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Commonwealth Parliament, House of Representatives election

Election of 13 December 1975

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General election for the House of Representatives
Commonwealth of Australia
Date of election
13 December 1975

Government in office and parliamentary support before and after the election

Government in office at election

Prime Minister in office at date of election. (check notes to see if change of Prime Minister since previous election)
John Malcolm Fraser
Prime Minister's party affiliation
Liberal Party
House of Representatives support for government at election
Coalition
If coalition, coalition partner(s)
National Country Party

Government in office after election

Prime Minister in office after election.
John Malcolm Fraser
Prime Minister's party affiliation
Liberal Party
House of Representatives support for government after election
Majority
If coalition, coalition partner(s)
National Country Party

Enrolment and voting

Total number of voters on the roll
8,262,413
Number of House of Representatives seats
127
Number of uncontested seats
0
If uncontested seats, number of voters on the roll in uncontested seats
0
Number of voters on the roll in contested seats
8,262,413
Total ballots cast (may differ from number of votes in multiple voting systems)
7,881,873
Turnout (rate of voting in contested seats)
95.39%
Total valid votes
7,732,578
Rate of informal (invalid) voting
1.89%
Informal (invalid) ballots in multiple voting system
Not applicable
Electoral system
Adult franchise at 18 years (from 1974); single member districts, preferential voting (AV); compulsory preferences; compulsory voting

House of Representatives votes and seats won, national summary

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Election held on 13 December 1975
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 3,313,004  42.84  -6.46 36  0  28.35 
Liberal Party 3,232,159  41.8  +6.85 68  0  53.54 
National Country Party 853,943  11.04  * 22  0  17.32 
Democratic Labor Party 101,750  1.32  -.1 0  0  0 
Australia Party 33,630  .43  -1.9 0  0  0 
Country Liberal Party (NT) 15,976  .21  * 1  0  .79 
Votes for other than listed parties182,1162.36 0.00    
Totals7,732,578  100    127  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.

Notes

Government at election: Fraser became prime minister of a Liberal Party-National Country Party coalition minority government on 11 November 1975 after the dismissal of the Whitlam Australian Labor Party majority government by the Governor General.

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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 1975, Washington, DC: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 1977 (ISBN 0844732397).

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