Election held on 5 March 1983
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 | 1,512,012 | 50.12 | +3.77 | 24 | 0 | 55.81 |
Liberal Party | 951,810 | 31.55 | -4.10 | 11 | 0 | 25.58 |
National Party | 330,657 | 10.96 | * | 8 | 0 | 18.60 |
Australian Democrats | 144,633 | 4.79 | -0.88 | 0 | ||
Votes for other than listed parties | 77,470 | 2.57 | +0.75 | |||
Totals | 3,016,582 | 100.00 | 43 | 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).