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 | 392,870 | 43.91 | +2.12 | 6 | 0 | 42.86 |
Australian Labor Party | 316,186 | 35.34 | -12.14 | 8 | 0 | 57.14 |
Australian Democrats | 75,197 | 8.40 | +4.97 | 0 | ||
Greens WA | 67,164 | 7.51 | * | 0 | ||
National Party | 21,681 | 2.42 | -4.48 | 0 | ||
Votes for other than listed parties | 21,601 | 2.41 | +2.02 | |||
Totals | 894,699 | 100.00 | 14 | 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.
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).