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A federal election to determine the members of the 44th Parliament of Australia took place on 7 September 2013. The incumbent centre-left Labor Party government led by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd was defeated by the centre-right Liberal/National Coalition opposition led by Opposition leader Tony Abbott of the Liberal Party of Australia and Coalition partner the National Party of Australia, led by Warren Truss, by a current 17-seat 3.65 percent two-party swing.
The proclamation dissolving parliament and formally beginning the election period, was issued by the Governor-General, Quentin Bryce, on 5 August 2013. The writs of election were subsequently issued by Bryce and the state governors.
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).
Results
House of Representatives
Liberal (58)
QLD LNP (22)
National (9)
NT CLP (1)
Opposition (55)
Labor (55)
Crossbench (5)
Independent (2)
Green (1)
Palmer (1)
Katter (1)
Independents: Andrew Wilkie, Cathy McGowan
The current two-party-preferred vote represents the aggregation of counts from 139 of 150 divisions, which currently excludes the "non-classic"[2] divisions of Batman, Denison, Durack, Fairfax, Indi, Kennedy, Mallee, Melbourne, O'Connor, New England and Wills. Only a two-candidate-preferred vote is currently available in these seats, two-party results are yet to be counted and included in the national total.[1]
Senate
The Senate has 76 seats. Forty seats were up for election; six in each of the six states, two for the ACT and two for the Northern Territory. The terms of the four senators from the territories commenced on election day, all other terms take effect on 1 July 2014.[5][6]
Distribution of preferences have occurred for all Senate seats in all states and territories.[7][8] The Senate will see the Coalition government on 33 seats with the Labor opposition on 25 seats and a record crossbench of 18 – the Greens on ten seats, Palmer United on two seats, with other minor parties and independents on six seats – the LDP's David Leyonhjelm, Family First's Bob Day, Motoring's Ricky Muir, Sports' Wayne Dropulich and incumbents Nick Xenophon and the DLP's John Madigan. Muir will vote in line with Palmer United.[9] The Coalition government will require the support of at least six non-coalition Senators to pass legislation.
Most Senate votes cast in Western Australia were subject to a formal recount.[10] During the recount it was determined that 1,375 WA Senate ballot papers could not be located.[11][12] After the final recount the result was duly declared which changed the last two predicted WA Senate spots from Palmer and Labor back to Sports and Green. Mick Keelty, a former AFP Commissioner, was requested by the AEC to investigate the issue of the misplaced ballot papers.[13][14] On 15 November, the AEC petitioned the High Court, acting as the Court of Disputed Returns, to seek an order from the court that the WA Senate election of all six senators (3 Liberal, 1 Labor, 1 Green, 1 Sport) be declared void.[15][16][17]
Given the closeness of the margins that favoured the final two declared candidates, the petition is based on the premise that the inability to include 1,370 missing ballot papers in the recount of the WA Senate election means that the election was likely to be affected for the purposes of s 362(3) of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918.
— Australian Electoral Commission, 15 September 2013
A record number of candidates stood at the election.[18] Group voting tickets came under scrutiny because multiple candidates were provisionally elected with the vast majority of their 14.3 percent quotas coming from the preferences of other parties across the political spectrum. "Preference whisperer" Glenn Druery organised tight cross-preferencing between many minor parties.[19][20][21] Sports' Wayne Dropulich won a Senate seat on a record-low primary vote of 0.2 percent in Western Australia, his party placing coming 21st out of 28 groups on primary votes.[22][23][24] Motoring's Ricky Muir won a senate seat on a record-low primary vote of 0.5 percent in Victoria.[25][26] Previous examples of winning with low vote shares include Family First's Steve Fielding in 2004 on 1.9 percent in Victoria[27] and the Nuclear Disarmament Party's Robert Wood in 1987 on 1.5 percent in New South Wales). Family First's Bob Day won a seat on a primary vote of 3.8 percent in South Australia,[26][28] and the DLP's John Madigan won his seat in 2010 on a primary vote of 2.3 percent in Victoria.[29] Xenophon and larger parties including the incoming government are looking at changes to the GVT system.[30][31][32]
Divisions changing hands
Members in italics did not re-contest their House of Representatives seats at this election.
Key dates
- Governor-General accepted Kevin Rudd's advice to dissolve Parliament and hold a general election – 4 August 2013
- Prorogation of 43rd Parliament – 5.29 pm Monday 5 August 2013[34]
- Dissolution of House of Representatives – 5.30 pm Monday 5 August 2013
- Issue of writs – Monday 5 August 2013[35]
- Close of rolls – 8 pm Monday 12 August 2013
- Close of candidate nominations – 12 noon Thursday 15 August 2013
- Declaration of candidate nominations – 12 noon Friday 16 August 2013
- Election day or Polling day – Saturday 7 September 2013
- Last day for the return of writs – Monday 13 November 2013
- Deadline for first meeting of the 44th Parliament – Wednesday 13 December 2013
On 30 January 2013, Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced the election would be held on 14 September. However, following a leadership ballot in June 2013, she was replaced as leader by Rudd, who then abandoned the originally planned date. A referendum on amending the constitution to allow the federal government to directly fund local councils that was initially planned to be held on the same day as the federal election could not go ahead on the date announced by Rudd.[36] This is because Section 128 of the Constitution of Australia requires that a referendum must be submitted to electors between two and six months after its passage through Parliament. As early voting started on 20 August it could not be submitted then.
43rd Parliament
House of Representatives
Government (71)
Labor (71)
Opposition
Coalition (72)
Liberal (44)
LNP (20)
Nationals (6)
Nat. WA (1)
CLP (1)
Crossbench (7)
Ind. (5)
Greens (1)
KAP (1)
At the 2010 federal election, Labor and the Liberal/National Coalition each won 72 seats in the 150-seat House of Representatives, four short of the requirement for majority government, resulting in the first hung parliament since the 1940 federal election. On the crossbench, one member of the Australian Greens, one member of the National Party of Western Australia, and four independent members held the balance of power. After gaining the support of the Greens and three independents on confidence and supply votes, Labor was able to form a minority government with a 76–74 margin.[37]
Changes in House numbers
On 24 November 2011, Harry Jenkins resigned as Speaker of the House of Representatives and returned to the Labor backbench. Later, that day, Deputy Speaker Peter Slipper was elected Speaker and quit the Liberal National Party to become an independent. This changed nominal confidence and supply numbers on the floor of the house from 75–74 to 76–73.[38][39] In January 2012, Andrew Wilkie withdrew his guarantee of confidence to the incumbent government, changing numbers to 75–73 in the event of his abstention, or 75–74 in the event of his support for a vote of no confidence in the government. In April 2012, Labor's Craig Thomson moved to the crossbenches as an independent MP, and in May, WA National Tony Crook moved from the crossbenches to the Nationals, but did not join the Coalition. Changes brought the government to 71 seats, the Coalition 72 seats, and seven crossbenchers. On 9 October 2012, after an unsuccessful vote of no confidence in the speakership, Slipper resigned as Speaker and was replaced by Labor Deputy Speaker Anna Burke. Slipper remained an independent MP.
Pendulum
Senate
Government (31)
Labor (31)
Opposition
Coalition (34)
Liberal (24)
LNP (6)
Nationals (3)
CLP (1)
Crossbench (11)
Greens (9)
DLP (1)
Ind. (1)
Before the election, the 76-seat Senate was made up of senators from the Coalition (34), Australian Labor Party (31), Australian Greens (9), Democratic Labor Party (1), and one independent senator, Nick Xenophon. The Greens held the sole balance of power. Previously the Greens had held a shared balance of power with the Family First Party and Xenophon.
Of the 76 Senate seats, 40 are contested. This corresponds to half of each state's allocation as well as both senators from the two major territories. Newly elected state senators will commence their terms on 1 July 2014 and the senators of the territories will begin their terms immediately after their elections.[40]
| State/Territory | Seats | ALP | Coalition | Greens | Other |
| NSW | 6 | 3 | 3 | ||
| VIC | 6 | 3 | 3 | ||
| QLD | 6 | 3 | 3 | ||
| WA | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | |
| SA | 6 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 (Ind., Xenophon) |
| TAS | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | |
| ACT | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||
| NT | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||
| To be contested | 40 | 18 | 18 | 3 | 1 |
| Elected in 2010 | 36 | 13 | 16 | 6 | 1 (DLP) |
| Total | 76 | 31 | 34 | 9 | 2 |
Election period
On 30 January 2013, at a speech at the National Press Club, Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced the election would be held on Saturday 14 September 2013, although the Governor-General was not formally advised and no writ of election was issued.[41] Kevin Rudd succeeded Julia Gillard as Prime Minister on 27 June 2013.
The Broadcasting Services Act 1992 was checked by various commercial broadcasting media outlets and media councils as a result of Gillard's announcement.[42] The Act says, in part,
"Election period" means:
(a) in relation to any other election to a Parliament – the period that starts on:
– (i) the day on which the proposed polling day for the election is publicly announced; or
- (ii) the day on which the writs for the election are issued;
whichever happens first, and ends at the close of the poll on the polling day for the election;— Broadcasting Services Act 1992, Schedule 2, Section 1
and
PART 2
b. (i) If, during an election period, a broadcaster broadcasts election matter, the broadcaster must give reasonable opportunities for the broadcasting of election matter to all political parties contesting the election, being parties which were represented in either House of the Parliament for which the election is to be held at the time of its last meeting before the election period.— Broadcasting Services Act 1992, Schedule 2, Section 3(2)
This is interpreted as "equal time, over time" rather than equal time in the same broadcast, and that this requirement began with the announcement on 30 January 2013.[42]
Retiring MPs and senators
The terms of Members of the House of Representatives who did not renominate ended at the dissolution of the parliament (5 August 2013).
The terms of Senators who did not renominate will end on 30 June 2014, unless they represent the Australian Capital Territory or the Northern Territory, in which case their term ended on the day before polling day (6 September 2013). That date also applies to territory senators who contest the election but are defeated.
Members and senators who chose not to renominate are as follows:
Independent
- Rob Oakeshott MP (Lyne, NSW) – announced retirement 26 June 2013[43]
- Tony Windsor MP (New England, NSW) – announced retirement 26 June 2013[43]
Labor
- Greg Combet MP (Charlton, NSW) – announced retirement 29 June 2013[44]
- Simon Crean MP (Hotham, VIC) – announced retirement 1 July 2013[45]
- Craig Emerson MP (Rankin, Qld) – announced retirement 26 June 2013[46]
- Martin Ferguson MP (Batman, Vic) – announced retirement 29 May 2013[47]
- Peter Garrett MP (Kingsford Smith, NSW) – announced retirement 26 June 2013[48]
- Steve Gibbons MP (Bendigo, Vic) – announced retirement 29 August 2011[49]
- Julia Gillard MP (Lalor, Vic) – announced retirement 26 June 2013[50]
- Sharon Grierson MP (Newcastle, NSW) – announced retirement 18 July 2012[51]
- Harry Jenkins MP (Scullin, Vic) – announced retirement 26 July 2012[52]
- Kirsten Livermore MP (Capricornia, Qld) – announced retirement 27 November 2012[53]
- Robert McClelland MP (Barton, NSW) – announced retirement 29 January 2013[54]
- Nicola Roxon MP (Gellibrand, VIC) – announced retirement 2 February 2013[55]
- Stephen Smith MP (Perth, WA) – announced retirement 27 June 2013[56]
- Senator Mark Bishop (WA) – announced retirement 15 April 2013[57]
- Senator Trish Crossin (NT) – lost preselection 28 January 2013[58]
- Senator John Hogg (Qld) – announced retirement 10 August 2012[59]
Liberal
- Joanna Gash MP (Gilmore, NSW) – announced retirement 25 January 2012[60]
- Barry Haase MP (Durack, WA) – announced retirement 15 June 2013[61]
- Judi Moylan MP (Pearce, WA) – announced retirement 28 July 2011[62]
- Alby Schultz MP (Hume, NSW) – announced retirement 17 April 2012[63]
- Patrick Secker MP (Barker, SA) – announced retirement on 25 June 2013[64]
- Mal Washer MP (Moore, WA) – announced retirement 28 July 2011[62][65]
- Senator Alan Eggleston (WA) – announced retirement 9 April 2012[66]
- Senator Gary Humphries (ACT) – lost preselection 23 February 2013[67]
LNP
- Paul Neville MP (Hinkler, Qld) − announced retirement 10 October 2012[68]
- Alex Somlyay MP (Fairfax, Qld) – announced retirement 25 September 2010[69]
- Senator Ron Boswell (Qld) – announced retirement 21 September 2012[70]
- Senator Sue Boyce (Qld) – announced retirement 8 October 2012[71]
National
- John Forrest MP (Mallee, Vic) – announced retirement 6 March 2013[72]
WA Nationals
- Tony Crook MP (O'Connor) – announced retirement 9 April 2013[73]
Electoral events timeline
- 30 January – Julia Gillard announces planned election date of 14 September 2013.[41]
- 2 February – Attorney-General Nicola Roxon announces she will be retiring at the election. Higher Education Minister Senator Chris Evans, whose term was not due to finish until 2017, announces he will be resigning in the near future.[74]
- 19 February – Greens leader Christine Milne announces that the alliance agreement with the ALP is over, but her party will not vote against confidence or supply.[75]
- 26 February – Gillard announces she will "campaign" in western Sydney for the following week, from Sunday night until Friday.[76]
- 19 March – Richard Torbay is forced to resign from The Nationals, forfeiting his candidature for the Division of New England.[77] Barnaby Joyce puts his name forward as a possible replacement candidate, hoping to move from the Senate to the House of Representatives.[78]
- 21 March – Minister Simon Crean asks Gillard for a party leadership vote, and publicly declares his support for Kevin Rudd. In parliament, the Opposition attempts to suspend standing orders for a no confidence vote and although gaining 73 votes to the government's 71 votes, fails to gain the absolute majority of 76 votes required. Crean is sacked from the ministry. At the leadership ballot no alternative candidate nominates, and Gillard is re-elected as ALP leader unopposed.[79] Rudd supporters Joel Fitzgibbon, Ed Husic, Janelle Saffin, and Richard Marles quit their positions in the executive government.[80]
- 22 March – Rudd issues a statement that he will never again return to the ALP leadership.[81] Kim Carr, Martin Ferguson, and Chris Bowen quit their ministries.[82][83][84]
- 23 March – Key independent MP Andrew Wilkie warns that ongoing instability within the ALP means the government will have difficulty surviving a vote of confidence when parliament resumes in May.[85]
- 2 May – The opposition indicates it will support the Government's National Disability Insurance Scheme policy, including an increase in the Medicare levy from 1.5% to 2%.[86][87]
- 26 June – Independents Rob Oakeshott and Tony Windsor both announce they won't recontest their seats at the election. Kevin Rudd defeats Julia Gillard in another Labor leadership spill by a 57–45 margin. After the spill, Gillard along with ministers Craig Emerson and Peter Garrett announce their retirement at the coming election.
- 27 June – Rudd is sworn in as Prime Minister by Governor-General Quentin Bryce, with Anthony Albanese and Chris Bowen sworn in as Deputy Prime Minister and Treasurer respectively. Defence Minister Stephen Smith MP announces his retirement at the coming election.
- 29 June – Greg Combet MP announces his retirement at the coming election.
- 1 July – The Second Rudd Ministry is sworn in. Simon Crean MP announces his retirement at the coming election.[88]
- 1 July – Wikileaks party receives formal registration as a political party.[89]
- 22 July – The ALP caucus approves changes to the way the federal parliamentary leader is chosen. The new rules make it more difficult to change leaders and require a ballot of the party membership on contested leadership spills.[90][91]
- 4 August – Kevin Rudd announces the election date as 7 September 2013.[92]
- 5 August – Quentin Bryce, the Governor-General, issues the election writ.
- 11 August – The first of three televised leaders debates between Rudd and Abbott is held in Canberra.[93][94]
- 21 August – The second televised leaders debate between Rudd and Abbott is held in Brisbane.[95][96]
- 25 August – The Coalition's formal campaign launch is held in Brisbane.[97]
- 27 August – Treasurer Chris Bowen and shadow treasurer Joe Hockey debate at the National Press Club. Later that evening, the third and final televised leaders debate between Rudd and Abbott is held at the Rooty Hill RSL in Sydney.[98]
- 28 August – The Coalition releases a document outlining $31.6 billion of proposed budget savings.[99]
- 29 August – The Rudd Government releases several costings estimates which it claims show a $10 billion shortfall in the Coalition's claimed savings released the previous day.[100] In a strongly-worded statement, the secretaries of the Department of Treasury and Department of Finance criticise the use of these confidential costings prepared for the government, re-iterating that the assumptions used differ from the costings prepared for the Coalition.[101]
- 1 September – Labor's formal campaign launch is held in Brisbane.[102]
- 5 September – The Coalition releases its remaining policy costings, claiming a further $9 billion worth of savings, including a $4.5 billion reduction in Australia's foreign aid budget.[103] Later in the day, the Coalition releases a policy document announcing the implementation of an opt-out Internet filter. That evening, Shadow Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull states that the document was "poorly worded" and released by mistake, and that the Coalition had no such policy.[104]
- 7 September (Election Day) – The Liberal-National coalition defeats the Australian Labor Party with the Coalition expected to win about 90 seats in the House of Representatives. Kevin Rudd conceded defeat and announced that he would not renominate for the ALP's leadership.
- 17 October – A recount of all "above-the-line" Senate votes made in Western Australia is initiated after an appeal by the WA Greens and the Australian Sports Party is upheld.[105]
- 31 October – The AEC announces that it is unable to find 1,375 ballot papers during the WA Senate recount.[106]
- 4 November – The AEC declares the result of the WA Senate recount, awarding the last two seats to the Greens and Australian Sports Party, instead of the ALP and Palmer United Party.[107]
Campaign
The incumbent Labor-led government argued for a need for a "safe pair of hands" to manage an economic shift from mining-oriented growth to something else; while the opposition said that it would prevent a recession that could be caused by a budget deficit. The Sydney Morning Herald suggested both arguments hedged on the mining boom going bust.[108] Rudd officially began the campaign season on 1 September in his hometown of Brisbane. At the rally, he promised tax breaks for small businesses and more work for local contractors on infrastructure projects. He said: "In this election, we are now engaged in the fight of our lives. It is a fight about the values that underpin Australia's future, a fight about our vision for Australia's future. It's a fight about how we go about building Australia's future, a future for the many, not just for the few." He also dismissed the opinion polls that showed him trailing to Abbott in gaining a parliamentary plurality.[109]
Opinion polls
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(*) an asterisk denotes a change from the 2010 endorsements
Result commentary
The Labor Party recorded its lowest two-party preferred vote since 1996 and lowest primary vote since 1931. Kevin Rudd announced his resignation as party leader and confirmed he would not run again in the subsequent leadership election.[122]
With Nova Peris's victory in the Senate election in the Northern Territory, she became the first aboriginal woman to be elected to parliament.[123] WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange failed to be elected to the Senate after running in Victoria, with his Wikileaks Party garnering 0.62% of the popular vote.[124] Former Queensland premier Peter Beattie, standing in the Liberal-held seat of Forde, also failed to enter parliament.[125]
In an unprecedented outcome in Australian electoral history, the Senate result in Western Australia became likely to be declared void by the High Court after the loss of over 1,300 ballot papers, necessitating a fresh election for the Senate in that state.[126]
Reactions
The Coalition had campaigned on a tough stance on asylum seekers who came to Australia by boat (as had the Labor Party in the final weeks leading up to the election). Immediately after the election, Abbott reiterated his party's promise and announced that his new government would begin Operation Sovereign Borders — which would turn back any vessels carrying asylum seekers — as soon as possible. He also confirmed he would abolish the carbon price that was introduced by the Gillard Government,[127] as well as lower foreign aid by A$4.5 billion.[128]
Abbott was congratulated by various world leaders, including American President Barack Obama,[129] British Prime Minister David Cameron,[122] New Zealand Prime Minister John Key[130] and South African President Jacob Zuma.[131]
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External links
- Antony Green's 2013 Federal election calendar
- Antony Green's 2013 Federal election calculator
- Political parties registered for the 2013 federal election at the Australian Electoral Commission
- Election downloads, including Senate group voting tickets, electorates, parties, etc. at the Australian Electoral Commission
- Australia's Rudd concedes election defeat to conservative leader Abbott – article describing the situation after 80% counted (yahoo)
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