NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Australian general election, 1998

Legislative elections were held in Australia on 3 October 1998. All 148 seats in the House of Representatives and 40 seats in the 76-member Senate were up for election. The conservative coalition of the Liberal Party, led by Prime Minister John Howard, and the National Party of Australia, led by Tim Fischer, was elected to a second three-year term, defeating the Australian Labor Party led by Kim Beazley. The election chose the Members of the Australian House of Representatives, 1998-2001 and half of the Members of the Australian Senate, 1999-2002. Information on politics by country is available for every country, including both de jure and de facto independent states, inhabited dependent territories, as well as areas of special sovereignty. ... October 3 is the 276th day of the year (277th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean [1]. // Coated in ice, power and telephone lines sag and often break, resulting in power outages. ... Australian House of Representatives chamber Entrance to the House of Representatives The Australian House of Representatives is one of the two houses (chambers) of the Parliament of Australia. ... Australian Senate chamber Entrance to the Senate The Senate is the upper of the two houses of the Parliament of Australia. ... The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party. ... John Winston Howard (born 26 July 1939), Australian politician, is the Prime Minister of Australia. ... The National Party of Australia is an Australian conservative political party, which claims to represent rural voters. ... Timothy Andrew Fischer, AC (born 3 May 1946), Australian politician, was born in Lockhart, in the Riverina district of New South Wales, son of a farmer of German descent. ... The Australian Labor Party (ALP) is Australias oldest political party. ... For Kim Beazleys father Kim Edward Beazley, see Kim Edward Beazley. ... This is a list of members of the Australian House of Representatives from 1998 to 2001, as elected at the 1998 election: 1 ALP member Gareth Evans resigned on September 30, 1999; ALP candidate Anthony Byrne won the resulting by-election on November 6. ... This is a list of members of the Australian Senate from 1999 to 2002: 1 Heather Hill was initially elected as a One Nation Senator in Queensland, but she was declared ineligible before she was able to take her seat. ...

Despite Labor gaining 51 percent of the two party preferred vote, they fell short by 8 seats. The government was re-elected with 49.02% of the two-party-preferred vote, compared to 50.98% for the Australian Labor Party.

The election on 3 October 1998 was held six months earlier than required by the Constitution. Prime Minister John Howard made the announcement following the launch of the coalition's GST policy launch and a 5-week advertising campaign. The ensuing election was almost entirely dominated by the proposed 10% Goods and Services Tax and proposed income tax cuts.

Whilst polling around 8% of the national vote, the One Nation party lost its leader, Pauline Hanson, who was defeated on preferences by the Liberal candidate in the Queensland electorate of Blair. One Nation won no seats in the lower house, but Heather Hill gained a Senate seat in Queensland at the expense of the National Party's Bill O'Chee. She was subsequently disqualified under Section 44 of the Constitution.

The ALP made the single biggest gain by an Opposition party following an election defeat. The swing was sufficient in all states to deliver government to the party, but the uneven nature of the swing denied Kim Beazley the extra few seats necessary to command a majority in the House.

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Trivia

The 1998 election included the first publicised incident of online electoral conflict when the Liberal website was allegedly cracked by supporters of the Labor party. At the time both major parties had their sites hosted with the same ISP, but this aspect had been kept from the media at the time. 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean [1]. // Coated in ice, power and telephone lines sag and often break, resulting in power outages. ...

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