Election held on 10 December 1977
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 | 1,201,560 | 42.40 | -3.06 | 17 | 0 | 39.53 |
Liberal Party | 1,018,257 | 35.93 | -3.77 | 18 | 0 | 41.86 |
National Country Party | 320,051 | 11.29 | * | 8 | 0 | 18.60 |
Australian Democrats | 239,808 | 8.46 | * | 0 | ||
Votes for other than listed parties | 54,109 | 1.91 | -0.76 | |||
Totals | 2,833,785 | 100.00 | 43 | 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, 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), The Australian National Elections of 1977, Washington, DC: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 1979 (ISBN 0844733571).