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Australia 1958 federal election

Final results from ParlGov, read : Liberal Party of Australia won 58 of 124 seats with 37.1% of the vote; 95.4% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 8.0 points on 1955.

Result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats± seats%± pointsVotes
Australian Labor Party47−242.9−1.82,154,023
Liberal Party of Australia58+137.1−2.61,863,563
Democratic Labour Party009.4+4.3469,723
National (Country) Party / National Party of Australia19+19.3+1.4465,320
Independents001.3−1.365,383

± is the change against the Australia 1955 federal election, party by party.

Votes by party
  • Australian Labor Party 2,154,023
  • Liberal Party of Australia 1,863,563
  • Democratic Labour Party 469,723
  • National (Country) Party / National Party of Australia 465,320
  • Independents 65,383

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

95.4% of the 5,412,865 registered voters cast a ballot (5,166,100 ballots), up 8.0 points on 1955. 5,018,012 of them were valid votes. The highest turnout since 1949 in our data. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

  • Liberal Party of Australia37.1% of votes46.8% of seats
  • Australian Labor Party42.9% of votes37.9% of seats
  • National (Country) Party / National Party of Australia9.3% of votes15.3% of seats
  • Democratic Labour Party9.4% of votes0.0% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 11.1 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 2.9 by votes and 2.6 by seats; Australian Labor Party led Liberal Party of Australia by 5.8 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

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