Australia House of Representatives election 2016 — Results
Election day: July 2, 2016
- Coalition (Liberal/National): 42.04%, 76 seats
- Labor (ALP): 34.73%, 69 seats
- Greens: 10.23%, 1 seats
- Independents: 2.83%, 2 seats
- Nick Xenophon Team: 1.85%, 1 seats
- One Nation: 1.29%, 0 seats
- Katter's Australian Party: 0.54%, 1 seats
- Others: 6.48%, 0 seats
Turnout: 91.01%
About this election
How the vote works
Members of the House of Representatives are elected from single-member electorates by full-preference instant-runoff voting (called "preferential voting" in Australia): voters number every candidate in order of preference, and if no one has a majority of first preferences the lowest candidate is excluded and their ballots redistributed until one candidate has more than half. Voting is compulsory for all enrolled citizens, which is why Australian turnout routinely sits above 90%, far higher than in most democracies. Because of the preferential system, the most-watched headline figure is the two-party-preferred (TPP) vote — the final share between Labor and the Coalition after all preferences are distributed — which is a better guide to who forms government than the first-preference (primary) vote.
Compiled and reviewed from official results by ElectioMap. See our data methodology.
In numbers
- 7.31 points separated Coalition (Liberal/National) from Labor (ALP) — 991,309 votes.
- Coalition (Liberal/National) converted 42.04% of the vote into 76 of 150 seats (50.67%), 8.63 points more than its vote share.
- The top two shared 76.77% of the vote between them, and 4 lists cleared 5%.
Calculated from the official figures on this page and from the other elections of this type in our archive.
Understanding this election
- D’Hondt vs Sainte-Laguë — how a divisor formula turns vote shares into seats
- How Electoral Systems Work Around the World — first-past-the-post, proportional and mixed systems, with real numbers
- Why Election Maps Look Different From the Popular Vote — why a map can look one-sided when the vote was close