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 | 378,545 | 51.95 | +9.93 | 8 | 0 | 72.73 |
Liberal Party | 304,677 | 41.82 | -4.82 | 3 | 0 | 27.27 |
Australian Democrats | 29,273 | 4.02 | -3.04 | 0 | ||
National Party | 5,999 | 0.82 | * | 0 | ||
Votes for other than listed parties | 10,136 | 1.39 | +0.74 | |||
Totals | 728,630 | 100.00 | 11 | 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).