Election held on 11 July 1987
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 | 683,640 | 44.96 | +0.90 | 13 | 0 | 54.17 |
National Party | 438,627 | 28.85 | -2.85 | 6 | 0 | 25.00 |
Liberal Party | 319,607 | 21.02 | +1.86 | 5 | 0 | 20.83 |
Australian Democrats | 74,215 | 4.88 | +0.06 | 0 | ||
Votes for other than listed parties | 4,402 | 0.29 | +0.03 | |||
Totals | 1,520,491 | 100.00 | 24 | 0 | 100.00 |
Australian Electoral Commission, Election Statistics, Result of Count, Senate, House of Representatives, Election 1987, Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1987 (ISBN 0644072267); Colin A Hughes, A Handbook of Australian Government and Politics 1985-1999, Sydney: Federation Press, 2002 (ISBN 1862874344); 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 review of this election, see Ian McAllister and John Warhurst (editors), Australia Votes: The 1987 Federal Election, Melbourne: Longman Cheshire, 1988 (ISBN 058271224 6).