Election held on 10 December 1955
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 % |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Australian Labor Party | 836,592 | 49.56 | -2.74 | 21 | 0 | 45.65 |
Liberal Party | 652,167 | 38.64 | +3.54 | 17 | 2 | 36.96 |
Country Party | 145,567 | 8.62 | +0.33 | 8 | 2 | 17.39 |
Independents | 22,384 | 1.33 | -1.21 | 0 | ||
Votes for other than listed parties | 31,192 | 1.85 | +0.09 | |||
Totals | 1,687,902 | 100.00 | 46 | 4 | 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).
Although the book deals with political competition in a single electoral region, information on the 1955 general election for the House of Representatives and its context can be found in D W Rawson and Susan M Holtzinger, Politics in Eden-Monaro: The Personalities and the Campaigns, London: Heinemann, 1958.