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Australia 1975 federal election

Final results from ParlGov, read : Liberal Party of Australia won 68 of 127 seats with 41.8% of the vote; 95.4% of registered voters cast a ballot, unchanged on 1974.

Result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats± seats%± pointsVotes
Australian Labor Party36−3042.8−6.53,313,004
Liberal Party of Australia68+2841.8+6.93,232,159
National (Country) Party / National Party of Australia22+111.0+0.2853,943
Independents01.7132,632
Democratic Labour Party001.3−0.1101,750
Country Liberal Party10.215,976

± is the change against the Australia 1974 federal election, party by party.

Votes by party
  • Australian Labor Party 3,313,004
  • Liberal Party of Australia 3,232,159
  • National (Country) Party / National Party of Australia 853,943
  • Independents 132,632
  • Democratic Labour Party 101,750
  • Country Liberal Party 15,976

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 8,262,413 registered voters cast a ballot (7,881,873 ballots), unchanged on 1974. 7,732,578 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

  • Liberal Party of Australia41.8% of votes53.5% of seats
  • Australian Labor Party42.8% of votes28.3% of seats
  • National (Country) Party / National Party of Australia11.0% of votes17.3% of seats
  • Country Liberal Party0.2% of votes0.8% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 14.0 (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 1.0 point of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

Sources and licence

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