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 | 1,182,118 | 50.50 | +4.99 | 23 | 0 | 69.70 |
Liberal Party | 869,542 | 37.14 | -2.00 | 7 | 0 | 21.21 |
Australian Democrats | 133,183 | 5.69 | -2.51 | 0 | ||
National Party | 114,065 | 4.87 | -0.03 | 3 | 0 | 9.09 |
Democratic Labor Party | 17,318 | 0.74 | -0.40 | 0 | ||
Votes for other than listed parties | 24,725 | 1.06 | -0.05 | |||
Totals | 2,340,951 | 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).