1987 Australian federal election

1987 Australian federal election

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All 148 seats in the House of Representatives 75 seats were needed for a majority in the House All 76 seats in the Senate
Registered	10,353,213 4.90%
Turnout	9,715,440 (93.84%) (0.35 pp)
First party Second party   Leader Bob Hawke John Howard Party Labor Liberal/National coalition Leader since 8 February 1983 (1983-02-08) 5 September 1985 (1985-09-05) Leader's seat Wills (Vic.) Bennelong (NSW) Last election 82 seats 66 seats Seats won 86 seats 62 seats Seat change 4 4 Popular vote 4,238,663 4,238,978 Percentage 45.90% 45.90% Swing 1.65% 0.89% TPP 50.83% 49.17% TPP swing 0.94 0.94
Results by division for the House of Representatives, shaded by winning party's margin of victory.
Prime Minister before election Bob Hawke Labor Subsequent Prime Minister Bob Hawke Labor

1987 Australian federal election
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The 1987 Australian federal election was held in Australia on 11 July 1987, following the granting of a double dissolution on 5 June by the Governor-General Sir Ninian Stephen. Consequently, all 148 seats in the House of Representatives as well as all 76 seats in the Senate were up for election. The incumbent Australian Labor Party, led by Prime Minister Bob Hawke, defeated the opposition Liberal Party of Australia, led by John Howard and the National Party of Australia led by Ian Sinclair. This was the first, and to date only, time the Labor Party won a third consecutive election.

This was the last federal election before Old Parliament House was decommissioned as the seat of parliament after 61 years. In 1988, it was replaced by today's Parliament House, which sits above its predecessor on Capital Hill.

Future Opposition Leader John Hewson entered parliament at this election.

Since the introduction in the previous election in 1984 of leaders' debates, this was the only election in which there was not at least one leaders' debate due to Hawke's refusal to debate Howard.^[1]