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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 |
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