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Commonwealth Parliament, House of Representatives election

Election of 10 November 2001

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General election for the House of Representatives
Commonwealth of Australia
Date of election
10 November 2001

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 Winston Howard
Prime Minister's party affiliation
Liberal Party
House of Representatives support for government at election
Coalition
If coalition, coalition partner(s)
National Party

Government in office after election

Prime Minister in office after election.
John Winston Howard
Prime Minister's party affiliation
Liberal Party
House of Representatives support for government after election
Coalition
If coalition, coalition partner(s)
National Party

Enrolment and voting

Total number of voters on the roll
12,708,837
Number of House of Representatives seats
150
Number of uncontested seats
0
If uncontested seats, number of voters on the roll in uncontested seats
Number of voters on the roll in contested seats
12,708,837
Total ballots cast (may differ from number of votes in multiple voting systems)
12,054,664
Turnout (rate of voting in contested seats)
94.85%
Total valid votes
11,474,074
Rate of informal (invalid) voting
4.82%
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 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 n First preference vote share % Change from previous election % Seats won n Uncontested seats held n Seat 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  +0.32  13  0  8.67 
Australian Democrats  620,225  5.41  +0.28  0     
Australian Greens  569,074  4.96  +2.82  0     
Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party  498,032  4.34  -4.09  0     
Independents  332,669  2.90  +0.99  3  0  2.00 
Country Liberal Party (NT)  36,961  0.32  0.00  1  0  0.67 
Votes for other than listed parties 177,696 1.55 -1.23       
Totals 11,474,074  100.00    150  0  100.00 

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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.

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).


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