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Australia 1963 federal election

Final results from ParlGov, read : Australian Labor Party won 52 of 124 seats with 45.5% of the vote; 95.5% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 0.2 points on 1961.

Result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats± seats%± pointsVotes
Australian Labor Party52−1045.5−2.52,507,168
Liberal Party of Australia52+737.1+3.62,045,571
National (Country) Party / National Party of Australia20+38.9+0.4489,498
Democratic Labour Party007.4−1.3407,416
Independents001.0−0.457,792

± is the change against the Australia 1961 federal election, party by party.

Votes by party
  • Australian Labor Party 2,507,168
  • Liberal Party of Australia 2,045,571
  • National (Country) Party / National Party of Australia 489,498
  • Democratic Labour Party 407,416
  • Independents 57,792

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

95.5% of the 5,875,595 registered voters cast a ballot (5,609,406 ballots), up 0.2 points on 1961. 5,507,445 of them were valid votes. The highest turnout since 1949 in our data. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

  • Australian Labor Party45.5% of votes41.9% of seats
  • Liberal Party of Australia37.1% of votes41.9% of seats
  • National (Country) Party / National Party of Australia8.9% of votes16.1% of seats
  • Democratic Labour Party7.4% of votes0.0% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 8.5 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 2.8 by votes and 2.6 by seats; Australian Labor Party led Liberal Party of Australia by 8.4 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

Sources and licence

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