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Home | Elections | Electoral divisions | Number at elections

Number at elections

  NSW Vic. Qld SA WA Tas. NT ACT Total Total
(full voting
rights)*
1901 26 23 9 7 5 5     75 75
1903 26 23 9 7 5 5 75 75
1906 27 22 9 7 5 5     75 75
1910 27 22 9 7 5 5 75 75
1913 27 21 10 7 5 5     75 75
1914 27 21 10 7 5 5 75 75
1917 27 21 10 7 5 5     75 75
1919 27 21 10 7 5 5 75 75
1922 28 20 10 7 5 5 1   76 75
1925 28 20 10 7 5 5 1 76 75
1928 28 20 10 7 5 5 1   76 75
1929 28 20 10 7 5 5 1 76 75
1931 28 20 10 7 5 5 1   76 75
1934 28 20 10 6 5 5 1 75 74
1937 28 20 10 6 5 5 1   75 74
1940 28 20 10 6 5 5 1 75 74
1943 28 20 10 6 5 5 1   75 74
1946 28 20 10 6 5 5 1 75 74
1949 47 33 18 10 8 5 1 1 123 121
1951 47 33 18 10 8 5 1 1 123 121
1954 47 33 18 10 8 5 1 1 123 121
1955 46 33 18 11 9 5 1 1 124 122
1958 46 33 18 11 9 5 1 1 124 122
1961 47 33 18 11 9 5 1 1 124 122
1963 46 33 18 11 9 5 1 1 124 122
1966 46 33 18 11 9 5 1 1 124 123
1969 45 34 18 12 9 5 1 1 125 125
1972 45 34 18 12 9 5 1 1 125 125
1974 45 34 18 12 10 5 1 2 127 127
1975 45 34 18 12 10 5 1 2 127 127
1977 43 33 19 11 10 5 1 2 124 124
1980 43 33 19 11 11 5 1 2 125 125
1983 43 33 19 11 11 5 1 2 125 125
1984 51 39 24 13 13 5 1 2 148 148
1987 51 39 23 14 13 5 1 2 148 148
1990 51 38 23 14 14 5 1 2 148 148
1993 50 38 25 12 14 5 1 2 147 147
1996 50 37 26 12 14 5 1 3 148 148
1998 50 37 27 12 14 5 1 2 148 148
2001 50 37 27 12 15 5 2 2 150 150
2004 50 37 28 11 15 5 2 2 150 150
2007
49
37
29
11
15
5
2
2
150
150
* The member for the Northern Territory had limited voting rights between 1922 and 1968. The member for the Australian Capital Territory had limited voting rights between 1949 and 1966. Source: House of Representatives Practice, Appendix 11, AGPS, Canberra, 2001.

 

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