Australia 1901 federal election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Protectionist Party won 32 of 75 seats with 44.4% of the vote; 56.7% of registered voters cast a ballot.
- Australia
- Held
Result
- Protectionist Party32
- Free Trade Party26
- Australian Labor Party15
- Independents1
- Unnamed party with one seat1
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | % | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Protectionist Party | 32 | 44.4 | 189,294 |
| Free Trade Party | 26 | 34.2 | 145,611 |
| Australian Labor Party | 15 | 19.4 | 82,734 |
| Independents | 1 | 1.4 | 5,815 |
| Unnamed party with one seat | 1 | 0.6 | 2,569 |
Votes by party
- Protectionist Party 189,294
- Free Trade Party 145,611
- Australian Labor Party 82,734
- Independents 5,815
- Unnamed party with one seat 2,569
ParlGov lists parties with at least 1 percent of the vote or 2 seats, so the rows do not add up to the valid votes. How we read it.
ParlGov marks results before 1945 as experimental: they may need revision, so we compare them with no other election.
Share of the vote
Turnout
56.7% of the 907,658 registered voters cast a ballot (514,439 ballots). 505,971 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Protectionist Party44.4% of votes42.7% of seats
- Free Trade Party34.2% of votes34.7% of seats
- Australian Labor Party19.4% of votes20.0% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 1.4 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 2.8 by votes and 2.9 by seats; Protectionist Party led Free Trade Party by 10.2 points of the vote. How these are computed.
Sources and licence
Sources and licence
- ParlGov 2024 Release (Döring and Manow), Harvard Dataverse (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal
- Wikidata, party colours (P465) (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal
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