Election held on 3 October 1998
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 | 389,382 | 42.05 | -7.94 | 9 | 0 | 75.00 |
Australian Labor Party | 319,267 | 34.48 | -0.35 | 3 | 0 | 25.00 |
Australian Democrats | 93,905 | 10.14 | -0.06 | 0 | ||
Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party | 90,773 | 9.80 | * | 0 | ||
Australian Greens | 4,576 | 0.49 | * | 0 | ||
Votes for other than listed parties | 28,088 | 3.03 | +2.05 | |||
Totals | 925,991 | 100.00 | 12 | 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, Election 98, Volume 1, National Results, Canberra 1998; 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: Marian Simms and John Warhurst (editors), Howard's Agenda: The 1998 Australian Election, St Lucia, Qld: University of Queensland Press, 2000 (ISBN 0 7022 3163 0).