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 | 140,722 | 47.14 | -3.91 | 4 | 0 | 80.00 |
Australian Labor Party | 115,053 | 38.54 | -4.45 | 1 | 0 | 20.00 |
Australian Democrats | 24,876 | 8.33 | +2.37 | 0 | ||
United Tasmania Group | 6,367 | 2.13 | * | 0 | ||
Votes for other than listed parties | 11,486 | 3.85 | +3.85 | |||
Totals | 298,504 | 100.00 | 5 | 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 United Tasmania Group became the Tasmanian Greens at the subsequent (1993) House of Representatives election in Tasmania.
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).