Australia 1954 federal election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Australian Labor Party won 59 of 123 seats with 50.1% of the vote; 90.6% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 3.1 points on 1951.
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australian Labor Party | 59 | +5 | 50.1 | +2.4 | 2,292,881 |
| Liberal Party of Australia | 47 | −5 | 38.5 | −2.0 | 1,761,607 |
| National (Country) Party / National Party of Australia | 17 | 0 | 8.5 | −1.2 | 389,334 |
| Independents | 0 | 0 | 2.9 | +0.8 | 132,616 |
± is the change against the Australia 1951 federal election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Australian Labor Party 2,292,881
- Liberal Party of Australia 1,761,607
- National (Country) Party / National Party of Australia 389,334
- Independents 132,616
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
90.6% of the 5,118,257 registered voters cast a ballot (4,638,944 ballots), down 3.1 points on 1951. 4,576,438 of them were valid votes. The lowest turnout of this kind in our data, which begins in 1946. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Australian Labor Party50.1% of votes48.0% of seats
- Liberal Party of Australia38.5% of votes38.2% of seats
- National (Country) Party / National Party of Australia8.5% of votes13.8% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 4.5 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 2.5 by votes and 2.5 by seats; Australian Labor Party led Liberal Party of Australia by 11.6 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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