Australia 1940 federal election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Australian Labor Party won 32 of 75 seats with 40.1% of the vote; 94.9% of registered voters cast a ballot.
- Australia
- Held
Result
- Australian Labor Party32
- United Australia Party23
- National (Country) Party / National Party of Australia10
- Lang Labor4
- Independents3
- Liberal Country Party (Vic)2
- Unnamed party with one seat1
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | % | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Australian Labor Party | 32 | 40.1 | 1,556,941 |
| United Australia Party | 23 | 30.2 | 1,171,788 |
| National (Country) Party / National Party of Australia | 10 | 11.1 | 429,692 |
| Independents | 3 | 8.7 | 337,038 |
| Lang Labor | 4 | 5.2 | 202,721 |
| State Labor Party | 0 | 2.6 | 101,191 |
| Liberal Country Party (Vic) | 2 | 1.3 | 51,223 |
| Unnamed party with one seat | 1 | 0.8 | 30,567 |
Votes by party
- Australian Labor Party 1,556,941
- United Australia Party 1,171,788
- National (Country) Party / National Party of Australia 429,692
- Independents 337,038
- Lang Labor 202,721
- State Labor Party 101,191
- Liberal Country Party (Vic) 51,223
- Unnamed party with one seat 30,567
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 4,196,446 registered voters cast a ballot (3,983,272 ballots). 3,881,161 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Australian Labor Party40.1% of votes42.7% of seats
- United Australia Party30.2% of votes30.7% of seats
- National (Country) Party / National Party of Australia11.1% of votes13.3% of seats
- Lang Labor5.2% of votes5.3% of seats
- Liberal Country Party (Vic)1.3% of votes2.7% of seats
- State Labor Party2.6% of votes0.0% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 4.6 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.6 by votes and 3.3 by seats; Australian Labor Party led United Australia Party by 9.9 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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