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Australia 1910 federal election

Final results from ParlGov, read : Australian Labor Party won 43 of 75 seats with 50.0% of the vote; 62.8% of registered voters cast a ballot.

Result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats%Votes
Australian Labor Party4350.0660,864
Commonwealth Liberal Party3145.1596,350
Independents14.559,526
Largest party without seats00.45,842
Votes by party
  • Australian Labor Party 660,864
  • Commonwealth Liberal Party 596,350
  • Independents 59,526
  • Largest party without seats 5,842

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

62.8% of the 2,148,969 registered voters cast a ballot (1,349,626 ballots). 1,322,582 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

  • Australian Labor Party50.0% of votes57.3% of seats
  • Commonwealth Liberal Party45.1% of votes41.3% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 6.3 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 2.2 by votes and 2.0 by seats; Australian Labor Party led Commonwealth Liberal Party by 4.9 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

Sources and licence

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