2013 Australian federal election

2013 Australian federal election
7 September 2013
All 150 seats in the House of Representatives
76 seats needed for a majority
40 of 76 seats in the Senate
Opinion polls
Registered14,723,385 4.52%
Turnout13,726,070 (93.23%)
(0.01 pp)
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Tony Abbott Kevin Rudd Christine Milne
Party Liberal–National Coalition Labor Greens
Leader since 1 December 2009 (2009-12-01) 26 June 2013 (2013-06-26) 13 March 2012 (2012-03-13)
Leader's seat Warringah (NSW) Griffith (Qld.) Tasmania (Senate)
Last election 72 seats, 43.32% 72 seats, 37.99% 1 seat, 11.76%
Seats before 71 71 1
Seats won 90 55 1
Seat change 19 16
Primary vote 5,882,818 4,311,365 1,116,918
Percentage 45.55% 33.38% 8.65%
Swing 1.93 4.61 3.11
TPP 53.49% 46.51%
TPP swing 3.61 3.61
  Fourth party Fifth party
 
Leader Clive Palmer Bob Katter
Party Palmer United Katter's Australian
Leader since 1 April 2013 (2013-04-01) 3 June 2011 (2011-06-03)
Leader's seat Fairfax (Qld.)
(won seat) 		Kennedy (Qld.)
Last election new party new party
Seats before 0 1
Seats won 1 1
Seat change 1 1
Primary vote 709,035 134,226
Percentage 5.49% 1.04%
Swing 5.49 1.04
Results by division for the House of Representatives, shaded by winning party's margin of victory.
Prime Minister before election

Kevin Rudd
Labor

Subsequent Prime Minister

Tony Abbott
Liberal/National coalition

A federal election was held on 7 September 2013 to elect the members of the 44th Parliament of Australia. The incumbent Labor government, led by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, sought to win a third consecutive term, but was defeated by the opposition Liberal–National Coalition, led by Tony Abbott, in a landslide. It was the third instance in Australian history that a party won 90 or more seats at an election.

Labor had been in government for six years since being elected in the 2007 election. This election marked the end of the Rudd-Gillard-Rudd Labor government and the start of the 9 year long Abbott-Turnbull-Morrison Liberal-National Coalition government. Abbott was sworn in by the Governor-General, Quentin Bryce, as Australia's new prime minister on 18 September 2013, along with the Abbott Ministry. The 44th Parliament of Australia opened on 12 November 2013, with the members of the House of Representatives and territory senators sworn in. The state senators were sworn in by the next Governor-General Peter Cosgrove on 7 July 2014, with their six-year terms commencing on 1 July.

The proclamation dissolving the House of Representatives and formally beginning the election period had been issued by Governor-General Bryce on 5 August 2013. The writs of election were subsequently issued by Bryce for the election of members of the House of Representatives and territory senators, and by the state governors for the senators for each state.

Voting in Australia's federal elections has been compulsory since 1925. For the House of Representatives, a preferential ballot system has been in use since 1919, in single-member seats. For the Senate—the proportionally representative upper house—a single transferable vote system has been in use since 1949, with optional group voting tickets since 1984. Elections are conducted by the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC).

A special half-Senate election was conducted on 5 April 2014 in Western Australia as a result of 1,375 lost ballot papers.

Future Opposition Leader Angus Taylor entered parliament at this election.

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