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{{Short description|1953 election for half the seats in the Australian Senate}}
{{Use Australian English|date=April 2024}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2023}}
{{Main|Australian federal election, 1954}}
Half-senate elections were held in Australia on 9 May 1953. 32 of the seats in the [[Australian Senate|Senate]] were up for election. This was the first time a Senate election had been held without an accompanying election of the [[Australian House of Representatives|House of Representatives]]. The two election cycles fell out of synchronisation after the [[1951 Australian federal election|1951 double dissolution]]. While the term of the House was not due to expire until 1954, a Senate election was due by 1 July 1953.

Although the [[Australian Labor Party]] won a majority of the contested seats, the [[Liberal Party of Australia|Liberal]]-[[National Country Party|Country]] [[Coalition (Australia)|Coalition]] retained a majority of the overall seats in the upper house. 
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Senate ([[Single Transferable Vote|STV]]) – 1953–55—Turnout 94.93% ([[Compulsory voting|CV]]) – Informal 4.56%
! colspan=3 style="width:180px" | Party
! style="width:70px"| Votes
! style="width:40px"| %
! style="width:40px"| Swing
! style="width:40px"| Seats won
! style="width:40px"| Seats held
! style="width:40px"| Change
|-
| {{Australian party style|Labor}} | &nbsp;
| colspan=2| [[Australian Labor Party|Labor]]
| align=right| 2,323,968
| align=right| 50.61
| align=right| +4.74
| align=right| 17
| align=right| 29
| align=right| +1
|- 
| rowspan=4| &nbsp;
| colspan=2| [[Coalition (Australia)|Liberal–Country coalition]]
| align=right| 2,039,938
| align=right| 44.43
| align=right| –5.27
| align=right| 15
| align=right| 31
| align=right| –1
|-
| &nbsp;
| Liberal–Country joint ticket
| align=right| ''1,214,285''
| align=right| ''26.45''
| align=right| {{nowrap|''–17.07''}}
| align=right| ''8''
| align=right| ''N/A''
| align=right| ''N/A''
|-
| {{Australian party style|Liberal}} | &nbsp;
| [[Liberal Party of Australia|Liberal]]{{Pad|100px}}
| align=right| ''825,653''
| align=right| ''17.98''
| align=right| ''+11.81''
| align=right| ''7''
| align=right| ''26''
| align=right| ''0''
|-
| {{Australian party style|Country}} | &nbsp;
| [[National Party of Australia|Country]]{{Pad|100px}}
| align=right| ''N/A''
| align=right| ''N/A''
| align=right| ''N/A''
| align=right| ''N/A''
| align=right| ''5''
| align=right| ''–1''
|-
| {{Australian party style|Communist}} | &nbsp;
| colspan=2| [[Communist Party of Australia|Communist]]
| align=right| 140,073
| align=right| 3.05
| align=right| +0.94
| align=right| 0
| align=right| 0
| align=right| 0
|-
| {{Australian party style|conservative}} | &nbsp;
| colspan=2| [[Democratic Party of Australia|Democratic]]
| align=right| 40,109
| align=right| 0.87
| align=right| +0.87
| align=right| 0
| align=right| 0
| align=right| 0
|-
| {{Australian party style|Henry George Justice}} | &nbsp;
| colspan=2| [[Henry George Justice Party|Henry George Justice]]
| align=right| 13,590
| align=right| 0.30
| align=right| +0.16
| align=right| 0
| align=right| 0
| align=right| 0
|-
| {{Australian party style|State Labor}} | &nbsp;
| colspan=2| [[Tasmanian Labour Group]]
| align=right| 8,990
| align=right| 0.20
| align=right| +0.20
| align=right| 0
| align=right| 0
| align=right| 0
|-
| {{Australian party style|Independents}} | &nbsp;
| colspan=2| [[Independent politician|Independents]]
| align=right| 24,921
| align=right| 0.54
| align=right| +0.03
| align=right| 0
| align=right| 0
| align=right| 0
|-
| &nbsp;
| colspan=2| Total
| align=right| 4,591,589
| align=right| &nbsp;
| align=right| &nbsp;
| align=right| 32
| align=right| 60
| align=right| 
|}

==See also==
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* [[Candidates of the Australian Senate election, 1953]]
* [[Members of the Australian Senate, 1953–1956]]

==References==
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*[http://elections.uwa.edu.au/ University of WA] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150118085343/http://elections.uwa.edu.au/ |date=18 January 2015 }} election results in Australia since 1890
*[http://psephos.adam-carr.net/countries/a/australia/1953/1953senate.shtml Adam Carr's Election Archive - Senate 1953]
{{Results of Australian federal elections}}
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