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 | 192,446 | 55.14 | +6.21 | 6 | 1 | 60.00 |
Liberal Party | 150,708 | 43.18 | * | 4 | 1 | 40.00 |
Votes for other than listed parties | 5,888 | 1.69 | +0.70 | |||
Totals | 349,042 | 100.00 | 10 | 2 | 100.00 |
* Party did not contest previous election or did not meet criteria for listing, or contested previous election under a different party name.
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.