2001 Australian federal election

Election for the 40th Parliament of Australia February 2018 September 2020 2001 Australian federal election Australia parliamentary no 1998 Australian federal election 1998 2004 Australian federal election 2004 Members of the Australian House of Representatives, 1998–2001 Members of the Australian House of Representatives, 2001–2004 All 150 seats in the House of Representatives 76 seats were needed for a majority in the House 40 (of the 76) seats in the Senate yes 2001 11 10 12,708,837 4.56% 12,054,664 (94.85%)(0.14 pp) First preference File:Howard John BANNER b.jpg 190x190px John Howard yes 1995 1 30 Liberal Party of Australia Liberal–National Coalition Bennelong (NSW) 80 seats 82 2 4,934,959 42.92% 3.41% File:Kim Beazley crop.jpg Kim Beazley yes 1996 3 19 Australian Labor Party Brand (WA) 67 seats 65 2 4,341,420 37.84% 2.26% Prime Minister John Howard LiberalNational Coalition Subsequent Prime Minister John Howard LiberalNational Coalition TPP 51.03% 48.97% TPP swing 2.01 2.01 | map_image = 350px | map_size = | map_caption = Results by division for the House of Representatives, shaded by winning party's margin of victory. A federal election was held in Australia on 10 November 2001. All 150 seats in the House of Representatives and 40 seats in the 76-member Senate were up for election. The incumbent Liberal Party of Australia led by Prime Minister of Australia John Howard and coalition partner the National Party of Australia led by John Anderson defeated the opposition Australian Labor Party led by Kim Beazley. As of 2024, this was the most recent election to feature a rematch of both major party leaders. Future Opposition Leaders Peter Dutton and Sussan Ley entered parliament at this election. Background right|thumb|ABC news report of the Tampa affair and its political context, October 2001. Throughout much of 2001, the Coalition had been trailing Labor in opinion polls, thanks to dissatisfaction with the government's economic reform programme and high petrol prices.September 2018 The opposition Australian Labor Party had won a majority of the two-party-preferred vote at the previous election and had won a series of state and territory elections. Labor also recorded positive swings in two by-elections, taking the Queensland seat of Ryan and coming close in Aston. However following the September 11 attacks, and the Children Overboard and Tampa affairs, Polls swung strongly toward the coalition after the "Tampa" controversy but before the 11 September attacks.Issues that swung elections: Tampa and the national security election of 2001 The Conversation In fact, voter concern with terrorism in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks in the United States was noted, with the rise in the combined primary votes of the major parties from 79.61% at the previous election in 1998, to 81.17% at this election. There would be further increases in the combined major party primary vote in 2004 and 2007. Another major issue was the collapse of the country's second-biggest airline Ansett Australia and the question of whether it should be given a bailout. The Coalition was opposed to any bailout because the collapse was not the government's fault.September 2018 However, Labor supported a bailout, because the company's collapse was about to result in the biggest mass job loss in Australian history, whilst also arguing that the government was partially responsible for allowing Ansett to be taken over by Air New Zealand, a move which had caused Ansett's failure.http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2001/s357998.htm Tampa issue improves Coalition election prospects: ABC 7.30 report 4/9/2001 Abc.net.au 2010-06-13 https://web.archive.org/web/20081022004215/http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2001/s357998.htm 22 October 2008 dead Although the two-party preferred result was reasonably close, the ALP recorded its lowest primary vote since 1934.http://australianpolitics.com/elections/2001/ australianpolitics.com australianpolitics.com 2010-06-13 During the 2001 election campaign, Labor made a 'GST rollback' a centrepiece of its election platform. Labor attempted to reprise the effects of the birthday cake interview by deriding the application of GST to cooked and uncooked chickens, but failed to ignite public response to the limited scope of the rollbacks applying only to gas and electricity bills. Labor's 2001 election loss would effectively end all serious opposition to GST. Political scientistsSeptember 2018 have suggested that television coverage has subtly transformed the political system, with a spotlight on leaders rather than parties, thereby making for more of an American presidential-style system. In this election, television news focused on international issues, especially terrorism and asylum seekers. Minor parties were largely ignored as the two main parties monopolised the media's attention. The election was depicted as a horse-race between Howard and Beazley, with Howard running ahead and therefore being given more coverage than his Labor rival.David Denemark, Ian Ward, and Clive Bean, Election Campaigns and Television News Coverage: The Case of the 2001 Australian Election. Australian Journal of Political Science. (2007) 42#1 pp: 89–109 online The election-eve Newspoll forecast that the Liberal/National Coalition would get 53 percent of the two-party-preferred vote.http://polling.newspoll.com.au.tmp.anchor.net.au/cgi-bin/polling/display_poll_data.pl?url_caller=&mode=trend&page=show_polls&question_set_id=1 Newspoll archive since 1987 Polling.newspoll.com.au.tmp.anchor.net.au 2016-07-30 https://web.archive.org/web/20160303135154/http://polling.newspoll.com.au.tmp.anchor.net.au/cgi-bin/polling/display_poll_data.pl?url_caller=&mode=trend&page=show_polls&question_set_id=1 3 March 2016 dead Results This was the last election where the Australian Democrats were the largest third party; they would be replaced by the Australian Greens in the 2004 election. House of Representatives results right|thumb|250px|Government (82) Coalition Liberal darkgray Liberal (68) National darkgray National (13) Country Liberal Party darkgray CLP (1) Opposition (65) Labor darkgray Labor (65) Crossbench (3) Independent darkgray Independent (3) right|thumb|The disproportionality of the lower house in the 2004 election was 8.67 according to the Gallagher Index, mainly between the Liberal and Green Parties. right|thumb|The disproportionality of the lower house in the 2001 election was 9.43 according to the Gallagher Index, mainly between the Coalition and Labor Parties. Results of the 2001 Australian federal election (House of Representatives) Australia yes Popular vote var(--background-color-interactive) 600px 410px Labor Australian Labor Party 37.84 Liberal Liberal Party of Australia 37.40 National National Party of Australia 5.61 Democrats #F4940D 5.51 Greens #10C25B 4.96 One Nation One Nation (Australia) 4.34 CLP #ff9933 0.32 Independents Independent (politician) 2.71 Other #777777 1.41 Two-party-preferred vote var(--background-color-interactive) 600px 410px Coalition LiberalNational Coalition 50.95 Labor Australian Labor Party 49.05 Parliament seats var(--background-color-interactive) 600px 410px Coalition LiberalNational Coalition 54.67 Labor Australian Labor Party 43.33 Independents Independent (politician) 2.00 Senate results right|thumb|250px|Government (35) Coalition Liberal darkgray Liberal (31) National darkgray National (3) Country Liberal Party darkgray CLP (1) Opposition (28) Labor darkgray Labor (28) Crossbench (12) Democrats darkgray Democrats (8) Greens darkgray Greens (2) One Nation darkgray One Nation (1) Independent darkgray Independent (2) Results of the 2001 Australian federal election (Senate) Australia yes House of Representatives preference flows The Nationals had candidates in 14 seats where three-cornered-contests existed, with 87.34% of preferences favouring the Liberal Party. The Democrats contested 145 electorates with preferences favouring Labor (64.13%). The Greens contested 145 electorates with preferences strongly favouring Labor (74.83%). One Nation contested 120 electorates with preferences slightly favouring the LiberalNational Coalition (55.87%). Seats changing hands Post-election pendulum for the 2001 Australian federal election The following table indicates seats that changed hands from one party to another at this election. It compares the election results with the previous margins, taking into account redistributions in New South Wales, Western Australia, South Australia, Tasmania and both territories. As a result, it includes the seats of Macarthur and Parramatta, which were held by Liberal members but had notional Labor margins. The table also includes the new seat of Hasluck (retained by Labor); the abolished Northern Territory, which was divided into Lingiari (retained by Labor) and Solomon (retained by the CLP); and Paterson, a Labor seat made Liberal by the redistribution Seat 1998NotionalmarginFor seats that were affected by the redistribution the Australian Electoral Commission calculated "notional" margins for the redistributed divisions by modelling the outcome of the previous election as if the new boundaries had been in place.National seat status https://www.aec.gov.au/media/national-seat-status.htm Australian Electoral Commission 13 May 2019 Notional Swing 2001 Party Member MarginElectoral Newsfile 97: Seat Status including notional seat status for SA, NSW, Tas, WA and NT Divisions 2001 Australian Electoral Commission http://www.aec.gov.au/About_AEC/Publications/Newsfiles/2001/No_97.htm Margin Member Party Ballarat, Vic  Liberal Michael Ronaldson 2.77 5.50 2.73 Catherine King Labor  Canning, WA  Labor Jane Gerick 3.52 0.04 0.42 0.38 Don Randall Liberal  Dickson, Qld  Labor Cheryl Kernot 0.12 6.09 5.97 Peter Dutton Liberal  Dobell, NSW  Labor Michael Lee 3.35 1.53 1.91 0.38 Ken Ticehurst Liberal  Farrer, NSWMargin is over Labor. Farrer  Nationals Tim Fischer 14.6214.18 N/A 16.37 Sussan Ley Liberal  Hasluck, WA Labor New seat 2.55 –0.77 1.78 Sharryn Jackson Labor Kennedy, Qld  Nationals Bob Katter 11.19 N/A 19.69 Bob Katter Independent  Lingiari, NT Labor New seat 3.53 1.76 5.29 Warren Snowdon Labor Macarthur, NSW Liberal John Fahey 5.63 –1.69Macarthur had become a notional Labor seat as a result of the redistribution. Macarthur 8.65 6.96 Pat Farmer Liberal  New England, NSW  Nationals Stuart St. Clair 13.66 N/A 8.30 Tony Windsor Independent  Northern Territory Labor Warren Snowdon 0.57 District abolished Parramatta, NSW  Liberal Ross Cameron 1.07–2.49Parramatta had become a notional Labor seat as a result of the redistribution. Parramatta 3.64 1.15 Ross Cameron Liberal  Paterson, NSW Labor Bob Horne 1.22 –1.26Patersonhad become a notional Liberal seat as a result of the redistribution. Paterson 1.42 Bob Baldwin Liberal Solomon, NT CLP New seat 2.24 –2.15 0.09 Dave Tollner CLP Ryan, Qld Liberal John Moore 9.52 −0.90 8.62 Michael Johnson Liberal  Labor Leonie ShortRyan John Moore (Liberal) had won Ryan at the 1998 election, however he resigned in 2001 and Leonie Short (Labor) won the seat at the resulting by-election. 0.17 9.69 See also Candidates of the 2001 Australian federal election Members of the Australian House of Representatives, 2001–2004 Members of the Australian Senate, 2002–2005 Notes References External links Australian Electoral Commission Results University of WA https://web.archive.org/web/20150118085343/http://elections.uwa.edu.au/ 18 January 2015 election results in Australia since 1890 AEC 2PP vote AustralianPolitics.com election details Preference flows – ABC Federal Federal election Category:Federal elections in Australia Category:Articles containing video clips Category:Pauline Hanson