Election held on 11 July 1987
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 % |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Australian Labor Party | 4,232,563 | 45.83 | -1.72 | 86 | 0 | 58.11 |
Liberal Party | 3,169,391 | 34.32 | +0.26 | 43 | 0 | 29.05 |
National Party | 1,064,230 | 11.52 | +0.89 | 19 | 0 | 12.84 |
Australian Democrats | 557,259 | 6.03 | +0.58 | 0 | ||
Independents | 148,164 | 1.60 | * | 0 | ||
Country Liberal Party (NT) | 21,668 | 0.23 | -0.08 | 0 | ||
Votes for other than listed parties | 41,811 | 0.45 | -1.54 | |||
Totals | 9,235,086 | 100.00 | 148 | 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 Statistics, Result of Count, Senate, House of Representatives, Election 1987, Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1987 (ISBN 0644072267); 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 Ian McAllister and John Warhurst (editors), Australia Votes: The 1987 Federal Election, Melbourne: Longman Cheshire, 1988 (ISBN 058271224 6).