Australia 1903 federal election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Protectionist Party won 26 of 75 seats with 29.7% of the vote; 50.3% of registered voters cast a ballot.
- Australia
- Held
Result
- Protectionist Party26
- Free Trade Party25
- Australian Labor Party23
- Unnamed party with one seat1
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | % | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free Trade Party | 25 | 34.4 | 247,774 |
| Australian Labor Party | 23 | 31.0 | 223,163 |
| Protectionist Party | 26 | 29.7 | 214,091 |
| Independents | 0 | 4.5 | 32,364 |
| Unnamed party with one seat | 1 | 0.5 | 3,546 |
Votes by party
- Free Trade Party 247,774
- Australian Labor Party 223,163
- Protectionist Party 214,091
- Independents 32,364
- Unnamed party with one seat 3,546
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
50.3% of the 1,470,902 registered voters cast a ballot (739,401 ballots). 720,938 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Protectionist Party29.7% of votes34.7% of seats
- Free Trade Party34.4% of votes33.3% of seats
- Australian Labor Party31.0% of votes30.7% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 4.8 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); Free Trade Party led Australian Labor Party by 3.4 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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