ID 0289

Commonwealth Parliament, House of Representatives election

Election of 11 July 1987

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House of Representatives votes and seats won, national summary

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Election held on 11 July 1987
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 4,232,563  45.83  -1.72 86  0  58.11 
Liberal Party 3,169,391  34.32  +.26 43  0  29.05 
National Party 1,064,230  11.52  +.89 19  0  12.84 
Australian Democrats 557,259  6.03  +.58 0  0  0 
Independents 148,164  1.6  * 0  0  0 
Country Liberal Party (NT) 21,668  .23  -.09 0  0  0 
Votes for other than listed parties41,8110.45 0.00    
Totals9,235,086  100    148  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

Australian Electoral Commission, Election Statistics, Result of Count, Senate, House of Representatives, Election 1987, Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1987 (ISBN 0644072267); Colin A Hughes, A Handbook of Australian Government and Politics 1985-1999, Sydney: Federation Press, 2002 (ISBN 1862874344); 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 review of this election, see Ian McAllister and John Warhurst (editors), Australia Votes: The 1987 Federal Election, Melbourne: Longman Cheshire, 1988 (ISBN 058271224 6).

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