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Commonwealth Parliament, House of Representatives election

Election of 5 March 1983

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House of Representatives votes and seats won, national summary

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Election held on 5 March 1983
Criteria for the inclusion of parties in this table are set out in the Glossary under listed party

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Party Name First preference vote nFirst preference vote share %Change from previous election %Seats won nUncontested seats held nSeat share %
Australian Labor Party 4,297,392  49.48  +4.33 75  0  60 
Liberal Party 2,983,986  34.36  -3.07 33  0  26.4 
National Party 779,130  8.97  * 17  0  13.6 
Australian Democrats 437,265  5.03  -1.54 0  0  0 
Country Liberal Party (NT) 20,479  .24  +.01 0  0  0 
Votes for other than listed parties166,6111.92 0.00    
Totals8,684,863  100    125  0  100 

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* Party did not contest previous election or did not meet criteria for listing, or contested previous election under a different party name.

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Sources

Colin A Hughes, A Handbook of Australian Government and Politics 1975-1984, Rushcutters Bay, NSW: Australian National University Press, 1986 (ISBN 008033038X); Gerard Newman, Federal Election Results 1949-2001, Canberra: Commonwealth Parliament, Department of the Parliamentary Library, Information and Research Services, Research Paper 9 2001-02, 2002 (ISSN 13287478).

For a general survey of this election, see: Howard R Penniman (editor), Australia at the Polls: The National Elections of 1980 and 1983, Washington, DC: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 1983 (084473506X).

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