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2010 Australian federal election

2010 Australian federal election
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All 150 seats in the House of Representatives
76 seats were needed for a majority in the House
40 (of the 76) seats in the Senate
Opinion polls
Registered14,086,869 Increase 3.23%
Turnout13,131,667 (93.22%)
(Decrease1.50 pp)
  First party Second party
 
Leader Julia Gillard Tony Abbott
Party Labor Liberal/National coalition
Leader since 24 June 2010 (2010-06-24) 1 December 2009 (2009-12-01)
Leader's seat Lalor (Vic.) Warringah (NSW)
Last election 83 seats, 43.38% 65 seats, 41.95%
Seats won 72 seats 72 seats
Seat change Decrease 11 Increase 7
First preference vote 4,711,363 5,365,529
Percentage 37.99% 43.32%
Swing Decrease 5.40 Increase 1.16
TPP 50.12% 49.88%
TPP swing Decrease 2.58 Increase 2.58
  Third party Fourth party
  Bob Brown
NAT
Leader Bob Brown Tony Crook
Party Greens WA Nationals
Leader since 28 November 2005 (2005-11-28) De facto
Leader's seat Senator for Tasmania O'Connor (WA)
(won seat)
Last election 0 seats, 7.79% 0 seats
Seats won 1 seat 1 seat
Seat change Increase 1 Increase 1
First preference vote 1,458,998 43,101
Percentage 11.76% 0.34%
Swing Increase 3.97 Increase 0.20
Results by division for the House of Representatives, shaded by winning party's margin of victory.
Prime Minister before election

Julia Gillard
Labor

Subsequent Prime Minister

Julia Gillard
Labor

The 2010 Australian federal election was held on Saturday, 21 August 2010 to elect members of the 43rd Parliament of Australia. The incumbent centre-left Australian Labor Party led by Prime Minister Julia Gillard won a second term against the opposition centre-right Liberal Party of Australia led by Opposition Leader Tony Abbott and Coalition partner the National Party of Australia, led by Warren Truss, after Labor formed a minority government with the support of three independent MPs and one Australian Greens MP.

Labor and the Coalition each won 72 seats in the 150-seat House of Representatives,[1] four short of the requirement for majority government, resulting in the first hung parliament since the 1940 election.[2][3][4] Six crossbenchers held the balance of power.[5][6] Greens MP Adam Bandt and independent MPs Andrew Wilkie, Rob Oakeshott and Tony Windsor declared their support for Labor on confidence and supply.[7][8] Independent MP Bob Katter and National Party of Western Australia MP Tony Crook declared their support for the Coalition on confidence and supply.[9][10] The resulting 76–74 margin entitled Labor to form a minority government.[8] The Prime Minister, government ministers and parliamentary secretaries were sworn in on 14 September 2010 by the Governor-General Quentin Bryce.[11] In November 2011, Coalition MP and Deputy Speaker Peter Slipper replaced Labor MP Harry Jenkins as Speaker of the House of Representatives, increasing Labor's parliamentary majority from 76–74 to 77–73.[12][13]

In the 76-seat Senate, the Greens won one seat in each of the six states, gaining the sole balance of power with a total of nine seats, after previously holding a shared balance of power with the Family First Party and independent Nick Xenophon.[14][15] The Coalition was reduced from 37 to 34 and Labor was reduced from 32 to 31. The two remaining seats were occupied by Xenophon and Victoria's new Democratic Labor Party Senator John Madigan. Family First Party Senator Steve Fielding was defeated. These changes took effect in the Senate on 1 July 2011.[16]

More than 13 million Australians were enrolled to vote at the time of the election.[17] Australia has compulsory voting (since 1925) and uses preferential ballot (since 1919) in single-member seats for the House of Representatives and single transferable vote (since 1949) with optional group voting tickets (since 1984) in the proportionally represented Senate. The election was conducted by the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC).

Prior to the Labor party's win in the 2022 Australian federal election, this was the most recent federal contest in which Labor formed government. It remains the most recent election in which the leader of the party forming government represented a division outside New South Wales.

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  9. ^ Rodgers, Emma (7 September 2010). "Katter in Coalition camp". ABC Online. Archived from the original on 8 September 2010. Retrieved 8 September 2010.
  10. ^ "Crook declares support for Abbott". ABC News. 6 September 2010. Archived from the original on 8 September 2010. Retrieved 8 September 2010.
  11. ^ "Governor-General swears in new ministry". ABC News. 14 September 2010. Archived from the original on 16 September 2010. Retrieved 14 September 2010.
  12. ^ "Slipper long plotted against us: LNP". The Sydney Morning Herald. 24 November 2011.
  13. ^ "How Labor lured Peter Slipper to Speaker's chair in Federal Parliament". ABC News. 27 November 2011.
  14. ^ Colebatch, Tim (23 August 2010). "Greens win seats in every state". Sunday Morning Herald. Archived from the original on 25 August 2010. Retrieved 27 August 2010.
  15. ^ Paul, Aron (26 August 2010). "The Green Tide". ABC News. Archived from the original on 29 August 2010. Retrieved 27 August 2010.
  16. ^ Cite error: The named reference AECupper was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  17. ^ "First Preference by Party". Australian Electoral Commission. Archived from the original on 23 August 2010. Retrieved 21 August 2010.

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