1964 Australian Senate election

Australian federal election 1963 Australian federal election February 2023 March 2023 Australia parliamentary no 5 December 1964 1961 Australian Senate election 1961 1966 Australian Senate election 1966 30 of the 60 seats in the Senate 31 Shane Paltridge.jpg Shane Paltridge Coalition (Australia) Western Australia 30 14 30 2,362,081 45.70% 3.62pp Nick McKenna 1963.jpg Nick McKenna Australian Labor Party Tasmania 28 14 27 1 2,308,670 44.66% 0.04pp George Ronald Cole.jpg George Cole Democratic Labor Party (Australia, 1955) Tasmania 1 2 2 1 433,511 8.39% 1.43pp Elections were held on 5 December 1964 to elect members to half of the 60 seats in the Australian Senate for a term commencing on 1 July 1965. There was no accompanying election to the House of Representatives, as Robert Menzies had called an early House-only election the previous year. As with the previous Senate election, the Coalition held exactly half of the seats in the chamber; the Democratic Labor Party and independent senator Reg Turnbull held the balance of power.Carr Adam 1964 Senate election: National summary http://psephos.adam-carr.net/countries/a/australia/1964/1964senate1.txt 2023-01-07 Psephos Adam Carr's Election Archive + Senate (STV) — 1964–67—Turnout 94.49% (CV) — Informal 6.98% alt=|center|300x300px Party Votes % Swing Seats won Seats held Change   Liberal–Country coalition (total) 2,362,081 45.70 +3.62 14 30 ±0   Liberal–Country joint ticket 1,261,592 24.41 –8.75 5 * *   Liberal (separate ticket) 1,038,130 20.08 +11.80 8 23 –1   Country (separate ticket) 62,359 1.21 +0.56 1 7 +1   Labor 2,308,670 44.66 –0.04 14 27 –1   Democratic Labor 433,511 8.39 –1.43 2 2 +1   Communist 37,915 0.73 –0.89 0 0 0   Independent / ungrouped 26,873 0.52 –1.25 0 1 0   Total 5,169,050     30 60 Notes In New South Wales and Queensland, the coalition parties ran a joint ticket. Of the five senators elected on a joint ticket, three were members of the Liberal Party and two were members of the Country Party. In Western Australia, the coalition parties ran on separate tickets. In South Australia, Tasmania, and Victoria, only the Liberal Party ran a ticket. The sole independent was Reg Turnbull of Tasmania; he did not face re-election in 1964. See also Candidates of the 1964 Australian Senate election Members of the Australian Senate, 1965–1968 References University of WA https://web.archive.org/web/20150118085343/http://elections.uwa.edu.au/ 18 January 2015 election results in Australia since 1890 Adam Carr's Election Archive - Senate 1964 Category:1964 elections in Australia Category:December 1964 in Australia 1964