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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Liberal Party | 82,243 | 49.97 | -1.80 | 3 | 0 | 60.00 |
Australian Labor Party | 81,651 | 49.61 | +1.38 | 2 | 0 | 40.00 |
Votes for other than listed parties | 688 | 0.42 | +0.42 | |||
Totals | 164,582 | 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.