Election held on 10 December 1949
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 | 849,033 | 46.89 | -4.48 | 23 | 0 | 48.94 |
Liberal Party | 672,175 | 37.12 | +7.25 | 16 | 0 | 34.04 |
Country Party | 199,550 | 11.02 | 0.00 | 8 | 0 | 17.02 |
Independents | 37,821 | 2.09 | +1.40 | 0 | ||
Lang Labor Party | 31,436 | 1.74 | -2.30 | 0 | ||
Votes for other than listed parties | 20,637 | 1.14 | -1.87 | |||
Totals | 1,810,652 | 100.00 | 47 | 0 | 100.00 |
Colin A Hughes and B D Graham, A Handbook of Australian Government and Politics 1890-1964, Canberra; Australian National University Press, 1968 (SBN 708102700); 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 1328 7478), online here.