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Encyclopedia > Australian legislative 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.

Contents
1 National summary of votes and seats

1.1 House of Representatives
1.2 Senate

2 Trivia

National summary of votes and seats

House of Representatives

 ====================================================================== Party Votes % Change Seats ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Liberal Party 3,800,721 34.2 (-04.6) 64 (-11) National Party of Australia 588,088 05.3 (-03.0) 16 (-02) Australian Labor Party 4,454,306 40.1 (+01.4) 67 (+18) Pauline Hanson's One Nation 936,621 08.4 - Australian Democrats 569,935 05.1 (-01.7) - Australian Greens 290,709 02.6 - Others 468,683 04.0 1 (-04) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 11,109,063 148 ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Senate

 ====================================================================== Party Votes % Change Seats ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Liberal / National Party 4,225,736 37.7 (-05.9) 17 Australian Labor Party 4,182,963 37.3 (+01.2) 17 Pauline Hanson's One Nation 1,007,439 09.0 1 Australian Democrats 947,940 08.4 (-02.4) 4 Australian Greens 305,228 02.7 - Others 542,597 04.9 1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 11,211,903 40 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- In Senate elections the Liberal and National parties run joint tickets in some states.

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.


Source: Adam Carr's Electoral Archive (http://psephos.adam-carr.net/countries/a/australia/index1998.shtml)

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

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Australian legislative election, 2004 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (3198 words)
The election result was a triumph for Howard, who in December 2004 became Australia's second-longest serving Prime Minister, and who saw the election result as a vindication of his policies, particularly his decision to join in the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Most commentators, however, expected the election to be very close, pointing out that Labor was also ahead in the polls at the comparable point of the 1998 election, which Howard won.
As in all Australian elections, the second-preference votes of minor parties were crucial in determining the outcome of this election, and the close of nominations was followed by a period of bargaining among the parties.
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