Election held on 28 April 1951
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 | 898,883 | 49.14 | +2.25 | 24 | 0 | 51.06 |
Liberal Party | 713,300 | 38.99 | +1.87 | 16 | 0 | 34.04 |
Country Party | 184,831 | 10.10 | -0.92 | 7 | 0 | 14.89 |
Independents | 10,927 | 0.60 | -1.49 | 0 | ||
Votes for other than listed parties | 21,360 | 1.17 | +0.03 | |||
Totals | 1,829,301 | 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.