Australia 1955 federal election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Liberal Party of Australia won 57 of 124 seats with 39.7% of the vote; 87.4% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 3.2 points on 1954.
- Australia
- Held
Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australian Labor Party | 49 | −10 | 44.7 | −5.4 | 1,971,417 |
| Liberal Party of Australia | 57 | +10 | 39.7 | +1.2 | 1,751,748 |
| National (Country) Party / National Party of Australia | 18 | +1 | 7.9 | −0.6 | 347,445 |
| Democratic Labour Party | 0 | 5.1 | 227,083 | ||
| Independents | 0 | 0 | 2.6 | −0.3 | 112,693 |
± is the change against the Australia 1954 federal election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Australian Labor Party 1,971,417
- Liberal Party of Australia 1,751,748
- National (Country) Party / National Party of Australia 347,445
- Democratic Labour Party 227,083
- Independents 112,693
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
87.4% of the 5,195,100 registered voters cast a ballot (4,540,751 ballots), down 3.2 points on 1954. 4,410,386 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
- Liberal Party of Australia39.7% of votes46.0% of seats
- Australian Labor Party44.7% of votes39.5% of seats
- National (Country) Party / National Party of Australia7.9% of votes14.5% of seats
- Democratic Labour Party5.1% of votes0.0% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 8.4 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 2.7 by votes and 2.6 by seats; Australian Labor Party led Liberal Party of Australia by 5.0 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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