Commonwealth Parliament, House of Representatives election
Election of 13 March 1993
Government in office and parliamentary support before and after the election
Government in office at election
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House of Representatives votes and seats won, national summary
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 % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australian Labor Party | 4,751,390 | 44.92 | +5.49 | 80 | 0 | 54.42 |
| Liberal Party | 3,888,579 | 36.77 | +2.01 | 49 | 0 | 33.33 |
| National Party | 758,036 | 7.17 | -1.25 | 16 | 0 | 10.88 |
| Australian Democrats | 397,060 | 3.75 | -7.50 | 0 | ||
| Independents | 328,084 | 3.10 | +0.56 | 2 | 0 | 1.36 |
| Greens | 196,702 | 1.86 | * | 0 | ||
| Country Liberal Party (NT) | 35,207 | 0.33 | +0.05 | 0 | ||
| Votes for other than listed parties | 221,721 | 2.10 | -1.21 | |||
| Totals | 10,576,779 | 100.00 | 147 | 0 | 100.00 |
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* Party did not contest previous election or did not meet criteria for listing, or contested previous election under a different party name.
Notes
Prime minister at election: Keating replaced Hawke as prime minister of an Australian Labor Party majority government on 2 January 1992.
The vote shown for the Greens in the national summary includes votes for a variety of Green party groupings which fielded candidates at this House of Representatives election. In the Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland and South Australia, the Greens party grouping crossed the threshold for inclusion in this database in state summaries (see, listed party in the Glossary of this website) together with the Tasmanian Greens and the Greens WA from Western Australia. In the national summary for the House of Representatives for this election, votes for all these Green party groupings are included under Greens.
The vote shown for Independents at this election is the sum of votes cast for all candidates registered as Independents (157) and those candidates who ran for office without any registered party name (55). There were 212 such candidates.
Sources
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).