Australia Senate election 2019 — Results
Election day: May 18, 2019
- Coalition (Liberal/National): 37.99%
- Labor (ALP): 28.79%
- Greens: 10.19%
- One Nation: 5.40%
- United Australia Party: 2.36%
- Jacqui Lambie Network: 0.21%
- Others: 15.06%
Turnout: 91.89%
About this election
How the vote works
Senators are elected by proportional single transferable vote, with each state voting as one multi-member electorate; in a half-Senate election six senators are returned per state for six-year terms, alongside the two territory senators whose terms align with the House. A party or group needs roughly one-seventh of the vote (a quota of about 14.3%) to win a seat in a state, which is why the Senate consistently returns a wider range of parties than the House. The bars and map above show first-preference vote share by party, with the senators each won at this election.
Compiled and reviewed from official results by ElectioMap. See our data methodology.
In numbers
- 9.20 points separated Coalition (Liberal/National) from Labor (ALP).
- The top two shared 66.78% of the vote between them, and 5 lists cleared 5%.
- Coalition (Liberal/National) moved +2.81 points against the 2016 Senate election (35.18% → 37.99%).
- Turnout of 91.89% is the highest of the 4 Senate elections covered here since 2016.
Calculated from the official figures on this page and from the other elections of this type in our archive.
Understanding this election
- 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
- How a Constituency Map Gets Built — what happens when no boundary file matches the districts