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Australia 1929 federal election

Final results from ParlGov, read : Australian Labor Party won 47 of 76 seats with 48.8% of the vote; 94.9% of registered voters cast a ballot.

Result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats%Votes
Australian Labor Party4748.81,406,327
Nationalist Party1433.9975,979
National (Country) Party / National Party of Australia1010.3295,640
Independent Nationalist33.9112,108
Independents12.161,254
Country Progressive Party11.027,942
Votes by party
  • Australian Labor Party 1,406,327
  • Nationalist Party 975,979
  • National (Country) Party / National Party of Australia 295,640
  • Independent Nationalist 112,108
  • Independents 61,254
  • Country Progressive Party 27,942

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

94.9% of the 3,118,030 registered voters cast a ballot (2,957,547 ballots). 2,879,250 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

  • Australian Labor Party48.8% of votes61.8% of seats
  • Nationalist Party33.9% of votes18.4% of seats
  • National (Country) Party / National Party of Australia10.3% of votes13.2% of seats
  • Independent Nationalist3.9% of votes3.9% of seats
  • Country Progressive Party1.0% of votes1.3% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 14.5 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 2.7 by votes and 2.3 by seats; Australian Labor Party led Nationalist Party by 14.9 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

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