ID 0223

Commonwealth Parliament, House of Representatives election in New South Wales

(for more information on this election see national summary for the House of Representatives)

Election of 24 March 1990

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House of Representatives enrolment and voting in New South Wales

Total number of voters on the roll
3,630,844
Number of House of Representatives seats in this state/territory
51
Number of uncontested seats
0
If uncontested seats, number of voters on the roll in uncontested seats
Number of voters on the roll in contested seats
3,630,844
Total ballots cast (may differ from number of votes in multiple voting systems)
3,462,805
Turnout (rate of voting in contested seats)
95.37%
Total valid votes
3,354,671
Rate of informal (invalid) voting
3.12%
Informal (invalid) ballots in multiple voting system
Not applicable
Electoral system
Adult franchise at 18 years (from 1974); single member districts, preferential voting (AV); compulsory preferences; compulsory voting

House of Representatives votes and seats won in New South Wales

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Election held on 24 March 1990
Criteria for the inclusion of parties in this table are set out in the Glossary under 'listed party'

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Party Name First preference vote n First preference vote share % Change from previous election % Seats won n Uncontested seats held n Seat share %
Australian Labor Party  1,380,780  41.16  -4.01  30  0  58.82 
Liberal Party  975,083  29.07  -4.19  12  0  23.53 
National Party  377,687  11.26  -0.53  8  0  15.69 
Australian Democrats  342,540  10.21  +3.87  0     
Independents  161,579  4.82  +1.46  1    1.96 
Votes for other than listed parties 117,002 3.49 +3.40       
Totals 3,354,671  100.00    51  0  100.00 

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Notes

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 (52) and candidates who ran for office without any registered party name (9). There were 61 such candidates.

Sources

Australian Electoral Commission, Statistics, Result of Count: Senate, House of Representatives Election 1990, Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1990 (ISBN 0644130563); 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 Clive Bean, Ian McAllister and John Warhurst (editors), The Greening of Australian Politics: The 1990 Federal Election, Melbourne: Longman Cheshire, 1990 (ISBN 0582870313).