Australia Senate election 2016 — Results
Election day: July 2, 2016
- Coalition (Liberal/National): 35.18%
- Labor (ALP): 29.79%
- Greens: 8.65%
- One Nation: 4.28%
- Nick Xenophon Team: 3.30%
- Liberal Democrats: 2.16%
- Derryn Hinch's Justice Party: 1.93%
- Family First: 1.37%
Turnout: 91.01%
About this election
How the vote works
The Senate is elected by single transferable vote (STV), a proportional system, with each state electing senators as a single multi-member constituency and the two territories electing two senators each. In an ordinary election six senators are returned per state for six-year terms; in a double dissolution all twelve state seats are filled at once. New Senate voting rules introduced in 2016 abolished group voting tickets and gave voters control of their own preferences above or below the line, a reform intended to curb the election of micro-party candidates on tiny vote shares. The map and bars above show first-preference vote share by party, with the number of senators each won at this election.
Compiled and reviewed from official results by ElectioMap. See our data methodology.
In numbers
- 5.39 points separated Coalition (Liberal/National) from Labor (ALP).
- The top two shared 64.97% 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
- Why Official Results Sometimes Take Weeks — the stages between the count and the legal result
- Why Turnout Figures Disagree — why two sources publish different turnout for one election
- D’Hondt vs Sainte-Laguë — how a divisor formula turns vote shares into seats