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Commonwealth Parliament, Senate election in Queensland

(for more information on this election see national summary for the Senate)

Election of 2 March 1996

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Senate enrolment and voting in Queensland

Total number of voters on the roll in this state/territory
2,091,384
Total ballots cast (may differ from number of votes in multiple voting systems)
1,989,441
Turnout (rate of voting in contested seats)
95.13%
Total valid votes
1,924,462
Rate of informal (invalid) voting
3.27%

Electoral composition of the Senate for this election in Queensland

Total number of seats in the Senate
76
Total number of seats for each state
12
Number of seats for each territory
2
Seats to be filled at this Senate election in this state/territory
6
Casual vacancies/additional seats included in seats to be filled
0
Electoral System
Adult franchise at 18 years (from 1974); multimember districts; proportional representation by the single transferable vote method (STV); compulsory preferences; above the line (group ticket) voting permitted; compulsory voting

Senate votes and seats won, and seats held in Queensland

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Election held on 2 March 1996
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 n First preference vote share % Change from previous election % Seats won by ticket n Seats won by ticket % Seats won by party n Seats won by party % Seats held by party n Seats held by party %
Liberal Party  680,553  35.36  +3.87  2  33.33  2  33.33  4  33.33 
Australian Labor Party  583,850  30.34  -9.07  2  33.33  2  33.33  4  33.33 
National Party  288,199  14.98  +0.45  1  16.67  1  16.67  2  16.67 
Australian Democrats  254,219  13.21  +6.16  1  16.67  1  16.67  2  16.67 
Australian Greens  46,285  2.41  *  0           
Votes for other than listed parties 71,356 3.71 +2.24             
Totals 1,924,462  100.00    6  100.00  6  100.00  12  100.00 

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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

See the Glossary of this website for information on Senate elections and details of the distinction between Seats won by ticket and Seats won by party, and between Seats won and Seats held.

At this Senate election in Queensland, the party grouping which had endorsed candidates for previous Senate elections on the Queensland Greens ticket, endorsed candidates under the name of the Australian Greens.

Sources

Australian Electoral Commission, Electoral Statistics 1993, 1996, 1998, CD-ROM, Canberra,1999; 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: Clive Bean, Marian Simms, Scott Bennett and John Warhurst (editors), The Politics of Retribution: The 1996 Federal Election, St Leonards, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 1997 (ISBN 1 86448 386 5).