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 | 57,823 | 50.24 | +1.97 | 1 | 0 | 50.00 |
Liberal Party | 48,190 | 41.87 | -5.45 | 1 | 0 | 50.00 |
Australian Democrats | 8,544 | 7.42 | * | 0 | ||
Votes for other than listed parties | 534 | 0.46 | -0.67 | |||
Totals | 115,091 | 100.00 | 2 | 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).