2019 Australian federal election facts for kids
The 2019 Australian federal election elected members of the 46th Parliament of Australia on 18 May 2019. The election was called following the end or expiry of the 45th Parliament as elected at the 2016 double dissolution federal election.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison and his Coalition Party won the election winning 78 seats over the Labor's 67 seats.
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Candidates
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Senator
Richard Di Natale
(Greens)
from Victoria
Opinion polling
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Results
House of Representatives
| Party | Votes | % | Swing (pp) | Seats | Change (seats) | |||
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| Liberal/National Coalition | ||||||||
| Liberal | 3,410,908 | 27.89 | −0.78 | 45 |  0 |
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| Liberal National (Qld) | 1,048,982 | 8.58 | +0.06 | 23 |  2 |
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| National | 593,304 | 4.85 | +0.24 | 10 | 0 |
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| Country Liberal (NT) | 35,250 | 0.29 | +0.05 | 0 | 0 |
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| Coalition total | 5,088,444 | 41.61 | −0.43 | 78 | 2 |
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| Labor | 4,127,206 | 33.75 | −0.98 | 67 |  2 |
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| Greens | 1,215,284 | 9.94 | −0.29 | 1 | 0 |
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| United Australia | 411,775 | 3.37 | +3.37 | 0 | 0 |
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| One Nation | 366,204 | 2.99 | +1.70 | 0 | 0 |
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| Katter's Australian | 62,380 | 0.51 | −0.03 | 1 | 0 |
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| Centre Alliance | 41,921 | 0.34 | −1.51 | 1 | 0 |
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| Independents | 425,783 | 3.48 | +0.67 | 3 | 1 |
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| Other | 488,852 | 4.00 | −2.50 | 0 | 0 |
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| Total | 12,227,849 | 100.00 | – | 151 | 1 |
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| Two-party-preferred vote | ||||||||
| Liberal/National Coalition | 5,491,523 | 51.17 | +0.81 | |||||
| Labor | 5,241,023 | 48.83 | −0.81 | |||||
| Invalid/blank votes | 703,156 | 5.44 | +0.39 | – | – | |||
| Registered voters/turnout | 16,424,248 | 78.73 | – | – | – | |||
| Source: AEC Tally Room | ||||||||
Senate
| Party | Votes | % | +/- | Seats | |||||
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Seat change |
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| Liberal/National Coalition | |||||||||
| Liberal/National joint ticket | 2,074,394 | 21.32 | +1.31 | 4 | 6 | 10 | |||
| Liberal | 867,720 | 8.92 | +1.21 | 6 | 7 | 13 | |||
| Liberal National (Qld) | 681,458 | 7.00 | +0.06 | 2 | 3 | 5 | |||
| Country Liberal (NT) | 33,769 | 0.35 | +0.08 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||
| National | 15,363 | 0.16 | −0.09 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Coalition total | 3,672,704 | 37.74 | +2.56 | 13 | 16 | 29 | |||
| Labor | 2,875,361 | 29.55 | −0.24 | 12 | 13 | 25 | |||
| Greens | 1,009,610 | 10.38 | +1.72 | 3 | 3 | ||||
| One Nation | 509,946 | 5.24 | +0.96 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| United Australia | 219,772 | 2.26 | +1.76 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Liberal Democrats | 108,685 | 1.12 | −1.04 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Democratic Labour | 92,878 | 0.95 | +0.27 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Conservatives | 70,149 | 0.72 | −0.65 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Justice | 61,551 | 0.63 | −1.29 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Lambie Network | 23,209 | 0.24 | −0.26 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Centre Alliance | 20,866 | 0.21 | −3.08 | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Other | 1,066,024 | 10.96 | −0.62 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| In doubt | 15 | 0 | 15 | ||||||
| Total | 9,730,755 | 100.00 | – | 40 | 36 | 76 | |||
| Invalid/blank votes | 623,749 | 6.02 | +2.08 | – | – | – | – | ||
| Registered voters/turnout | 16,424,248 | 63.09 | – | – | – | – | – | ||
| Source: AEC Tally Room | |||||||||
Images for kids
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Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott lost his seat at the 2019 election after 25 years as Member for Warringah
See also
In Spanish: Elecciones federales de Australia de 2019 para niños
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