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< 1943Federal elections were held in Australia on 21 August 1943. All 74 seats in the House of Representatives, and 19 of the 36 seats in the Senate were up for election. The incumbent Australian Labor Party led by Prime Minister of Australia John Curtin defeated the opposition Country Party led by...
1946Federal elections were held in Australia on 28 September 1946. All 74 seats in the House of Representatives, and 19 of the 36 seats in the Senate were up for election...
1949Federal elections were held in Australia on 10 December 1949. All 121 seats in the House of Representatives, and 42 of the 60 seats in the Senate were up for election, where the single transferable vote was introduced...
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Labor
Ben ChifleyJoseph Benedict Chifley , Australian politician and 16th Prime Minister of Australia, was one of Australia's most influential Prime Ministers...
Prime Minister
Parliament: 18 years
Leader since: 1945
Division: MacquarieThe Division of Macquarie is an Australian Electoral Division in New South Wales. The division was created in 1900 and was one of the original 75 divisions contested at the first federal election...
WIN |
Liberal
Robert MenziesSir Robert Gordon Menzies, KT, AK, CH, FRS, QC , Australian politician, was the twelfth Prime Minister of Australia. His second term saw him become Australia's longest serving Prime Minister. He had a rapid rise to power as Prime Minister at the 1940 election which his party narrowly won...
Opposition leader
Parliament: 12 years
Leader since: 1945
Division: KooyongThe Division of Kooyong is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of Victoria. It is located in the inner eastern suburbs of Melbourne, and encompasses the suburbs of Kew, Hawthorn, Hawthorn East, Balwyn, Canterbury, Camberwell and Surrey Hills. The Division was proclaimed in 1900, and was...
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Federal elections were held in Australia on 28 September 1946. All 74 seats in the
House of RepresentativesThe House of Representatives is one of the two houses of the Parliament of Australia; it is the lower house, the upper house being the Senate.-Origins and role:The House is presided over by the Speaker....
, and 19 of the 36 seats in the
SenateThe Senate is the upper of the two houses of the Parliament of Australia. The lower house is known as the House of Representatives. Senators, popularly elected under a system of proportional representation, serve terms of six years...
were up for election. The incumbent
Australian Labor PartyThe Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party.Known as the ALP for short, the party is the current governing party of Australia, since the 2007 federal election...
led by
Prime Minister of AustraliaThe Prime Minister of Australia is the head of government of the Commonwealth of Australia, holding office on commission from the Governor-General. The office of Prime Minister is, in practice, the most powerful political office in Australia...
Ben ChifleyJoseph Benedict Chifley , Australian politician and 16th Prime Minister of Australia, was one of Australia's most influential Prime Ministers...
defeated the newly-formed opposition
Liberal Party of AustraliaThe Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office...
(descended from the
United Australia PartyThe United Australia Party or UAP was an Australian political party that was the political successor to the Nationalist Party of Australia and the predecessor to the Liberal Party of Australia...
) led by its founder
Robert MenziesSir Robert Gordon Menzies, KT, AK, CH, FRS, QC , Australian politician, was the twelfth Prime Minister of Australia. His second term saw him become Australia's longest serving Prime Minister. He had a rapid rise to power as Prime Minister at the 1940 election which his party narrowly won...
with
coalitionThe Coalition in Australian politics refers to a group of centre-right parties that has existed in the form of a coalition agreement since 1922. The Coalition partners are the Liberal Party of Australia and the National Party of Australia ;...
partner the Country Party led by
Arthur FaddenSir Arthur William Fadden, GCMG , Australian politician and 13th Prime Minister of Australia, born in Ingham, Queensland, the son of a Presbyterian police officer.-Introduction:...
.
Frank FordeFrancis Michael Forde was an Australian politician and the 15th Prime Minister of Australia. He was the shortest serving Prime Minister in Australia's history, being in office for a mere 8 days....
also served as Prime Minister during July 1945.
House of Reps (IRVInstant-runoff voting is the American English term for a voting system used for single-winner elections, in which voters rank candidates in an order of preference...
) — 1946-49 — Turnout 93.97% (CVCompulsory voting requires electors to vote in elections or attend a polling place on voting day. With a secret ballot voters remain free to spoil their ballot papers or remove them from the polling booth, depending on the voting system...
) — Informal 2.45%
|
Party |
Votes |
% |
Swing |
Seats |
Change |
| |
Australian Labor PartyThe Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party.Known as the ALP for short, the party is the current governing party of Australia, since the 2007 federal election...
|
2,159,953 |
49.71 |
-0.22 |
43 |
-6 |
| |
Liberal Party of AustraliaThe Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office...
|
1,241,650 |
28.58 |
+12.53 |
15 |
+3 |
| |
Country Party |
464,737 |
10.70 |
+3.73 |
11 |
+4 |
| |
Liberal & Country League The Liberal and Country League was a major political party in South Australia throughout its forty year existence. Thirty-four years were spent in government, in part due to the electoral malapportionment known as the Playmander, introduced after coming to power.Created on 9 June 1932 as the...
(SA) |
161,170 |
3.71 |
* |
2 |
+2 |
| |
Lang Labor Lang Labor was the name commonly used to describe three successive break-away sections of the Australian Labor Party, all led by the New South Wales Labor leader Jack Lang....
|
69,138 |
1.59 |
+0.87 |
1 |
+1 |
| |
Liberal Country Party (VIC) |
28,999 |
0.67 |
-2.87 |
1 |
0 |
| |
Independents |
79,452 |
1.83 |
-10.33 |
1 |
0 |
| |
Other |
139,645 |
3.21 |
|
0 |
-4 |
| |
Total |
|
|
|
74 |
|
| |
Australian Labor PartyThe Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party.Known as the ALP for short, the party is the current governing party of Australia, since the 2007 federal election...
|
WIN |
|
|
43 |
-6 |
| |
Liberal/Country coalition The Coalition in Australian politics refers to a group of centre-right parties that has existed in the form of a coalition agreement since 1922. The Coalition partners are the Liberal Party of Australia and the National Party of Australia ;...
|
|
|
|
26 |
+7 |
Independent:
Doris BlackburnDoris Amelia Blackburn was an Australian activist and Member of Parliament.She was born Doris Amelia Hordern in Melbourne, Victoria, and became involved in women's rights and peace issues from a young age and served as the campaign secretary of Vida Goldstein, the first woman to stand for election...
Senate (PPreferential voting is a type of ballot structure used in several electoral systems in which voters rank a list or group of candidates in order of preference. For example, the voter may write a '1' beside their first choice, a '2' beside their second preference, and so on...
BVPreferential block voting is a voting system for electing several representatives from a single multimember constituency. Unlike the single transferable vote, preferential block voting is not a method for obtaining proportional representation, and instead produces similar results to plurality block...
) — 1946-49 — Turnout 93.97% (CVCompulsory voting requires electors to vote in elections or attend a polling place on voting day. With a secret ballot voters remain free to spoil their ballot papers or remove them from the polling booth, depending on the voting system...
) — Informal 8.01%
|
Party |
Votes |
% |
Swing |
Seats Won |
Seats Held |
| |
Australian Labor PartyThe Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party.Known as the ALP for short, the party is the current governing party of Australia, since the 2007 federal election...
|
2,133,272 |
52.06 |
-3.02 |
16 |
33 |
| |
Liberal/Country (Joint Ticket) |
1,561,718 |
38.12 |
+12.47 |
3 |
|
| |
Liberal Party of AustraliaThe Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office...
|
213,304 |
5.21 |
* |
0 |
2 |
| |
Country Party |
* |
* |
-0.96 |
0 |
1 |
| |
Other |
189,032 |
4.61 |
|
0 |
0 |
| |
Total |
4,097,326 |
|
|
19 |
36 |
See also
- Candidates of the Australian federal election, 1946
This article provides information on candidates who stood for the 1946 Australian federal election. The election was held on 28 September 1946.In 1944-1945, the United Australia Party has reconstituted itself as the Liberal Party of Australia...
- Members of the Australian House of Representatives, 1946–1949
This is a list of the members of the Australian House of Representatives in the 18th Australian Parliament, which was elected at the 1946 election on 28 September 1946...
- Members of the Australian Senate, 1947–1950
This is a list of members of the Australian Senate from 1947 to 1950. Half of its members were elected at the 21 August 1943 election and had terms starting on 1 July 1944 and finishing on 30 June 1947; the other half were elected at the 28 September 1946 election and had terms starting on 1 July...