Australia 2004 federal election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Liberal Party of Australia won 74 of 150 seats with 40.5% of the vote; 94.3% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 0.5 points on 2001.
- Australia
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Party of Australia | 74 | +6 | 40.5 | +3.4 | 4,741,458 |
| Australian Labor Party | 60 | −5 | 37.6 | −0.2 | 4,409,117 |
| Australian Greens | 0 | 0 | 7.2 | +2.2 | 841,734 |
| National (Country) Party / National Party of Australia | 12 | −1 | 5.9 | +0.3 | 690,275 |
| Independents | 3 | 0 | 4.0 | −0.4 | 472,590 |
| Family First Party | 0 | 2.0 | 235,315 | ||
| Australian Democrats | 0 | 0 | 1.2 | −4.2 | 144,832 |
| One Nation | 0 | 0 | 1.2 | −3.1 | 139,956 |
| Country Liberal Party | 1 | 0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 39,855 |
± is the change against the Australia 2001 federal election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Liberal Party of Australia 4,741,458
- Australian Labor Party 4,409,117
- Australian Greens 841,734
- National (Country) Party / National Party of Australia 690,275
- Independents 472,590
- Family First Party 235,315
- Australian Democrats 144,832
- One Nation 139,956
- Country Liberal Party 39,855
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
94.3% of the 13,098,461 registered voters cast a ballot (12,354,983 ballots), down 0.5 points on 2001. 11,715,132 of them were valid votes. The lowest turnout since 1987 in our data. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Liberal Party of Australia40.5% of votes49.3% of seats
- Australian Labor Party37.6% of votes40.0% of seats
- National (Country) Party / National Party of Australia5.9% of votes8.0% of seats
- Country Liberal Party0.3% of votes0.7% of seats
- Australian Greens7.2% of votes0.0% of seats
- Family First Party2.0% of votes0.0% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 8.7 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.2 by votes and 2.4 by seats; Liberal Party of Australia led Australian Labor Party by 2.9 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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