Australia 1917 federal election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Nationalist Party won 53 of 75 seats with 54.2% of the vote; 78.3% of registered voters cast a ballot.
- Australia
- Held
Result
- Nationalist Party53
- Australian Labor Party22
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | % | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nationalist Party | 53 | 54.2 | 1,021,128 |
| Australian Labor Party | 22 | 43.9 | 827,551 |
| Independents | 0 | 1.8 | 34,755 |
Votes by party
- Nationalist Party 1,021,128
- Australian Labor Party 827,551
- Independents 34,755
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
78.3% of the 2,470,465 registered voters cast a ballot (1,934,478 ballots). 1,883,434 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Nationalist Party54.2% of votes70.7% of seats
- Australian Labor Party43.9% of votes29.3% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 15.6 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 2.1 by votes and 1.7 by seats; Nationalist Party led Australian Labor Party by 10.3 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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