Election held on 13 March 1993
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 | 143,621 | 46.76 | +8.22 | 4 | 0 | 80.00 |
Liberal Party | 129,132 | 42.04 | -5.10 | 1 | 0 | 20.00 |
Tasmanian Greens | 24,319 | 7.92 | * | 0 | ||
Australian Democrats | 7,653 | 2.49 | -5.84 | 0 | ||
Votes for other than listed parties | 2,415 | 0.79 | -3.06 | |||
Totals | 307,140 | 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 votes cast for the Tasmanian Greens in Tasmania at this election are included with the votes for the Greens in the national summary for the House of Representatives. The Tasmanian Greens were the successor party grouping to the United Tasmania Group which had fielded candidates at the previous (1990) House of Representatives election in Tasmania.
Australian Electoral Commission, Electoral Statistics 1993, 1996, 1998, CD-ROM, Canberra,1999; 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).