2007 Australian Federal Election Final Result.
The Australian 2007 Federal Election was held on 24th November 2007
There were 13,646,539 eligible voters on the day, and 12,930,814 (or 94.76%) of them voted.
Voting is compulsory in Australia, and those without a valid reason to not vote would have received a fine for not voting.
Only 12,419,992 of the votes were considered valid, with 510,822 of the votes deemed inadmissible for various reasons.
Some voters, who do not wish to vote, but do not want to pay the fine for not voting, attend the voting poll, but spoil their ballot paper in one of various ways, to purposefully register a vote that does not count.
The Australian Labor Party won the election, with Kevin Rudd elected as the next Prime Minister of Australia.
John Howard, the previous Prime Minister for 11 years and 37 weeks from March 1996, lost his seat and left politics after this election.
The Final coalition of parties/members was:
Two-party-preferred vote.
52.7% – Australian Labor Party – 6,545,814
47.3% – Liberal/National Coalition – 5,874,178
Seats By Party
83 – Australian Labor Party – 55.33%
65 – Liberal/National Coalition – 43.33%
1 – Tony Windsor – 0.67%
1 – Bob Katter – 0.67%
Voting Before Preferences.
The following percentages relate to the votes initially allocated to each party after counting was completed.
The percentage is followed by the party name and the number of actual votes
- 43.38% – Australian Labor Party 5,388,184
- 41.77% – Liberal/Nationals 5,188,726
- 7.79% – The Greens 967,789
- 2.22% – Independent 275,136
- 1.99% – Family First 246,798
- 0.84% – CDP Christian Party 104,705
- 0.72% – Democrats 89,813
- 0.32% – CLP – The Territory Party 40,298
- 0.26% – One Nation 32,650
- 0.22% – Citizens Electoral Council 27,880
- 0.14% – Liberty and Democracy Party 17,048
- 0.08% – Socialist Alliance 9,973
- 0.08% – Climate Change Coalition 9,470
- 0.05% – DLP – Democratic Labor Party 6,018
- 0.03% – Socialist Equality Party 4,283
- 0.03% – What Women Want (Australia) 3,870
- 0.03% – Conservatives for Climate and Environment Incorporated 3,239
- 0.02% – The Fishing Party 2,083
- 0.01% – Non Affiliated 1,234
- 0.01% – Non-Custodial Parents Party 795
More details can be found at: Australian Electoral Commission