1953 Australian Senate election

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Template:Short description Template:Use Australian English Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "Labelled list hatnote". Half-senate elections were held in Australia on 9 May 1953. 32 of the seats in the Senate were up for election. This was the first time a Senate election had been held without an accompanying election of the House of Representatives. The two election cycles fell out of synchronisation after the 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-Country Coalition retained a majority of the overall seats in the upper house.

Senate (STV) – 1953–55—Turnout 94.93% (CV) – Informal 4.56%
Party Votes % Swing Seats won Seats held Change
Template:Australian party style |   Labor 2,323,968 50.61 +4.74 17 29 +1
  Liberal–Country coalition 2,039,938 44.43 –5.27 15 31 –1
  Liberal–Country joint ticket 1,214,285 26.45 –17.07 8 N/A N/A
Template:Australian party style |   Liberal  825,653 17.98 +11.81 7 26 0
Template:Australian party style |   Country  N/A N/A N/A N/A 5 –1
Template:Australian party style |   Communist 140,073 3.05 +0.94 0 0 0
Template:Australian party style |   Democratic 40,109 0.87 +0.87 0 0 0
Template:Australian party style |   Henry George Justice 13,590 0.30 +0.16 0 0 0
Template:Australian party style |   Tasmanian Labour Group 8,990 0.20 +0.20 0 0 0
Template:Australian party style |   Independents 24,921 0.54 +0.03 0 0 0
  Total 4,591,589     32 60

See also

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