Australia 2016 federal election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Australian Labor Party won 69 of 150 seats with 34.7% of the vote; 91.0% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 2.3 points on 2013.
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australian Labor Party | 69 | +14 | 34.7 | +1.4 | 4,702,296 |
| Liberal Party of Australia | 45 | −13 | 28.7 | −3.4 | 3,882,905 |
| Australian Greens | 1 | 0 | 10.2 | +1.6 | 1,385,650 |
| Liberal National Party of Queensland | 21 | −1 | 8.5 | −0.4 | 1,153,736 |
| National (Country) Party / National Party of Australia | 10 | +1 | 4.6 | +0.3 | 624,555 |
| Independents | 2 | 0 | 2.8 | +1.4 | 380,712 |
| Nick Xenophon Team | 1 | 1.9 | 250,333 | ||
| Family First Party | 0 | 0 | 1.5 | +0.1 | 201,222 |
| Christian Democratic Party | 0 | 1.3 | 178,026 | ||
| One Nation | 0 | 1.3 | 175,020 | ||
| Katter's Australian Party | 1 | 0 | 0.5 | −0.5 | 72,879 |
± is the change against the Australia 2013 federal election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Australian Labor Party 4,702,296
- Liberal Party of Australia 3,882,905
- Australian Greens 1,385,650
- Liberal National Party of Queensland 1,153,736
- National (Country) Party / National Party of Australia 624,555
- Independents 380,712
- Nick Xenophon Team 250,333
- Family First Party 201,222
- Christian Democratic Party 178,026
- One Nation 175,020
- Katter's Australian Party 72,879
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
91.0% of the 15,676,659 registered voters cast a ballot (14,262,016 ballots), down 2.3 points on 2013. 13,541,101 of them were valid votes. The lowest turnout since 1955 in our data. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Australian Labor Party34.7% of votes46.0% of seats
- Liberal Party of Australia28.7% of votes30.0% of seats
- Liberal National Party of Queensland8.5% of votes14.0% of seats
- National (Country) Party / National Party of Australia4.6% of votes6.7% of seats
- Australian Greens10.2% of votes0.7% of seats
- Nick Xenophon Team1.9% of votes0.7% of seats
- Katter's Australian Party0.5% of votes0.7% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 11.5 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 4.5 by votes and 3.1 by seats; Australian Labor Party led Liberal Party of Australia by 6.1 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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