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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Liberal Party | 842,545 | 39.60 | -2.72 | 20 | 0 | 60.61 |
Australian Labor Party | 791,083 | 37.18 | -4.90 | 10 | 0 | 30.30 |
Australian Democrats | 250,943 | 11.80 | * | 0 | ||
National Party | 120,032 | 5.64 | -3.26 | 3 | 0 | 9.09 |
Democratic Labor Party | 113,271 | 5.32 | +0.47 | 0 | ||
Votes for other than listed parties | 9,652 | 0.45 | -0.37 | |||
Totals | 2,127,526 | 100.00 | 33 | 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).