Election held on 30 November 1963
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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Australian Labor Party | 2,489,184 | 45.47 | -2.43 | 50 | 0 | 40.98 |
Liberal Party | 2,030,823 | 37.09 | +3.51 | 52 | 0 | 42.62 |
Country Party | 489,498 | 8.94 | +0.43 | 20 | 0 | 16.39 |
Democratic Labor Party | 407,416 | 7.44 | -1.27 | 0 | ||
Independents | 22,757 | 0.42 | * | 0 | ||
Votes for other than listed parties | 35,035 | 0.64 | -0.65 | |||
Totals | 5,474,713 | 100.00 | 122 | 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.
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.