Election held on 2 July 2016
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 | 1,611,549 | 36.93 | +2.41 | 24 | 0 | 51.06 |
Liberal Party | 1,426,424 | 32.68 | -4.67 | 16 | 0 | 34.04 |
National Party | 420,881 | 9.64 | -0.34 | 7 | 0 | 14.89 |
Australian Greens | 390,737 | 8.95 | +1.01 | 0 | ||
Independents | 173,923 | 3.99 | +2.26 | 0 | ||
Christian Democratic Party | 169,966 | 3.89 | +1.76 | 0 | ||
Votes for other than listed parties | 170,840 | 3.91 | +1.78 | |||
Totals | 4,364,320 | 100.00 | 47 | 0 | 100.00 |
Christian Democratic Party: This party was affiliated with the Fred Nile Group, a socially conservative Christian party associated with the New South Wales politician Fred Nile who was first elected to the New South Wales Legislative Council in 1981. The group had contested several state and federal elections across Australia in the years following.
Independents and non-affiliated: The vote shown for Independents at this election is the sum of first preference votes cast for 41 candidates in New South Wales registered as Independents in New South Wales (171,795 votes) and one candidates who ran for office without any registered party name (2,128 votes). No Independent was elected at this election (2016) from New South Wales.
Other parties: The Australian Electoral Commission listed 30 registered party groupings for this House of Representatdives election in New South Wales whose votes are not separately listed in the table above. None of these parties gained 1 percent of the first preference votes at this election, had a candidate elected or met any of the other criteria for listing in this database for the state summary for this House of Representatives election in New South Wales (see listed party). For details of the votes won by these parties, see the reference in 'Sources', below. Note that some of these parties may have qualified for listing in other state summaries for this election.
Voting figures were taken from the Australian Electoral Commission website 'First preference votes by party', online: here. [accessed 10 June 2017]