Australia 1949 federal election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Liberal Party of Australia won 55 of 123 seats with 39.3% of the vote; 95.9% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 2.0 points on 1946.
- Australia
- Held
Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australian Labor Party | 48 | +5 | 46.0 | −3.7 | 2,124,214 |
| Liberal Party of Australia | 55 | +40 | 39.3 | +10.7 | 1,816,304 |
| National (Country) Party / National Party of Australia | 19 | +7 | 10.8 | +0.1 | 500,349 |
| Independents | 1 | −1 | 3.9 | +1.6 | 179,913 |
± is the change against the Australia 1946 federal election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Australian Labor Party 2,124,214
- Liberal Party of Australia 1,816,304
- National (Country) Party / National Party of Australia 500,349
- Independents 179,913
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.
Share of the vote
Turnout
95.9% of the 4,913,654 registered voters cast a ballot (4,714,360 ballots), up 2.0 points on 1946. 4,620,780 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Liberal Party of Australia39.3% of votes44.7% of seats
- Australian Labor Party46.0% of votes39.0% of seats
- National (Country) Party / National Party of Australia10.8% of votes15.4% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 7.4 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 2.6 by votes and 2.7 by seats; Australian Labor Party led Liberal Party of Australia by 6.7 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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