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Australia 2010 federal election

Final results from ParlGov, read : Australian Labor Party won 72 of 150 seats with 38.0% of the vote; 93.2% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 1.5 points on 2007.

Result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats± seats%± pointsVotes
Australian Labor Party72−1138.0−5.44,711,363
Liberal Party of Australia44−1130.5−5.83,777,383
Australian Greens1+111.8+4.01,458,998
Liberal National Party of Queensland219.11,130,525
National (Country) Party / National Party of Australia7−33.7−1.8462,387
Independents4+22.5−1.2312,496
Family First Party002.3+0.3279,330
Country Liberal Party10.338,335

± is the change against the Australia 2007 federal election, party by party.

Votes by party
  • Australian Labor Party 4,711,363
  • Liberal Party of Australia 3,777,383
  • Australian Greens 1,458,998
  • Liberal National Party of Queensland 1,130,525
  • National (Country) Party / National Party of Australia 462,387
  • Independents 312,496
  • Family First Party 279,330
  • Country Liberal Party 38,335

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

93.2% of the 14,088,260 registered voters cast a ballot (13,131,667 ballots), down 1.5 points on 2007. 12,402,363 of them were valid votes. The lowest turnout since 1955 in our data. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

  • Australian Labor Party38.0% of votes48.0% of seats
  • Liberal Party of Australia30.5% of votes29.3% of seats
  • Liberal National Party of Queensland9.1% of votes14.0% of seats
  • National (Country) Party / National Party of Australia3.7% of votes4.7% of seats
  • Australian Greens11.8% of votes0.7% of seats
  • Country Liberal Party0.3% of votes0.7% of seats
  • Family First Party2.3% of votes0.0% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 11.3 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.8 by votes and 2.9 by seats; Australian Labor Party led Liberal Party of Australia by 7.5 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

Sources and licence

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