Australian legislative election, 2001
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Legislative elections were held in Australia on 10 November 2001. All 150 seats in the House of Representatives and 40 seats in the 76-member Senate were up for election. The conservative coalition of the Liberal Party, led by Prime Minister John Howard and the National Party of Australia led by John Anderson was elected to a third three-year term, defeating the Australian Labor Party led by Kim Beazley. Beazley resigned after the elections, his second defeat as Labor leader.
Issues
The September 11 terrorist attacks and the MS Tampa were strong influences in the minds of voters at this election, focusing debate around the issues of asylum seekers and national security. The Howard Government also alleged during the campaign that asylum seekers had thrown persons overboard from one of their vessels; a Senate inquiry subsequently found that these alleged events did not occur and that the government knew this to be the case before the election (see the children overboard affair).National summary of votes and seats
House of Representatives
====================================================================== Party Votes % Change Seats ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Liberal Party 4,291,033 37.1 (+02.9) 69 (+5) National Party of Australia 643,924 05.6 (+00.3) 13 (-3) Australian Labor Party 4,341,419 37.8 (-02.3) 65 (-4) Australian Democrats 620,248 05.4 (+00.3) - Australian Greens 569,075 04.3 (+02.4) - Pauline Hanson's One Nation 498,028 05.0 (-04.1) - Others 510,366 04.4 3 (+2) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 11,474,093 150 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Senate
================================================================================ Party Votes % Change Seats Holdovers Total -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Liberal / National Party 4,863,227 41.8 (+04.5) 20 17 35 Australian Labor Party 3,990,997 34.2 (-03.7) 14 17 29 Australian Democrats 843,130 07.2 (-01.4) 4 (-1) 4 8 Australian Greens 570,509 04.9 (+02.2) 2 (+1) - 2 Pauline Hanson's One Nation 644,364 05.5 (-03.5) - 1 1 Others 715,488 06.1 - 1 1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 11,627,715 40 40 76 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In Senate elections the Liberal and National parties run joint tickets in some states. The total number of Senators is 76, but the four Territory Senators are all elected at each election, so that 40 Senators are elected at each half-Senate election.
Holdovers are those seats won at the previous half-senate election in 1998.
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