 -6.17

Formal 90 394 97.47 0.51

Informal 2 347 2.53 -0.51

Total/turnout 92 741 96.47

Enrolled 96 133

Corio (Vic)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

WELDEN, D LDP 791 0.95 0.95

RUSSELL, R CEC 190 0.23 -0.08

JOHNSON, C SAL 332 0.40 -0.23

ALDERSON, G FFP 3 291 3.96 1.37

KAKOUROS, A LP 24 591 29.61 -10.68

O'CONNOR, G * IND 10 530 12.68 12.68

MENHEERE-THOMPSON, E DEM 628 0.76 0.76

MARLES, R ALP 37 778 45.49 -1.19

LEACH, R GRN 4 910 5.91 0.00

Final count

KAKOUROS, A LP 34 102 41.07 -3.29

MARLES, R ALP 48 939 58.93 3.29

Formal 83 041 96.27 0.65

Informal 3 213 3.73 -0.65

Total/turnout 86 254 95.42

Enrolled 90 390

Cowan (WA)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

LEE, K LDP 1 003 1.18 1.18

BLAKEWAY, R CEC 195 0.23 -0.14

HERRMANN, J GRN 4 778 5.63 0.04

SIMPKINS, L LP 38 872 45.81 1.42

FIRTH, M CDP 1 584 1.87 -0.58

RAMSAY, N IND 558 0.66 0.66

TIERNEY, D ON 783 0.92 -1.09

HAMERSLEY, R FFP 1 452 1.71 1.71

PRIME, L # ALP 35 633 41.99 -1.88

Final count

SIMPKINS, L LP 43 883 51.71 2.49

PRIME, L # ALP 40 975 48.29 -2.49

Formal 84 858 95.84 0.85

Informal 3 679 4.16 -0.85

Total/turnout 88 537 94.77

Enrolled 93 421

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Cowper (NSW)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

HARTSUYKER, L * NP 39 444 46.54 -3.92

SEKFY, P ALP 32 276 38.08 6.43

CARTY, J GRN 9 359 11.04 2.15

ARAPI-NUNEZ, F FFP 759 0.90 0.70

BELGRAVE, L LDP 491 0.58 0.58

LIONS, D CDP 2 428 2.86 2.86

Final count

HARTSUYKER, L * NP 43 423 51.23 -5.52

SEKFY, P ALP 41 334 48.77 5.51

Formal 84 757 96.02 0.36

Informal 3 510 3.98 -0.36

Total/turnout 88 267 95.15

Enrolled 92 762

Cunningham (NSW)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

ORGAN, M GRN 12 326 14.63 -4.80

MOORE, J SAL 706 0.84 0.45

TRIBE, J FFP 1 203 1.43 1.43

NORSWORTHY, N CDP 2 232 2.65 -0.54

FLANAGAN, J NCP 489 0.58 0.14

BIRD, S * ALP 44 835 53.23 12.46

FOWLER, C LP 22 438 26.64 -2.45

Final count

BIRD, S * ALP 57 382 68.13 6.51

FOWLER, C LP 26 847 31.87 -6.51

Formal 84 229 96.04 2.40

Informal 3 471 3.96 -2.40

Total/turnout 87 700 95.67

Enrolled 91 665

Curtin (WA)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

HEMSLEY, L GRN 10 649 13.45 1.97

GRANT, P ALP 19 419 24.53 0.78

FORDER, G CDP 1 004 1.27 -0.41

CUSTERS, B FFP 394 0.50 0.50

CAINE, A ON 329 0.42 -0.56

BISHOP, J * LP 46 912 59.27 -0.32

HELEL, S IND 445 0.56 0.56

Final count

GRANT, P ALP 28 832 36.43 1.05

BISHOP, J * LP 50 320 63.57 -1.05

Formal 79 152 98.09 1.61

Informal 1 542 1.91 -1.61

Total/turnout 80 694 93.68

Enrolled 86 138

Dawson (Qld)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

BELL, P GRN 3 489 4.37 0.93

KELLY, D * NP 33 948 42.48 -3.04

HARRIS, A CEC 432 0.54 -1.87

LEE, R FFP 2 398 3.00 -0.09

BIDGOOD, J ALP 38 423 48.09 16.44

DOYLE, C DEM 1 216 1.52 0.64

Final count

KELLY, D * NP 37 386 46.79 -13.20

BIDGOOD, J ALP 42 520 53.21 13.20

Formal 79 906 96.20 1.65

Informal 3 156 3.80 -1.65

Total/turnout 83 062 94.98

Enrolled 87 453

Deakin (Vic)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

STEVENSON, N LDP 586 0.71 0.71

BRONTE, F FFP 2 589 3.15 0.81

SYMON, M ALP 34 451 41.86 5.71

BARRESI, P * LP 36 501 44.35 -6.24

NICHOLSON, P DEM 1 205 1.46 -0.51

PEMBERTON, B GRN 6 978 8.48 0.62

Final count

SYMON, M ALP 42 319 51.41 6.38

BARRESI, P * LP 39 991 48.59 -6.38

Formal 82 310 97.91 0.97

Informal 1 756 2.09 -0.97

Total/turnout 84 066 95.89

Enrolled 87 670

Denison (Tas)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

GRAY, L LP 18 974 29.66 -2.90

MUNRO, R FFP 1 360 2.13 -0.34

LARNER, R CEC 243 0.38 0.38

AUSTIN, S SAL 494 0.77 -0.08

HUTCHINSON, H GRN 11 898 18.60 4.00

KERR, D * ALP 31 001 48.46 -1.05

Final count

GRAY, L LP 21 988 34.37 -2.34

KERR, D * ALP 41 982 65.63 2.34

Formal 63 970 97.50 0.61

Informal 1 640 2.50 -0.61

Total/turnout 65 610 95.30

Enrolled 68 848

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Dickson (Qld)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

SHUTTLEWORTH, D FFP 2 118 2.54 -1.75

DUTTON, P * LP 38 507 46.15 -6.65

CORNWELL, B LDP 258 0.31 0.31

WOOD, C CDP 323 0.39 0.39

NIELSEN, H GRN 5 006 6.00 0.38

McNAMARA, F ALP 36 438 43.67 9.54

KERIN, P DEM 797 0.96 -0.64

Final count

DUTTON, P * LP 41 832 50.13 -8.76

McNAMARA, F ALP 41 615 49.87 8.76

Formal 83 447 97.23 1.64

Informal 2 380 2.77 -1.64

Total/turnout 85 827 96.05

Enrolled 89 358

Dobell (NSW)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

ERVIN, H FFP 1 407 1.71 -0.49

DARBY, M CDP 1 549 1.88 1.88

BIRD, G LDP 182 0.22 0.22

RICKARD, S GRN 4 429 5.38 0.28

HUGHES, S CEC 157 0.19 0.03

EATON, D IND 1 639 1.99 1.99

THOMSON, C ALP 38 168 46.32 8.85

TICEHURST, K * LP 34 865 42.31 -6.32

Final count

THOMSON, C ALP 44 413 53.90 8.74

TICEHURST, K * LP 37 983 46.10 -8.74

Formal 82 396 95.68 2.97

Informal 3 719 4.32 -2.97

Total/turnout 86 115 95.29

Enrolled 90 369

Dunkley (Vic)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

ADAMS, N GRN 6 695 7.75 1.51

ASHDOWN, S FFP 2 235 2.59 0.24

BILLSON, B * LP 43 024 49.79 -5.75

McBRIDE, G ALP 33 055 38.26 4.69

BAILEY, K DEM 1 395 1.61 0.39

Final count

BILLSON, B * LP 46 693 54.04 -5.34

McBRIDE, G ALP 39 711 45.96 5.34

Formal 86 404 97.38 1.29

Informal 2 328 2.62 -1.29

Total/turnout 88 732 95.23

Enrolled 93 176

Eden-Monaro (NSW)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

ROSE, A IND 1 924 2.27 2.27

KELLY, M ALP 37 724 44.56 6.64

CHIVERS, M CDP 911 1.08 -0.30

HARRIS, P FFP 657 0.78 0.58

NAIRN, G * LP 36 863 43.55 -5.85

QUILTY, T LDP 272 0.32 0.32

HUGHES, K GRN 6 303 7.45 0.53

Final count

KELLY, M ALP 45 207 53.40 6.67

NAIRN, G * LP 39 447 46.60 -6.67

Formal 84 654 96.31 1.10

Informal 3 239 3.69 -1.10

Total/turnout 87 893 95.97

Enrolled 91 584

Fadden (Qld)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

MARTIN, K CEC 582 0.70 -0.09

WALTER, J ON 695 0.83 -1.23

DOUGLAS, A NP 6 177 7.40 7.40

FAINT, C DEM 504 0.60 -0.94

MONTGOMERY, D IND 1 065 1.28 1.28

ROBERT, S # LP 40 813 48.92 -11.17

WILSON, R FFP 1 743 2.09 -1.73

WATSON, R ALP 28 106 33.69 6.14

BEALE, M GRN 3 748 4.49 0.36

Final count

ROBERT, S # LP 50 228 60.20 -5.70

WATSON, R ALP 33 205 39.80 5.70

Formal 83 433 95.69 1.80

Informal 3 754 4.31 -1.80

Total/turnout 87 187 93.85

Enrolled 92 901

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Fairfax (Qld)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

WATT, K CEC 514 0.63 0.42

HASHEMI, J DEM 764 0.93 -1.25

NORRIS, D GRN 7 011 8.53 0.36

WOODS, L FFP 3 287 4.00 -1.01

SAVAGE, K ON 861 1.05 -2.07

BLUMEL, D ALP 29 960 36.46 9.22

PHILLIPS, M IND 1 300 1.58 1.58

SOMLYAY, A * LP 38 470 46.82 -6.90

Final count

BLUMEL, D ALP 38 609 46.99 9.40

SOMLYAY, A * LP 43 558 53.01 -9.40

Formal 82 167 96.65 1.72

Informal 2 852 3.35 -1.72

Total/turnout 85 019 94.25

Enrolled 90 202

Farrer (NSW)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

LEY, S * LP 49 794 57.73 5.90

LEVER, R FFP 2 657 3.08 1.59

HENDERSON, D CCE 1 088 1.26 1.26

RYAN, C ALP 28 238 32.74 6.30

MATHERS, P CEC 313 0.36 -0.15

STONEHOUSE, D GRN 4 169 4.83 1.28

Final count

LEY, S * LP 52 766 61.17 -5.46

RYAN, C ALP 33 493 38.83 5.46

Formal 86 259 96.18 2.38

Informal 3 427 3.82 -2.38

Total/turnout 89 686 95.50

Enrolled 93 915

Fisher (Qld)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

MAIN, D ALP 27 074 33.97 3.05

GRAY, M GRN 4 474 5.61 -0.09

CUMMING, G FFP 1 728 2.17 -1.33

KERR, C DEM 655 0.82 -0.78

SLIPPER, P * LP 35 182 44.14 -10.11

HUTCHINSON, C IND 10 596 13.29 13.29

Final count

MAIN, D ALP 37 384 46.90 7.88

SLIPPER, P * LP 42 325 53.10 -7.88

Formal 79 709 97.06 2.72

Informal 2 418 2.94 -2.72

Total/turnout 82 127 94.69

Enrolled 86 736

Flinders (Vic)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

HUNT, G * LP 48 343 54.47 -3.70

BATTEN, D DEM 822 0.93 0.07

BROWN, B GRN 7 529 8.48 2.21

EASTMAN, C FFP 1 988 2.24 0.51

MARCH, G ALP 30 073 33.88 2.99

Final count

HUNT, G * LP 51 697 58.25 -2.86

MARCH, G ALP 37 058 41.75 2.86

Formal 88 755 97.22 1.56

Informal 2 538 2.78 -1.56

Total/turnout 91 293 95.44

Enrolled 95 653

Flynn (Qld)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

TREVOR, C ALP 35 892 44.76 9.18

ROSE, J LP 11 850 14.78 12.32

JOB, J LDP 196 0.24 0.24

DRYSDALE, M FFP 1 662 2.07 -2.39

NOBLE, J DEM 535 0.67 -0.47

CHURCHILL, G # NP 26 907 33.56 -13.34

COSTELLO, P IND 761 0.95 0.95

SCOTT, D IND 807 1.01 1.01

PETTINATO, M GRN 1 577 1.97 -0.65

Final count

TREVOR, C ALP 40 220 50.16 7.88

CHURCHILL, G # NP 39 967 49.84 -7.88

Formal 80 187 95.95 0.26

Informal 3 385 4.05 -0.26

Total/turnout 83 572 95.01

Enrolled 87 958

Forde (Qld)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

BAN, H NP 9 550 12.20 12.12

RAGUSE, B ALP 34 721 44.35 12.15

HOPE, D CEC 216 0.28 0.05

CREIGHTON, W # LP 26 576 33.95 -19.14

SYED, M DEM 419 0.54 -0.79

GRODECKI, A GRN 3 756 4.80 0.73

EVANS, R ON 671 0.86 -2.87

COYLE, C IND 623 0.80 0.80

ABRAHAMSON, I FFP 1 756 2.24 -1.84

Final count

RAGUSE, B ALP 41 419 52.91 14.43

CREIGHTON, W # LP 36 869 47.09 -14.43

Formal 78 288 95.39 1.95

Informal 3 782 4.61 -1.95

Total/turnout 82 070 94.03

Enrolled 87 283

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Forrest (WA)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

MACFARLANE, P ALP 25 883 30.18 2.25

KNOLL, L FFP 1 150 1.34 -0.31

MARINO, N # LP 38 928 45.40 -8.02

LEWIS, J CDP 1 643 1.92 0.32

YARDLEY, J ON 928 1.08 -2.36

BRUNNING, N IND 9 924 11.57 11.57

TUFFNELL, I CEC 144 0.17 -0.26

GIBSON, K GRN 7 150 8.34 -0.11

Final count

MACFARLANE, P ALP 37 879 44.17 4.62

MARINO, N # LP 47 871 55.83 -4.62

Formal 85 750 96.67 2.17

Informal 2 954 3.33 -2.17

Total/turnout 88 704 94.69

Enrolled 93 680

Fowler (NSW)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

VEGA, V GRN 4 289 5.49 -0.10

TOROSSIAN, R LP 21 706 27.79 -5.07

TERMEULEN, P CDP 1 932 2.47 1.78

IRWIN, J * ALP 50 180 64.25 8.54

Final count

TOROSSIAN, R LP 24 801 31.75 -4.93

IRWIN, J * ALP 53 306 68.25 4.93

Formal 78 107 92.33 1.20

Informal 6 490 7.67 -1.20

Total/turnout 84 597 94.82

Enrolled 89 217

Franklin (Tas)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

GOODWIN, V LP 27 742 41.02 2.35

COLLINS, J # ALP 27 990 41.39 -5.03

HONEY, R CEC 262 0.39 0.39

VELNAAR, G GRN 9 769 14.44 3.26

HOLLOWAY, M SAL 365 0.54 0.01

PAPICCIO, G FFP 1 504 2.22 -0.98

Final count

GOODWIN, V LP 30 787 45.52 3.11

COLLINS, J # ALP 36 845 54.48 -3.11

Formal 67 632 97.28 0.68

Informal 1 893 2.72 -0.68

Total/turnout 69 525 95.84

Enrolled 72 545

Fraser (ACT)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

CHURCHILL, D DEM 2 509 2.31 -0.27

WILLIAMS, T LP 33 936 31.23 -2.41

McMULLAN, B * ALP 55 533 51.10 0.50

ARNOLD, J CEC 342 0.31 0.31

IQBAL, F SAL 539 0.50 -1.42

TARANTO, K IND 1 275 1.17 1.17

HUNTER, M GRN 14 546 13.38 2.12

Final count

WILLIAMS, T LP 37 965 34.93 -1.75

McMULLAN, B * ALP 70 715 65.07 1.75

Formal 108 680 97.64 1.15

Informal 2 629 2.36 -1.15

Total/turnout 111 309 95.68

Enrolled 116 339

Fremantle (WA)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

WALKER, S GRN 11 645 14.57 2.79

PARKE, M # ALP 36 102 45.18 0.60

ELLISON, P CEC 242 0.30 -0.80

DU PLESSIS, A FFP 1 145 1.43 1.43

WAINWRIGHT, S SAL 361 0.45 -0.03

JAMIESON, J LP 28 042 35.10 -0.84

HEGGERS, B CDP 1 376 1.72 -0.38

BATEMAN, S ON 988 1.24 -1.08

Final count

PARKE, M # ALP 47 253 59.14 1.38

JAMIESON, J LP 32 648 40.86 -1.38

Formal 79 901 95.75 2.60

Informal 3 548 4.25 -2.60

Total/turnout 83 449 93.78

Enrolled 88 984

Gellibrand (Vic)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

COURTICE, B SAL 1 334 1.59 0.95

RICHARDS, R DEM 1 088 1.29 -0.01

GIBSON, R GRN 7 898 9.38 0.30

O'NEIL, D IND 1 950 2.32 2.32

TSENG, W LP 19 220 22.84 -8.73

GARG, M FFP 1 700 2.02 0.18

ROXON, N * ALP 50 681 60.22 5.60

DOEL, R CEC 285 0.34 0.15

Final count

TSENG, W LP 24 022 28.54 -6.50

ROXON, N * ALP 60 134 71.46 6.50

Formal 84 156 95.78 2.35

Informal 3 712 4.22 -2.35

Total/turnout 87 868 94.16

Enrolled 93 322

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Gilmore (NSW)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

GASH, J * LP 40 513 50.39 -3.83

BLAKE, S CCE 370 0.46 0.46

REILLY, N ALP 30 386 37.79 5.71

van der WIJNGAART, B GRN 6 070 7.55 0.32

NONE, O IND 686 0.85 0.85

GREENHALGH, B FFP 407 0.51 0.51

HUNT, W CEC 59 0.07 -0.09

BRUMERSKYJ, B CDP 1 755 2.18 -1.71

RAMSEY, K LDP 151 0.19 0.19

Final count

GASH, J * LP 43 467 54.07 -5.34

REILLY, N ALP 36 930 45.93 5.34

Formal 80 397 95.79 0.24

Informal 3 536 4.21 -0.24

Total/turnout 83 933 95.94

Enrolled 87 489

Gippsland (Vic)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

MCADAM, H WWW 1 825 2.07 2.07

WRATHALL, J GRN 4 881 5.54 1.16

ROWELL, M FFP 3 802 4.31 1.49

McGAURAN, P * NP 42 632 48.37 -0.36

BUCKLEY, B IND 2 787 3.16 3.16

ROWE, J ALP 32 214 36.55 2.46

Final count

McGAURAN, P * NP 49 280 55.91 -1.79

ROWE, J ALP 38 861 44.09 1.79

Formal 88 141 97.02 1.25

Informal 2 710 2.98 -1.25

Total/turnout 90 851 95.67

Enrolled 94 967

Goldstein (Vic)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

BAILEY, M DEM 1 422 1.67 0.44

MASON, J ALP 28 734 33.69 3.23

PILLING, N GRN 8 846 10.37 1.51

KHOO, J FFP 970 1.14 -0.19

ROBB, A * LP 45 141 52.92 -3.06

HORNE, C CEC 186 0.22 0.01

Final count

MASON, J ALP 37 488 43.95 3.98

ROBB, A * LP 47 811 56.05 -3.98

Formal 85 299 97.58 0.98

Informal 2 112 2.42 -0.98

Total/turnout 87 411 94.96

Enrolled 92 049

Gorton (Vic)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

HUGHES, V DLP 3 516 3.71 3.71

O'CONNOR, B * ALP 58 732 61.93 2.56

JENNISON, S LP 23 063 24.32 -8.10

AMBERLEY, S FFP 3 746 3.95 1.46

TRUONG, H GRN 5 775 6.09 0.99

Final count

O'CONNOR, B * ALP 67 535 71.22 6.32

JENNISON, S LP 27 297 28.78 -6.32

Formal 94 832 95.56 0.62

Informal 4 405 4.44 -0.62

Total/turnout 99 237 94.92

Enrolled 104 549

Grayndler (NSW)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

HINMAN, P SAL 1 394 1.66 0.45

CAFFERY, D LP 17 485 20.86 -4.77

HENNIEN, E CDP 1 042 1.24 1.06

ALBANESE, A * ALP 46 509 55.47 4.77

O'CONNOR, P SEP 328 0.39 0.39

KHAN, S GRN 15 675 18.70 -1.34

GABRIEL, J DEM 1 407 1.68 -0.35

Final count

CAFFERY, D LP 21 019 25.07 -3.74

ALBANESE, A * ALP 62 821 74.93 3.74

Formal 83 840 94.02 -0.22

Informal 5 333 5.98 0.22

Total/turnout 89 173 93.80

Enrolled 95 070

Greenway (NSW)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

IVOR, F IND 1 343 1.67 1.44

VASSILI, M ALP 30 973 38.47 9.11

MARKUS, L * LP 40 338 50.10 -5.07

REVES, G CEC 228 0.28 0.16

PHILLIPS, J CDP 1 711 2.12 -0.07

WILLIAMS, L GRN 4 617 5.73 0.20

MULLER, J FFP 1 312 1.63 0.09

Final count

VASSILI, M ALP 36 641 45.50 6.85

MARKUS, L * LP 43 881 54.50 -6.85

Formal 80 522 95.37 4.29

Informal 3 908 4.63 -4.29

Total/turnout 84 430 95.66

Enrolled 88 265

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Grey (SA)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

RAMSEY, R # LP 42 132 47.26 -9.24

GARLAND, R GRN 3 669 4.12 0.82

KLEIN, W NP 2 725 3.06 3.06

HOLLAND, M FFP 4 009 4.50 -0.55

WRIGHT, D IND 1 050 1.18 1.18

BOLTON, K ALP 34 466 38.66 8.35

ROBERTSON, G DEM 1 094 1.23 -1.11

Final count

RAMSEY, R # LP 48 522 54.43 -9.39

BOLTON, K ALP 40 623 45.57 9.39

Formal 89 145 95.75 0.80

Informal 3 961 4.25 -0.80

Total/turnout 93 106 94.95

Enrolled 98 058

Griffith (Qld)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

THOMAS, C LP 28 133 33.98 -3.49

MYERS, S LDP 182 0.22 0.22

MCILROY, J SAL 293 0.35 -0.35

RUDD, K * ALP 43 957 53.09 4.31

BACH, W GRN 6 496 7.85 -0.97

HOWARD, P IND 2 264 2.73 2.73

HASSALL, A FFP 654 0.79 -1.17

COTTERILL, R DEM 819 0.99 -0.33

Final count

THOMAS, C LP 31 198 37.68 -3.84

RUDD, K * ALP 51 600 62.32 3.83

Formal 82 798 97.12 1.38

Informal 2 457 2.88 -1.38

Total/turnout 85 255 93.62

Enrolled 91 065

Groom (Qld)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

COLLINS, P GRN 4 028 4.84 0.82

VOLKER, G IND 616 0.74 0.74

JONES, I CEC 263 0.32 -0.06

FINDLAY, P FFP 3 649 4.38 -1.99

BERRY, R IND 715 0.86 0.86

NAJEEB, S DEM 608 0.73 -0.33

MEIBUSCH, C ALP 28 994 34.83 10.73

JEANNERET, R IND 497 0.60 -1.75

MACFARLANE, I * LP 43 880 52.71 -7.52

Final count

MEIBUSCH, C ALP 34 782 41.78 10.59

MACFARLANE, I * LP 48 468 58.22 -10.59

Formal 83 250 96.94 0.94

Informal 2 627 3.06 -0.94

Total/turnout 85 877 95.46

Enrolled 89 963

Hasluck (WA)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

VINCENT, N CEC 687 0.94 -0.34

BREMMER, J GRN 6 258 8.52 1.66

CHIA, S LDP 292 0.40 0.40

JACKSON, S ALP 30 471 41.48 3.19

BOLT, S FFP 863 1.17 1.17

HENRY, S * LP 31 541 42.94 -2.43

GAUGG, B ON 1 121 1.53 -1.84

MERRELLS, R CDP 2 229 3.03 -0.07

Final count

JACKSON, S ALP 37 657 51.26 3.08

HENRY, S * LP 35 805 48.74 -3.08

Formal 73 462 95.58 0.56

Informal 3 397 4.42 -0.56

Total/turnout 76 859 93.35

Enrolled 82 333

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Herbert (Qld)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

THOMPSON, B LDP 505 0.62 0.62

STIRLING, J GRN 4 201 5.13 0.17

SHERIDAN, S DEM 476 0.58 -0.73

LYNCH, G IND 487 0.60 0.60

PAULER, F ON 748 0.91 -2.43

LINDSAY, P * LP 37 397 45.70 -2.68

PUNSHON, M FFP 1 283 1.57 -2.33

BRENNAN, B IND 900 1.10 1.10

COLBRAN, G ALP 35 838 43.79 7.81

Final count

LINDSAY, P * LP 41 089 50.21 -6.03

COLBRAN, G ALP 40 746 49.79 6.03

Formal 81 835 95.81 1.31

Informal 3 575 4.19 -1.31

Total/turnout 85 410 94.09

Enrolled 90 776

Higgins (Vic)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

COSTELLO, P * LP 43 761 53.61 -1.59

WILBUR-HAM, M GRN 8 777 10.75 -0.60

BADWAL, P FFP 627 0.77 -0.06

MEDDINGS, G IND 227 0.28 0.28

MAYNE, S IND 1 615 1.98 1.98

NORMAN, B ALP 25 367 31.08 0.58

DETTMAN, M DEM 990 1.21 -0.61

FORDE, G IND 265 0.32 0.32

Final count

COSTELLO, P * LP 46 559 57.04 -1.72

NORMAN, B ALP 35 070 42.96 1.72

Formal 81 629 97.43 0.19

Informal 2 150 2.57 -0.19

Total/turnout 83 779 93.77

Enrolled 89 345

Hindmarsh (SA)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

WHITE, T GRN 6 335 6.98 1.87

ROBINS, H WWW 662 0.73 0.73

BUNTING, R FFP 1 925 2.12 -0.13

BOURAS, R LP 36 356 40.08 -5.80

GEORGANAS, S * ALP 42 818 47.21 4.88

WARRY, J LDP 171 0.19 0.19

DUNCAN, C IND 619 0.68 0.68

WILLIAMS, J DEM 1 818 2.00 0.43

Final count

BOURAS, R LP 40 767 44.95 -4.99

GEORGANAS, S * ALP 49 937 55.05 4.99

Formal 90 704 96.16 3.09

Informal 3 618 3.84 -3.09

Total/turnout 94 322 95.37

Enrolled 98 899

Hinkler (Qld)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

PARR, G ALP 35 267 42.88 8.91

RUB, C FFP 2 886 3.51 -0.63

DICKES, C GRN 3 383 4.11 0.38

NEVILLE, P * NP 38 194 46.44 -2.12

BROMWICH, R DEM 632 0.77 -0.24

WELLS, R IND 1 887 2.29 0.67

Final count

PARR, G ALP 39 734 48.31 6.65

NEVILLE, P * NP 42 515 51.69 -6.65

Formal 82 249 96.09 0.92

Informal 3 345 3.91 -0.92

Total/turnout 85 594 95.08

Enrolled 90 026

Holt (Vic)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

CICCHIELLO, E LP 31 785 34.22 -8.63

DE ZILWA, Y FFP 4 076 4.39 0.22

BYRNE, A * ALP 51 689 55.65 9.98

SEYMOUR, K DEM 1 155 1.24 -0.18

KELEHER, L GRN 3 823 4.12 -0.34

MORGAN, C CEC 347 0.37 -1.06

Final count

CICCHIELLO, E LP 35 638 38.37 -10.12

BYRNE, A * ALP 57 237 61.63 10.12

Formal 92 875 96.44 0.79

Informal 3 430 3.56 -0.79

Total/turnout 96 305 95.43

Enrolled 100 916

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Hotham (Vic)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

BILLMAN, M GRN 5 572 6.85 1.46

CREAN, S * ALP 44 853 55.15 3.93

WOODWARD, M CEC 240 0.30 0.02

FARRELL, T DLP 758 0.93 0.93

CADBY, C DEM 800 0.98 -0.25

ARBOREA, V LP 27 451 33.75 -5.22

DORIAN, P FFP 1 657 2.04 -0.53

Final count

CREAN, S * ALP 51 240 63.00 5.60

ARBOREA, V LP 30 091 37.00 -5.60

Formal 81 331 96.70 0.94

Informal 2 772 3.30 -0.94

Total/turnout 84 103 94.79

Enrolled 88 723

Hughes (NSW)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

VALE, D * LP 40 334 48.29 -4.73

MEZYED, J FFP 1 033 1.24 1.24

PATERSON, J GRN 4 646 5.56 -1.20

HOLLAND, G ALP 35 087 42.01 8.26

VANDERJAGT, J CDP 2 419 2.90 -0.07

Final count

VALE, D * LP 43 562 52.16 -6.39

HOLLAND, G ALP 39 957 47.84 6.39

Formal 83 519 95.74 1.26

Informal 3 712 4.26 -1.26

Total/turnout 87 231 95.70

Enrolled 91 154

Hume (NSW)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

TRENT, C FFP 1 958 2.33 2.33

PEET, G CDP 2 010 2.39 -1.09

CLARK, J GRN 6 414 7.63 0.68

SCHULTZ, A * LP 41 344 49.18 -7.45

GRANT, D ALP 31 882 37.93 8.88

COSGROVE, L CEC 455 0.54 -0.08

Final count

SCHULTZ, A * LP 45 526 54.16 -8.69

GRANT, D ALP 38 537 45.84 8.69

Formal 84 063 96.61 1.68

Informal 2 946 3.39 -1.68

Total/turnout 87 009 96.24

Enrolled 90 404

Hunter (NSW)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

ALBURY, D CEC 1 287 1.56 -1.33

DAVIS, J GRN 5 265 6.37 0.11

BLACK, B NP 22 328 27.01 -2.89

HARVEY, J CCC 2 500 3.02 3.02

FITZGIBBON, J * ALP 49 561 59.95 8.63

NEVILLE, B CDP 1 736 2.10 0.36

Final count

BLACK, B NP 28 173 34.08 -4.83

FITZGIBBON, J * ALP 54 504 65.92 4.83

Formal 82 677 95.71 0.95

Informal 3 710 4.29 -0.95

Total/turnout 86 387 95.77

Enrolled 90 199

Indi (Vic)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

LESCHEN, Z ALP 27 203 32.12 5.89

ROBINSON, H GRN 6 416 7.58 1.15

BENSON, S DEM 1 434 1.69 1.69

MIRABELLA, S * LP 46 052 54.38 -8.25

BECK, J CEC 354 0.42 -0.25

RAINEY, J FFP 3 232 3.82 -0.22

Final count

LESCHEN, Z ALP 34 559 40.81 7.10

MIRABELLA, S * LP 50 132 59.19 -7.10

Formal 84 691 97.32 0.20

Informal 2 332 2.68 -0.20

Total/turnout 87 023 95.80

Enrolled 90 841

Isaacs (Vic)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

FORD, G IND 1 137 1.26 0.49

NORRIE, R LDP 492 0.54 0.54

LONG, C GRN 5 636 6.24 -1.07

PLEITER, J FFP 2 308 2.55 0.15

DREYFUS, M # ALP 44 056 48.76 4.45

FOX, R LP 34 762 38.47 -4.82

CHIPP, L DEM 1 970 2.18 1.15

Final count

DREYFUS, M # ALP 52 131 57.69 6.21

FOX, R LP 38 230 42.31 -6.21

Formal 90 361 96.69 1.73

Informal 3 092 3.31 -1.73

Total/turnout 93 453 95.18

Enrolled 98 189

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Jagajaga (Vic)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

LELE, S CEC 496 0.57 0.38

MACKLIN, J * ALP 42 154 48.16 3.38

HODGSON, L GRN 8 971 10.25 1.94

CONLON, A FFP 2 065 2.36 0.07

D'SOUZA, C LP 32 870 37.55 -4.78

GRAHAM, J DEM 979 1.12 -0.03

Final count

MACKLIN, J * ALP 51 630 58.98 4.58

D'SOUZA, C LP 35 905 41.02 -4.58

Formal 87 535 97.55 1.53

Informal 2 196 2.45 -1.53

Total/turnout 89 731 95.72

Enrolled 93 740

Kalgoorlie (WA)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

THIEL, S ALP 26 653 40.65 8.73

BURT, I CEC 275 0.42 -0.07

PATTERSON, R CDP 962 1.47 0.19

HAASE, B * LP 31 565 48.14 2.68

CHAPPLE, R GRN 4 045 6.17 -0.16

ROSE, I FFP 820 1.25 1.25

DALTON, C LDP 176 0.27 0.27

MAJOR, D ON 1 075 1.64 -0.69

Final count

THIEL, S ALP 31 097 47.42 3.72

HAASE, B * LP 34 474 52.58 -3.72

Formal 65 571 95.93 1.27

Informal 2 785 4.07 -1.27

Total/turnout 68 356 84.58

Enrolled 80 821

Kennedy (Qld)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

MORRISON, E NP 20 292 24.65 1.17

KATTER, B * IND 32 537 39.53 -0.23

HANKIN, B ON 1 441 1.75 -2.71

DOUGLAS, K FFP 1 674 2.03 -1.12

REILLY, F GRN 2 649 3.22 -0.31

NEILAN, A ALP 23 122 28.09 4.13

ASPLIN, N DEM 604 0.73 0.03

Final count

KATTER, B * IND 54 571 66.29 -2.53

NEILAN, A ALP 27 748 33.71 2.53

Formal 82 319 96.16 0.62

Informal 3 291 3.84 -0.62

Total/turnout 85 610 93.35

Enrolled 91 713

Kingsford Smith (NSW)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

SAFARI, A SEP 1 096 1.26 1.26

MAHONY, S GRN 8 995 10.37 2.53

GARRETT, P * ALP 45 831 52.85 4.24

CAMPBELL, M CDP 1 402 1.62 1.62

BEINKE, C LP 29 402 33.90 -2.13

Final count

GARRETT, P * ALP 54 889 63.29 4.56

BEINKE, C LP 31 837 36.71 -4.56

Formal 86 726 94.67 2.97

Informal 4 884 5.33 -2.97

Total/turnout 91 610 94.11

Enrolled 97 340

Kingston (SA)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

RICHARDSON, K * LP 35 961 39.74 -3.85

BECKER, B IND 505 0.56 0.56

WELLER, B GRN 5 132 5.67 0.37

FOWLER, M DEM 859 0.95 -1.21

RISHWORTH, A ALP 42 212 46.65 4.36

BROKENSHIRE, R FFP 5 169 5.71 0.07

KUSZNIR, A IND 380 0.42 0.42

SMITH, L LDP 273 0.30 0.30

Final count

RICHARDSON, K * LP 41 244 45.58 -4.49

RISHWORTH, A ALP 49 247 54.42 4.49

Formal 90 491 96.27 2.04

Informal 3 505 3.73 -2.04

Total/turnout 93 996 95.97

Enrolled 97 939

Kooyong (Vic)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

HARVEY, K ALP 24 599 30.03 1.02

LAIDLER, J FFP 1 261 1.54 0.16

GEORGIOU, P * LP 45 172 55.14 0.48

COLLYER, D DEM 1 056 1.29 -0.56

CURTIS, P CEC 154 0.19 -0.37

CAMPBELL, P GRN 9 686 11.82 -0.72

Final count

HARVEY, K ALP 33 153 40.47 0.05

GEORGIOU, P * LP 48 775 59.53 -0.05

Formal 81 928 97.90 0.80

Informal 1 756 2.10 -0.80

Total/turnout 83 684 94.80

Enrolled 88 273

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La Trobe (Vic)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

WOOD, J * LP 39 636 46.48 -4.74

COCKS, R ALP 34 448 40.39 6.62

TAYLOR, B GRN 7 539 8.84 -0.57

ZUBIC, J FFP 2 423 2.84 0.49

BEILHARZ, K CEC 140 0.16 0.01

SINGH, S LDP 85 0.10 0.10

BEALE, C DEM 1 012 1.19 -0.30

Final count

WOOD, J * LP 43 077 50.51 -5.32

COCKS, R ALP 42 206 49.49 5.32

Formal 85 283 96.72 0.74

Informal 2 896 3.28 -0.74

Total/turnout 88 179 95.84

Enrolled 92 005

Lalor (Vic)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

CURTIS, P LP 28 435 29.77 -7.68

GLEESON, S FFP 4 199 4.40 1.22

KREPP, L DLP 969 1.01 1.01

TILLEY, J GRN 3 836 4.02 -0.10

HOWE, R DEM 879 0.92 -0.52

GILLARD, J * ALP 57 208 59.89 6.64

Final count

CURTIS, P LP 32 926 34.47 -6.74

GILLARD, J * ALP 62 600 65.53 6.74

Formal 95 526 96.51 1.36

Informal 3 457 3.49 -1.36

Total/turnout 98 983 95.42

Enrolled 103 729

Leichhardt (Qld)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

JOHNSTON, S IND 1 448 1.75 1.75

LENNOX, B DEM 472 0.57 -0.69

HUDSON, T IND 320 0.39 0.39

MILLER, N IND 1 090 1.31 1.31

CROSSLAND, I NP 3 302 3.98 3.98

TURNOUR, J ALP 35 762 43.12 12.08

CORY, S GRN 6 219 7.50 0.99

JACOBSEN, B FFP 1 087 1.31 -1.38

MCKILLOP, C # LP 32 187 38.81 -14.80

PUGH, R IND 139 0.17 0.17

BYRNES, D IND 917 1.11 1.11

Final count

TURNOUR, J ALP 44 816 54.03 14.29

MCKILLOP, C # LP 38 127 45.97 -14.29

Formal 82 943 94.94 0.94

Informal 4 417 5.06 -0.94

Total/turnout 87 360 92.63

Enrolled 94 312

Lilley (Qld)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

CLARK, A LDP 455 0.54 0.54

SWAN, W * ALP 43 058 51.57 2.58

McCONNEL, S LP 31 944 38.26 -2.80

KEAN HAMMERSON, S GRN 5 654 6.77 1.12

CLUSE, J DEM 1 015 1.22 -0.28

GRAY, K FFP 1 376 1.65 -1.15

Final count

SWAN, W * ALP 48 921 58.59 3.19

McCONNEL, S LP 34 581 41.41 -3.19

Formal 83 502 97.04 1.69

Informal 2 548 2.96 -1.69

Total/turnout 86 050 94.82

Enrolled 90 749

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Lindsay (NSW)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

BAYLEY, G LDP 689 0.84 0.84

EDWARDS, L GRN 2 759 3.38 -0.38

CHIJOFF, K # LP 31 176 38.15 -7.49

HARROLD, L IND 953 1.17 1.17

MULLER, I FFP 915 1.12 -0.32

GREEN, A CDP 2 498 3.06 0.31

BRADBURY, D ALP 41 991 51.39 11.68

McNALLY, K IND 728 0.89 0.89

Final count

CHIJOFF, K # LP 35 315 43.22 -9.70

BRADBURY, D ALP 46 394 56.78 9.70

Formal 81 709 94.46 2.32

Informal 4 791 5.54 -2.32

Total/turnout 86 500 95.72

Enrolled 90 366

Lingiari (NT)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

SNOWDON, W * ALP 25 213 53.99 3.33

WRIGHT, W IND 864 1.85 1.85

RYAN, M IND 1 206 2.58 2.58

GILES, A CLP 16 189 34.66 -3.70

YOUNG, E GRN 3 231 6.92 1.34

Final count

SNOWDON, W * ALP 28 565 61.16 3.50

GILES, A CLP 18 138 38.84 -3.50

Formal 46 703 95.15 0.09

Informal 2 381 4.85 -0.09

Total/turnout 49 084 81.26

Enrolled 60 404

Longman (Qld)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

OSS-EMER, L DEM 1 153 1.40 -0.29

MacDONALD, T LDP 410 0.50 0.50

URQUHART, P FFP 1 525 1.86 -1.35

COSTIN, P GRN 3 486 4.24 0.36

SULLIVAN, J ALP 39 434 47.98 10.92

WINNIAK, D CEC 166 0.20 0.20

BROUGH, M * LP 36 009 43.82 -7.32

Final count

SULLIVAN, J ALP 44 026 53.57 10.32

BROUGH, M * LP 38 157 46.43 -10.32

Formal 82 183 96.53 2.18

Informal 2 950 3.47 -2.18

Total/turnout 85 133 94.83

Enrolled 89 774

Lowe (NSW)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

RERCERETNAM, M GRN 6 774 8.61 -0.07

MURPHY, J * ALP 38 766 49.27 6.23

SHAILER, B CDP 1 616 2.05 0.04

TSOLAKIS, J LP 31 518 40.06 -2.90

Final count

MURPHY, J * ALP 45 136 57.37 4.34

TSOLAKIS, J LP 33 538 42.63 -4.34

Formal 78 674 95.05 1.65

Informal 4 098 4.95 -1.65

Total/turnout 82 772 94.98

Enrolled 87 146

Lyne (NSW)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

WRIGHT, B IND 979 1.24 1.24

RUSSELL, S GRN 5 649 7.15 2.37

VAILE, M * NP 41 319 52.26 -4.44

LANGLEY, J ALP 25 358 32.07 5.52

SCOTT-IRVING, S IND 330 0.42 0.42

HARRISON, J IND 3 326 4.21 4.21

RIACH, R IND 238 0.30 0.30

MULDOON, G CEC 184 0.23 -0.02

WALDRON, R CDP 1 679 2.12 2.12

Final count

VAILE, M * NP 46 311 58.58 -4.83

LANGLEY, J ALP 32 751 41.42 4.83

Formal 79 062 94.93 0.23

Informal 4 220 5.07 -0.23

Total/turnout 83 282 95.93

Enrolled 86 814

Lyons (Tas)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

WILLIAMS, R CEC 819 1.29 0.78

CASSIDY, K GRN 7 089 11.17 1.22

QUIN, B IND 6 092 9.60 9.60

PARSONS, A FFP 1 427 2.25 -0.40

ADAMS, D * ALP 27 374 43.15 -1.41

PAGE, G LP 20 643 32.54 -9.79

Final count

ADAMS, D * ALP 37 292 58.78 5.10

PAGE, G LP 26 152 41.22 -5.10

Formal 63 444 96.94 0.89

Informal 2 005 3.06 -0.89

Total/turnout 65 449 95.65

Enrolled 68 424

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Macarthur (NSW)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

BLEASDALE, N ALP 33 688 43.97 12.55

RAUE, B GRN 3 334 4.35 -0.52

FARMER, P * LP 35 996 46.98 -8.79

ELLIOTT-HALLS, S DEM 618 0.81 -0.12

GOH, G CDP 1 357 1.77 -0.77

THOMPSON, A NCP 306 0.40 0.40

RAUCH, D FFP 1 323 1.73 -0.19

Final count

BLEASDALE, N ALP 37 757 49.28 10.43

FARMER, P * LP 38 865 50.72 -10.43

Formal 76 622 94.63 1.50

Informal 4 347 5.37 -1.50

Total/turnout 80 969 95.65

Enrolled 84 652

Mackellar (NSW)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

BISHOP, B * LP 47 343 56.41 -0.62

McLELLAN, M IND 1 651 1.97 1.97

SHARPE, C ALP 20 439 24.35 4.24

HUBBARD, M CDP 1 955 2.33 2.33

ADAMS, J CCC 1 772 2.11 2.11

McWHIRTER, C GRN 9 840 11.72 1.19

BARNES, C DEM 933 1.11 -0.29

Final count

BISHOP, B * LP 52 395 62.42 -3.04

SHARPE, C ALP 31 538 37.58 3.04

Formal 83 933 95.29 0.11

Informal 4 150 4.71 -0.11

Total/turnout 88 083 95.31

Enrolled 92 415

Macquarie (NSW)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

FLETCHER, K LDP 355 0.40 0.40

GIFFORD, R CDP 1 702 1.94 0.35

BARTLETT, K * LP 33 197 37.84 4.93

LIPTAK, C FFP 465 0.53 -0.60

DEBUS, B ALP 38 672 44.08 17.13

SEGEDIN, M CEC 99 0.11 -0.30

McCALLUM, C GRN 9 092 10.36 1.94

WILLIAMS, T IND 4 145 4.72 3.49

Final count

BARTLETT, K * LP 37 690 42.96 -6.57

DEBUS, B ALP 50 037 57.04 6.57

Formal 87 727 96.44 0.38

Informal 3 240 3.56 -0.38

Total/turnout 90 967 96.09

Enrolled 94 672

Makin (SA)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

VANDERSLUIS, G LDP 428 0.49 0.49

BROWN, A DEM 1 198 1.37 -0.38

GRAHAM, A FFP 3 096 3.55 -1.37

ZAPPIA, T ALP 44 890 51.45 8.43

DAY, B # LP 33 390 38.27 -6.44

FECHNER, R ON 502 0.58 -0.26

SMITH, G GRN 3 751 4.30 0.51

Final count

ZAPPIA, T ALP 50 346 57.70 8.63

DAY, B # LP 36 909 42.30 -8.63

Formal 87 255 95.93 1.34

Informal 3 705 4.07 -1.34

Total/turnout 90 960 95.67

Enrolled 95 078

Mallee (Vic)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

COULTHARD, G FFP 5 435 6.53 2.01

ZIGOURAS, J ALP 18 187 21.85 1.54

LAHY, C CEC 600 0.72 -0.71

FARRELLY, L GRN 3 468 4.17 0.39

McLEOD, V DEM 2 323 2.79 1.24

FORREST, J * NP 53 227 63.94 -4.48

Final count

ZIGOURAS, J ALP 23 912 28.73 3.48

FORREST, J * NP 59 328 71.27 -3.48

Formal 83 240 96.41 -0.10

Informal 3 101 3.59 0.10

Total/turnout 86 341 95.89

Enrolled 90 038

Maranoa (Qld)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

WATSON, R ON 2 774 3.51 -1.61

TOTENHOFER, D FFP 3 034 3.84 -0.15

DICKSON, A DEM 1 004 1.27 0.14

BATHERSBY, M ALP 23 288 29.46 7.65

SCOTT, B * NP 46 293 58.57 10.75

EAST, B GRN 2 646 3.35 1.10

Final count

BATHERSBY, M ALP 28 103 35.56 6.61

SCOTT, B * NP 50 936 64.44 -6.61

Formal 79 039 96.44 1.38

Informal 2 920 3.56 -1.38

Total/turnout 81 959 94.50

Enrolled 86 727

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Maribyrnong (Vic)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

KOZLOWSKI, A CEC 1 141 1.44 0.60

LIVESAY, R DEM 1 242 1.57 -0.05

SOYLEMEZ, I LP 23 741 30.02 -7.48

KEELING, I FFP 2 039 2.58 0.73

SHORTEN, B # ALP 45 528 57.57 6.24

MUNTZ, B GRN 5 396 6.82 -0.04

Final count

SOYLEMEZ, I LP 27 430 34.68 -5.85

SHORTEN, B # ALP 51 657 65.32 5.85

Formal 79 087 96.02 0.88

Informal 3 277 3.98 -0.88

Total/turnout 82 364 94.15

Enrolled 87 484

Mayo (SA)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

VONOW, L GRN 9 849 10.96 3.36

DOWNER, A * LP 45 893 51.08 -2.56

NOLAN, T FFP 3 615 4.02 0.37

CASTRIQUE, A DEM 1 369 1.52 -0.29

BARONS, R CCE 1 165 1.30 1.30

BREWERTON, M ALP 27 957 31.12 14.63

Final count

DOWNER, A * LP 51 264 57.06 -6.53

BREWERTON, M ALP 38 584 42.94 6.53

Formal 89 848 97.24 1.88

Informal 2 550 2.76 -1.88

Total/turnout 92 398 95.88

Enrolled 96 370

McEwen (Vic)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

NEWNHAM, R LDP 799 0.83 0.83

BAILEY, F * LP 44 165 45.76 -5.98

MITCHELL, R ALP 38 819 40.22 5.67

KANE, D DEM 948 0.98 0.16

MEACHER, S GRN 8 379 8.68 1.03

CRANSON, I FFP 2 398 2.48 0.76

McLENNAN, R CEC 161 0.17 -0.05

TRUEMAN, D IND 849 0.88 0.88

Final count

BAILEY, F * LP 48 265 50.01 -6.41

MITCHELL, R ALP 48 253 49.99 6.41

Formal 96 518 95.91 0.57

Informal 4 116 4.09 -0.57

Total/turnout 100 634 96.24

Enrolled 104 570

McMillan (Vic)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

WALTERS, D DEM 1 206 1.50 0.65

ALBLAS, T CEC 287 0.36 0.19

BROADBENT, R * LP 40 254 49.93 7.00

AESCHLIMANN, T FFP 2 370 2.94 1.23

MAXFIELD, C ALP 30 743 38.14 0.28

BETTS, S GRN 4 839 6.00 1.52

FIECHTNER, B LDP 141 0.17 0.17

CHANDRASEGARAN, S DLP 775 0.96 0.61

Final count

BROADBENT, R * LP 44 172 54.79 -0.20

MAXFIELD, C ALP 36 443 45.21 0.20

Formal 80 615 96.57 1.06

Informal 2 859 3.43 -1.06

Total/turnout 83 474 95.88

Enrolled 87 064

McPherson (Qld)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

CARNWELL, L DEM 791 0.95 -0.13

JACKSON, T IND 666 0.80 0.80

O'CALLAGHAN, B GRN 4 986 5.96 0.79

MAY, M * LP 45 979 54.98 -3.96

DAVIS, K FFP 1 282 1.53 -1.30

SARROFF, E ALP 29 798 35.63 5.55

CORNELL, G CEC 127 0.15 0.10

Final count

MAY, M * LP 49 195 58.83 -5.11

SARROFF, E ALP 34 434 41.17 5.11

Formal 83 629 96.84 2.09

Informal 2 727 3.16 -2.09

Total/turnout 86 356 93.49

Enrolled 92 372

Melbourne (Vic)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

REED, A CEC 586 0.67 0.49

BANDT, A GRN 19 967 22.80 3.82

PEARSON, G FFP 878 1.00 0.12

MARSHALL, W SEP 418 0.48 0.48

DEL CIOTTO, A LP 20 577 23.49 -1.60

WRIGHT, T DEM 1 255 1.43 -0.20

MCGREGOR, K 539 0.62 0.62

TANNER, L * ALP 43 363 49.51 -2.27

Final count

BANDT, A GRN 39 667 45.29 45.29

TANNER, L * ALP 47 916 54.71 54.71

Formal 87 583 97.20 0.47

Informal 2 521 2.80 -0.47

Total/turnout 90 104 91.50

Enrolled 98 477

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Melbourne Ports (Vic)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

DANBY, M * ALP 36 556 42.47 3.22

MATHIESON, J DEM 1 527 1.77 0.42

WALKER, P GRN 12 941 15.03 0.93

GEBBING, R FFP 731 0.85 0.31

HELD, A LP 34 154 39.68 -3.26

ISHERWOOD, A CEC 172 0.20 0.02

Final count

DANBY, M * ALP 49 191 57.15 3.41

HELD, A LP 36 890 42.85 -3.41

Formal 86 081 97.84 1.24

Informal 1 903 2.16 -1.24

Total/turnout 87 984 91.72

Enrolled 95 930

Menzies (Vic)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

ANDREWS, K * LP 43 393 51.60 -5.19

SMITHIES, K FFP 2 036 2.42 0.28

ELLIS, D GRN 5 291 6.29 -0.17

NITSCHKE, P IND 3 297 3.92 3.92

CAMPBELL, A ALP 29 249 34.78 1.99

WISE, D DEM 822 0.98 -0.53

Final count

ANDREWS, K * LP 47 104 56.02 -4.65

CAMPBELL, A ALP 36 984 43.98 4.65

Formal 84 088 97.24 0.85

Informal 2 385 2.76 -0.85

Total/turnout 86 473 96.15

Enrolled 89 937

Mitchell (NSW)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

FIANDER, J CCC 1 715 2.11 2.11

WRIGHT-TURNER, T GRN 4 302 5.29 -0.64

GOULD, N ALP 25 211 31.02 10.02

ALLEN, D CDP 2 099 2.58 0.07

BODLAY, J IND 815 1.00 0.45

HAWKE, A # LP 46 115 56.74 -7.64

GRAETZ, J FFP 1 022 1.26 -0.11

Final count

GOULD, N ALP 31 221 38.41 9.09

HAWKE, A # LP 50 058 61.59 -9.09

Formal 81 279 96.12 2.73

Informal 3 278 3.88 -2.73

Total/turnout 84 557 95.65

Enrolled 88 400

Moncrieff (Qld)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

BRANDON, C GRN 5 048 6.21 1.17

KIRCHLER, T SAL 315 0.39 0.39

CIOBO, S * LP 48 594 59.77 -4.03

THOMPSON, E CEC 214 0.26 -0.62

TAYLER, J FFP 1 440 1.77 -1.26

SHEARS, P IND 562 0.69 0.69

MISZKOWSKI, S ALP 24 397 30.01 5.66

STEVENSON, P DEM 731 0.90 -0.29

Final count

CIOBO, S * LP 52 042 64.01 -5.52

MISZKOWSKI, S ALP 29 259 35.99 5.52

Formal 81 301 96.23 2.26

Informal 3 186 3.77 -2.26

Total/turnout 84 487 92.17

Enrolled 91 665

Moore (WA)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

BURGESS, G ALP 22 902 32.59 1.14

DUNJEY, L CDP 1 556 2.21 0.09

GAULT, G ON 719 1.02 -1.02

PERICIC-HERRMANN, A GRN 5 906 8.40 1.32 WASHER, M * LP 38 262 54.45 -0.89

HARVEY, A CEC 115 0.16 -0.12

CROKER, D FFP 811 1.15 1.15

Final count

BURGESS, G ALP 28 695 40.83 1.66

WASHER, M * LP 41 576 59.17 -1.66

Formal 70 271 97.03 1.37

Informal 2 151 2.97 -1.37

Total/turnout 72 422 94.21

Enrolled 76 871

Moreton (Qld)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

HARDGRAVE, G * LP 33 921 42.16 -5.41

HINE, E GRN 5 548 6.89 1.12

BROWN, S LDP 282 0.35 0.35

CHRISTIAN, S FFP 1 113 1.38 -1.40

LAMB, A IND 679 0.84 -0.10

PERRETT, G ALP 37 908 47.11 7.27

SOLIMAN, E DEM 1 015 1.26 -0.41

Final count

HARDGRAVE, G * LP 36 411 45.25 -7.58

PERRETT, G ALP 44 055 54.75 7.57

Formal 80 466 96.86 1.74

Informal 2 611 3.14 -1.74

Total/turnout 83 077 94.12

Enrolled 88 268

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Murray (Vic)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

SCATES, B ALP 19 429 24.11 4.34

BRYANT, R IND 4 373 5.43 -2.32

TEASDALE, D IND 615 0.76 -0.59

MOORE, S FFP 2 674 3.32 0.94

STONE, S * LP 50 021 62.07 -3.46

CHRISTOE, I GRN 2 377 2.95 -0.10

ISGRO, S DEM 416 0.52 0.52

DAVY, J CEC 203 0.25 0.08

MERRIGAN, M IND 484 0.60 0.60

Final count

SCATES, B ALP 25 577 31.74 5.82

STONE, S * LP 55 015 68.26 -5.82

Formal 80 592 94.76 -1.06

Informal 4 461 5.24 1.06

Total/turnout 85 053 95.72

Enrolled 88 852

New England (NSW)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

DETTMANN, B ON 1 071 1.26 -0.28

WINDSOR, T * IND 52 734 61.94 7.24

WITTEN, R CEC 225 0.26 -0.32

BETTS, P NP 19 850 23.31 2.54

BRAND, L ALP 8 368 9.83 0.65

TAYLOR, B GRN 2 892 3.40 0.05

Final count

WINDSOR, T * IND 63 286 74.33 2.95

BETTS, P NP 21 854 25.67 -2.95

Formal 85 140 97.12 -0.09

Informal 2 522 2.88 0.09

Total/turnout 87 662 95.94

Enrolled 91 370

Newcastle (NSW)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

EAST, M FFP 1 926 2.28 2.12

JOHNSON, A DEM 891 1.05 -1.25

PAYNE, G SAL 333 0.39 -0.14

BUMAN, A IND 6 343 7.50 7.50

GRIERSON, S * ALP 42 936 50.78 5.21

HOLT, N SEP 277 0.33 0.33

ECKERSLEY, C GRN 8 463 10.01 -1.30

CURRY, J IND 701 0.83 0.83

CAINE, M CDP 1 064 1.26 1.26

WALKER, K LP 21 611 25.56 -10.71

Final count

GRIERSON, S * ALP 55 725 65.91 6.82

WALKER, K LP 28 820 34.09 -6.82

Formal 84 545 95.56 0.75

Informal 3 930 4.44 -0.75

Total/turnout 88 475 94.70

Enrolled 93 422

North Sydney (NSW)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

MISRA, K CEC 245 0.29 0.29

BAALBERGEN, A CDP 621 0.73 0.73

AUSSIE-STONE, M IND 526 0.62 0.62

HOCKEY, J * LP 44 177 51.81 -4.42

NIXON, T GRN 7 851 9.21 -3.12

THOMPSON, B CCC 1 119 1.31 1.31

CAFFERATTA, J FFP 352 0.41 0.39

BAILEY, M ALP 30 372 35.62 8.35

Final count

HOCKEY, J * LP 47 222 55.38 -4.66

BAILEY, M ALP 38 041 44.62 4.66

Formal 85 263 96.53 0.19

Informal 3 061 3.47 -0.19

Total/turnout 88 324 93.75

Enrolled 94 213

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O'Connor (WA)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

WALTON, M IND 1 128 1.48 1.48

CARSON, S FFP 991 1.30 1.30

PARAVICINI, R ON 1 214 1.60 -2.75

GARDINER, P NP 13 459 17.69 8.25

ROSE, D ALP 15 541 20.43 1.86

FORSYTH, M CDP 2 235 2.94 0.12

GIUDICE, G IND 986 1.30 -1.46

SUDHOLZ, J CEC 212 0.28 -0.22

PRICE, A GRN 5 188 6.82 0.09

CROWE, D IND 237 0.31 0.31

TUCKEY, W * LP 34 876 45.85 -7.40

Final count

ROSE, D ALP 25 442 33.45 3.84

TUCKEY, W * LP 50 625 66.55 -3.84

Formal 76 067 95.36 0.85

Informal 3 702 4.64 -0.85

Total/turnout 79 769 94.44

Enrolled 84 466

Oxley (Qld)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

RIPOLL, B * ALP 47 128 58.56 10.01

WHITE, S LP 26 297 32.68 -4.05

HAAG, B CEC 289 0.36 -0.60

LUND, A GRN 4 128 5.13 0.81

ROY, G FFP 1 682 2.09 -1.35

HENMAN, M DEM 951 1.18 0.01

Final count

RIPOLL, B * ALP 51 607 64.13 7.01

WHITE, S LP 28 868 35.87 -7.01

Formal 80 475 95.79 2.56

Informal 3 535 4.21 -2.56

Total/turnout 84 010 94.15

Enrolled 89 233

Page (NSW)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

BEHN, D IND 1 525 1.78 0.40

VEGA, M FFP 784 0.92 0.76

CULVERWELL, J CEC 143 0.17 -0.78

MELLAND, J DEM 910 1.06 0.79

JONGEN, T GRN 6 930 8.10 -1.46

SAFFIN, J ALP 35 636 41.67 8.60

KANE, T IND 877 1.03 1.03

AVASALU, R CDP 1 430 1.67 1.67

BEATTY, B LDP 462 0.54 0.54

GULAPTIS, C # NP 36 813 43.05 -6.68

Final count

SAFFIN, J ALP 44 770 52.36 7.83

GULAPTIS, C # NP 40 740 47.64 -7.83

Formal 85 510 95.70 -0.22

Informal 3 842 4.30 0.22

Total/turnout 89 352 95.67

Enrolled 93 398

Parkes (NSW)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

HORAN, T IND 17 098 20.73 20.73

KIELY, M CCC 939 1.14 1.14

HAIGH, B IND 2 153 2.61 -1.21

COULTON, M # NP 38 574 46.77 -15.02

STRINGER, R CEC 287 0.35 -0.75

PATRIARCA, M ALP 20 922 25.37 0.72

PARMETER, M GRN 2 496 3.03 -1.24

Final count

COULTON, M # NP 51 985 63.04 -4.52

PATRIARCA, M ALP 30 484 36.96 4.52

Formal 82 469 95.80 -0.55

Informal 3 617 4.20 0.55

Total/turnout 86 086 95.90

Enrolled 89 771

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Parramatta (NSW)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

EVANS, R SAL 1 015 1.19 1.19

GORDON, C SEP 261 0.31 0.31

NICKOLS, G LDP 274 0.32 0.32

O'NEILL, A GRN 4 288 5.03 0.16

ROBINSON, C LP 32 155 37.75 -7.39

MACDONALD, A 174 0.20 0.20

HERNANDEZ, R FFP 888 1.04 0.09

OWENS, J * ALP 43 083 50.58 10.68

BUCKLEY, B IND 639 0.75 0.75

BAISSARI, S CDP 2 403 2.82 0.00

Final count

ROBINSON, C LP 36 727 43.12 -7.71

OWENS, J * ALP 48 453 56.88 7.71

Formal 85 180 93.44 2.69

Informal 5 981 6.56 -2.69

Total/turnout 91 161 94.66

Enrolled 96 305

Paterson (NSW)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

ARNEMAN, J ALP 35 291 42.06 5.76

HENNELLY, P FPY 1 073 1.28 0.48

DONNELLY, J GRN 4 344 5.18 0.70

STOKES, C FFP 559 0.67 -0.25

KING, T CEC 341 0.41 -0.89

HAYNES, H CDP 1 010 1.20 0.81

HAMBERGER, J ON 832 0.99 -0.97

BALDWIN, B * LP 40 466 48.22 1.72

Final count

ARNEMAN, J ALP 40 688 48.49 4.81

BALDWIN, B * LP 43 228 51.51 -4.81

Formal 83 916 96.43 2.24

Informal 3 106 3.57 -2.24

Total/turnout 87 022 96.17

Enrolled 90 483

Pearce (WA)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

BRANWHITE, S IND 1 533 1.81 1.81

MEWHOR, P CDP 1 683 1.99 -0.99

GUNNYON, D ON 1 375 1.62 -2.12

MOYLAN, J * LP 43 874 51.81 -1.91

BOLT, D FFP 1 239 1.46 1.46

McLEAN, R CEC 275 0.32 -0.21

DOLS, Y GRN 7 277 8.59 0.74

MYSON, C ALP 27 111 32.01 3.96

TRUMAN, A SAL 316 0.37 -0.01

Final count

MOYLAN, J * LP 50 022 59.07 -3.87

MYSON, C ALP 34 661 40.93 3.87

Formal 84 683 96.03 1.33

Informal 3 505 3.97 -1.33

Total/turnout 88 188 93.26

Enrolled 94 557

Perth (WA)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

BROOKS, S IND 1 413 1.81 1.81

SMITH, S * ALP 36 684 46.87 1.28

LATHAM, C SAL 464 0.59 -0.75

CONNELLY, P CDP 1 594 2.04 -0.42

GIRVAN, O CEC 162 0.21 -0.13

FAIRFULL, S FFP 838 1.07 1.07

EDMONDS, M ON 628 0.80 -1.19

NIKOLIC, D LP 28 163 35.98 -0.90

DOUGLAS-MEYER, D GRN 8 320 10.63 1.05

Final count

SMITH, S * ALP 46 061 58.85 2.12

NIKOLIC, D LP 32 205 41.15 -2.12

Formal 78 266 95.42 1.40

Informal 3 757 4.58 -1.40

Total/turnout 82 023 93.04

Enrolled 88 156

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Petrie (Qld)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

D'ATH, Y ALP 38 988 46.89 9.39

JONES, T GRN 3 890 4.68 -0.02

POPE, M LDP 217 0.26 0.26

VINCENT, S FFP 1 516 1.82 -1.88

GAMBARO, T * LP 37 299 44.86 -7.41

CARNWELL, B DEM 814 0.98 -0.76

BRITT, P CDP 430 0.52 0.52

Final count

D'ATH, Y ALP 43 283 52.05 9.50

GAMBARO, T * LP 39 871 47.95 -9.50

Formal 83 154 97.03 1.04

Informal 2 546 2.97 -1.04

Total/turnout 85 700 95.17

Enrolled 90 048

Port Adelaide (SA)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

THOMAS, C GRN 7 935 8.76 3.34

HAMBOUR, B FFP 5 230 5.78 1.01

BUTLER, M # ALP 52 732 58.24 3.73

CHOMEL, B LP 22 830 25.21 -6.71

MOORE, P DEM 1 822 2.01 0.01

Final count

BUTLER, M # ALP 63 158 69.75 6.84

CHOMEL, B LP 27 391 30.25 -6.84

Formal 90 549 95.04 2.12

Informal 4 724 4.96 -2.12

Total/turnout 95 273 94.87

Enrolled 100 422

Prospect (NSW)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

LEVER, C FFP 2 655 3.35 3.27

GEBILAGIN, L GRN 3 618 4.56 -0.61

ARTHUR, L LP 24 705 31.15 -7.16

CALLANDER, J CDP 2 187 2.76 -0.55

BOWEN, C * ALP 46 135 58.18 9.11

Final count

ARTHUR, L LP 28 973 36.54 -7.06

BOWEN, C * ALP 50 327 63.46 7.06

Formal 79 300 92.27 1.68

Informal 6 648 7.73 -1.68

Total/turnout 85 948 94.83

Enrolled 90 635

Rankin (Qld)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

COULSON, P LP 27 299 34.09 -3.01

TJIA, L LDP 463 0.58 0.58

EMERSON, C * ALP 44 858 56.01 12.22

COTTER, N GRN 3 773 4.71 1.50

VAN MANEN, B FFP 2 827 3.53 -1.59

EL-MEREBI, S DEM 590 0.74 -0.11

MEYERS, R CEC 273 0.34 0.13

Final count

COULSON, P LP 30 643 38.26 -8.76

EMERSON, C * ALP 49 440 61.74 8.76

Formal 80 083 95.51 2.68

Informal 3 764 4.49 -2.68

Total/turnout 83 847 93.41

Enrolled 89 764

Reid (NSW)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

SHARAH, A CDP 3 170 3.99 0.88

IHRAM, S DEM 1 123 1.41 0.16

LIPSCOMBE, M GRN 4 160 5.24 -0.33

LAMBERT, V FFP 1 301 1.64 1.42

OUEIK, R LP 21 516 27.09 -4.98

JOHNSON, H CEC 429 0.54 0.54

FERGUSON, L * ALP 47 739 60.10 9.26

Final count

OUEIK, R LP 26 373 33.20 -4.72

FERGUSON, L * ALP 53 065 66.80 4.72

Formal 79 438 92.43 3.77

Informal 6 508 7.57 -3.77

Total/turnout 85 946 92.63

Enrolled 92 784

Richmond (NSW)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

FARMILO, D LDP 1 320 1.62 1.62

ELLIOT, J * ALP 35 699 43.81 8.15

EBONO, G GRN 12 168 14.93 1.32

PAGE, S NP 30 134 36.98 -7.53

McCALLUM, G CEC 176 0.22 0.16

SLEDGE, S DEM 950 1.17 0.12

RAYMOND, B CDP 1 039 1.28 1.28

Final count

ELLIOT, J * ALP 47 973 58.87 7.43

PAGE, S NP 33 513 41.13 -7.43

Formal 81 486 95.72 -0.62

Informal 3 647 4.28 0.62

Total/turnout 85 133 94.48

Enrolled 90 103

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Riverina (NSW)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

JOHNSON, G CEC 1 141 1.35 1.31

HULL, K * NP 52 779 62.57 -4.47

KNOX, P ALP 24 471 29.01 4.48

GOODLASS, R GRN 4 130 4.90 0.58

HESKETH, C ON 1 837 2.18 -1.77

Final count

HULL, K * NP 55 868 66.23 -4.62

KNOX, P ALP 28 490 33.77 4.62

Formal 84 358 96.17 -0.01

Informal 3 361 3.83 0.01

Total/turnout 87 719 96.05

Enrolled 91 324

Robertson (NSW)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

GRANT, G CDP 1 929 2.21 2.21

LE, D FFP 708 0.81 -0.91

TOMLIN, N CEC 141 0.16 -0.11

RYAN, H ON 924 1.06 -0.66

WROBLEWSKI, M GRN 6 279 7.20 -0.65

LLOYD, J * LP 39 792 45.63 -7.83

NEAL, B ALP 37 437 42.93 8.29

Final count

LLOYD, J * LP 43 513 49.89 -6.98

NEAL, B ALP 43 697 50.11 6.98

Formal 87 210 96.56 1.09

Informal 3 109 3.44 -1.09

Total/turnout 90 319 95.78

Enrolled 94 295

Ryan (Qld)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

PAGE, J DEM 1 207 1.44 -0.98

SOLOMON, N CEC 90 0.11 -0.17

JOHNSON, M * LP 41 646 49.52 -5.24

SCHMID, L FFP 1 120 1.33 -2.03

DANIELS, R ALP 30 619 36.41 7.00

WORRINGHAM, C IND 1 328 1.58 1.58

JONES, E GRN 7 933 9.43 -0.33

MACKENZIE, J LDP 155 0.18 0.18

Final count

JOHNSON, M * LP 45 258 53.82 -6.60

DANIELS, R ALP 38 840 46.18 6.60

Formal 84 098 97.86 1.66

Informal 1 842 2.14 -1.66

Total/turnout 85 940 94.90

Enrolled 90 563

Scullin (Vic)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

BYERS, T FFP 3 859 4.73 1.34

STEER, S CEC 386 0.47 -1.17

WILLIAMS, C LP 19 910 24.39 -6.52

HUDE, P DEM 868 1.06 1.06

JENKINS, H * ALP 51 680 63.32 4.30

LAOS, L GRN 4 918 6.03 1.00

Final count

WILLIAMS, C LP 23 791 29.15 -6.06

JENKINS, H * ALP 57 830 70.85 6.06

Formal 81 621 95.94 0.69

Informal 3 452 4.06 -0.69

Total/turnout 85 073 95.70

Enrolled 88 899

Shortland (NSW)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

PARSONS, K GRN 7 097 8.30 0.15

HALL, J * ALP 48 525 56.73 7.40

KEALY, J LP 26 620 31.12 -4.69

REEVES, M FFP 1 644 1.92 -0.49

WALLACE, L CDP 1 655 1.93 1.93

Final count

HALL, J * ALP 55 379 64.74 5.50

KEALY, J LP 30 162 35.26 -5.50

Formal 85 541 95.84 0.41

Informal 3 714 4.16 -0.41

Total/turnout 89 255 95.79

Enrolled 93 176

Solomon (NT)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

HALE, D ALP 21 581 41.90 3.37

CAMPBELL, T CEC 245 0.48 -0.01

CHESTER, J LDP 358 0.70 0.70

TOLLNER, D * CLP 24 109 46.80 -1.95

FOLEY, M IND 545 1.06 -0.44

HUDSON, D GRN 4 672 9.07 2.30

Final count

HALE, D ALP 25 853 50.19 3.00

TOLLNER, D * CLP 25 657 49.81 -3.00

Formal 51 510 97.07 1.07

Informal 1 555 2.93 -1.07

Total/turnout 53 065 92.06

Enrolled 57 641

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Stirling (WA)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

WARD, S LDP 666 0.82 0.82

HYND, D WWW 590 0.73 0.73

HALLAM, K CEC 160 0.20 -0.71

TINLEY, P ALP 32 737 40.44 1.50

HOPKINSON, S FFP 524 0.65 0.65

KEENAN, M * LP 38 220 47.21 -0.05

DESIATOV, T GRN 6 123 7.56 0.41

PATRICK, A ON 524 0.65 -0.82

MORAN, R CDP 1 407 1.74 -0.20

Final count

TINLEY, P ALP 39 431 48.71 0.75

KEENAN, M * LP 41 520 51.29 -0.75

Formal 80 951 95.09 1.01

Informal 4 178 4.91 -1.01

Total/turnout 85 129 93.45

Enrolled 91 098

Sturt (SA)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

JANSEN, C FFP 3 102 3.42 -1.36

ROWSE, P DEM 1 064 1.17 -1.09

REID, S GRN 5 806 6.41 0.35

HANDSHIN, M ALP 37 565 41.46 6.91

PYNE, C * LP 42 731 47.17 -4.49

TILBROOK, F LDP 327 0.36 0.36

Final count

HANDSHIN, M ALP 44 442 49.06 5.86

PYNE, C * LP 46 153 50.94 -5.86

Formal 90 595 96.54 1.58

Informal 3 249 3.46 -1.58

Total/turnout 93 844 95.58

Enrolled 98 184

Swan (WA)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

LISSON, K GRN 7 365 10.13 1.84

FOWLER, D FFP 579 0.80 -0.04

GILBERT, T CDP 1 210 1.66 -0.09

ROSS, L IND 656 0.90 0.90

IRONS, S LP 32 183 44.28 0.14

DIXON, M LDP 243 0.33 0.33

WILKIE, K * ALP 29 544 40.65 0.73

GAY, N CEC 92 0.13 -0.16

LOPEZ, J SEP 157 0.22 0.22

HARRIS, J ON 647 0.89 -0.89

Final count

IRONS, S LP 36 420 50.11 0.19

WILKIE, K * ALP 36 256 49.89 -0.19

Formal 72 676 95.41 0.87

Informal 3 497 4.59 -0.87

Total/turnout 76 173 93.17

Enrolled 81 758

Sydney (NSW)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

ANDERSON, G LP 20 440 26.70 -0.81

FORD, A CEC 184 0.24 0.06

LEONG, J GRN 15 854 20.71 -1.38

LEE, J CDP 727 0.95 0.95

WARD, J IND 979 1.28 -0.29

PLIBERSEK, T * ALP 37 506 48.99 3.92

MATERAZZO, M DEM 874 1.14 -1.00

Final count

ANDERSON, G LP 23 350 30.50 -2.12

PLIBERSEK, T * ALP 53 214 69.50 2.12

Formal 76 564 95.88 1.09

Informal 3 286 4.12 -1.09

Total/turnout 79 850 90.84

Enrolled 87 904

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Tangney (WA)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

IVAN, C GRN 6 896 8.90 1.10

JENSEN, D * LP 39 406 50.85 -2.87

BOON, L ON 613 0.79 -1.66

SALADINE, L FFP 815 1.05 1.05

REYNOLDS, M ALP 24 832 32.04 3.50

JACKSON, K IND 3 070 3.96 3.96

CHEW, K CDP 1 867 2.41 -0.37

Final count

JENSEN, D * LP 45 480 58.68 -3.07

REYNOLDS, M ALP 32 019 41.32 3.07

Formal 77 499 97.27 1.71

Informal 2 178 2.73 -1.71

Total/turnout 79 677 94.50

Enrolled 84 312

Throsby (NSW)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

MORAN, P GRN 7 308 9.08 -0.97

GEORGE, J * ALP 52 275 64.98 9.97

DEAKES, S CDP 2 598 3.23 2.97

WRIGHT, S LP 18 266 22.71 -9.40

Final count

GEORGE, J * ALP 59 099 73.46 9.64

WRIGHT, S LP 21 348 26.54 -9.65

Formal 80 447 94.76 0.20

Informal 4 446 5.24 -0.20

Total/turnout 84 893 95.92

Enrolled 88 502

Wakefield (SA)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

NAIRN, B FFP 4 483 5.16 -0.27

EDMUNDS, P WWW 793 0.91 0.91

CHAMPION, N ALP 42 249 48.65 6.28

FITZPATRICK, P ON 832 0.96 -1.60

ALLEN, T GRN 3 589 4.13 -0.02

FAWCETT, D * LP 33 600 38.69 -5.12

WALSH, M LDP 284 0.33 0.33

MARTIN, F DEM 1 016 1.17 -0.50

Final count

CHAMPION, N ALP 49 142 56.59 7.26

FAWCETT, D * LP 37 704 43.41 -7.26

Formal 86 846 95.34 1.82

Informal 4 246 4.66 -1.82

Total/turnout 91 092 95.13

Enrolled 95 756

Wannon (Vic)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

OWEN, L GRN 5 953 6.98 2.63

PECH, D FFP 3 663 4.29 1.31

HAWKER, D * LP 44 834 52.56 -5.27

MOORE, A ALP 30 852 36.17 4.32

Final count

HAWKER, D * LP 49 020 57.47 -4.90

MOORE, A ALP 36 282 42.53 4.90

Formal 85 302 97.41 0.79

Informal 2 266 2.59 -0.79

Total/turnout 87 568 96.40

Enrolled 90 838

Warringah (NSW)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

ABBOTT, T * LP 46 398 54.53 -0.97

HARRIS, C GRN 10 660 12.53 0.71

JOHANSON, G DEM 1 095 1.29 1.04

PETERSEN, P IND 1 529 1.80 -0.50

MIDDLETON, B FFP 456 0.54 -0.83

PRICE, G CCE 616 0.72 0.72

ZOCHLING, H ALP 23 317 27.40 2.29

McCUDDEN, B CDP 1 020 1.20 1.20

Final count

ABBOTT, T * LP 50 627 59.50 -1.79

ZOCHLING, H ALP 34 464 40.50 1.79

Formal 85 091 96.42 2.18

Informal 3 162 3.58 -2.18

Total/turnout 88 253 93.59

Enrolled 94 301

Watson (NSW)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

FOY, M FFP 2 011 2.50 1.04

POULSEN, R 424 0.53 0.14

BURKE, T * ALP 49 652 61.81 5.43

MANSOUR, P LP 20 957 26.09 -5.54

SAMMUT, J CDP 1 988 2.47 1.89

DONAYRE, C GRN 5 302 6.60 0.22

Final count

BURKE, T * ALP 56 499 70.33 5.77

MANSOUR, P LP 23 835 29.67 -5.77

Formal 80 334 90.95 0.11

Informal 7 997 9.05 -0.11

Total/turnout 88 331 93.19

Enrolled 94 785

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Wentworth (NSW)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

ECUYER, D IND 774 0.88 0.88

JARNASON, S GRN 13 205 14.96 2.10

COULTON, D CCC 1 156 1.31 1.31

ADAMS, J FFP 255 0.29 -0.04

JAMIESON, J CEC 78 0.09 -0.01

KELU, J LDP 129 0.15 0.15

SHEIL, P IND 265 0.30 0.06

MOLONY, B CDP 323 0.37 0.37

NEWHOUSE, G ALP 26 903 30.48 1.55

TURNBULL, M * LP 44 463 50.37 10.10

FIELD, P DEM 721 0.82 -0.28

Final count

NEWHOUSE, G ALP 40 734 46.15 -1.34

TURNBULL, M * LP 47 538 53.85 1.34

Formal 88 272 95.10 1.05

Informal 4 548 4.90 -1.05

Total/turnout 92 820 92.53

Enrolled 100 315

Werriwa (NSW)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

ELLIOTT, R LP 24 046 30.17 -7.44

HAYES, C * ALP 46 892 58.83 8.92

MILLS, A FFP 1 920 2.41 2.00

BRYANT, J IND 2 016 2.53 2.53

GAYED, H CDP 1 814 2.28 1.90

BHATT, N GRN 3 022 3.79 0.07

Final count

ELLIOTT, R LP 27 711 34.76 -8.30

HAYES, C * ALP 51 999 65.24 8.30

Formal 79 710 93.47 1.45

Informal 5 569 6.53 -1.45

Total/turnout 85 279 94.38

Enrolled 90 357

Wide Bay (Qld)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

TRUSS, W * NP 39 177 48.59 20.76

MOLLOY, C IND 5 576 6.92 6.92

ESSENBERG, M ON 996 1.24 -2.90

CHAPMAN, J FFP 2 792 3.46 -0.13

LAWRENCE, T ALP 24 758 30.70 5.19

WEBB, K GRN 6 615 8.20 1.19

SHAW, T DEM 719 0.89 -0.85

Final count

TRUSS, W * NP 47 149 58.47 -3.74

LAWRENCE, T ALP 33 484 41.53 3.74

Formal 80 633 96.02 0.95

Informal 3 343 3.98 -0.95

Total/turnout 83 976 94.48

Enrolled 88 881

Wills (Vic)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing

First count

CLARKE, E DEM 2 005 2.33 0.91

COLLIS, D GRN 11 912 13.82 0.82

THOMSON, K * ALP 49 050 56.89 3.07

TOMISICH, C LP 21 166 24.55 -4.15

KELADA, I FFP 1 233 1.43 -0.12

ISHERWOOD, C CEC 227 0.26 -0.19

ALCORN, Z SAL 624 0.72 -0.34

Final count

THOMSON, K * ALP 62 432 72.41 5.51

TOMISICH, C LP 23 785 27.59 -5.51

Formal 86 217 95.67 1.17

Informal 3 902 4.33 -1.17

Total/turnout 90 119 93.67

Enrolled 96 204

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Table 8: House of Representatives: Two-party preferred vote: State summary

Number Per cent Swing

ALP LP/NP ALP LP/NP Per cent

New South Wales 2 179 029 1 880 457 53.68 46.32 5.61 to ALP

Victoria 1 719 749 1 449 150 54.27 45.73 5.27 to ALP

Queensland 1 199 917 1 178 936 50.44 49.56 7.53 to ALP

Western Australia 550 326 627 211 46.74 53.26 2.14 to ALP

South Australia 517 818 470 334 52.40 47.60 6.76 to ALP

Tasmania 182 757 142 385 56.21 43.79 2.02 to ALP

Australian Capital Territory 141 745 81 836 63.40 36.60 1.86 to ALP

Northern Territory 54 418 43 795 55.41 44.59 3.26 to ALP

Australia 6 545 759 5 874 104 52.70 47.30 5.44 to ALP

Table 9: House of Representatives: Two-party preferred vote: Regional su mmary

Number Per cent Swing

ALP LP/NP ALP LP/NP Per cent

Inner metropolitan 1 990 905 1 505 887 56.94 43.06 3.84 to ALP

Outer metropolitan 2 020 158 1 722 637 53.97 46.03 5.99 to ALP

Total metropolitan 4 011 063 3 228 524 55.40 44.60 4.92 to ALP

Provincial 969 345 783 140 55.31 44.69 6.24 to ALP

Rural 1 565 351 1 862 440 45.67 54.33 6.03 to ALP

Total non-metropolitan 2 534 696 2 645 580 48.93 51.07 6.12 to ALP

Total 6 545 759 5 874 104 52.70 47.30 5.44 to ALP

Table 10: House of Representatives: Two-party preferred vote: Party status summary

Number Per cent Swing

ALP LP/NP ALP LP/NP Per cent

Safe ALP 1 107 207 473 502 70.04 29.96 4.99 to ALP

Fairly safe ALP 929 784 544 077 63.08 36.92 4.91 to ALP

Marginal ALP 1 106 970 814 289 57.62 42.38 5.04 to ALP

Total ALP 3 143 961 1 831 868 63.18 36.82 5.00 to ALP

Safe LP 1 305 338 1 775 484 42.37 57.63 6.32 to ALP

Fairly safe LP 641 786 694 400 48.03 51.97 5.91 to ALP

Marginal LP 933 795 853 834 52.24 47.76 5.19 to ALP

Total LP 2 880 919 3 323 718 46.43 53.57 5.89 to ALP

Safe NP 177 224 311 577 36.26 63.74 4.71 to ALP

Fairly safe NP 202 669 212 571 48.81 51.19 6.87 to ALP

Marginal NP 44 770 40 740 52.36 47.64 7.82 to ALP

Total NP 424 663 564 888 42.91 57.09 5.96 to ALP

Total (a) 6 545 759 5 874 104 52.70 47.30 5.44 to ALP

(a) Includes Independent held seats.

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Table 11: House of Representatives: Two-party preferred vote: Socio-economic status summary

Number Per cent Swing

ALP LP/NP ALP LP/NP Per cent

Low 1 470 843 1 527 172 49.06 50.94 5.29 to ALP

Lower middle 1 821 813 1 305 067 58.26 41.74 6.85 to ALP

Upper middle 1 652 383 1 515 448 52.16 47.84 5.39 to ALP

High 1 600 720 1 526 417 51.19 48.81 4.17 to ALP

Total 6 545 759 5 874 104 52.70 47.30 5.44 to ALP

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Table 12: House of Representatives: Two-party preferred vote: Electoral division summary

Number Per cent Swing

Division ALP LP/NP ALP LP/NP Per cent

New South Wales

Banks 50 392 32 109 61.08 38.92 7.86 to ALP

Barton 50 902 31 064 62.10 37.90 4.53 to ALP

Bennelong 44 685 42 251 51.40 48.60 5.53 to ALP

Berowra 34 223 49 122 41.06 58.94 4.88 to ALP

Blaxland 52 953 24 503 68.37 31.63 3.14 to ALP

Bradfield 30 819 53 512 36.55 63.45 4.10 to ALP

Calare 31 263 51 124 37.95 62.05 0.64 to LP/NP

Charlton 52 298 30 885 62.87 37.13 4.47 to ALP

Chifley 56 776 23 572 70.66 29.34 8.69 to ALP

Cook 37 396 48 711 43.43 56.57 6.71 to ALP

Cowper 41 334 43 423 48.77 51.23 5.52 to ALP

Cunningham 57 382 26 847 68.13 31.87 6.51 to ALP

Dobell 44 413 37 983 53.90 46.10 8.74 to ALP

Eden-Monaro 45 207 39 447 53.40 46.60 6.67 to ALP

Farrer 33 493 52 766 38.83 61.17 5.46 to ALP

Fowler 53 306 24 801 68.25 31.75 4.93 to ALP

Gilmore 36 930 43 467 45.93 54.07 5.34 to ALP

Grayndler 62 821 21 019 74.93 25.07 3.74 to ALP

Greenway 36 641 43 881 45.50 54.50 6.85 to ALP

Hughes 39 957 43 562 47.84 52.16 6.39 to ALP

Hume 38 537 45 526 45.84 54.16 8.68 to ALP

Hunter 54 504 28 173 65.92 34.08 4.83 to ALP

Kingsford Smith 54 889 31 837 63.29 36.71 4.56 to ALP

Lindsay 46 394 35 315 56.78 43.22 9.70 to ALP

Lowe 45 136 33 538 57.37 42.63 4.34 to ALP

Lyne 32 751 46 311 41.42 58.58 4.83 to ALP

Macarthur 37 757 38 865 49.28 50.72 10.43 to ALP

Mackellar 31 538 52 395 37.58 62.42 3.04 to ALP

Macquarie 50 037 37 690 57.04 42.96 6.57 to ALP

Mitchell 31 221 50 058 38.41 61.59 9.09 to ALP

New England 29 973 55 167 35.20 64.80 1.21 to LP/NP

Newcastle 55 725 28 820 65.91 34.09 6.82 to ALP

North Sydney 38 041 47 222 44.62 55.38 4.66 to ALP

Page 44 770 40 740 52.36 47.64 7.83 to ALP

Parkes 30 484 51 985 36.96 63.04 4.52 to ALP

Parramatta 48 453 36 727 56.88 43.12 7.71 to ALP

Paterson 40 688 43 228 48.49 51.51 4.81 to ALP

Prospect 50 327 28 973 63.46 36.54 7.06 to ALP

Reid 53 065 26 373 66.80 33.20 4.72 to ALP

Richmond 47 973 33 513 58.87 41.13 7.43 to ALP

Riverina 28 490 55 868 33.77 66.23 4.62 to ALP

Robertson 43 697 43 513 50.11 49.89 6.98 to ALP

Shortland 55 379 30 162 64.74 35.26 5.50 to ALP

Sydney 53 214 23 350 69.50 30.50 2.12 to ALP

Throsby 59 099 21 348 73.46 26.54 9.64 to ALP

Warringah 34 464 50 627 40.50 59.50 1.79 to ALP

Watson 56 499 23 835 70.33 29.67 5.77 to ALP

Wentworth 40 734 47 538 46.15 53.85 1.34 to LP/NP

Werriwa 51 999 27 711 65.24 34.76 8.30 to ALP

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Table 12: House of Representatives: Two-party preferred vote: Electoral division summary continued

Number Per cent Swing

Division ALP LP/NP ALP LP/NP Per cent

Victoria

Aston 38 569 47 243 44.95 55.05 8.10 to ALP

Ballarat 51 056 36 752 58.15 41.85 5.92 to ALP

Batman 60 503 19 158 75.95 24.05 4.63 to ALP

Bendigo 50 504 39 466 56.13 43.87 5.17 to ALP

Bruce 46 966 33 565 58.32 41.68 4.84 to ALP

Calwell 59 807 26 463 69.33 30.67 11.14 to ALP

Casey 36 812 46 726 44.07 55.93 5.42 to ALP

Chisholm 45 833 34 041 57.38 42.62 4.73 to ALP

Corangamite 45 968 44 426 50.85 49.15 6.17 to ALP

Corio 48 939 34 102 58.93 41.07 3.29 to ALP

Deakin 42 319 39 991 51.41 48.59 6.38 to ALP

Dunkley 39 711 46 693 45.96 54.04 5.34 to ALP

Flinders 37 058 51 697 41.75 58.25 2.86 to ALP

Gellibrand 60 134 24 022 71.46 28.54 6.51 to ALP

Gippsland 38 861 49 280 44.09 55.91 1.79 to ALP

Goldstein 37 488 47 811 43.95 56.05 3.98 to ALP

Gorton 67 535 27 297 71.22 28.78 6.32 to ALP

Higgins 35 070 46 559 42.96 57.04 1.72 to ALP

Holt 57 237 35 638 61.63 38.37 10.12 to ALP

Hotham 51 240 30 091 63.00 37.00 5.60 to ALP

Indi 34 559 50 132 40.81 59.19 7.10 to ALP

Isaacs 52 131 38 230 57.69 42.31 6.21 to ALP

Jagajaga 51 630 35 905 58.98 41.02 4.58 to ALP

Kooyong 33 153 48 775 40.47 59.53 0.05 to ALP

La Trobe 42 206 43 077 49.49 50.51 5.32 to ALP

Lalor 62 600 32 926 65.53 34.47 6.74 to ALP

Mallee 23 912 59 328 28.73 71.27 3.48 to ALP

Maribyrnong 51 657 27 430 65.32 34.68 5.85 to ALP

McEwen 48 253 48 265 49.99 50.01 6.41 to ALP

McMillan 36 443 44 172 45.21 54.79 0.20 to ALP

Melbourne 63 299 24 284 72.27 27.73 1.13 to ALP

Melbourne Ports 49 191 36 890 57.15 42.85 3.41 to ALP

Menzies 36 984 47 104 43.98 56.02 4.65 to ALP

Murray 25 577 55 015 31.74 68.26 5.82 to ALP

Scullin 57 830 23 791 70.85 29.15 6.06 to ALP

Wannon 36 282 49 020 42.53 57.47 4.90 to ALP

Wills 62 432 23 785 72.41 27.59 5.51 to ALP

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Table 12: House of Representatives: Two-party preferred vote: Electoral division summary continued

Number Per cent Swing

Division ALP LP/NP ALP LP/NP Per cent

Queensland

Blair 45 369 37 910 54.48 45.52 10.17 to ALP

Bonner 45 576 38 004 54.53 45.47 5.04 to ALP

Bowman 41 009 41 073 49.96 50.04 8.86 to ALP

Brisbane 47 526 36 212 56.76 43.24 2.82 to ALP

Capricornia 53 355 31 725 62.71 37.29 8.70 to ALP

Dawson 42 520 37 386 53.21 46.79 13.20 to ALP

Dickson 41 615 41 832 49.87 50.13 8.76 to ALP

Fadden 33 205 50 228 39.80 60.20 5.70 to ALP

Fairfax 38 609 43 558 46.99 53.01 9.40 to ALP

Fisher 37 384 42 325 46.90 53.10 7.88 to ALP

Flynn 40 220 39 967 50.16 49.84 7.88 to ALP

Forde 41 419 36 869 52.91 47.09 14.43 to ALP

Griffith 51 600 31 198 62.32 37.68 3.84 to ALP

Groom 34 782 48 468 41.78 58.22 10.59 to ALP

Herbert 40 746 41 089 49.79 50.21 6.03 to ALP

Hinkler 39 734 42 515 48.31 51.69 6.65 to ALP

Kennedy 34 980 47 339 42.49 57.51 1.35 to ALP

Leichhardt 44 816 38 127 54.03 45.97 14.29 to ALP

Lilley 48 921 34 581 58.59 41.41 3.19 to ALP

Longman 44 026 38 157 53.57 46.43 10.32 to ALP

Maranoa 28 103 50 936 35.56 64.44 6.61 to ALP

McPherson 34 434 49 195 41.17 58.83 5.11 to ALP

Moncrieff 29 259 52 042 35.99 64.01 5.52 to ALP

Moreton 44 055 36 411 54.75 45.25 7.58 to ALP

Oxley 51 607 28 868 64.13 35.87 7.01 to ALP

Petrie 43 283 39 871 52.05 47.95 9.50 to ALP

Rankin 49 440 30 643 61.74 38.26 8.76 to ALP

Ryan 38 840 45 258 46.18 53.82 6.60 to ALP

Wide Bay 33 484 47 149 41.53 58.47 3.74 to ALP

Western Australia

Brand 45 959 36 673 55.62 44.38 0.97 to ALP

Canning 38 109 47 689 44.42 55.58 3.96 to ALP

Cowan 40 975 43 883 48.29 51.71 2.49 to LP/NP

Curtin 28 832 50 320 36.43 63.57 1.05 to ALP

Forrest 37 879 47 871 44.17 55.83 4.62 to ALP

Fremantle 47 253 32 648 59.14 40.86 1.38 to ALP

Hasluck 37 657 35 805 51.26 48.74 3.08 to ALP

Kalgoorlie 31 097 34 474 47.42 52.58 3.72 to ALP

Moore 28 695 41 576 40.83 59.17 1.66 to ALP

O'Connor 25 442 50 625 33.45 66.55 3.84 to ALP

Pearce 34 661 50 022 40.93 59.07 3.87 to ALP

Perth 46 061 32 205 58.85 41.15 2.12 to ALP

Stirling 39 431 41 520 48.71 51.29 0.75 to ALP

Swan 36 256 36 420 49.89 50.11 0.19 to LP/NP

Tangney 32 019 45 480 41.32 58.68 3.07 to ALP

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Number Per cent Swing

Division ALP LP/NP ALP LP/NP Per cent

South Australia

Adelaide 51 868 36 757 58.53 41.47 7.20 to ALP

Barker 38 396 56 301 40.55 59.45 10.43 to ALP

Boothby 42 075 47 322 47.07 52.93 2.44 to ALP

Grey 40 623 48 522 45.57 54.43 9.39 to ALP

Hindmarsh 49 937 40 767 55.05 44.95 4.99 to ALP

Kingston 49 247 41 244 54.42 45.58 4.49 to ALP

Makin 50 346 36 909 57.70 42.30 8.63 to ALP

Mayo 38 584 51 264 42.94 57.06 6.53 to ALP

Port Adelaide 63 158 27 391 69.75 30.25 6.84 to ALP

Sturt 44 442 46 153 49.06 50.94 5.86 to ALP

Wakefield 49 142 37 704 56.59 43.41 7.26 to ALP

Tasmania

Bass 32 553 31 282 51.00 49.00 3.63 to ALP

Braddon 34 085 32 176 51.44 48.56 2.57 to ALP

Denison 41 982 21 988 65.63 34.37 2.34 to ALP

Franklin 36 845 30 787 54.48 45.52 3.11 to LP/NP

Lyons 37 292 26 152 58.78 41.22 5.10 to ALP

Australian Capital Territory

Canberra 71 030 43 871 61.82 38.18 1.91 to ALP

Fraser 70 715 37 965 65.07 34.93 1.75 to ALP

Northern Territory

Lingiari 28 565 18 138 61.16 38.84 3.50 to ALP

Solomon 25 853 25 657 50.19 49.81 3.00 to ALP

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Table 13: House of Representatives: Electoral pendulum Per cent

Division Margin Division Margin Division Margin Division Margin

ALP Seats ALP Seats LP/NP Seats LP/NP Seats

Batman (Vic) 25.95 Chisholm (Vic) 7.38 Mallee (Vic) 21.27 Kalgoorlie (WA) 2.58

Grayndler (NSW) 24.93 Lowe (NSW) 7.37 Murray (Vic) 18.26 Hughes (NSW) 2.16

Throsby (NSW) 23.46 Melbourne Ports

(Vic)

7.15 O'Connor (WA) 16.55 Cowan (WA) 1.71

Wills (Vic) 22.41 Macquarie (NSW) 7.04 Riverina (NSW) 16.23 Hinkler (Qld) 1.69

Melbourne (Vic) 22.27 Parramatta

(NSW)

6.88 Maranoa (Qld) 14.44 Paterson (NSW) 1.51

Gellibrand (Vic) 21.46 Lindsay (NSW) 6.78 Moncrieff (Qld) 14.01 Stirling (WA) 1.29

Gorton (Vic) 21.22 Brisbane (Qld) 6.76 Curtin (WA) 13.57 Cowper (NSW) 1.23

Scullin (Vic) 20.85 Wakefield (SA) 6.59 Bradfield (NSW) 13.45 Sturt (SA) 0.94

Chifley (NSW) 20.66 Bendigo (Vic) 6.13 Parkes (NSW) 13.04 Macarthur (NSW) 0.72

Watson (NSW) 20.33 Brand (WA) 5.62 Mackellar (NSW) 12.42 La Trobe (Vic) 0.51

Port Adelaide (SA) 19.75 Hindmarsh (SA) 5.05 Calare (NSW) 12.05 Herbert (Qld) 0.21

Sydney (NSW) 19.50 Moreton (Qld) 4.75 Mitchell (NSW) 11.59 Dickson (Qld) 0.13

Calwell (Vic) 19.33 Bonner (Qld) 4.53 Farrer (NSW) 11.17 Swan (WA) 0.11

Blaxland (NSW) 18.37 Blair (Qld) 4.48 Fadden (Qld) 10.20 Bowman (Qld) 0.04

Fowler (NSW) 18.25 Franklin (Tas) 4.48 Kooyong (Vic) 9.53 McEwen (Vic) 0.01

Cunningham (NSW)

18.13 Kingston (SA) 4.42 Warringah (NSW) 9.50

Reid (NSW) 16.80 Leichhardt (Qld) 4.03 Barker (SA) 9.45

Hunter (NSW) 15.92 Dobell (NSW) 3.90 Indi (Vic) 9.19 IND Seats

Newcastle (NSW) 15.91 Longman (Qld) 3.57 Moore (WA) 9.17 New England

(NSW)

24.33

Denison (Tas) 15.63 Eden-Monaro

(NSW)

3.40 Pearce (WA) 9.07 Kennedy (Qld) 16.29

Lalor (Vic) 15.53 Dawson (Qld) 3.21 Berowra (NSW) 8.94

Maribyrnong (Vic) 15.32 Forde (Qld) 2.91 McPherson (Qld) 8.83

Werriwa (NSW) 15.24 Page (NSW) 2.36 Tangney (WA) 8.68

Fraser (ACT) 15.07 Petrie (Qld) 2.05 Lyne (NSW) 8.58

Shortland (NSW) 14.74 Braddon (Tas) 1.44 Wide Bay (Qld) 8.47

Oxley (Qld) 14.13 Deakin (Vic) 1.41 Flinders (Vic) 8.25

Prospect (NSW) 13.46 Bennelong

(NSW)

1.40 Groom (Qld) 8.22

Kingsford Smith (NSW) 13.29 Hasluck (WA) 1.26 Wannon (Vic) 7.47

Hotham (Vic) 13.00 Bass (Tas) 1.00 Mayo (SA) 7.06

Charlton (NSW) 12.87 Corangamite

(Vic)

0.85 Higgins (Vic) 7.04

Capricornia (Qld) 12.71 Solomon (NT) 0.19 Cook (NSW) 6.57

Griffith (Qld) 12.32 Flynn (Qld) 0.16 Goldstein (Vic) 6.05

Barton (NSW) 12.10 Robertson (NSW) 0.11 Menzies (Vic) 6.02

Canberra (ACT) 11.82 Casey (Vic) 5.93

Rankin (Qld) 11.74 Gippsland (Vic) 5.91

Holt (Vic) 11.63 Forrest (WA) 5.83

Lingiari (NT) 11.16 Canning (WA) 5.58

Banks (NSW) 11.08 North Sydney

(NSW)

5.38

Fremantle (WA) 9.14 Aston (Vic) 5.05

Jagajaga (Vic) 8.98 McMillan (Vic) 4.79

Corio (Vic) 8.93 Greenway (NSW) 4.50

Richmond (NSW) 8.87 Grey (SA) 4.43

Perth (WA) 8.85 Hume (NSW) 4.16

Lyons (Tas) 8.78 Gilmore (NSW) 4.07

Lilley (Qld) 8.59 Dunkley (Vic) 4.04

Adelaide (SA) 8.53 Wentworth

(NSW)

3.85

Bruce (Vic) 8.32 Ryan (Qld) 3.82

Ballarat (Vic) 8.15 Fisher (Qld) 3.10

Makin (SA) 7.70 Fairfax (Qld) 3.01

Isaacs (Vic) 7.69 Boothby (SA) 2.93

Note: Pendulum shows two-party preferred swing required for division to change at the next election, except for Independent held divisions where the two-candidate preferred swing is shown.

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Table 14: House of Representatives: Electoral divisions ranked by two-party preferred swing to ALP Per cent

Division Swing Division Swing Division Swing

Forde (Qld) 14.43 Cunningham (NSW) 6.51 Kingston (SA) 4.49

Leichhardt (Qld) 14.29 Gellibrand (Vic) 6.51 Charlton (NSW) 4.47

Dawson (Qld) 13.20 McEwen (Vic) 6.41 Lowe (NSW) 4.34

Calwell (Vic) 11.14 Hughes (NSW) 6.39 Bradfield (NSW) 4.10

Groom (Qld) 10.59 Deakin (Vic) 6.38 Goldstein (Vic) 3.98

Barker (SA) 10.43 Gorton (Vic) 6.32 Canning (WA) 3.96

Macarthur (NSW) 10.43 Isaacs (Vic) 6.21 Pearce (WA) 3.87

Longman (Qld) 10.32 Corangamite (Vic) 6.17 Griffith (Qld) 3.84

Blair (Qld) 10.17 Scullin (Vic) 6.06 O'Connor (WA) 3.84

Holt (Vic) 10.12 Herbert (Qld) 6.03 Grayndler (NSW) 3.74

Lindsay (NSW) 9.70 Ballarat (Vic) 5.92 Wide Bay (Qld) 3.74

Throsby (NSW) 9.64 Sturt (SA) 5.86 Kalgoorlie (WA) 3.72

Petrie (Qld) 9.50 Maribyrnong (Vic) 5.85 Bass (Tas) 3.63

Fairfax (Qld) 9.40 Murray (Vic) 5.82 Lingiari (NT) 3.50

Grey (SA) 9.39 Watson (NSW) 5.77 Mallee (Vic) 3.48

Mitchell (NSW) 9.09 Fadden (Qld) 5.70 Melbourne Ports (Vic) 3.41

Bowman (Qld) 8.86 Hotham (Vic) 5.60 Corio (Vic) 3.29

Dickson (Qld) 8.76 Bennelong (NSW) 5.53 Lilley (Qld) 3.19

Rankin (Qld) 8.76 Cowper (NSW) 5.52 Blaxland (NSW) 3.14

Dobell (NSW) 8.74 Moncrieff (Qld) 5.52 Hasluck (WA) 3.08

Capricornia (Qld) 8.70 Wills (Vic) 5.51 Tangney (WA) 3.07

Chifley (NSW) 8.69 Shortland (NSW) 5.50 Mackellar (NSW) 3.04

Hume (NSW) 8.68 Farrer (NSW) 5.46 Solomon (NT) 3.00

Makin (SA) 8.63 Casey (Vic) 5.42 Flinders (Vic) 2.86

Werriwa (NSW) 8.30 Dunkley (Vic) 5.34 Brisbane (Qld) 2.82

Aston (Vic) 8.10 Gilmore (NSW) 5.34 Braddon (Tas) 2.57

Fisher (Qld) 7.88 La Trobe (Vic) 5.32 Boothby (SA) 2.44

Flynn (Qld) 7.88 Bendigo (Vic) 5.17 Denison (Tas) 2.34

Banks (NSW) 7.86 McPherson (Qld) 5.11 Perth (WA) 2.12

Page (NSW) 7.83 Lyons (Tas) 5.10 Sydney (NSW) 2.12

Parramatta (NSW) 7.71 Bonner (Qld) 5.04 Canberra (ACT) 1.91

Moreton (Qld) 7.58 Hindmarsh (SA) 4.99 Gippsland (Vic) 1.79

Richmond (NSW) 7.43 Fowler (NSW) 4.93 Warringah (NSW) 1.79

Wakefield (SA) 7.26 Wannon (Vic) 4.90 Fraser (ACT) 1.75

Adelaide (SA) 7.20 Berowra (NSW) 4.88 Higgins (Vic) 1.72

Indi (Vic) 7.10 Bruce (Vic) 4.84 Moore (WA) 1.66

Prospect (NSW) 7.06 Hunter (NSW) 4.83 Fremantle (WA) 1.38

Oxley (Qld) 7.01 Lyne (NSW) 4.83 Kennedy (Qld) 1.35

Robertson (NSW) 6.98 Paterson (NSW) 4.81 Melbourne (Vic) 1.13

Greenway (NSW) 6.85 Chisholm (Vic) 4.73 Curtin (WA) 1.05

Port Adelaide (SA) 6.84 Reid (NSW) 4.72 Brand (WA) 0.97

Newcastle (NSW) 6.82 North Sydney (NSW) 4.66 Stirling (WA) 0.75

Lalor (Vic) 6.74 Menzies (Vic) 4.65 McMillan (Vic) 0.20

Cook (NSW) 6.71 Batman (Vic) 4.63 Kooyong (Vic) 0.05

Eden-Monaro (NSW) 6.67 Forrest (WA) 4.62 Swan (WA) -0.19

Hinkler (Qld) 6.65 Riverina (NSW) 4.62 Calare (NSW) -0.64

Maranoa (Qld) 6.61 Jagajaga (Vic) 4.58 New England (NSW) -1.21

Ryan (Qld) 6.60 Kingsford Smith (NSW) 4.56 Wentworth (NSW) -1.34

Macquarie (NSW) 6.57 Barton (NSW) 4.53 Cowan (WA) -2.49

Mayo (SA) 6.53 Parkes (NSW) 4.52 Franklin (Tas) -3.11

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Table 15: Senate: National summary

Australia

Party Candidates Seats won Votes Per cent Swing

Australian Labor Party 27 18 5 101 200 40.30 +5.28

Liberal Party/National Party Coalition

Liberal/Nationals 16 9 3 883 479 30.68 -3.55

Liberal Party of Australia 15 8 1 110 366 8.77 -1.63

The Nationals (National Party) 4 20 997 0.17 +0.06

Northern Territory Country Liberal Party 2 1 40 253 0.32 -0.03

Total Coalition 37 18 5 055 095 39.94 -5.15

Australian Greens 29 3 1 144 751 9.04 +1.37

Family First Party 23 204 788 1.62 -0.14

Australian Democrats 18 162 975 1.29 -0.80

Pauline's United Australia Party 4 141 268 1.12 +1.12

Christian Democratic Party (Fred Nile Group) 13 118 614 0.94 -0.24

Democratic Labor Party (DLP) of Australia 16 115 966 0.92 +0.43

Climate Change Coalition 12 78 763 0.62 +0.62

What Women Want (Australia) 14 58 803 0.46 +0.46

One Nation 12 52 708 0.42 -1.31

The Fishing Party 4 47 379 0.37 -0.05

The Australian Shooters Party/Australian Fishing and Lifestyle Party 5 45 932 0.36 +0.36

The Australian Shooters Party 6 38 216 0.30 +0.30

Australian Fishing and Lifestyle Party 4 24 902 0.20 +0.20

Carers Alliance 11 24 393 0.19 +0.19

Liberty and Democracy Party 14 16 942 0.13 +0.13

Conservatives for Climate and Environment Incorporated 6 9 988 0.08 +0.08

Socialist Alliance 12 9 525 0.08 -0.03

Citizens Electoral Council of Australia 14 8 677 0.07 -0.14

Senator On-Line 10 8 048 0.06 +0.06

Non-Custodial Parents Party 8 6 385 0.05 -0.05

Socialist Equality Party 4 4 542 0.04 +0.04

Hear Our Voice 2 2 041 0.02 +0.02

Nuclear Disarmament Party of Australia 2 446 0.00 -0.02

Others 60 1 174 458 1.38 -2.74

Formal 12 656 805 97.45 +1.20

Informal 331 009 2.55 -1.20

Total/turnout 367 40 12 987 814 95.17 +0.35

Enrolled 13 646 539

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Table 16: Senate: State summary

New South Wales

Party Candidates Seats won Votes Per cent Swing

Australian Labor Party 6 3 1 764 040 42.07 +5.70

Liberal/Nationals 6 3 1 649 014 39.33 -4.79

Australian Greens 6 353 286 8.43 +1.09

Christian Democratic Party (Fred Nile Group) 5 82 560 1.97 -0.64

Democratic Labor Party (DLP) of Australia 2 52 977 1.26 +1.26

The Australian Shooters Party/Australian Fishing and Lifestyle Party 5 45 932 1.10 +1.10

Pauline's United Australia Party 2 39 807 0.95 +0.95

Climate Change Coalition 2 37 271 0.89 +0.89

Australian Democrats 3 37 193 0.89 -1.31

The Fishing Party 2 27 089 0.65 +0.11

Family First Party 2 25 321 0.60 +0.04

One Nation 4 17 379 0.41 -1.48

What Women Want (Australia) 2 15 812 0.38 +0.38

Carers Alliance 4 14 099 0.34 +0.34

Liberty and Democracy Party 2 7 772 0.19 +0.19

Conservatives for Climate and Environment Incorporated 2 4 203 0.10 +0.10

Socialist Alliance 4 3 351 0.08 -0.03

Non-Custodial Parents Party 2 2 538 0.06 -0.01

Senator On-Line 2 2 257 0.05 +0.05

Citizens Electoral Council of Australia 2 2 224 0.05 -0.01

Socialist Equality Party 2 2 139 0.05 +0.05

Hear Our Voice 2 2 041 0.05 +0.05

Others 10 4 929 0.12 -4.01

Formal 4 193 234 97.76 +1.23

Informal 96 210 2.24 -1.23

Total/turnout 79 6 4 289 444 95.40 +0.29

Enrolled 4 496 208

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Table 16: Senate: State summary continued

Victoria

Party Candidates Seats won Votes Per cent Swing

Australian Labor Party 4 3 1 327 076 41.70 +5.58

Liberal/Nationals 4 3 1 257 149 39.50 -4.60

Australian Greens 6 320 759 10.08 +1.28

Family First Party 6 80 100 2.52 +0.64

Australian Democrats 3 52 596 1.65 -0.21

Democratic Labor Party (DLP) of Australia 6 32 930 1.03 -0.91

Climate Change Coalition 2 24 759 0.78 +0.78

The Australian Shooters Party 2 21 398 0.67 +0.67

What Women Want (Australia) 2 14 028 0.44 +0.44

One Nation 2 13 354 0.42 -0.30

Christian Democratic Party (Fred Nile Group) 2 7 100 0.22 -0.12

Conservatives for Climate and Environment Incorporated 2 4 216 0.13 +0.13

Carers Alliance 3 3 901 0.12 +0.12

Senator On-Line 2 3 106 0.10 +0.10

Liberty and Democracy Party 2 3 044 0.10 +0.10

Socialist Alliance 2 2 535 0.08 -0.08

Socialist Equality Party 2 2 403 0.08 +0.08

Citizens Electoral Council of Australia 2 1 697 0.05 -0.49

Non-Custodial Parents Party 2 1 511 0.05 -0.06

Others 12 8 707 0.28 -3.15

Formal 3 182 369 96.72 +1.85

Informal 107 850 3.28 -1.85

Total/turnout 68 6 3 290 219 95.60 +0.17

Enrolled 3 441 822

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Queensland

Party Candidates Seats won Votes Per cent Swing

Liberal/Nationals 6 3 977 316 40.40 -4.50

Australian Labor Party 4 3 948 145 39.20 +7.55

Australian Greens 3 177 063 7.32 +1.92

Pauline's United Australia Party 2 101 461 4.19 +4.19

Family First Party 6 53 249 2.20 -1.17

Australian Democrats 2 45 584 1.88 -0.32

The Fishing Party 2 20 290 0.84 -0.44

Australian Fishing and Lifestyle Party 2 19 131 0.79 +0.79

What Women Want (Australia) 2 17 370 0.72 +0.72

The Australian Shooters Party 2 12 845 0.53 +0.53

Climate Change Coalition 2 8 818 0.36 +0.36

Democratic Labor Party (DLP) of Australia 2 7 265 0.30 +0.30

Christian Democratic Party (Fred Nile Group) 2 6 289 0.26 +0.26

Carers Alliance 2 4 822 0.20 +0.20

One Nation 2 4 174 0.17 -2.97

Liberty and Democracy Party 2 3 890 0.16 +0.16

Socialist Alliance 2 1 941 0.08 -0.02

Non-Custodial Parents Party 2 1 390 0.06 -0.13

Senator On-Line 2 1 251 0.05 +0.05

Citizens Electoral Council of Australia 2 1 155 0.05 -0.10

Others 14 5 458 0.23 -7.39

Formal 2 418 907 97.66 +0.45

Informal 57 912 2.34 -0.45

Total/turnout 65 6 2 476 819 94.81 +0.68

Enrolled 2 612 504

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Western Australia

Party Candidates Seats won Votes Per cent Swing

Liberal Party of Australia 6 3 555 868 46.22 -3.12

Australian Labor Party 3 2 433 046 36.00 +3.48

Australian Greens 3 1 111 813 9.30 +1.24

Christian Democratic Party (Fred Nile Group) 2 21 179 1.76 -0.12

The Nationals (National Party) 2 17 365 1.44 +0.58

Australian Democrats 3 12 604 1.05 -0.95

One Nation 2 11 623 0.97 -1.48

Democratic Labor Party (DLP) of Australia 2 11 390 0.95 +0.95

Family First Party 3 10 341 0.86 +0.01

What Women Want (Australia) 2 3 533 0.29 +0.29

Climate Change Coalition 2 3 461 0.29 +0.29

Carers Alliance 2 1 571 0.13 +0.13

Conservatives for Climate and Environment Incorporated 2 1 569 0.13 +0.13

Citizens Electoral Council of Australia 2 1 002 0.08 -0.11

Non-Custodial Parents Party 2 946 0.08 -0.07

Socialist Alliance 2 928 0.08 +0.08

Senator On-Line 2 824 0.07 +0.07

Liberty and Democracy Party 2 591 0.05 +0.05

Others 10 3 096 0.26 -1.45

Formal 1 202 750 97.58 +1.12

Informal 29 797 2.42 -1.12

Total/turnout 54 6 1 232 547 93.86 +0.20

Enrolled 1 313 201

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South Australia

Party Candidates Seats won Votes Per cent Swing

Australian Labor Party 3 2 358 615 35.62 +0.13

Liberal Party of Australia 4 2 355 237 35.28 -12.21

Australian Greens 3 1 65 322 6.49 -0.11

Family First Party 3 29 114 2.89 -1.09

Democratic Labor Party (DLP) of Australia 2 9 343 0.93 +0.93

Australian Democrats 3 8 908 0.88 -1.51

One Nation 2 6 178 0.61 -0.53

Australian Fishing and Lifestyle Party 2 5 771 0.57 +0.57

What Women Want (Australia) 2 4 114 0.41 +0.41

The Australian Shooters Party 2 3 973 0.39 +0.39

The Nationals (National Party) 2 3 632 0.36 -0.04

Climate Change Coalition 2 3 131 0.31 +0.31

Christian Democratic Party (Fred Nile Group) 2 1 486 0.15 +0.15

Liberty and Democracy Party 2 798 0.08 +0.08

Socialist Alliance 2 770 0.08 -0.05

Senator On-Line 2 610 0.06 +0.06

Citizens Electoral Council of Australia 2 267 0.03 +0.03

Others 6 1 149 540 14.85 +12.47

Formal 1 006 809 97.62 +1.15

Informal 24 511 2.38 -1.15

Total/turnout 46 6 1 031 320 95.83 +0.47

Enrolled 1 076 220

Tasmania

Party Candidates Seats won Votes Per cent Swing

Australian Labor Party 3 3 131 055 40.10 +6.56

Liberal Party of Australia 3 2 122 203 37.39 -8.74

Australian Greens 4 1 59 254 18.13 +4.84

Family First Party 3 6 663 2.04 -0.34

What Women Want (Australia) 2 2 540 0.78 +0.78

Democratic Labor Party (DLP) of Australia 2 2 061 0.63 +0.63

Citizens Electoral Council of Australia 2 313 0.10 -0.06

Liberty and Democracy Party 2 302 0.09 +0.09

Others 7 2 455 0.75 -3.75

Formal 326 846 97.37 +0.74

Informal 8 830 2.63 -0.74

Total/turnout 28 6 335 676 95.98 +0.08

Enrolled 349 753

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Australian Capital Territory

Party Candidates Seats won Votes Per cent Swing

Australian Labor Party 2 1 92 018 40.84 -0.26

Liberal Party of Australia 2 1 77 058 34.20 -3.67

Australian Greens 2 48 384 21.47 +5.11

Australian Democrats 2 4 141 1.84 -0.30

What Women Want (Australia) 2 1 406 0.62 +0.62

Climate Change Coalition 2 1 323 0.59 +0.59

Liberty and Democracy Party 2 545 0.24 +0.24

Nuclear Disarmament Party of Australia 2 446 0.20 +0.20

Formal 225 321 98.30 +0.76

Informal 3 905 1.70 -0.76

Total/turnout 16 2 229 226 96.00 +0.79

Enrolled 238 786

Northern Territory

Party Candidates Seats won Votes Per cent Swing

Australian Labor Party 2 1 47 205 46.94 +5.57

Northern Territory Country Liberal Party 2 1 40 253 40.03 -5.37

Australian Greens 2 8 870 8.82 +1.22

Citizens Electoral Council of Australia 2 2 019 2.01 +2.01

Australian Democrats 2 1 949 1.94 -2.79

Others 1 273 0.27 -0.64

Formal 100 569 98.06 +1.18

Informal 1 994 1.94 -1.18

Total/turnout 11 2 102 563 86.88 +2.47

Enrolled 118 045

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Table 17: Senate: Composition from 1 July 2008

LP NP CLP ALP GRN FFP IND Total

Term expires 30 June 2011

New South Wales 2 1 3 6

Victoria 3 2 1 6

Queensland 3 1 2 6

Western Australia 3 2 1 6

South Australia 3 3 6

Tasmania 3 2 1 6

Total 17 2 14 2 1 36

Term expires 30 June 2014

New South Wales 2 1 3 6

Victoria 3 3 6

Queensland 2 1 3 6

Western Australia 3 2 1 6

South Australia 2 2 1 1 6

Tasmania 2 3 1 6

Total 14 2 16 3 1 36

Total Senate

New South Wales 4 2 6 12

Victoria 6 5 1 12

Queensland 5 2 5 12

Western Australia 6 4 2 12

South Australia 5 5 1 1 12

Tasmania 5 5 2 12

Australian Capital Territory 1 1 2

Northern Territory 1 1 2

Total 32 4 1 32 5 1 1 76

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Table 18: Senate: Candidate details

New South Wales

Group Candidate Party Order Votes Per cent Quotas

A TICKET VOTES LNP 1 637 675 39.06 2.7339

A COONAN, H * LP 2 8 873 0.21 0.0148

A WILLIAMS, J # NP 4 887 0.02 0.0015

A PAYNE, M * LP 5 658 0.02 0.0011

A LEES, P NP 238 0.01 0.0004

A McGAHEY, V LP 171 0.00 0.0003

A CURRIE, C LP 512 0.01 0.0009

A Group Total LP 1 649 014 39.33 2.7528

B TICKET VOTES CEC 2 025 0.05 0.0034

B LAWLER, A CEC 178 0.00 0.0003

B McCAFFREY, I CEC 21 0.00 0.0000

B Group Total CEC 2 224 0.05 0.0037

C TICKET VOTES FFP 23 802 0.57 0.0397

C MARKWELL, A FFP 1 415 0.03 0.0024

C GRAY, K FFP 104 0.00 0.0002

C Group Total FFP 25 321 0.60 0.0423

D TICKET VOTES PUA 38 166 0.91 0.0637

D BURSTON, B PUA 1 526 0.04 0.0025

D CARTER, J PUA 115 0.00 0.0002

D Group Total PUA 39 807 0.95 0.0665

E TICKET VOTES CCC 28 960 0.69 0.0483

E NEWELL, P CCC 2 627 0.06 0.0044

E KRUSZELNICKI, K CCC 5 684 0.14 0.0095

E Group Total CCC 37 271 0.89 0.0622

F TICKET VOTES SAL 2 951 0.07 0.0049

F BAINBRIDGE, A SAL 332 0.01 0.0006

F PRICE, S SAL 27 0.00 0.0000

F EMANUEL, K SAL 14 0.00 0.0000

F DOBSON, T SAL 27 0.00 0.0000

F Group Total SAL 3 351 0.08 0.0056

G TICKET VOTES GRN 330 020 7.87 0.5509

G NETTLE, K * GRN 21 062 0.50 0.0352

G SHOEBRIDGE, D GRN 353 0.01 0.0006

G ELLA-DUNCAN, M GRN 370 0.01 0.0006

G MUNDEY, J GRN 688 0.02 0.0011

G HO, C GRN 309 0.01 0.0005

G HEILPERN, S GRN 484 0.01 0.0008

G Group Total GRN 353 286 8.43 0.5898

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New South Wales

Group Candidate Party

Order elected Votes Per cent Quotas

H TICKET VOTES WWW 15 265 0.36 0.0255

H CAINES, J WWW 508 0.01 0.0008

H ROBINSON, J WWW 39 0.00 0.0001

H Group Total WWW 15 812 0.38 0.0264

I TICKET VOTES LDP 7 632 0.18 0.0127

I PETERSEN, T LDP 133 0.00 0.0002

I BEREGSZASZI, J LDP 7 0.00 0.0000

I Group Total LDP 7 772 0.19 0.0130

J TICKET VOTES 1 796 0.04 0.0030

J BRYCE, I 196 0.00 0.0003

J AUGUST, J 25 0.00 0.0000

J Group Total 2 017 0.05 0.0034

K TICKET VOTES HOV 1 959 0.05 0.0033

K McLENNAN, T HOV 74 0.00 0.0001

K CARROLL, L HOV 8 0.00 0.0000

K Group Total HOV 2 041 0.05 0.0034

L TICKET VOTES SOL 1 978 0.05 0.0033

L REILLY, P SOL 242 0.01 0.0004

L DER SARKISSIAN, B SOL 37 0.00 0.0001

L Group Total SOL 2 257 0.05 0.0038

M TICKET VOTES DEM 33 414 0.80 0.0558

M SHUMACK, L DEM 3 515 0.08 0.0059

M KING, D DEM 106 0.00 0.0002

M PATERSON, B DEM 158 0.00 0.0003

M Group Total DEM 37 193 0.89 0.0621

N TICKET VOTES CCE 3 976 0.09 0.0066

N McNEALL, R CCE 196 0.00 0.0003

N MAXFIELD, J CCE 31 0.00 0.0001

N Group Total CCE 4 203 0.10 0.0070

O TICKET VOTES DLP 52 631 1.26 0.0879

O O'DONOHUE, M DLP 334 0.01 0.0006

O O'DONOHUE, T DLP 12 0.00 0.0000

O Group Total DLP 52 977 1.26 0.0884

P TICKET VOTES 870 0.02 0.0015

P WOLDRING, K 67 0.00 0.0001

P BRADLEY, M 11 0.00 0.0000

P Group Total 948 0.02 0.0016

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New South Wales

Group Candidate Party

Order elected Votes Per cent Quotas

Q TICKET VOTES FPY 26 530 0.63 0.0443

Q BRIDGE, G FPY 527 0.01 0.0009

Q PATERSON, J FPY 32 0.00 0.0001

Q Group Total FPY 27 089 0.65 0.0452

R TICKET VOTES CDP 77 094 1.84 0.1287

R GREEN, P CDP 4 729 0.11 0.0079

R NILE, E CDP 599 0.01 0.0010

R LOTFIZADEH, A CDP 17 0.00 0.0000

R PILT, P CDP 27 0.00 0.0000

R YORK, R CDP 94 0.00 0.0002

R Group Total CDP 82 560 1.97 0.1378

S TICKET VOTES ON 16 637 0.40 0.0278

S NEWSON, J ON 656 0.02 0.0011

S WEBBER, A ON 40 0.00 0.0001

S BUSSA, A ON 16 0.00 0.0000

S FREW, A ON 30 0.00 0.0001

S Group Total ON 17 379 0.41 0.0290

T TICKET VOTES NCP 2 303 0.05 0.0038

T GEREMIN, J NCP 213 0.01 0.0004

T FOSTER, R NCP 22 0.00 0.0000

T Group Total NCP 2 538 0.06 0.0042

U TICKET VOTES SFP 44 259 1.06 0.0739

U BORSAK, R ASP 1 437 0.03 0.0024

U SHAW, R ASP 83 0.00 0.0001

U MUIRHEAD, J ASP 39 0.00 0.0001

U HESTELOW, A AFLP 66 0.00 0.0001

U MORGAN, T AFLP 48 0.00 0.0001

U Group Total AFLP 45 932 1.10 0.0767

V TICKET VOTES 1 215 0.03 0.0020

V TINYOW, W 26 0.00 0.0000

V CHAN, M 18 0.00 0.0000

V Group Total 1 259 0.03 0.0021

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New South Wales

Group Candidate Party

Order elected Votes Per cent Quotas

W TICKET VOTES ALP 1 751 248 41.76 2.9235

W ARBIB, M # ALP 1 8 974 0.21 0.0150

W CAMERON, D ALP 3 1 157 0.03 0.0019

W STEPHENS, U * ALP 6 917 0.02 0.0015

W ESBER, P ALP 180 0.00 0.0003

W SEATON, F ALP 752 0.02 0.0013

W JAMES, P ALP 812 0.02 0.0014

W Group Total ALP 1 764 040 42.07 2.9448

X TICKET VOTES SEP 2 003 0.05 0.0033

X BEAMS, N SEP 122 0.00 0.0002

X DIVJAK, C SEP 14 0.00 0.0000

X Group Total SEP 2 139 0.05 0.0036

Y TICKET VOTES CA 12 586 0.30 0.0210

Y CARTER, M CA 1 368 0.03 0.0023

Y BROWN, N CA 12 0.00 0.0000

Y CLARK, K CA 70 0.00 0.0001

Y MOCKLER, M CA 63 0.00 0.0001

Y Group Total CA 14 099 0.34 0.0235

UG NADAS, P IND 394 0.01 0.0007

UG LEVY, C IND 79 0.00 0.0001

UG NERO, S IND 46 0.00 0.0001

UG STEFANAC, J IND 186 0.00 0.0003

UG Group Total IND 705 0.02 0.0012

Formal 4 193 234 97.76

Informal 96 210 2.24

Total 4 289 444 95.40

Enrolled 4 496 208

Quota 599 034

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Victoria

Group Candidate Party

Order elected Votes Per cent Quotas

A TICKET VOTES CCC 22 945 0.72 0.0505

A HOWARD, A CCC 1 675 0.05 0.0037

A ROZAIRO, S CCC 139 0.00 0.0003

A Group Total CCC 24 759 0.78 0.0545

B TICKET VOTES ON 12 557 0.39 0.0276

B STEEL, N ON 742 0.02 0.0016

B SHORE, D ON 55 0.00 0.0001

B Group Total ON 13 354 0.42 0.0294

C TICKET VOTES DEM 45 588 1.43 0.1003

C ALLISON, L * DEM 6 385 0.20 0.0140

C CHIPP, G DEM 371 0.01 0.0008

C McCUBBIN, J DEM 252 0.01 0.0006

C Group Total DEM 52 596 1.65 0.1157

D TICKET VOTES WWW 13 400 0.42 0.0295

D LOVE, M WWW 555 0.02 0.0012

D THOMPSON, R WWW 73 0.00 0.0002

D Group Total WWW 14 028 0.44 0.0309

E TICKET VOTES SOL 2 837 0.09 0.0062

E ROSE, R SOL 238 0.01 0.0005

E BARRETT, J SOL 31 0.00 0.0001

E Group Total SOL 3 106 0.10 0.0068

F TICKET VOTES ALP 1 312 942 41.26 2.8880

F COLLINS, J # ALP 1 11 787 0.37 0.0259

F MARSHALL, G * ALP 3 780 0.02 0.0017

F FEENEY, D ALP 6 651 0.02 0.0014

F LEWIS, M ALP 916 0.03 0.0020

F Group Total ALP 1 327 076 41.70 2.9191

G TICKET VOTES ASP 20 314 0.64 0.0447

G PARKER, B ASP 1 021 0.03 0.0022

G GRAHAM, M ASP 63 0.00 0.0001

G Group Total ASP 21 398 0.67 0.0471

H TICKET VOTES LNP 1 249 731 39.27 2.7489

H FIFIELD, M * LP 2 4 875 0.15 0.0107

H KROGER, H # LP 4 1 025 0.03 0.0023

H RYAN, S # LP 5 678 0.02 0.0015

H SWAYN, S NP 840 0.03 0.0018

H Group Total NP 1 257 149 39.50 2.7652

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Victoria

Group Candidate Party

Order elected Votes Per cent Quotas

I TICKET VOTES 5 351 0.17 0.0118

I TOSCANO, J 312 0.01 0.0007

I PIERCE, J 32 0.00 0.0001

I Group Total 5 695 0.18 0.0125

J TICKET VOTES SEP 2 262 0.07 0.0050

J BYRNE, P SEP 120 0.00 0.0003

J BAPTIST, T SEP 21 0.00 0.0000

J Group Total SEP 2 403 0.08 0.0053

K TICKET VOTES FFP 77 147 2.42 0.1697

K PLUMRIDGE, G FFP 2 644 0.08 0.0058

K RAWSON, M FFP 76 0.00 0.0002

K PODBURY, M FFP 44 0.00 0.0001

K WILLIS, C FFP 49 0.00 0.0001

K HEATH, C FFP 40 0.00 0.0001

K BOWN SEELEY, A FFP 100 0.00 0.0002

K Group Total FFP 80 100 2.52 0.1762

L TICKET VOTES LDP 2 959 0.09 0.0065

L CLANCY, S LDP 75 0.00 0.0002

L SAW, G LDP 10 0.00 0.0000

L Group Total LDP 3 044 0.10 0.0067

M TICKET VOTES CCE 4 003 0.13 0.0088

M RASKOVY, S CCE 189 0.01 0.0004

M LEWAND, V CCE 24 0.00 0.0001

M Group Total CCE 4 216 0.13 0.0093

N TICKET VOTES DLP 32 026 1.01 0.0704

N MULHOLLAND, J DLP 789 0.02 0.0017

N FLOOD, G DLP 22 0.00 0.0000

N LA MANNA, P DLP 35 0.00 0.0001

N EVELYN-LIARDET, T DLP 20 0.00 0.0000

N WELLS, K DLP 12 0.00 0.0000

N CREA, P DLP 26 0.00 0.0001

N Group Total DLP 32 930 1.03 0.0724

O TICKET VOTES CDP 6 358 0.20 0.0140

O McDONALD, E CDP 674 0.02 0.0015

O CLARNETTE, D CDP 68 0.00 0.0001

O Group Total CDP 7 100 0.22 0.0156

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Victoria

Group Candidate Party

Order elected Votes Per cent Quotas

P TICKET VOTES 1 055 0.03 0.0023

P PERKINS, J 147 0.00 0.0003

P CONWAY, A 36 0.00 0.0001

P Group Total 1 238 0.04 0.0027

Q TICKET VOTES CEC 1 584 0.05 0.0035

Q AFFLECK, R CEC 96 0.00 0.0002

Q ISHERWOOD, K CEC 17 0.00 0.0000

Q Group Total CEC 1 697 0.05 0.0037

R TICKET VOTES NCP 1 344 0.04 0.0030

R HALL, B NCP 154 0.00 0.0003

R ZABANEH, J NCP 13 0.00 0.0000

R Group Total NCP 1 511 0.05 0.0033

S TICKET VOTES SAL 2 149 0.07 0.0047

S WINDISCH, M SAL 339 0.01 0.0007

S SMITH, J SAL 47 0.00 0.0001

S Group Total SAL 2 535 0.08 0.0056

T TICKET VOTES 496 0.02 0.0011

T KALINIY, J 15 0.00 0.0000

T MESARITIS, K 11 0.00 0.0000

T Group Total 522 0.02 0.0011

U TICKET VOTES GRN 296 328 9.31 0.6518

U DI NATALE, R GRN 21 703 0.68 0.0477

U O'CONNOR, J GRN 987 0.03 0.0022

U BHATHAL, A GRN 296 0.01 0.0007

U REIHER, J GRN 194 0.01 0.0004

U PHAM, H GRN 189 0.01 0.0004

U HENLEY, E GRN 1 062 0.03 0.0023

U Group Total GRN 320 759 10.08 0.7055

V TICKET VOTES 452 0.01 0.0010

V KLEIN, A 19 0.00 0.0000

V KLEIN, A 32 0.00 0.0001

V Group Total 503 0.02 0.0011

W TICKET VOTES CA 3 384 0.11 0.0074

W RHODES, J CA 460 0.01 0.0010

W GIBILISCO, P CA 32 0.00 0.0001

W KARADIMOS, P CA 25 0.00 0.0001

W Group Total CA 3 901 0.12 0.0086

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Victoria

Group Candidate Party

Order elected Votes Per cent Quotas

UG WALKER, N IND 383 0.01 0.0008

UG O'BRYAN, D IND 133 0.00 0.0003

UG GROVES, L ON 48 0.00 0.0001

UG SENER, T IND 185 0.01 0.0004

UG Group Total IND 749 0.02 0.0016

Formal 3 182 369 96.72

Informal 107 850 3.28

Total 3 290 219 95.60

Enrolled 3 441 822

Quota 454 625

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Queensland

Group Candidate Party

Order elected Votes Per cent Quotas

A TICKET VOTES WWW 16 172 0.67 0.0468

A BOUSFIELD, A WWW 1 087 0.04 0.0031

A BEUTEL, S WWW 111 0.00 0.0003

A Group Total WWW 17 370 0.72 0.0503

B TICKET VOTES LDP 3 751 0.16 0.0109

B HUMPHREYS, J LDP 126 0.01 0.0004

B CLARK, J LDP 13 0.00 0.0000

B Group Total LDP 3 890 0.16 0.0113

C TICKET VOTES CCC 8 081 0.33 0.0234

C JOHNSON, P CCC 610 0.03 0.0018

C POSSELT, S CCC 127 0.01 0.0004

C Group Total CCC 8 818 0.36 0.0255

D TICKET VOTES CA 4 457 0.18 0.0129

D MADDISON, F CA 339 0.01 0.0010

D GOW, R CA 26 0.00 0.0001

D Group Total CA 4 822 0.20 0.0140

E TICKET VOTES SOL 1 091 0.05 0.0032

E PEAKE, B SOL 144 0.01 0.0004

E BATESON, S SOL 16 0.00 0.0000

E Group Total SOL 1 251 0.05 0.0036

F TICKET VOTES SAL 1 595 0.07 0.0046

F WATSON, S SAL 311 0.01 0.0009

F TAYLOR, A SAL 35 0.00 0.0001

F Group Total SAL 1 941 0.08 0.0056

G TICKET VOTES FPY 19 555 0.81 0.0566

G SMITH, R FPY 707 0.03 0.0020

G STOCKER, E FPY 28 0.00 0.0001

G Group Total FPY 20 290 0.84 0.0587

H TICKET VOTES FFP 50 222 2.08 0.1453

H BUCHANAN, J FFP 2 559 0.11 0.0074

H SPENCER, B FFP 60 0.00 0.0002

H MANNERS, M FFP 33 0.00 0.0001

H EATON, C FFP 62 0.00 0.0002

H HART, S FFP 222 0.01 0.0006

H BENSON-STOTT, E FFP 91 0.00 0.0003

H Group Total FFP 53 249 2.20 0.1541

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Queensland

Group Candidate Party

Order elected Votes Per cent Quotas

I TICKET VOTES DEM 39 512 1.63 0.1143

I BARTLETT, A * DEM 5 777 0.24 0.0167

I NEILL, S DEM 295 0.01 0.0009

I Group Total DEM 45 584 1.88 0.1319

J TICKET VOTES LNP 965 224 39.90 2.7932

J MACDONALD, I * LP 1 7 025 0.29 0.0203

J BOYCE, S * LP 3 701 0.03 0.0020

J BOSWELL, R * NP 5 3 451 0.14 0.0100

J POWELL, M LP 338 0.01 0.0010

J GOODWIN, D NP 287 0.01 0.0008

J BUCHHOLZ, S NP 290 0.01 0.0008

J Group Total NP 977 316 40.40 2.8282

K TICKET VOTES 1 527 0.06 0.0044

K HACKETT-JONES, R 181 0.01 0.0005

K RIVETT, J 30 0.00 0.0001

K Group Total 1 738 0.07 0.0050

L TICKET VOTES ASP 11 813 0.49 0.0342

L FEENEY, P ASP 1 016 0.04 0.0029

L HRSTICH, A ASP 16 0.00 0.0000

L Group Total ASP 12 845 0.53 0.0372

M TICKET VOTES GRN 162 356 6.71 0.4698

M WATERS, L GRN 13 924 0.58 0.0403

M LIGHT, A GRN 383 0.02 0.0011

M ROSIN, D GRN 400 0.02 0.0012

M Group Total GRN 177 063 7.32 0.5124

N TICKET VOTES 737 0.03 0.0021

N COUPER, D 47 0.00 0.0001

N BROWN, M 42 0.00 0.0001

N Group Total 826 0.03 0.0024

O TICKET VOTES ALP 935 619 38.68 2.7076

O HOGG, J * ALP 2 9 282 0.38 0.0269

O MOORE, C * ALP 4 1 570 0.06 0.0045

O FURNER, M ALP 6 555 0.02 0.0016

O O'BRIEN, D ALP 1 119 0.05 0.0032

O Group Total ALP 948 145 39.20 2.7438

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Queensland

Group Candidate Party

Order elected Votes Per cent Quotas

P TICKET VOTES AFLP 18 310 0.76 0.0530

P COLLINS, K AFLP 749 0.03 0.0022

P DONALD, D AFLP 72 0.00 0.0002

P Group Total AFLP 19 131 0.79 0.0554

Q TICKET VOTES ON 4 026 0.17 0.0117

Q NELSON, I ON 137 0.01 0.0004

Q ARROITA, L ON 11 0.00 0.0000

Q Group Total ON 4 174 0.17 0.0121

R TICKET VOTES PUA 91 990 3.80 0.2662

R HANSON, P PUA 9 455 0.39 0.0274

R SAVILLE, D PUA 16 0.00 0.0000

R Group Total PUA 101 461 4.19 0.2936

S TICKET VOTES CEC 1 015 0.04 0.0029

S PUKALLUS, J CEC 100 0.00 0.0003

S HETHERINGTON, M CEC 40 0.00 0.0001

S Group Total CEC 1 155 0.05 0.0033

T TICKET VOTES CDP 5 584 0.23 0.0162

T BRICE, L CDP 648 0.03 0.0019

T BRICE, M CDP 57 0.00 0.0002

T Group Total CDP 6 289 0.26 0.0182

U TICKET VOTES NCP 1 232 0.05 0.0036

U HEALEY, W NCP 138 0.01 0.0004

U THOMPSON, D NCP 20 0.00 0.0001

U Group Total NCP 1 390 0.06 0.0040

V TICKET VOTES DLP 7 077 0.29 0.0205

V JACKSON, N DLP 170 0.01 0.0005

V DOWLING, B DLP 18 0.00 0.0001

V Group Total DLP 7 265 0.30 0.0210

W TICKET VOTES 406 0.02 0.0012

W ALBERTS, K 76 0.00 0.0002

W RADY, M 11 0.00 0.0000

W Group Total 493 0.02 0.0014

X TICKET VOTES 1 166 0.05 0.0034

X BAKER, J 322 0.01 0.0009

X FITZGERALD-BAKER, L 18 0.00 0.0001

X Group Total 1 506 0.06 0.0044

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Queensland

Group Candidate Party

Order elected Votes Per cent Quotas

UG DUGGAN, J IND 406 0.02 0.0012

UG LOW, P IND 25 0.00 0.0001

UG REID, J IND 70 0.00 0.0002

UG TRAVERSARI, M IND 52 0.00 0.0002

UG DeMARCHI, L IND 144 0.01 0.0004

UG PETERSEN, R IND 198 0.01 0.0006

UG Group Total IND 895 0.04 0.0026

Formal 2 418 907 97.66

Informal 57 912 2.34

Total 2 476 819 94.81

Enrolled 2 612 504

Quota 345 559

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Western Australia

Group Candidate Party

Order elected Votes Per cent Quotas

A TICKET VOTES NP 15 977 1.33 0.0930

A CROOK, A NP 1 234 0.10 0.0072

A DUNCAN, W NP 154 0.01 0.0009

A Group Total NP 17 365 1.44 0.1011

B TICKET VOTES CEC 848 0.07 0.0049

B ROBINSON, J CEC 133 0.01 0.0008

B SMITH, S CEC 21 0.00 0.0001

B Group Total CEC 1 002 0.08 0.0058

C TICKET VOTES CDP 19 441 1.62 0.1131

C GOIRAN, G CDP 1 627 0.14 0.0095

C WATT, P CDP 111 0.01 0.0006

C Group Total CDP 21 179 1.76 0.1233

D TICKET VOTES NCP 815 0.07 0.0047

D DIXON, G NCP 113 0.01 0.0007

D WARD, M NCP 18 0.00 0.0001

D Group Total NCP 946 0.08 0.0055

E TICKET VOTES DLP 11 174 0.93 0.0650

E BOULGER, D DLP 193 0.02 0.0011

E MILLER, E DLP 23 0.00 0.0001

E Group Total DLP 11 390 0.95 0.0663

F TICKET VOTES LP 550 592 45.78 3.2044

F JOHNSTON, D * LP 1 3 939 0.33 0.0229

F EGGLESTON, A * LP 3 337 0.03 0.0020

F CASH, M # LP 5 261 0.02 0.0015

F MISCHIN, M LP 164 0.01 0.0010

F MOURITZ, D LP 242 0.02 0.0014

F BROWN, M LP 333 0.03 0.0019

F Group Total LP 555 868 46.22 3.2351

G TICKET VOTES DEM 10 617 0.88 0.0618

G LEWIN, E # DEM 1 817 0.15 0.0106

G OLVER, R DEM 82 0.01 0.0005

G HODDY, D DEM 88 0.01 0.0005

G Group Total DEM 12 604 1.05 0.0734

H TICKET VOTES ON 10 710 0.89 0.0623

H HOPKINSON, J ON 816 0.07 0.0047

H McLEAN, R ON 97 0.01 0.0006

H Group Total ON 11 623 0.97 0.0676

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Western Australia

Group Candidate Party

Order elected Votes Per cent Quotas

I TICKET VOTES FFP 9 638 0.80 0.0561

I ROSE, L FFP 621 0.05 0.0036

I FABIAN, C FFP 21 0.00 0.0001

I FUHRMANN, S FFP 61 0.01 0.0004

I Group Total FFP 10 341 0.86 0.0602

J TICKET VOTES SOL 680 0.06 0.0040

J MAYER, D SOL 133 0.01 0.0008

J LAMONT, Z SOL 11 0.00 0.0001

J Group Total SOL 824 0.07 0.0048

K TICKET VOTES CA 1 378 0.11 0.0080

K HOYER, T CA 168 0.01 0.0010

K PRIMEAU, S CA 25 0.00 0.0001

K Group Total CA 1 571 0.13 0.0091

L TICKET VOTES ALP 426 275 35.44 2.4809

L PRATT, L ALP 2 5 246 0.44 0.0305

L BISHOP, T * ALP 4 884 0.07 0.0051

L WEBBER, R * ALP 641 0.05 0.0037

L Group Total ALP 433 046 36.00 2.5203

M TICKET VOTES 670 0.06 0.0039

M WYNNE, E 116 0.01 0.0007

M FITZGERALD, K 33 0.00 0.0002

M Group Total 819 0.07 0.0048

N TICKET VOTES CCC 2 944 0.24 0.0171

N WARDEN, G CCC 414 0.03 0.0024

N BISHOP, S CCC 103 0.01 0.0006

N Group Total CCC 3 461 0.29 0.0201

O TICKET VOTES SAL 751 0.06 0.0044

O HAWKINS, T SAL 154 0.01 0.0009

O GRAY, J SAL 23 0.00 0.0001

O Group Total SAL 928 0.08 0.0054

P TICKET VOTES 1 050 0.09 0.0061

P CAMPBELL, G 539 0.04 0.0031

P FISCHER, J 12 0.00 0.0001

P GRAHAM, R 4 0.00 0.0000

P GIBSON, G 16 0.00 0.0001

P Group Total 1 621 0.13 0.0094

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Western Australia

Group Candidate Party

Order elected Votes Per cent Quotas

Q TICKET VOTES 162 0.01 0.0009

Q ARMSTRONG, J 75 0.01 0.0004

Q TAN, M 34 0.00 0.0002

Q Group Total 271 0.02 0.0016

R TICKET VOTES WWW 3 264 0.27 0.0190

R BASDEN, M WWW 237 0.02 0.0014

R LANE, S WWW 32 0.00 0.0002

R Group Total WWW 3 533 0.29 0.0206

S TICKET VOTES CCE 1 391 0.12 0.0081

S KETTLE, G CCE 151 0.01 0.0009

S ANTON, S CCE 27 0.00 0.0002

S Group Total CCE 1 569 0.13 0.0091

T TICKET VOTES LDP 525 0.04 0.0031

T WHELAN, P LDP 59 0.00 0.0003

T PARKER, D LDP 7 0.00 0.0000

T Group Total LDP 591 0.05 0.0034

U TICKET VOTES GRN 101 478 8.44 0.5906

U LUDLAM, S GRN 6 9 132 0.76 0.0531

U XAMON, A GRN 704 0.06 0.0041

U ROY, B GRN 499 0.04 0.0029

U Group Total GRN 111 813 9.30 0.6507

UG McNAUGHT, R IND 291 0.02 0.0017

UG DABROWSKI, E IND 94 0.01 0.0005

UG Group Total IND 385 0.03 0.0022

Formal 1 202 750 97.58

Informal 29 797 2.42

Total 1 232 547 93.86

Enrolled 1 313 201

Quota 171 822

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South Australia

Group Candidate Party

Order elected Votes Per cent Quotas

A TICKET VOTES ON 5 535 0.55 0.0385

A ALDRIDGE, M ON 610 0.06 0.0042

A DWYER, D ON 33 0.00 0.0002

A Group Total ON 6 178 0.61 0.0430

B TICKET VOTES 474 0.05 0.0033

B PATERSON, B 75 0.01 0.0005

B BROOK, A 28 0.00 0.0002

B Group Total 577 0.06 0.0040

C TICKET VOTES CDP 1 196 0.12 0.0083

C COLANGELO, B CDP 245 0.02 0.0017

C HUNT, N CDP 45 0.00 0.0003

C Group Total CDP 1 486 0.15 0.0103

D TICKET VOTES AFLP 5 413 0.54 0.0376

D ARMSTRONG, N AFLP 336 0.03 0.0023

D TIPPINS, P AFLP 22 0.00 0.0002

D Group Total AFLP 5 771 0.57 0.0401

E TICKET VOTES ASP 3 480 0.35 0.0242

E HAHN, J ASP 474 0.05 0.0033

E BORUN, B ASP 19 0.00 0.0001

E Group Total ASP 3 973 0.39 0.0276

F TICKET VOTES GRN 53 536 5.32 0.3722

F HANSON-YOUNG, S GRN 6 11 103 1.10 0.0772

F MORTIER, N GRN 302 0.03 0.0021

F RIGNEY, M GRN 381 0.04 0.0026

F Group Total GRN 65 322 6.49 0.4542

G TICKET VOTES NP 3 306 0.33 0.0230

G HOWARD, R NP 289 0.03 0.0020

G CUTHBERTSON, I NP 37 0.00 0.0003

G Group Total NP 3 632 0.36 0.0253

H TICKET VOTES DLP 9 157 0.91 0.0637

H HARDY, G DLP 146 0.01 0.0010

H McCABE, D DLP 40 0.00 0.0003

H Group Total DLP 9 343 0.93 0.0650

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South Australia

Group Candidate Party

Order elected Votes Per cent Quotas

I TICKET VOTES LP 347 502 34.52 2.4161

I BERNARDI, C * LP 2 5 649 0.56 0.0393

I BIRMINGHAM, S * LP 5 653 0.06 0.0045

I CHAPMAN, H * LP 1 039 0.10 0.0072

I KOURTESIS, M LP 394 0.04 0.0027

I Group Total LP 355 237 35.28 2.4698

J TICKET VOTES WWW 3 845 0.38 0.0267

J NEUMANN, E WWW 248 0.02 0.0017

J McINTOSH, M WWW 21 0.00 0.0001

J Group Total WWW 4 114 0.41 0.0286

K TICKET VOTES ALP 347 256 34.49 2.4144

K FARRELL, D # ALP 1 7 617 0.76 0.0530

K WONG, P * ALP 4 2 796 0.28 0.0194

K PERRY, C ALP 946 0.09 0.0066

K Group Total ALP 358 615 35.62 2.4933

L TICKET VOTES CCC 2 694 0.27 0.0187

L ENDEAN, C CCC 385 0.04 0.0027

L KUBILIUS, V CCC 52 0.01 0.0004

L Group Total CCC 3 131 0.31 0.0218

M TICKET VOTES CEC 234 0.02 0.0016

M VINCENT, M CEC 32 0.00 0.0002

M SIEBERT, P CEC 1 0.00 0.0000

M Group Total CEC 267 0.03 0.0019

N TICKET VOTES SOL 521 0.05 0.0036

N CLARK, J SOL 79 0.01 0.0005

N CLARKE, C SOL 10 0.00 0.0001

N Group Total SOL 610 0.06 0.0042

O TICKET VOTES SAL 583 0.06 0.0041

O CLARKE, R SAL 165 0.02 0.0011

O LAZAROU, E SAL 22 0.00 0.0002

O Group Total SAL 770 0.08 0.0054

P TICKET VOTES DEM 7 207 0.72 0.0501

P RUSSELL, R # DEM 1 551 0.15 0.0108

P BAUMANN, M DEM 57 0.01 0.0004

P WAY, R DEM 93 0.01 0.0006

P Group Total DEM 8 908 0.88 0.0619

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South Australia

Group Candidate Party

Order elected Votes Per cent Quotas

Q TICKET VOTES FFP 26 587 2.64 0.1849

Q BATES, A FFP 2 305 0.23 0.0160

Q TURNBULL, A FFP 161 0.02 0.0011

Q GIBSON, C FFP 61 0.01 0.0004

Q Group Total FFP 29 114 2.89 0.2024

R TICKET VOTES LDP 753 0.07 0.0052

R McALARY, D LDP 44 0.00 0.0003

R HILL, M LDP 1 0.00 0.0000

R Group Total LDP 798 0.08 0.0055

S TICKET VOTES 118 626 11.78 0.8248

S XENOPHON, N 3 30 054 2.99 0.2090

S BRYSON, R 109 0.01 0.0008

S Group Total 148 789 14.78 1.0345

UG GLASS, S IND 73 0.01 0.0005

UG DRUMMOND, M IND 101 0.01 0.0007

UG Group Total IND 174 0.02 0.0012

Formal 1 006 809 97.62

Informal 24 511 2.38

Total 1 031 320 95.83

Enrolled 1 076 220

Quota 143 830

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Tasmania

Group Candidate Party

Order elected Votes Per cent Quotas

A TICKET VOTES WWW 1 811 0.55 0.0388

A CASHION, D WWW 616 0.19 0.0132

A GLEESON, B WWW 113 0.03 0.0024

A Group Total WWW 2 540 0.78 0.0544

B TICKET VOTES GRN 39 266 12.01 0.8409

B BROWN, R * GRN 3 17 293 5.29 0.3704

B WILKIE, A GRN 2 433 0.74 0.0521

B HOUGHTON, S GRN 178 0.05 0.0038

B JORDAN, S GRN 84 0.03 0.0018

B Group Total GRN 59 254 18.13 1.2690

C TICKET VOTES 387 0.12 0.0083

C MARTIN, S 377 0.12 0.0081

C NELSON, K 25 0.01 0.0005

C Group Total 789 0.24 0.0169

D TICKET VOTES ALP 116 255 35.57 2.4898

D SHERRY, N * ALP 1 11 422 3.49 0.2446

D BROWN, C * ALP 4 2 310 0.71 0.0495

D BILYK, C ALP 6 1 068 0.33 0.0229

D Group Total ALP 131 055 40.10 2.8067

E TICKET VOTES DLP 1 767 0.54 0.0378

E CREA, P DLP 207 0.06 0.0044

E SHACKCLOTH, J DLP 87 0.03 0.0019

E Group Total DLP 2 061 0.63 0.0441

F TICKET VOTES LP 109 954 33.64 2.3548

F COLBECK, R * LP 2 9 229 2.82 0.1977

F BUSHBY, D * LP 5 2 159 0.66 0.0462

F MORRIS, D # LP 861 0.26 0.0184

F Group Total LP 122 203 37.39 2.6172

G TICKET VOTES 583 0.18 0.0125

G OTTAVI, D 683 0.21 0.0146

G COOK, M 48 0.01 0.0010

G SMALLBANE, C 84 0.03 0.0018

G Group Total 1 398 0.43 0.0299

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Tasmania

Group Candidate Party

Order elected Votes Per cent Quotas

H TICKET VOTES 83 0.03 0.0018

H DOYLE, R 143 0.04 0.0031

H HAMMOND, D 42 0.01 0.0009

H Group Total 268 0.08 0.0057

I TICKET VOTES LDP 249 0.08 0.0053

I IRELAND, B LDP 38 0.01 0.0008

I HAMILTON, L LDP 15 0.00 0.0003

I Group Total LDP 302 0.09 0.0065

J TICKET VOTES CEC 212 0.06 0.0045

J LARNER, C CEC 84 0.03 0.0018

J PHIBBS, M CEC 17 0.01 0.0004

J Group Total CEC 313 0.10 0.0067

K TICKET VOTES FFP 4 545 1.39 0.0973

K PETRUSMA, J FFP 1 810 0.55 0.0388

K BENNETT, A FFP 156 0.05 0.0033

K ROBERTS, B FFP 152 0.05 0.0033

K Group Total FFP 6 663 2.04 0.1427

Formal 326 846 97.37

Informal 8 830 2.63

Total 335 676 95.98

Enrolled 349 753

Quota 46 693

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Australian Capital Territory

Group Candidate Party Order elected Votes Per cent Quotas

A TICKET VOTES ALP 79 377 35.23 1.0568

A LUNDY, K * ALP 1 11 838 5.25 0.1576

A CONWAY, P ALP 803 0.36 0.0107

A Group Total ALP 92 018 40.84 1.2251

B TICKET VOTES DEM 2 697 1.20 0.0359

B VOGT, N DEM 1 202 0.53 0.0160

B DAVID, A DEM 242 0.11 0.0032

B Group Total DEM 4 141 1.84 0.0551

C TICKET VOTES GRN 30 823 13.68 0.4104

C TUCKER, K GRN 17 190 7.63 0.2289

C KIRSCHBAUM, E GRN 371 0.16 0.0049

C Group Total GRN 48 384 21.47 0.6442

D TICKET VOTES NDP 260 0.12 0.0035

D DENBOROUGH, M NDP 166 0.07 0.0022

D DENBOROUGH, E NDP 20 0.01 0.0003

D Group Total NDP 446 0.20 0.0059

E TICKET VOTES LDP 370 0.16 0.0049

E MILAT, L LDP 127 0.06 0.0017

E TEXTOR, C LDP 48 0.02 0.0006

E Group Total LDP 545 0.24 0.0073

F TICKET VOTES LP 71 201 31.60 0.9480

F HUMPHRIES, G * LP 2 5 354 2.38 0.0713

F MYERS, J LP 503 0.22 0.0067

F Group Total LP 77 058 34.20 1.0260

G TICKET VOTES WWW 999 0.44 0.0133

G DAVIDSON, E WWW 351 0.16 0.0047

G MORRIS, S WWW 56 0.02 0.0007

G Group Total WWW 1 406 0.62 0.0187

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Australian Capital Territory

Group Candidate Party Order elected Votes Per cent Quotas

H TICKET VOTES CCC 843 0.37 0.0112

H FULLAM-STONE, M CCC 373 0.17 0.0050

H GEE, A CCC 107 0.05 0.0014

H Group Total CCC 1 323 0.59 0.0176

Formal 225 321 98.30

Informal 3 905 1.70

Total 229 226 96.00

Enrolled 238 786

Quota 75 108

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Northern Territory

Group Candidate Party Order elected Votes Per cent Quotas

A TICKET VOTES CEC 1 757 1.75 0.0524

A FLYNN, P CEC 228 0.23 0.0068

A WORK, V CEC 34 0.03 0.0010

A Group Total CEC 2 019 2.01 0.0602

B TICKET VOTES ALP 44 007 43.76 1.3127

B CROSSIN, P * ALP 1 2 525 2.51 0.0753

B HILL, K ALP 673 0.67 0.0201

B Group Total ALP 47 205 46.94 1.4081

C TICKET VOTES DEM 1 546 1.54 0.0461

C DEAN, D DEM 364 0.36 0.0109

C FAGGION, J DEM 39 0.04 0.0012

C Group Total DEM 1 949 1.94 0.0581

D TICKET VOTES CLP 38 301 38.08 1.1425

D SCULLION, N * CLP 2 1 744 1.73 0.0520

D WALLACE, B CLP 208 0.21 0.0062

D Group Total CLP 40 253 40.03 1.2007

E TICKET VOTES GRN 7 041 7.00 0.2100

E TYLEY, A GRN 1 530 1.52 0.0456

E GOODLUCK, G GRN 299 0.30 0.0089

E Group Total GRN 8 870 8.82 0.2646

UG ATKINSON, B IND 273 0.27 0.0081

UG Group Total IND 273 0.27 0.0081

Formal 100 569 98.06

Informal 1 994 1.94

Total 102 563 86.88

Enrolled 118 045

Quota 33 524

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Per cent

Division

ALP LP/NP GRN FFP DEM Others

Reps Sen Reps Sen Reps Sen Reps Sen Reps Sen Reps Sen

New South Wales

Banks 54.62 50.60 33.61 34.45 5.59 5.12 ... 0.43 ... 0.59 6.18 8.82

Barton 55.26 51.23 33.46 34.27 8.28 6.50 ... 0.41 ... 0.63 3.01 6.96

Bennelong 45.33 38.85 45.49 43.60 5.53 9.39 0.33 0.46 0.70 1.28 2.61 6.43

Berowra 30.67 29.07 53.42 50.51 9.18 10.11 1.26 0.59 1.17 1.25 4.30 8.47

Blaxland 61.32 62.19 24.10 25.67 6.46 3.20 1.53 0.47 ... 0.44 6.60 8.03

Bradfield 26.69 24.20 59.07 54.83 11.26 12.33 0.90 0.46 ... 1.13 2.08 7.04

Calare 24.60 32.84 48.48 48.11 2.85 4.43 ... 0.85 ... 0.96 24.07 12.82

Charlton 53.08 50.51 31.68 31.07 8.06 6.50 ... 0.87 ... 1.00 7.17 10.06

Chifley 64.18 61.92 23.76 25.11 3.61 2.90 1.26 0.59 ... 0.43 7.19 9.05

Cook 35.91 33.39 52.40 50.82 6.20 6.95 0.69 0.33 ... 0.67 4.80 7.85

Cowper 38.08 37.56 46.54 40.71 11.04 10.39 0.90 0.62 ... 0.80 3.44 9.93

Cunningham 53.23 49.64 26.64 28.16 14.63 11.45 1.43 0.68 ... 1.00 4.07 9.07

Dobell 46.32 43.55 42.31 40.74 5.38 6.10 1.71 0.64 ... 0.72 4.28 8.26

Eden-Monaro 44.56 37.91 43.55 40.64 7.45 11.31 0.78 0.64 ... 1.17 3.67 8.33

Farrer 32.74 33.75 57.73 49.48 4.83 4.59 3.08 1.47 ... 0.86 1.62 9.85

Fowler 64.25 61.44 27.79 27.80 5.49 2.64 ... 0.48 ... 0.42 2.47 7.22

Gilmore 37.79 37.80 50.39 42.35 7.55 9.57 0.51 0.43 ... 0.63 3.76 9.22

Grayndler 55.47 48.35 20.86 22.18 18.70 21.64 ... 0.30 1.68 1.35 3.30 6.19

Greenway 38.47 37.16 50.10 47.10 5.73 5.21 1.63 0.73 ... 0.70 4.08 9.10

Hughes 42.01 40.95 48.29 43.24 5.56 5.61 1.24 0.52 ... 0.76 2.90 8.91

Hume 37.93 35.45 49.18 44.03 7.63 8.82 2.33 0.85 ... 0.94 2.93 9.90

Hunter 59.95 52.07 27.01 30.51 6.37 4.69 ... 0.57 ... 0.69 6.68 11.47

Kingsford Smith 52.85 46.16 33.90 34.30 10.37 11.60 ... 0.43 ... 0.85 2.88 6.67

Lindsay 51.39 46.64 38.15 38.71 3.38 3.74 1.12 0.70 ... 0.64 5.96 9.57

Lowe 49.27 42.28 40.06 40.83 8.61 9.51 ... 0.40 ... 0.84 2.05 6.15

Lyne 32.07 33.35 52.26 46.97 7.15 7.53 ... 0.72 ... 0.89 8.52 10.55

Macarthur 43.97 42.68 46.98 41.59 4.35 4.72 1.73 1.04 0.81 0.78 2.17 9.20

Mackellar 24.35 24.37 56.41 53.80 11.72 11.98 ... 0.40 1.11 1.09 6.41 8.35

Macquarie 44.08 39.01 37.84 34.25 10.36 14.46 0.53 0.64 ... 1.14 7.18 10.50

Mitchell 31.02 29.38 56.74 55.58 5.29 5.59 1.26 0.63 ... 0.73 5.70 8.09

New England 9.83 30.48 23.31 45.29 3.40 6.21 ... 0.93 ... 1.20 63.46 15.89

Newcastle 50.78 49.52 25.56 28.70 10.01 10.84 2.28 0.77 1.05 1.33 10.31 8.84

North Sydney 35.62 28.59 51.81 48.84 9.21 15.02 0.41 0.31 ... 1.31 2.95 5.92

Page 41.67 38.73 43.05 40.05 8.10 9.36 0.92 0.67 1.06 1.29 5.19 9.89

Parkes 25.37 32.60 46.77 47.91 3.03 3.54 ... 0.86 ... 0.90 24.83 14.19

Parramatta 50.58 47.20 37.75 37.89 5.03 5.61 1.04 0.57 ... 0.84 5.60 7.90

Paterson 42.06 39.40 48.22 44.12 5.18 6.26 0.67 0.58 ... 0.77 3.88 8.88

Prospect 58.18 54.78 31.15 32.93 4.56 2.95 3.35 0.66 ... 0.49 2.76 8.19

Reid 60.10 57.93 27.09 29.12 5.24 4.64 1.64 0.53 1.41 0.69 4.53 7.09

Richmond 43.81 38.93 36.98 36.19 14.93 16.37 ... 0.41 1.17 1.15 3.11 6.94

Riverina 29.01 33.70 62.57 48.51 4.90 4.25 ... 0.84 ... 0.77 3.53 11.92

Robertson 42.93 39.56 45.63 42.83 7.20 8.24 0.81 0.50 ... 0.77 3.43 8.11

Shortland 56.73 51.16 31.12 31.69 8.30 6.71 1.92 0.90 ... 0.83 1.93 8.71

Sydney 48.99 40.85 26.70 27.05 20.71 24.86 ... 0.25 1.14 1.45 2.47 5.53

Throsby 64.98 59.67 22.71 23.57 9.08 5.91 ... 0.60 ... 0.67 3.23 9.59

Warringah 27.40 25.66 54.53 52.08 12.53 14.31 0.54 0.33 1.29 1.20 3.72 6.42

Watson 61.81 59.33 26.09 27.56 6.60 5.38 2.50 0.41 ... 0.60 3.00 6.73

Wentworth 30.48 27.97 50.37 47.63 14.96 18.33 0.29 0.18 0.82 1.11 3.09 4.77

Werriwa 58.83 56.42 30.17 30.03 3.79 3.45 2.41 0.99 ... 0.55 4.80 8.55

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Per cent

Division

ALP LP/NP GRN FFP DEM Others

Reps Sen Reps Sen Reps Sen Reps Sen Reps Sen Reps Sen

Victoria

Aston 38.84 38.23 50.71 46.79 5.23 6.31 3.47 3.43 1.45 1.49 0.29 3.76

Ballarat 50.33 43.08 38.04 38.10 7.98 9.85 3.65 3.05 ... 1.38 ... 4.55

Batman 57.18 52.68 20.64 21.32 17.17 18.45 2.62 1.63 2.03 1.55 0.36 4.37

Bendigo 47.14 42.37 38.42 38.33 7.25 9.70 3.55 3.12 0.64 1.55 3.01 4.94

Bruce 51.85 48.25 37.57 36.66 5.09 6.25 2.85 2.54 1.26 1.45 1.38 4.84

Calwell 60.22 58.76 26.55 27.46 4.36 5.02 4.34 2.55 0.93 1.06 3.60 5.14

Casey 35.85 33.92 50.15 47.02 7.32 8.89 4.19 4.06 1.85 1.82 0.64 4.29

Chisholm 48.12 40.23 39.45 39.59 8.47 12.25 2.45 2.03 1.32 2.20 0.19 3.71

Corangamite 41.91 37.54 44.70 43.13 7.97 10.39 3.56 3.24 1.67 1.60 0.19 4.11

Corio 45.49 49.23 29.61 32.94 5.91 7.57 3.96 4.02 0.76 1.35 14.26 4.90

Deakin 41.86 38.20 44.35 41.29 8.48 11.47 3.15 3.04 1.46 2.22 0.71 3.78

Dunkley 38.26 37.08 49.79 45.80 7.75 9.08 2.59 2.36 1.61 1.78 ... 3.89

Flinders 33.88 34.00 54.47 47.84 8.48 10.06 2.24 2.23 0.93 1.39 ... 4.48

Gellibrand 60.22 54.34 22.84 24.75 9.38 12.24 2.02 1.85 1.29 1.60 4.24 5.22

Gippsland 36.55 37.73 48.37 45.13 5.54 6.27 4.31 3.33 ... 1.60 5.23 5.94

Goldstein 33.69 28.55 52.92 50.96 10.37 14.48 1.14 0.98 1.67 1.94 0.22 3.09

Gorton 61.93 61.83 24.32 24.32 6.09 4.91 3.95 2.94 ... 0.83 3.71 5.17

Higgins 31.08 28.22 53.61 49.43 10.75 16.07 0.77 0.73 1.21 2.32 2.58 3.23

Holt 55.65 53.03 34.22 33.20 4.12 4.06 4.39 3.59 1.24 1.24 0.37 4.88

Hotham 55.15 48.73 33.75 35.10 6.85 8.19 2.04 2.02 0.98 1.57 1.23 4.39

Indi 32.12 31.80 54.38 49.32 7.58 8.00 3.82 2.87 1.69 1.75 0.42 6.26

Isaacs 48.76 46.63 38.47 37.26 6.24 7.61 2.55 2.30 2.18 1.96 1.80 4.23

Jagajaga 48.16 39.92 37.55 38.48 10.25 14.16 2.36 2.03 1.12 1.81 0.57 3.60

Kooyong 30.03 27.62 55.14 48.83 11.82 16.81 1.54 1.19 1.29 2.31 0.19 3.24

La Trobe 40.39 37.19 46.48 43.08 8.84 11.08 2.84 2.88 1.19 1.73 0.26 4.04

Lalor 59.89 55.91 29.77 29.48 4.02 4.78 4.40 3.88 0.92 1.23 1.01 4.72

Mallee 21.85 26.12 63.94 57.94 4.17 3.72 6.53 3.64 2.79 1.60 0.72 6.97

Maribyrnong 57.57 52.98 30.02 30.74 6.82 7.85 2.58 1.96 1.57 1.58 1.44 4.89

McEwen 40.22 37.59 45.76 42.27 8.68 11.33 2.48 2.41 0.98 1.54 1.87 4.85

McMillan 38.14 35.97 49.93 46.61 6.00 7.86 2.94 2.82 1.50 1.48 1.49 5.27

Melbourne 49.51 40.35 23.49 24.02 22.80 28.74 1.00 0.75 1.43 2.54 1.76 3.60

Melbourne Ports 42.47 32.98 39.68 40.94 15.03 19.69 0.85 0.57 1.77 2.74 0.20 3.09

Menzies 34.78 34.04 51.60 50.22 6.29 8.07 2.42 2.19 0.98 1.70 3.92 3.78

Murray 24.11 28.99 62.07 56.02 2.95 4.25 3.32 3.20 0.52 1.30 7.04 6.24

Scullin 63.32 59.91 24.39 25.55 6.03 5.93 4.73 2.81 1.06 1.11 0.47 4.69

Wannon 36.17 35.26 52.56 48.44 6.98 6.63 4.29 3.25 ... 1.26 ... 5.16

Wills 56.89 50.73 24.55 25.51 13.82 16.00 1.43 1.21 2.33 1.76 0.99 4.80

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Per cent

Division

ALP LP/NP GRN FFP DEM Others

Reps Sen Reps Sen Reps Sen Reps Sen Reps Sen Reps Sen

Queensland

Blair 48.83 43.58 42.19 34.64 3.92 5.26 2.06 2.03 0.88 1.68 2.12 12.81

Bonner 48.80 42.89 41.91 38.12 4.90 7.79 1.93 2.24 1.00 2.50 1.46 6.47

Bowman 44.11 39.31 46.16 40.44 5.45 7.53 2.93 2.65 0.82 1.93 0.53 8.14

Brisbane 45.04 37.25 39.40 37.22 11.80 16.09 1.41 1.32 1.51 3.65 0.84 4.46

Capricornia 55.84 48.18 36.53 32.02 2.92 3.76 1.77 1.96 0.50 1.40 2.45 12.67

Dawson 48.09 43.93 42.48 36.27 4.37 3.82 3.00 2.13 1.52 1.54 0.54 12.30

Dickson 43.67 39.72 46.15 40.16 6.00 8.25 2.54 2.49 0.96 2.23 0.70 7.15

Fadden 33.69 33.18 56.32 52.58 4.49 4.77 2.09 1.70 0.60 1.05 2.81 6.71

Fairfax 36.46 33.83 46.82 43.93 8.53 10.37 4.00 3.17 0.93 1.87 3.26 6.83

Fisher 33.97 35.45 44.14 43.86 5.61 8.26 2.17 2.27 0.82 1.67 13.29 8.49

Flynn 44.76 39.46 48.33 41.27 1.97 2.72 2.07 2.42 0.67 1.15 2.20 12.99

Forde 44.35 41.93 46.15 39.43 4.80 6.32 2.24 2.53 0.54 1.44 1.93 8.34

Griffith 53.09 40.90 33.98 34.97 7.85 14.49 0.79 1.09 0.99 3.24 3.31 5.32

Groom 34.83 32.67 52.71 45.63 4.84 5.11 4.38 3.77 0.73 1.65 2.51 11.17

Herbert 43.79 40.65 45.70 39.72 5.13 5.94 1.57 2.13 0.58 1.41 3.23 10.15

Hinkler 42.88 39.02 46.44 39.09 4.11 4.60 3.51 2.62 0.77 1.30 2.29 13.36

Kennedy 28.09 35.77 24.65 39.18 3.22 4.39 2.03 2.55 0.73 1.25 41.28 16.85

Leichhardt 43.12 39.09 42.79 36.09 7.50 9.13 1.31 1.81 0.57 1.26 4.72 12.64

Lilley 51.57 43.10 38.26 36.69 6.77 10.05 1.65 1.40 1.22 2.85 0.54 5.90

Longman 47.98 45.94 43.82 36.16 4.24 5.33 1.86 1.93 1.40 1.74 0.70 8.90

Maranoa 29.46 29.34 58.57 49.12 3.35 3.39 3.84 2.80 1.27 1.38 3.51 13.97

McPherson 35.63 33.82 54.98 50.47 5.96 6.90 1.53 1.44 0.95 1.04 0.95 6.32

Moncrieff 30.01 29.87 59.77 55.13 6.21 6.03 1.77 1.56 0.90 1.27 1.34 6.15

Moreton 47.11 42.40 42.16 37.83 6.89 9.71 1.38 1.61 1.26 2.97 1.19 5.49

Oxley 58.56 50.94 32.68 30.86 5.13 6.34 2.09 2.17 1.18 2.11 0.36 7.59

Petrie 46.89 42.16 44.86 40.43 4.68 6.57 1.82 2.03 0.98 2.45 0.78 6.35

Rankin 56.01 49.79 34.09 31.56 4.71 5.32 3.53 3.61 0.74 1.51 0.92 8.21

Ryan 36.41 30.14 49.52 46.74 9.43 13.97 1.33 1.31 1.44 3.46 1.87 4.38

Wide Bay 30.70 32.35 48.59 42.25 8.20 9.62 3.46 3.22 0.89 1.58 8.15 10.97

Western Australia

Brand 46.15 45.94 38.58 39.23 8.60 7.78 1.79 1.06 ... 0.77 4.87 5.22

Canning 36.95 36.87 49.70 48.06 7.45 7.28 1.30 1.04 ... 0.77 4.61 5.98

Cowan 41.99 39.98 45.81 46.90 5.63 6.32 1.71 1.22 ... 0.87 4.86 4.71

Curtin 24.53 22.62 59.27 57.08 13.45 14.75 0.50 0.42 ... 1.70 2.25 3.43

Forrest 30.18 33.43 45.40 49.76 8.34 9.26 1.34 1.19 ... 0.93 14.74 5.43

Fremantle 45.18 42.44 35.10 37.52 14.57 13.31 1.43 0.80 ... 1.14 3.71 4.79

Hasluck 41.48 40.50 42.94 43.10 8.52 8.24 1.17 0.85 ... 0.99 5.89 6.33

Kalgoorlie 40.65 39.33 48.14 46.97 6.17 6.13 1.25 1.08 ... 0.80 3.79 5.69

Moore 32.59 31.42 54.45 53.37 8.40 8.97 1.15 0.69 ... 1.15 3.40 4.41

O'Connor 20.43 24.96 63.54 59.67 6.82 7.03 1.30 0.88 ... 0.71 7.90 6.76

Pearce 32.01 33.29 51.81 50.55 8.59 8.96 1.46 0.92 ... 0.93 6.12 5.35

Perth 46.87 41.41 35.98 39.17 10.63 12.30 1.07 0.68 ... 1.29 5.44 5.16

Stirling 40.44 37.72 47.21 46.89 7.56 9.41 0.65 0.55 ... 1.12 4.13 4.30

Swan 40.65 37.60 44.28 44.98 10.13 10.57 0.80 0.69 ... 1.39 4.13 4.76

Tangney 32.04 31.90 50.85 52.34 8.90 9.08 1.05 0.75 ... 1.24 7.16 4.68

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Table 19: Comparison of House of Representatives and Senate votes by division continued

Per cent

Division

ALP LP/NP GRN FFP DEM Others

Reps Sen Reps Sen Reps Sen Reps Sen Reps Sen Reps Sen

South Australia

Adelaide 48.26 33.63 38.43 33.72 9.75 11.05 2.03 1.54 1.53 1.17 ... 18.89

Barker 30.07 28.35 57.05 46.92 5.06 4.24 5.72 3.88 2.10 0.76 ... 15.85

Boothby 34.12 29.69 46.25 36.27 10.22 9.13 2.44 2.06 1.54 1.13 5.43 21.72

Grey 38.66 35.31 50.32 43.17 4.12 3.68 4.50 3.32 1.23 0.73 1.18 13.79

Hindmarsh 47.21 35.80 40.08 35.33 6.98 6.64 2.12 1.65 2.00 0.94 1.60 19.63

Kingston 46.65 40.72 39.74 30.60 5.67 6.31 5.71 3.67 0.95 0.80 1.28 17.89

Makin 51.45 39.39 38.27 32.43 4.30 4.42 3.55 3.55 1.37 0.89 1.07 19.33

Mayo 31.12 25.18 51.08 40.00 10.96 9.73 4.02 3.10 1.52 1.03 1.30 20.96

Port Adelaide 58.24 49.55 25.21 23.52 8.76 5.52 5.78 2.96 2.01 0.74 ... 17.71

Sturt 41.46 31.75 47.17 37.79 6.41 6.60 3.42 2.45 1.17 0.88 0.36 20.54

Wakefield 48.65 42.73 38.69 31.81 4.13 4.18 5.16 3.58 1.17 0.66 2.20 17.04

Tasmania

Bass 37.23 37.47 43.50 40.07 15.27 18.33 1.46 2.00 ... ... 2.55 2.13

Braddon 43.69 42.19 44.00 42.51 8.14 10.31 3.22 2.37 ... ... 0.96 2.62

Denison 48.46 40.04 29.66 30.56 18.60 25.32 2.13 1.53 ... ... 1.15 2.54

Franklin 41.39 39.00 41.02 36.20 14.44 20.48 2.22 2.24 ... ... 0.93 2.09

Lyons 43.15 41.80 32.54 37.50 11.17 16.31 2.25 2.03 ... ... 10.89 2.36

Australian Capital Territory

Canberra 51.10 40.94 35.13 35.85 12.95 19.73 ... ... ... 1.77 0.83 1.71

Fraser 51.10 40.73 31.23 32.46 13.38 23.31 ... ... 2.31 1.91 1.98 1.58

Northern Territory

Lingiari 53.99 51.83 34.66 35.01 6.92 7.74 ... ... ... 1.90 4.43 3.52

Solomon 41.90 42.43 46.80 44.65 9.07 9.82 ... ... ... 1.97 2.23 1.13

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Appendix 1: Electoral division classification

Party status (a)

Division Region

Socio-economic status (b) 2004 election 2007 election

New South Wales

Banks Inner metropolitan Upper middle Marginal ALP Safe ALP

Barton Inner metropolitan High Fairly safe ALP Safe ALP

Bennelong Inner metropolitan High Marginal LP Marginal ALP

Berowra Outer metropolitan High Safe LP Fairly safe LP

Blaxland Inner metropolitan Low Safe ALP Safe ALP

Bradfield Inner metropolitan High Safe LP Safe LP

Calare Rural Low Safe NP Safe NP

Charlton Provincial Lower middle Fairly safe ALP Safe ALP

Chifley Outer metropolitan Low Safe ALP Safe ALP

Cook Inner metropolitan High Safe LP Fairly safe LP

Cowper Rural Low Fairly safe NP Marginal NP

Cunningham Provincial Upper middle Safe ALP Safe ALP

Dobell Provincial Lower middle Marginal LP Marginal ALP

Eden-Monaro Rural Lower middle Marginal LP Marginal ALP

Farrer Rural Low Safe LP Safe LP

Fowler Outer metropolitan Low Safe ALP Safe ALP

Gilmore Rural Low Fairly safe LP Marginal LP

Grayndler Inner metropolitan High Safe ALP Safe ALP

Greenway Outer metropolitan High Safe LP Marginal LP

Hughes Outer metropolitan High Fairly safe LP Marginal LP

Hume Rural Lower middle Safe LP Marginal LP

Hunter Rural Low Safe ALP Safe ALP

Kingsford Smith Inner metropolitan High Fairly safe ALP Safe ALP

Lindsay Outer metropolitan Upper middle Marginal LP Fairly safe ALP

Lowe Inner metropolitan High Marginal ALP Fairly safe ALP

Lyne Rural Low Safe NP Fairly safe NP

Macarthur Outer metropolitan Upper middle Safe LP Marginal LP

Mackellar Outer metropolitan High Safe LP Safe LP

Macquarie Provincial Upper middle Marginal ALP Fairly safe ALP

Mitchell Outer metropolitan High Safe LP Safe LP

New England Rural Low Safe IND Safe IND

Newcastle Provincial Lower middle Fairly safe ALP Safe ALP

North Sydney Inner metropolitan High Safe LP Marginal LP

Page Rural Low Marginal NP Marginal ALP

Parkes Rural Low Safe NP Safe NP

Parramatta Inner metropolitan Upper middle Marginal ALP Fairly safe ALP

Paterson Rural Lower middle Fairly safe LP Marginal LP

Prospect Outer metropolitan Lower middle Fairly safe ALP Safe ALP

Reid Inner metropolitan Lower middle Safe ALP Safe ALP

Richmond Rural Lower middle Marginal ALP Fairly safe ALP

Riverina Rural Low Safe NP Safe NP

Robertson Provincial Upper middle Fairly safe LP Marginal ALP

Shortland Provincial Lower middle Fairly safe ALP Safe ALP

Sydney Inner metropolitan High Safe ALP Safe ALP

Throsby Provincial Low Safe ALP Safe ALP

Warringah Inner metropolitan High Safe LP Fairly safe LP

Watson Inner metropolitan Lower middle Safe ALP Safe ALP

Wentworth Inner metropolitan High Marginal LP Marginal LP

Werriwa Outer metropolitan Lower middle Fairly safe ALP Safe ALP

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