Australia 1969 federal election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Australian Labor Party won 59 of 125 seats with 47.0% of the vote; 95.0% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 0.2 points on 1966.
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australian Labor Party | 59 | +18 | 47.0 | +7.0 | 2,870,792 |
| Liberal Party of Australia | 46 | −15 | 34.8 | −5.3 | 2,125,987 |
| National (Country) Party / National Party of Australia | 20 | −1 | 8.6 | −1.2 | 523,232 |
| Democratic Labour Party | 0 | 0 | 6.0 | −1.3 | 367,977 |
| Independents | 0 | −1 | 2.8 | +0.1 | 172,484 |
± is the change against the Australia 1966 federal election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Australian Labor Party 2,870,792
- Liberal Party of Australia 2,125,987
- National (Country) Party / National Party of Australia 523,232
- Democratic Labour Party 367,977
- Independents 172,484
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
95.0% of the 6,606,233 registered voters cast a ballot (6,273,611 ballots), down 0.2 points on 1966. 6,114,118 of them were valid votes. The lowest turnout since 1955 in our data. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Australian Labor Party47.0% of votes47.2% of seats
- Liberal Party of Australia34.8% of votes36.8% of seats
- National (Country) Party / National Party of Australia8.6% of votes16.0% of seats
- Democratic Labour Party6.0% of votes0.0% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 7.2 (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 12.2 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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