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Commonwealth Parliament, House of Representatives election

Election of 10 November 2001

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House of Representatives votes and seats won, national summary

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Election held on 10 November 2001
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 4,341,420  37.84  -2.26 65  0  43.33 
Liberal Party 4,254,071  37.08  +3.19 68  0  45.33 
National Party 643,926  5.61  +.32 13  0  8.67 
Australian Democrats 620,225  5.41  +.28 0  0  0 
Australian Greens 569,074  4.96  +2.82 0  0  0 
Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party 498,032  4.34  -4.09 0  0  0 
Independents 332,669  2.9  +.99 3  0  2 
Country Liberal Party (NT) 36,961  .32  0 1  0  .67 
Votes for other than listed parties177,6961.55 0.00    
Totals11,474,074  100    150  0  100 

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Notes

In the national summary for the House of Representatives for this election, the vote for the Australian Greens includes the votes cast in Western Australia for the Greens WA.

The vote shown for Independents at this election is the sum of votes cast for all candidates registered as Independents (113) and those candidates who ran for office without any registered party name (30). There were 143 such candidates.

Note - 104073

Sources

Australian Electoral Commission, Election 2001: Election Results, CD-ROM, Canberra, 2002 (ISBN 0642501815); Scott Bennett, Gerard Newman and Andrew Kopras, Commonwealth Election 2001, Canberra: Commonwealth Parliament, Department of the Parliamentary Library, Information Research Services, Research Paper No. 11 2001 02, 2002 (ISSN 13287478).

For a general review of this election, see John Warhurst and Marian Simms (editors), 2001: The Centenary Election, St Lucia, Qld: University of Queensland Press, 2002 (ISBN 070223303X); David Solomon (editor), Howard's Race: Winning the Unwinnable Election, Pymble, NSW: HarperCollins, 2002 (ISBN 073227373 0).

Note - 104045


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