Election held on 9 December 1961
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 by ticket n | Seats won by ticket % | Seats won by party n | Seats won by party % | Seats held by party n | Seats held by party % |
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Australian Labor Party | 848,171 | 47.58 | +3.30 | 3 | 60.00 | 3 | 60.00 | 6 | 60.00 |
Liberal Party - Country Party (joint ticket) | 728,657 | 40.87 | -2.86 | 2 | 40.00 | ||||
Democratic Labor Party | 138,700 | 7.78 | +2.92 | 0 | |||||
Communist Party | 18,702 | 1.05 | -4.85 | 0 | |||||
Liberal Party | 1 | 20.00 | 3 | 30.00 | |||||
Country Party | 1 | 20.00 | 1 | 10.00 | |||||
Votes for other than listed parties | 48,502 | 2.72 | +1.50 | ||||||
Totals | 1,782,732 | 100.00 | 5 | 100.00 | 5 | 100.00 | 10 | 100.00 |
Senator Ormonde won a seat for the Australian Labor Party at the 1961 Senate election in New South Wales; the term of the casual vacancy he won for the Australian Labor Party at the 1958 Senate election in New South Wales had expired.
See the Glossary of this website for information on Senate elections and details of the distinction between Seats won by ticket and Seats won by party, and between Seats won and Seats held.
Colin A Hughes and B D Graham, A Handbook of Australian Government and Politics 1890-1964, Canberra; Australian National University Press, 1968 (SBN 708102700); 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 1328 7478), online here.