Australia 1980 federal election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Liberal Party of Australia won 54 of 125 seats with 37.4% of the vote; 94.4% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 0.7 points on 1977.
- Australia
- Held
Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australian Labor Party | 51 | +13 | 45.1 | +5.5 | 3,749,565 |
| Liberal Party of Australia | 54 | −13 | 37.4 | −0.7 | 3,108,512 |
| National (Country) Party / National Party of Australia | 20 | +2 | 8.9 | −0.9 | 736,122 |
| Australian Democrats | 0 | 0 | 6.6 | −2.8 | 546,032 |
| Independents | 0 | 0 | 1.7 | +0.3 | 139,870 |
± is the change against the Australia 1977 federal election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Australian Labor Party 3,749,565
- Liberal Party of Australia 3,108,512
- National (Country) Party / National Party of Australia 736,122
- Australian Democrats 546,032
- Independents 139,870
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
94.4% of the 9,023,592 registered voters cast a ballot (8,513,992 ballots), down 0.7 points on 1977. 8,305,557 of them were valid votes. The lowest turnout since 1955 in our data. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Liberal Party of Australia37.4% of votes43.2% of seats
- Australian Labor Party45.1% of votes40.8% of seats
- National (Country) Party / National Party of Australia8.9% of votes16.0% of seats
- Australian Democrats6.6% of votes0.0% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 8.6 (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 7.7 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
Our text and compilation: CC BY 4.0. How to reuse and cite this page.