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1967 Australian Senate election

Australian federal election

Field	Value
country	Australia
type	parliamentary
ongoing	no
election_date	25 November 1967
previous_election	1964 Australian Senate election
previous_year	1964
next_election	1970 Australian Senate election
next_year	1970
seats_for_election	30 of the 60 seats in the Senate
majority_seats	31
image1	JohnGorton.jpg
leader1	John Gorton
party1	Coalition (Australia)
seats_before1	30
seats1	14
seats_after1	28
seat_change1	2
popular_vote1	2,365,373
percentage1	42.77%
swing1	2.93pp
image2	Lionel Murphy 1970.jpg
leader2	Lionel Murphy
party2	Australian Labor Party
seats_before2	27
seats2	13
seats_after2	27
seat_change2
popular_vote2	2,489,990
percentage2	45.03%
swing2	0.36pp
image3	Queensland State Archives 4750 Hon VC Gair Premier of Queensland c 1953.png
leader3	Vince Gair
party3	Democratic Labor Party (Australia, 1955)
seats_before3	2
seats3	2
seats_after3	4
seat_change3	2
popular_vote3	540,006
percentage3	9.77%
swing3	1.38pp

Elections were held on 25 November 1967 to elect half of the 60 seats in the Australian Senate for a term commencing on 1 July 1968. There was no accompanying election to the House of Representatives as the two election cycles had been out of synchronisation since 1963. The results were a setback for the government of Harold Holt. Having won a landslide victory at the House-only election the previous year, the Coalition instead lost two seats in the Senate. The Labor Party failed to make any gains in Gough Whitlam's first election as leader; the Democratic Labor Party gained two seats and held the balance of power until 1974.

Votes	%	Swing	Seats won	Seats held	Change
	Labor	2,489,990	45.03	+0.36	13	27
Liberal–Country coalition (total)	2,365,373	42.77	–2.93	14	28
Liberal–Country joint ticket	1,870,057	33.82	+9.41	6	*
	Liberal (separate ticket)	450,454	8.15	–11.93	7	21
	Country (separate ticket)	44,862	0.81	–0.40	1	7
	Democratic Labor	540,006	9.77	+1.38	2	4
	Reform Movement	58,679	1.06	+1.06	0	0
	Communist	20,648	0.37	–0.36	0	0
	Independent / ungrouped	55,192	1.00	+0.48	1	1
Total	5,529,888			30	60

;Notes

In New South Wales, Queensland, and Victoria, the coalition parties ran a joint ticket. Of the six senators elected on a joint ticket, three were members of the Liberal Party and three were members of the Country Party. In Western Australia, the coalition parties ran on separate tickets. In South Australia and Tasmania, only the Liberal Party ran a ticket.
The sole independent elected was Reg Turnbull of Tasmania.

References

University of WA election results in Australia since 1890
Adam Carr's Election Archive - Senate 1967

References

Carr, Adam. "1967 Senate election: national summary".

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