Australia 1914 federal election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Australian Labor Party won 42 of 75 seats with 50.9% of the vote; 73.5% of registered voters cast a ballot.
- Australia
- Held
Result
- Australian Labor Party42
- Commonwealth Liberal Party32
- Independents1
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | % | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Australian Labor Party | 42 | 50.9 | 858,451 |
| Commonwealth Liberal Party | 32 | 47.2 | 796,397 |
| Independents | 1 | 1.9 | 31,915 |
Votes by party
- Australian Labor Party 858,451
- Commonwealth Liberal Party 796,397
- Independents 31,915
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
73.5% of the 2,348,441 registered voters cast a ballot (1,726,906 ballots). 1,686,763 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Australian Labor Party50.9% of votes56.0% of seats
- Commonwealth Liberal Party47.2% of votes42.7% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 4.8 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 2.1 by votes and 2.0 by seats; Australian Labor Party led Commonwealth Liberal Party by 3.7 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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