Election held on 29 May 1954
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 | 923,469 | 52.31 | +3.17 | 25 | 0 | 53.19 |
Liberal Party | 619,643 | 35.10 | -3.90 | 15 | 2 | 31.91 |
Country Party | 146,417 | 8.29 | -1.81 | 7 | 1 | 14.89 |
Independents | 44,862 | 2.54 | +1.94 | 0 | ||
Votes for other than listed parties | 31,077 | 1.76 | +0.59 | |||
Totals | 1,765,468 | 100.00 | 47 | 3 | 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.