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Encyclopedia > Australian legislative election, 1993

Legislative elections were held in Australia on March 13, 1993. All 147 seats in the House of Representatives were up for election. Despite widespread predictions of a Coalition victory (popular Labor Prime Minister Bob Hawke had been replaced by his Treasurer, Paul Keating, and Australia was suffering from a recession), the Australian Labor Party won a 5th term in government.


For the first time since 1966, this election saw the incumbent government obtain both an increased share of the vote and an increased majority in the House of Representatives.

Contents
1 National summary of votes and seats

1.1 House of Representatives
1.2 Senate

2 Sources

National summary of votes and seats

House of Representatives

 ====================================================================== Party Votes % Change Seats ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Liberal Party 3,888,579 36.8 49 (-6) National Party of Australia 758,036 07.2 16 (+2) Australian Labor Party 4,751,390 44.9 80 (+2) Australian Democrats 397,060 03.8 0 Country Liberal 35,207 00.3 0 Others 746,507 07.1 2 (+1) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 10,576,779 147 ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Senate

 ====================================================================== Party Votes % Change Seats ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Liberal / National / Country 4,595,148 43.0 19 Australian Labor Party 4,643,871 43.5 17 Australian Democrats 566,944 05.3 2 Greens 314,845 02.9 1 Brian Harradine group 32,202 00.3 1 Others 521,795 04.9 0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 10,674,805 40 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- In Senate elections the Liberal and National parties run joint tickets in some states.

Sources

  • [1] (http://www.australianpolitics.com/elections/stateofparties/1993house.shtml) [2] (http://www.australianpolitics.com/voting/primary/house-93-98.shtml) (australianpolitics.com)
  • [3] (http://electionresources.org/au/senate.php?election=1993) (electionresources.org)
Politics of Australia

Government: Parliament - House of Representatives - Senate | Monarchy: Governor_General
Federal electoral system: State electoral systems - Electoral divisions

Australian legislative elections: 1993 - 1996 _ 1998 _ 2001 _ 2004 _ 2007

Political parties: Democrats | Greens | Labor Party | Progressive Alliance | Country Liberal Party | Family First Party | Liberal Party | National Party | One Nation

  Results from FactBites:
 
Australian PR (1102 words)
The Australian Federal government consists of three major parts: a bicameral Legislature comprised of the House of Representatives (the Lower House) and the Senate (the Upper House), an Executive (Governor-General) who is the representative of the Queen, and the Judiciary.
In the 1993 election, all but two of the seats in the House of Representatives were won by the four main parties, with the Australian Labor Party winning 80 of the (then) 147 seats.
After an election, the Prime Minister, who is normally chosen from the House, then appoints the leader of the party with a majority in the House and that party thus gains control of the government.
Legislative Council Summary. Antony Green Election Guide. Western Australia 2005. Australian Broadcasting Corporation ... (1447 words)
Another difference that comes into play between elections is that when a MLC resigns, their place is filled by a countback of votes, as occurs in the Tasmanian House of Assembly.
A half-Senate election cannot be held until a year before Senators' terms expire, and it is the limitation on the terms of Senators that often prevents early House elections being called until the last year of the Senate term.
Retiring the whole chamber at each election was part of the arrangement of quotas and regions that ensured the National Party continued to receive representation.
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