Australia 1928 federal election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Australian Labor Party won 32 of 76 seats with 44.7% of the vote; 93.7% of registered voters cast a ballot.
- Australia
- Held
Result
- Australian Labor Party32
- Nationalist Party29
- National (Country) Party / National Party of Australia13
- Country Progressive Party1
- Independents1
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | % | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Australian Labor Party | 32 | 44.7 | 1,159,407 |
| Nationalist Party | 29 | 39.1 | 1,014,522 |
| National (Country) Party / National Party of Australia | 13 | 10.5 | 271,686 |
| Independents | 1 | 4.2 | 109,082 |
| Country Progressive Party | 1 | 1.6 | 41,713 |
Votes by party
- Australian Labor Party 1,159,407
- Nationalist Party 1,014,522
- National (Country) Party / National Party of Australia 271,686
- Independents 109,082
- Country Progressive Party 41,713
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
93.7% of the 2,914,153 registered voters cast a ballot (2,730,185 ballots). 2,596,410 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Australian Labor Party44.7% of votes42.1% of seats
- Nationalist Party39.1% of votes38.2% of seats
- National (Country) Party / National Party of Australia10.5% of votes17.1% of seats
- Country Progressive Party1.6% of votes1.3% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 5.5 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); Australian Labor Party led Nationalist Party by 5.6 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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