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 | 621,146 | 46.13 | +3.36 | 10 | 0 | 52.63 |
Liberal Party | 328,530 | 24.40 | -2.91 | 3 | 0 | 15.79 |
National Party | 319,647 | 23.74 | +1.90 | 6 | 0 | 31.58 |
Australian Democrats | 62,637 | 4.65 | -0.66 | 0 | ||
Votes for other than listed parties | 14,429 | 1.07 | -1.69 | |||
Totals | 1,346,389 | 100.00 | 19 | 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).