Election held on 24 March 1990
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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Liberal Party | 1,018,740 | 39.68 | +1.67 | 21 | 0 | 55.26 |
Australian Labor Party | 951,674 | 37.07 | -9.87 | 14 | 0 | 36.84 |
Australian Democrats | 319,149 | 12.43 | +5.71 | 0 | ||
National Party | 154,069 | 6.00 | -0.35 | 3 | 0 | 7.89 |
Independents | 55,357 | 2.16 | +0.95 | 0 | ||
Call to Australia (Fred Nile) Group | 52,554 | 2.05 | * | 0 | ||
Votes for other than listed parties | 15,587 | 0.61 | -0.01 | |||
Totals | 2,567,130 | 100.00 | 38 | 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 Victoria is the sum of votes cast for all candidates registered as Independents (28) and candidates who ran for office without any registered party name (8). There were 36 such candidates.
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).