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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Country Liberal Party | 18,805 | 43.56 | -3.83 | 1 | 0 | 100.00 |
Australian Labor Party | 17,426 | 40.36 | -2.27 | 0 | ||
Independents | 4,432 | 10.27 | * | 0 | ||
Australian Democrats | 2,509 | 5.81 | -1.32 | 0 | ||
Votes for other than listed parties | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |||
Totals | 43,172 | 100.00 | 1 | 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), Australia at the Polls: The National Elections of 1980 and 1983, Washington, DC: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 1983 (084473506X).