The following tables show state-by-state results in the Australian Senate at the 1983 Australian federal election. Senators total 25 coalition (23 Liberal, one coalition National, one CLP), 30 Labor, three non-coalition National, five Democrats, and one Independent. Senate terms are six years (three for territories). As the election was the result of a double dissolution, all 64 senate seats were vacant. All elected senators took their seats immediately with a backdated starting date of 1 July 1982, except for the territorial senators who took their seats at the election. Half of the senators elected in each state were allocated 3-year terms (from 1 July 1982) to restore the rotation. It is the most recent federal Senate election won by the Labor Party.

Australia

+ Senate (STV) — 1983–84—Turnout 94.64% (CV) — Informal 9.87% Party Votes % Swing Seats won Total seats Change   Labor 3,637,316 45.49 +3.24 30 30 +3   Liberal–National coalition 3,195,397 39.97 –3.51 28 28 –3   Liberal–National joint ticket 1,861,618 23.28 −2.35 8 * *   Liberal (separate ticket) 923,571 11.55 −1.59 16 23 –4   National (separate ticket) 388,802 4.86 +0.41 3 4 +1   Country Liberal 21,406 0.27 +0.02 1 1 0   Democrats 764,911 9.57 +0.31 5 5 0   Call to Australia 96,065 0   Progress Party 1,905 0   White Australia 1,025 0   Independents 193,454 2.42 +1.29 1 1 0   Other 203,967 2.55 −1.34 0 0 0   Total 7,995,045     64 64

New South Wales

# Senator Party 1 Doug McClelland  Labor 2 John Carrick  Liberal 3 Arthur Gietzelt  Labor 4 Peter Baume  Liberal 5 Graham Richardson  Labor 6 Douglas Scott  National 7 Kerry Sibraa  Labor 8 Misha Lajovic  Liberal 9 Bruce Childs  Labor 10 Colin Mason  Democrat

Victoria

  Ethnic Nikolaus Millios 205 0.0 0.0 # Senator Party 1 John Button  Labor 2 Margaret Guilfoyle  Liberal 3 Don Chipp  Democrat 4 Gareth Evans  Labor 5 Austin Lewis  Liberal 6 Cyril Primmer  Labor 7 Alan Missen  Liberal 8 Robert Ray  Labor 9 David Hamer  Liberal 10 Olive Zakharov  Labor

Queensland

# Senator Party 1 George Georges  Labor 2 Flo Bjelke-Petersen  National 3 Kathy Martin  Liberal 4 Mal Colston  Labor 5 Stan Collard  National 6 Gerry Jones  Labor 7 Ron Boswell  National 8 Margaret Reynolds  Labor 9 Michael Macklin  Democrat 10 David MacGibbon  Liberal

Western Australia

# Senator Party 1 Peter Walsh  Labor 2 Fred Chaney  Liberal 3 Ruth Coleman  Labor 4 Peter Durack  Liberal 5 Gordon McIntosh  Labor 6 Noel Crichton-Browne  Liberal 7 Patricia Giles  Labor 8 Reg Withers  Liberal 9 Peter Cook  Labor 10 Jack Evans  Democrat

South Australia

# Senator Party 1 Ron Elstob  Labor 2 Tony Messner  Liberal 3 Janine Haines  Democrat 4 Dominic Foreman  Labor 5 Robert Hill  Liberal 6 Nick Bolkus  Labor 7 Don Jessop  Liberal 8 Graham Maguire  Labor 9 Baden Teague  Liberal 10 Rosemary Crowley  Labor

Tasmania

# Senator Party 1 Peter Rae  Liberal 2 Don Grimes  Labor 3 Brian Harradine  Independent 4 Shirley Walters  Liberal 5 Michael Tate  Labor 6 Brian Archer  Liberal 7 Jean Hearn  Labor 8 Michael Townley  Liberal 9 John Coates  Labor 10 John Watson  Liberal

Australian Capital Territory

# Senator Party 1 Susan Ryan  Labor 2 Margaret Reid  Liberal

Northern Territory

# Senator Party 1 Bernie Kilgariff  Country Liberal 2 Ted Robertson  Labor

See also

1983 Australian federal election Candidates of the Australian federal election, 1983 Members of the Australian Senate, 1983–1985

References

External links Adam Carr's Election Archive