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 % |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Party | 80,748 | 53.48 | +8.05 | 4 | 0 | 80.00 |
Australian Labor Party | 70,248 | 46.52 | -4.30 | 1 | 0 | 20.00 |
Votes for other than listed parties | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |||
Totals | 150,996 | 100.00 | 5 | 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.