Election held on 2 March 1996
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 | 440,647 | 44.02 | -4.99 | 8 | 0 | 57.14 |
Australian Labor Party | 347,583 | 34.73 | -4.63 | 3 | 0 | 21.43 |
Independents | 86,989 | 8.69 | +7.44 | 3 | 0 | 21.43 |
Australian Democrats | 55,862 | 5.58 | +2.30 | 0 | ||
Greens WA | 53,101 | 5.31 | -0.47 | 0 | ||
Votes for other than listed parties | 16,774 | 1.68 | +0.59 | |||
Totals | 1,000,956 | 100.00 | 14 | 0 | 100.00 |
The votes cast for the Greens WA in Western Australia at this election are included with the votes for the Greens in the national summary for the House of Representatives.
The vote shown for Independents at this election in Western Australia is the sum of votes cast for all candidates registered as Independents (14) and one candidate who ran for office without any registered party name. There were 15 such candidates.
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).
For a general review of this election, see: Clive Bean, Marian Simms, Scott Bennett and John Warhurst (editors), The Politics of Retribution: The 1996 Federal Election, St Leonards, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 1997 (ISBN 1 86448 386 5).