1970 Australian Senate election

1970 Australian Senate election
21 November 1970
30 of the 60 seats in the Senate
31 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Lionel Murphy Ken Anderson Vince Gair
Party Labor Coalition Democratic Labor
Seats won 14 13 3
Seats after 26 26 5
Seat change 1 2 1
Popular vote 2,376,215 2,149,023 625,142
Percentage 42.22% 38.18% 11.11%
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An election was held on 21 November 1970 for 32 of the 60 seats in the Australian Senate. It is the most recent occasion on which a Senate election has been held without an accompanying election for the House of Representatives.

The election cycle for each house of the federal parliament had been out of synchronisation since prime minister Robert Menzies called the 1963 election for the House of Representatives a year ahead of schedule.

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