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Australia 1925 federal election

Final results from ParlGov, read : Nationalist Party won 37 of 76 seats with 42.5% of the vote; 91.4% of registered voters cast a ballot.

Result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats%Votes
Australian Labor Party2445.01,314,480
Nationalist Party3742.51,238,910
National (Country) Party / National Party of Australia1410.7313,363
Independents11.750,929
Votes by party
  • Australian Labor Party 1,314,480
  • Nationalist Party 1,238,910
  • National (Country) Party / National Party of Australia 313,363
  • Independents 50,929

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

91.4% of the 3,268,739 registered voters cast a ballot (2,988,591 ballots). 2,918,004 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

  • Nationalist Party42.5% of votes48.7% of seats
  • Australian Labor Party45.0% of votes31.6% of seats
  • National (Country) Party / National Party of Australia10.7% of votes18.4% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 11.8 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 2.5 by votes and 2.7 by seats; Australian Labor Party led Nationalist Party by 2.5 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

Sources and licence

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