Australia 1937 federal election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Australian Labor Party won 29 of 75 seats with 43.1% of the vote; 96.2% of registered voters cast a ballot.
- Australia
- Held
Result
- Australian Labor Party29
- United Australia Party28
- National (Country) Party / National Party of Australia12
- Victorian National Party3
- Independent UAP (NSW)1
- Independents1
- Unnamed party with one seat1
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | % | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Australian Labor Party | 29 | 43.1 | 1,555,737 |
| United Australia Party | 28 | 33.7 | 1,214,526 |
| National (Country) Party / National Party of Australia | 12 | 11.5 | 414,779 |
| Independents | 1 | 4.2 | 153,213 |
| Victorian National Party | 3 | 3.4 | 121,321 |
| Douglas Credit Party | 0 | 2.2 | 79,432 |
| Independent UAP (NSW) | 1 | 0.7 | 25,522 |
| Unnamed party with one seat | 1 | 0.7 | 24,179 |
Votes by party
- Australian Labor Party 1,555,737
- United Australia Party 1,214,526
- National (Country) Party / National Party of Australia 414,779
- Independents 153,213
- Victorian National Party 121,321
- Douglas Credit Party 79,432
- Independent UAP (NSW) 25,522
- Unnamed party with one seat 24,179
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
96.2% of the 3,848,020 registered voters cast a ballot (3,701,822 ballots). 3,605,862 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Australian Labor Party43.1% of votes38.7% of seats
- United Australia Party33.7% of votes37.3% of seats
- National (Country) Party / National Party of Australia11.5% of votes16.0% of seats
- Victorian National Party3.4% of votes4.0% of seats
- Independent UAP (NSW)0.7% of votes1.3% of seats
- Douglas Credit Party2.2% of votes0.0% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 5.8 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.2 by votes and 3.2 by seats; Australian Labor Party led United Australia Party by 9.4 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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