Election held on 1 December 1984
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 | 1,458,856 | 48.26 | -1.87 | 29 | 0 | 56.86 |
Liberal Party | 990,464 | 32.76 | +1.21 | 12 | 0 | 23.53 |
National Party | 318,458 | 10.53 | -0.43 | 10 | 0 | 19.61 |
Australian Democrats | 178,806 | 5.91 | +1.12 | 0 | ||
Independents | 58,723 | 1.94 | * | 0 | ||
Votes for other than listed parties | 17,795 | 0.59 | -1.98 | |||
Totals | 3,023,102 | 100.00 | 51 | 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.
The vote shown for Independents at this House of Representatives election in New South Wales is the sum of votes cast for all candidates registered as Independents (26) and candidates who ran for office without any registered party name (9). There were 35 such candidates.
Australian Electoral Commission, Election Statistics 1984 House of Representatives Full Distribution of Preferences, Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1985, ISBN (0644041455): 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).