Election held on 22 November 1958
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 | 900,483 | 47.14 | -2.42 | 22 | 0 | 47.83 |
Liberal Party | 685,614 | 35.89 | -2.74 | 16 | 0 | 34.78 |
Country Party | 183,187 | 9.59 | +0.97 | 8 | 0 | 17.39 |
Democratic Labor Party | 106,805 | 5.59 | * | 0 | ||
Votes for other than listed parties | 33,992 | 1.78 | -0.07 | |||
Totals | 1,910,081 | 100.00 | 46 | 0 | 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).