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Australia 1972 federal election

Final results from ParlGov, read : Australian Labor Party won 67 of 125 seats with 49.6% of the vote; 95.4% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 0.4 points on 1969.

Result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats± seats%± pointsVotes
Australian Labor Party67+849.6+2.63,273,549
Liberal Party of Australia38−832.0−2.82,115,085
National (Country) Party / National Party of Australia2009.4+0.8622,826
Democratic Labour Party005.2−0.8346,415
Australia Party02.4159,916
Independents001.3−1.583,259

± is the change against the Australia 1969 federal election, party by party.

Votes by party
  • Australian Labor Party 3,273,549
  • Liberal Party of Australia 2,115,085
  • National (Country) Party / National Party of Australia 622,826
  • Democratic Labour Party 346,415
  • Australia Party 159,916
  • Independents 83,259

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 7,073,930 registered voters cast a ballot (6,747,244 ballots), up 0.4 points on 1969. 6,601,050 of them were valid votes. The highest turnout since 1963 in our data. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

  • Australian Labor Party49.6% of votes53.6% of seats
  • Liberal Party of Australia32.0% of votes30.4% of seats
  • National (Country) Party / National Party of Australia9.4% of votes16.0% of seats
  • Democratic Labour Party5.2% of votes0.0% of seats
  • Australia Party2.4% of votes0.0% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 7.0 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 2.8 by votes and 2.5 by seats; Australian Labor Party led Liberal Party of Australia by 17.6 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

Sources and licence

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