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Australia 2001 federal election

Final results from ParlGov, read : Liberal Party of Australia won 68 of 150 seats with 37.1% of the vote; 94.9% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 0.1 points on 1998.

Result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats± seats%± pointsVotes
Australian Labor Party65−237.8−2.34,341,420
Liberal Party of Australia68+437.1+3.24,254,071
National (Country) Party / National Party of Australia13−35.6+0.3643,926
Australian Democrats005.4+0.3620,225
Australian Greens005.0+2.4569,074
Independents3+24.4+0.2510,365
One Nation004.3−4.1498,032
Country Liberal Party10.336,961

± is the change against the Australia 1998 federal election, party by party.

Votes by party
  • Australian Labor Party 4,341,420
  • Liberal Party of Australia 4,254,071
  • National (Country) Party / National Party of Australia 643,926
  • Australian Democrats 620,225
  • Australian Greens 569,074
  • Independents 510,365
  • One Nation 498,032
  • Country Liberal Party 36,961

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

94.9% of the 12,708,837 registered voters cast a ballot (12,054,665 ballots), down 0.1 points on 1998. 11,474,074 of them were valid votes. The lowest turnout since 1987 in our data. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

  • Liberal Party of Australia37.1% of votes45.3% of seats
  • Australian Labor Party37.8% of votes43.3% of seats
  • National (Country) Party / National Party of Australia5.6% of votes8.7% of seats
  • Country Liberal Party0.3% of votes0.7% of seats
  • Australian Democrats5.4% of votes0.0% of seats
  • Australian Greens5.0% of votes0.0% of seats
  • One Nation4.3% of votes0.0% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 9.7 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.4 by votes and 2.5 by seats; Australian Labor Party led Liberal Party of Australia by 0.7 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

Sources and licence

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