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Australia 1993 federal election

Final results from ParlGov, read : Australian Labor Party won 80 of 147 seats with 44.9% of the vote; 95.8% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 0.4 points on 1990.

Result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats± seats%± pointsVotes
Australian Labor Party80+244.9+5.54,751,390
Liberal Party of Australia49−636.8+2.03,888,579
National (Country) Party / National Party of Australia16+27.2−1.2758,036
Independents2+14.7+1.3500,338
Australian Democrats003.8−7.5397,060
Australian Greens001.9+0.5196,702

± is the change against the Australia 1990 federal election, party by party.

Votes by party
  • Australian Labor Party 4,751,390
  • Liberal Party of Australia 3,888,579
  • National (Country) Party / National Party of Australia 758,036
  • Independents 500,338
  • Australian Democrats 397,060
  • Australian Greens 196,702

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

95.8% of the 11,384,638 registered voters cast a ballot (10,900,861 ballots), up 0.4 points on 1990. 10,576,779 of them were valid votes. The highest turnout since 1949 in our data. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

  • Australian Labor Party44.9% of votes54.4% of seats
  • Liberal Party of Australia36.8% of votes33.3% of seats
  • National (Country) Party / National Party of Australia7.2% of votes10.9% of seats
  • Australian Democrats3.8% of votes0.0% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 8.5 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 2.9 by votes and 2.4 by seats; Australian Labor Party led Liberal Party of Australia by 8.1 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

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