Australian federal election, 1975

1974 ←

13 December 1975

→ 1977

All 127 seats of the Australian House of Representatives 64 seats were needed for a majority in the House All 64 seats of the Australian Senate

	First party	Second party

Leader	Malcolm Fraser	Gough Whitlam
Party	Liberal/National coalition	Labor
Leader since	21 March 1975	8 February 1967
Leader's seat	Wannon	Werriwa
Last election	61 seats	66 seats
Seats won	91 seats	36 seats
Seat change	30	30
Percentage	55.70%	44.30%
Swing	7.40	7.40

Prime Minister before election

Malcolm Fraser
Liberal/National coalition

Subsequent Prime Minister

Malcolm Fraser
Liberal/National coalition

Federal elections were held in Australia on 13 December 1975. All 127 seats in the House of Representatives, and all 64 seats in the Senate were up for election following a double dissolution of both Houses.

Malcolm Fraser had been commissioned as caretaker prime minister following the dismissal of Gough Whitlam's three-year-old Labor government by Governor-General Sir John Kerr, on 11 November 1975. The same day, Fraser advised the calling of the election, in accordance with Kerr's stipulated conditions (see 1975 Australian constitutional crisis). The Coalition of Fraser's Liberal Party of Australia and Doug Anthony's National Country Party secured government in its own right, winning the largest majority government in Australian history. Although Fraser had no need for the support of the National Country Party, the Coalition was retained. Labor suffered a 30-seat swing and saw its House of Representatives numbers cut almost in half, to 36 seats—fewer than it had when Whitlam became leader in the aftermath of the Coalition landslide nearly 10 years earlier, in the 1966 election.

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