Australia 1996 federal election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Liberal Party of Australia won 75 of 148 seats with 38.7% of the vote; 95.8% of registered voters cast a ballot, unchanged on 1993.
- Australia
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australian Labor Party | 49 | −31 | 38.8 | −6.1 | 4,217,765 |
| Liberal Party of Australia | 75 | +26 | 38.7 | +1.9 | 4,210,689 |
| National (Country) Party / National Party of Australia | 18 | +2 | 8.2 | +1.0 | 893,170 |
| Australian Democrats | 0 | 0 | 6.8 | +3.0 | 735,848 |
| Independents | 5 | +3 | 4.3 | −0.4 | 470,424 |
| Australian Greens | 0 | 0 | 2.9 | +1.0 | 317,654 |
| Country Liberal Party | 1 | 0.4 | 38,302 |
± is the change against the Australia 1993 federal election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Australian Labor Party 4,217,765
- Liberal Party of Australia 4,210,689
- National (Country) Party / National Party of Australia 893,170
- Australian Democrats 735,848
- Independents 470,424
- Australian Greens 317,654
- Country Liberal Party 38,302
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 11,740,654 registered voters cast a ballot (11,244,017 ballots), unchanged on 1993. 10,883,852 of them were valid votes. The highest turnout since 1949 in our data. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Liberal Party of Australia38.7% of votes50.7% of seats
- Australian Labor Party38.8% of votes33.1% of seats
- National (Country) Party / National Party of Australia8.2% of votes12.2% of seats
- Country Liberal Party0.4% of votes0.7% of seats
- Australian Democrats6.8% of votes0.0% of seats
- Australian Greens2.9% of votes0.0% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 11.1 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); Australian Labor Party led Liberal Party of Australia by 0.1 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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