Australian federal election, 1954

1951 ←

29 May 1954

→ 1955

All 121 seats of the Australian House of Representatives 61 seats were needed for a majority

	First party	Second party

Leader	Robert Menzies	H.V. Evatt
Party	Liberal/Country coalition	Labor
Leader since	23 September 1943	13 June 1951
Leader's seat	Kooyong	Barton
Last election	69 seats	52 seats
Seats won	64 seats	57 seats
Seat change	5	5
Percentage	49.30%	50.70%
Swing	1.40	1.40

Prime Minister before election

Robert Menzies
Liberal/Country coalition

Subsequent Prime Minister

Robert Menzies
Liberal/Country coalition

Federal elections were held in Australia on 29 May 1954. All 121 seats in the House of Representatives were up for election, no Senate election took place. The incumbent Liberal Party of Australia led by Prime Minister of Australia Robert Menzies with coalition partner the Country Party led by Arthur Fadden defeated the Australian Labor Party led by Herbert Evatt.

See Australian Senate election, 1953 for Senate composition.

In 1949, Sir Robert Menzies founded the Liberal Party of Australia (descended from the United Australia Party) and was led by Menzies for 16 years through successive re-elections with the traditional coalition in place with the National Party of Australia (known then as the Country Party). Labor stayed out of government for 23 years after the defeat of the Chifley Government in 1949, largely due to the Australian Labor Party split of 1955 and the subsequent splinter group Democratic Labor Party. Labor nevertheless won the two-party-preferred vote on three occasions (1954 - where Labor achieved a first preference vote of more than 50% - 1961 and 1969), but these were not enough to win a sufficient number of seats to form government.

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