Commonwealth Parliament, Senate election
Election of 21 August 2010
Senate votes and seats won, and seats held, national summary
Election held on 21 August 2010
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 % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australian Labor Party | 4,469,734 | 35.13 | -5.17 | 15 | 37.50 | 15 | 37.50 | 31 | 40.79 |
| Liberal Party - National Party (joint ticket) | 2,724,940 | 21.42 | -9.26 | 5 | 12.50 | ||||
| Australian Greens | 1,667,315 | 13.11 | +4.06 | 6 | 15.00 | 6 | 15.00 | 9 | 11.84 |
| Liberal Party | 1,092,601 | 8.59 | -0.18 | 9 | 22.50 | 12 | 30.00 | 25 | 32.89 |
| Liberal National Party (Qld) | 1,015,062 | 7.98 | * | 3 | 7.50 | 3 | 7.50 | 3 | 3.95 |
| Family First | 267,493 | 2.10 | +0.48 | 0 | |||||
| Australian Sex Party | 259,583 | 2.04 | * | 0 | |||||
| Liberal Democratic Party | 230,191 | 1.81 | * | 0 | |||||
| Shooters Party | 214,119 | 1.68 | * | 0 | |||||
| Democratic Labor Party | 134,987 | 1.06 | * | 1 | 2.50 | 1 | 2.50 | 1 | 1.32 |
| Independents | 55,786 | 0.44 | -0.94 | 0 | 1 | 1.32 | |||
| National Party | 42,334 | 0.33 | +0.17 | 0 | 2 | 5.00 | 5 | 6.58 | |
| Country Liberal Party (NT) | 39,268 | 0.31 | -0.01 | 1 | 2.50 | 1 | 2.50 | 1 | 1.32 |
| Votes for other than listed parties | 508,820 | 4.00 | -1.31 | ||||||
| Totals | 12,722,233 | 100.00 | 40 | 100.00 | 40 | 100.00 | 76 | 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
In the table above, see the Glossary distinctions between Seats won by ticket and Seats won by party, and between Seats won by party and Seats held by party.
Liberal National Party (Qld): In July 2008, the Liberal Party and the National Party in Queensland agreed to merge to form a new party to contest state and federal elections, the Liberal National Party. The apparent decline in the Liberal and National parties' vote share in the table above reflects the emergence of the new party in Queensland which is listed as a separate party.
Family First: The Family First party was founded in 2002 in South Australia and has policies which support traditional family values. It ran candidates in all states at the 2004 federal election and was successful in winning a Senate seat in Victoria (Steve Fielding). It contested the Senate elections of 2007 and 2010, but did not win representation.
Liberal Democratic Party: After some difficulty with registering its party name over objections from the Liberal Party, the party was registered for Senate elections in 2008. The party believes in small government and traditional libertarian principles.
Democratic Labor Party: The Democratic Labor Party won seat in the Senate from Victoria at this election (2010), the fist time a party with this name had won a seat in the Senate since 1970. Its 2010 platform stressed family values, democratic rights and some increase in government regulation of the economy, policies which were consistent with its earlier history. The party had originally emerged as a consequence of major internal divisions within the Australian Labor Party and the trade union movement in the 1950s over a range of issues including the role of Communist party members in the Labor movement. These divisions came to a head in 1955 with a split in some state branches of the Labor Party and the creation of what was to become the Democratic Labor Party; for an extensive study of this period, see Robert Murray, The Split: Australian Labor in the Fifties, (Melbourne: Cheshire, 1972, ISBN 0701516755).
Shooters Party: This party was registered for this election as the Shooters and Fishers Party; the original name -- Shooters Party -- has been retained for this database to permit comparison of the party's vote share between states and over time.
Sources
Voting figures were taken from the Australian Electoral Commission 'Virtual Tally Room' web page 'First Preferences by Group', on line at:
https://bit.ly/2uvyr6w [accessed 7 October 2010]