Election held on 21 August 2010
Criteria for the inclusion of parties in this table are set out in the Glossary under 'listed party'
Party Name | First preference vote n | First preference vote share % | Change from previous election % | Seats won n | Uncontested seats held n | Seat share % |
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Australian Labor Party | 1,494,490 | 37.28 | -6.85 | 26 | 0 | 54.17 |
Liberal Party | 1,470,146 | 36.67 | +4.05 | 16 | 0 | 33.33 |
Australian Greens | 410,405 | 10.24 | +2.35 | 0 | ||
National Party | 317,867 | 7.93 | +0.02 | 4 | 0 | 8.33 |
Independents | 174,312 | 4.35 | +1.02 | 2 | 0 | 4.17 |
Christian Democratic Party | 54,544 | 1.36 | -0.56 | 0 | ||
Votes for other than listed parties | 87,554 | 2.18 | -0.03 | |||
Totals | 4,009,318 | 100.00 | 48 | 0 | 100.00 |
Rate of informal (invalid) voting: At 6.82 percent, the rate of informal (invalid) voting in New South Wales was the highest of any state or territory at this House of Representatives election (2010). Confusion with the optional preferential electoral system used for New South Wales Legislative Assembly elections, and disillusionment with both major parties at the election may have been factors, together with the well publicized urgings of a former federal leader of the Labor Party, Mark Latham to cast an informal (invalid) vote as a form of political protest.
Independents and non-affiliated: The vote shown for Independents at this election is the sum of votes cast for all candidates registered as Independents in New South Wales (172,921 votes) and those candidates who ran for office without any registered party name (2,508 votes). Two Independents were elected at this election from New South Wales; Robert Oakeshott (Lyne), and Tony Windsor (New England).
Voting figures were calculated from the Australian Electoral Commission 'Virtual Tally Room' web page 'First Preferences by Party', on line at:
https://bit.ly/2rLn6go [accessed 20 November 2013]