Australian federal election, 2016

Australian federal election, 2016

2013 ← 2 July 2016 → Next

outgoing members ← → elected members

All 150 seats in the Australian House of Representatives 76 seats were needed for a majority All 76 seats in the Australian Senate Registered 15,671,551 Turnout 91.0%   First party Second party   Leader Malcolm Turnbull Bill Shorten Party Liberal/National coalition Labor Leader since 14 September 2015 (2015-09-14) 13 October 2013 (2013-10-13) Leader's seat Wentworth Maribyrnong Last election 90 seats, 53.49% 55 seats, 46.51% Seats won 76 seats 69 seats Seat change 14 14 Popular vote 6,818,824 6,722,277 Percentage 42.04% 34.73% Swing 3.51 1.35 TPP 50.36% 49.64% TPP swing 3.13 3.13   Third party Fourth party   Leader Richard Di Natale Nick Xenophon Party Greens Xenophon Team Leader since 6 May 2015 (2015-05-06) 1 June 2013 (2013-06-01) Leader's seat Senator for Victoria Senator for South Australia Last election 1 seat, 8.65% new party Seats won 1 seat 1 seat Seat change 1 Popular vote 1,385,651 250,333 Percentage 10.23% 1.85% Swing 1.58 1.85   Fifth party   Leader Bob Katter Party Katter's Australian Leader since 3 June 2011 (2011-06-03) Leader's seat Kennedy Last election 1 seat, 1.04% Seats won 1 seat Seat change Popular vote 72,879 Percentage 0.54% Swing 0.50

Prime Minister before election Malcolm Turnbull Liberal/National coalition Subsequent Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull Liberal/National coalition

Malcolm Turnbull
Liberal/National coalition

Malcolm Turnbull
Liberal/National coalition

The 2016 Australian federal election was a double dissolution election held on Saturday 2 July to elect all 226 members of the 45th Parliament of Australia, after an extended eight-week official campaign period. It was the first double dissolution election since the 1987 election and the first under a new voting system for the Senate that replaced group voting tickets with optional preferential voting.

Though federal election outcomes are traditionally called by political commentators on election night, even during the following day the outcome could not be predicted, with many close seats in doubt. After a week of vote counting, still no party had won enough seats in the 150-seat House of Representatives to form a majority government. Neither the incumbent Turnbull Government led by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull of the Liberal/National Coalition nor the Shorten Opposition led by Opposition Leader Bill Shorten of the Australian Labor Party were in a position to concede defeat or claim victory. Many political commentators predicted a hung parliament such as occurred at the 2010 election.

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