Australia 1906 federal election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Free Trade Party won 27 of 75 seats with 38.2% of the vote; 51.5% of registered voters cast a ballot.
- Australia
- Held
Result
- Free Trade Party27
- Australian Labor Party26
- Protectionist Party16
- Independent Protectionist Party (Vic)4
- Western Australian Party2
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | % | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free Trade Party | 27 | 38.2 | 363,257 |
| Australian Labor Party | 26 | 36.6 | 348,711 |
| Protectionist Party | 16 | 16.4 | 156,425 |
| Independent Protectionist Party (Vic) | 4 | 4.8 | 46,074 |
| Western Australian Party | 2 | 2.3 | 22,154 |
| Independents | 0 | 1.2 | 11,343 |
Votes by party
- Free Trade Party 363,257
- Australian Labor Party 348,711
- Protectionist Party 156,425
- Independent Protectionist Party (Vic) 46,074
- Western Australian Party 22,154
- Independents 11,343
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
51.5% of the 1,920,397 registered voters cast a ballot (988,553 ballots). 951,688 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Free Trade Party38.2% of votes36.0% of seats
- Australian Labor Party36.6% of votes34.7% of seats
- Protectionist Party16.4% of votes21.3% of seats
- Independent Protectionist Party (Vic)4.8% of votes5.3% of seats
- Western Australian Party2.3% of votes2.7% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 4.2 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.2 by votes and 3.3 by seats; Free Trade Party led Australian Labor Party by 1.6 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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