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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Australian Labor Party | 71,830 | 44.88 | -9.04 | 2 | 0 | 100.00 |
Liberal Party | 55,755 | 34.83 | +4.56 | 0 | ||
Australian Democrats | 23,091 | 14.43 | +7.59 | 0 | ||
Greens | 5,288 | 3.30 | * | 0 | ||
Nuclear Disarmament Party | 2,117 | 1.32 | -3.35 | 0 | ||
Independents | 1,179 | 0.74 | * | 0 | ||
Votes for other than listed parties | 802 | 0.50 | -3.79 | |||
Totals | 160,062 | 100.00 | 2 | 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 the Australian Capital Territory is the sum of votes cast for 2 candidates registered as Independents.
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).