Election held on 2 December 1972
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 | 226,398 | 46.11 | -3.92 | 4 | 0 | 44.44 |
Liberal Party | 193,060 | 39.32 | +3.27 | 3 | 0 | 33.33 |
Country Party | 40,831 | 8.32 | +1.93 | 2 | 0 | 22.22 |
Democratic Labor Party | 22,054 | 4.49 | -1.00 | 0 | ||
Votes for other than listed parties | 8,626 | 1.76 | -0.27 | |||
Totals | 490,969 | 100.00 | 9 | 0 | 100.00 |
Colin A Hughes, A Handbook of Australian Government and Politics 1965-1974, Canberra: Australian National University Press, 1977 (ISBN 0708113400) [enrolment figure corrected by Colin A Hughes, A Handbook of Australian Government and Politics 1975-1984, p. xii (Rushcutters Bay, NSW: Australian National University Press, 1986 (ISBN 008033038X)]; 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 13287478).