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Australia 2007 federal election

Final results from ParlGov, read : Australian Labor Party won 83 of 150 seats with 43.4% of the vote; 94.8% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 0.4 points on 2004.

Result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats± seats%± pointsVotes
Australian Labor Party83+2343.4+5.85,388,184
Liberal Party of Australia55−1936.3−4.24,506,302
Australian Greens007.8+0.6967,789
National (Country) Party / National Party of Australia10−25.5−0.4682,424
Independents2−13.7−0.3465,734
Family First Party002.00.0246,798

± is the change against the Australia 2004 federal election, party by party.

Votes by party
  • Australian Labor Party 5,388,184
  • Liberal Party of Australia 4,506,302
  • Australian Greens 967,789
  • National (Country) Party / National Party of Australia 682,424
  • Independents 465,734
  • Family First Party 246,798

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

94.8% of the 13,646,539 registered voters cast a ballot (12,930,814 ballots), up 0.4 points on 2004. 12,419,992 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

  • Australian Labor Party43.4% of votes55.3% of seats
  • Liberal Party of Australia36.3% of votes36.7% of seats
  • National (Country) Party / National Party of Australia5.5% of votes6.7% of seats
  • Australian Greens7.8% of votes0.0% of seats
  • Family First Party2.0% of votes0.0% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 10.4 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.0 by votes and 2.2 by seats; Australian Labor Party led Liberal Party of Australia by 7.1 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

Sources and licence

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