Australia 1974 federal election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Australian Labor Party won 66 of 127 seats with 49.3% of the vote; 95.4% of registered voters cast a ballot, unchanged on 1972.
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australian Labor Party | 66 | −1 | 49.3 | −0.3 | 3,644,110 |
| Liberal Party of Australia | 40 | +2 | 34.9 | +2.9 | 2,582,968 |
| National (Country) Party / National Party of Australia | 21 | +1 | 10.8 | +1.4 | 796,577 |
| Australia Party | 0 | 0 | 2.3 | −0.1 | 172,176 |
| Democratic Labour Party | 0 | 0 | 1.4 | −3.8 | 104,974 |
± is the change against the Australia 1972 federal election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Australian Labor Party 3,644,110
- Liberal Party of Australia 2,582,968
- National (Country) Party / National Party of Australia 796,577
- Australia Party 172,176
- Democratic Labour Party 104,974
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 7,897,649 registered voters cast a ballot (7,535,768 ballots), unchanged on 1972. 7,391,006 of them were valid votes. The highest turnout since 1963 in our data. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Australian Labor Party49.3% of votes52.0% of seats
- Liberal Party of Australia34.9% of votes31.5% of seats
- National (Country) Party / National Party of Australia10.8% of votes16.5% of seats
- Australia Party2.3% of votes0.0% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 5.4 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 2.7 by votes and 2.5 by seats; Australian Labor Party led Liberal Party of Australia by 14.4 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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