Election held on 13 December 1975
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 | 131,002 | 54.11 | +9.73 | 5 | 0 | 100.00 |
Australian Labor Party | 105,324 | 43.50 | -11.61 | 0 | ||
Votes for other than listed parties | 5,798 | 2.39 | +1.89 | |||
Totals | 242,124 | 100.00 | 5 | 0 | 100.00 |
Colin A Hughes, A Handbook of Australian Government and Politics 1975-1984, 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).
For a general survey of this election, see Howard R Penniman (editor), Australia at the Polls: The National Elections of 1975, Washington, DC: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 1977 (ISBN 0844732397).