Commonwealth election 2010

• Stephen Barber
• Parliamentary Library of Australia

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31 October 2011This paper provides a comprehensive set of statistical tables regarding the 2010 Federal Election. 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.

The regional and party status classifications used in the paper are the same as those used by the Australian Electoral Commission. Party status is determined by the two-party preferred vote at the 2007 election adjusted for the effects of the 2008 redistributions in Western Australia and Tasmania and the 2009 redistributions in New South Wales and Queensland.

The ‘safeness’ of an electoral division 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 2010 election compared with the 2007 election.

The Nationals result for O'Connor (WA) has been included under Nationals and Coalition totals throughout this paper even though the Nationals MP, Mr Tony Crook, sits on the crossbenches in the House of Representatives.

The figures used in this paper are from the Australian Electoral Commission’s data which have been provided to the Parliamentary Library by the Commission.