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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Liberal Party | 348,981 | 44.50 | -0.45 | 5 | 0 | 45.45 |
Australian Labor Party | 348,649 | 44.46 | +1.82 | 6 | 0 | 54.55 |
Australian Democrats | 68,857 | 8.78 | -2.52 | 0 | ||
Votes for other than listed parties | 17,717 | 2.26 | +1.15 | |||
Totals | 784,204 | 100.00 | 11 | 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).