Election held on 18 October 1980
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 | 1,016,617 | 45.51 | +8.33 | 17 | 0 | 51.52 |
Liberal Party | 874,395 | 39.14 | -0.46 | 13 | 0 | 39.39 |
Australian Democrats | 183,212 | 8.20 | -3.59 | 0 | ||
National Party | 109,506 | 4.90 | -0.74 | 3 | 0 | 9.09 |
Democratic Labor Party | 25,456 | 1.14 | -4.18 | 0 | ||
Votes for other than listed parties | 24,670 | 1.10 | +0.65 | |||
Totals | 2,233,856 | 100.00 | 33 | 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 1980 and 1983, Washington, DC: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 1983 (084473506X).