Federal election 2013

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Stephen Barber
Statistics and Mapping Section
8 September 2014

Executive Summary

this paper provides a comprehensive set of statistical tables regarding the 2013 Federal election held on Saturday 7 September 2013 and the half-Senate re-election in Western Australia held on Saturday 5 April 2014
the tables contain: national, state and regional summaries; electoral division details; two-party preferred figures; and party strengths in the respective houses of the Parliament
there are also three appendices which summarise: the classifications of each electoral division that are used in the paper; figures for House of Representatives and Senate elections held from 1901; and summary results for the 2013 voided half-Senate election in Western Australia.

Contents

Introduction

This paper contains the results of the House of Representatives election held on 7 September 2013 and the half-Senate elections held on 7 September 2013 (all states and territories except Western Australia) and 5 April 2014 (Western Australia).[1] There are summary tables for both the House of Representatives (Table 1) and the Senate (Table 15) together with details for each House of Representatives electoral division (Table 7).

The regional and party status classifications used in the paper are the same as those used by the Australian Electoral Commission.[2] Party status and safeness of seats are determined by the two-party preferred vote at the 2010 election adjusted for the effects of the 2010 redistribution in Victoria and the 2011 redistribution in South Australia.[3]

The ‘safeness’ of an electoral division (see Appendix 1) is determined by the size of the swing required for the division to be lost by the party holding the division. A marginal division requires a swing of less than six per cent, a fairly safe division requires a swing of six per cent to ten per cent and a safe division requires a swing of over ten per cent.

In all tables, first preference votes are expressed as a percentage of formal votes, formal and informal votes are expressed as a percentage of total votes, and total votes are expressed as a percentage of electors enrolled. In the detailed electoral division tables the swing percentages for the candidates will not necessarily sum to zero because of the different range of candidates at the 2013 election compared with the 2010 election.

To complete the 2013 election, party and candidate results for the voided half-Senate election in Western Australia have been included at the end of the paper in Appendices 3(a) and 3(b).

Summary results of all Federal elections from 1901 are shown in Appendices 2(a) and 2(b) but more detailed information can be found in S Barber and S Johnson, Federal election results 1901–2014, Research paper, 17 July 2014, Parliamentary Library, Canberra, 2014–15.

The numbers in this paper are derived from Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) data which have been provided to the Parliamentary Library by the AEC.

Symbols and abbreviations

AFLP	Australian Fishing and Lifestyle Party
AFN	Australia First Party
AIN	Australian Independents
AJP	Animal Justice Party
ALP	Australian Labor Party
AMEP	Australian Motoring Enthusiast Party
APP	Australian Protectionist Party
ASP	Shooters and Fishers Party
ASXP	Australian Sex Party
AUC	Australian Christians
BAP	Building Australia Party
BRP	Bank Reform Party (changed name to Mutual Party in 2014 Senate re-election in WA)
BTA	Bullet Train For Australia
CA	Carers Alliance
CDP	Christian Democratic Party (Fred Nile Group)
CEC	Citizens Electoral Council of Australia
CLP	Country Liberals (NT)
CYA	Country Alliance
DEM	Australian Democrats
DLP	Democratic Labour Party (DLP)
DRF	Drug Law Reform Australia
FFP	Family First Party
FNPP	Australia's First Nations Political Party
FUT	Future Party
GRN	Australian Greens
HMP	Help End Marijuana Prohibition (HEMP) Party
IND	Independent
KAP	Katter's Australian Party
LDP	Liberal Democratic Party
LNP	Liberal National Party of Queensland
LP	Liberal Party
LP/NP	LP/LNP/NP/CLP Coalition
NCP	Non-Custodial Parents Party (Equal Parenting)
NP	The Nationals
ODR	Outdoor Recreation Party (Stop The Greens)
ON	One Nation
PIR	Pirate Party Australia
PUP	Palmer United Party
RPA	Republican Party of Australia
RUAP	Rise Up Australia Party
SAL	Socialist Alliance
SCSG	Stop CSG Party
SEP	Socialist Equality Party
SMK	Smokers Rights Party
SOL	Senator Online (Internet Voting Bills/Issues)
SPA	Secular Party of Australia
SPP	Australian Stable Population Party
SPRT	Australian Sports Party
TCS	No Carbon Tax Climate Sceptics (changed name to Freedom and Prosperity Party in 2014 Senate re-election in WA)
UNP	Uniting Australia Party
VCE	Australian Voice Party
VEP	Voluntary Euthanasia Party
WKP	The Wikileaks Party
XEN	Nick Xenophon Group

Also (from Appendix 2)

A-S	Anti-Socialist
CP	Country Party
FT	Free Trade
NAT	Nationalist Party
ON	One Nation (Pauline Hanson's One Nation before 2007 election)
PROT	Protectionists
UAP	United Australia Party
..	nil or rounded to zero
*	sitting member for division
#	party holding division (where sitting member did not stand) or notionally holding division (where redistribution of division notionally changed previous election outcome)

[1]. Due to the closeness of the 2013 results for the final two seats in the WA Senate election a recount was carried out. However, prior to the recount, 1370 votes were lost and the recount produced a different result for the final two seats. The Court of Disputed Returns voided the WA outcome and a new Senate election was held in WA in 2014.

[2]. For definitions see http://www.aec.gov.au/Electorates/party-codes.htm, accessed 20 June 2014.

[3]. Australian Electoral Commission Fact Sheet, National Seat Status (June 2013), , accessed 20 June 2014.

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