1998 Australian Senate election

1998 Australian Senate elections

3 October 1998

40 of the 76 seats in the Australian Senate
39 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Robert Hill John Faulkner Meg Lees
Party Liberal–National Coalition Labor Democrats
Leader since 3 April 1990 19 March 1996 15 October 1997
Leader's seat South Australia New South Wales South Australia
Seats before 37 29 7
Seats after 34 29 9
Seat change 3 0 2
Popular vote 4,189,673 4,182,963 947,940
Percentage 37.36% 37.31% 8.45%
Swing 6.24% 1.16% 2.37%

  Fourth party Fifth party
 
Leader Heather Hill None
Party One Nation Greens
Leader's seat Queensland None
Seats before 0 2
Seats won 1 1
Seats after 1 1
Seat change 1 1
Popular vote 1,007,439 305,058
Percentage 8.99% 2.72%
Swing 8.99% 0.45%

Senators elected in the 1998 federal election

Leader of the Senate before election

Robert Hill
Liberal/National coalition

Elected Leader of the Senate

Robert Hill
Liberal/National coalition

The following tables show state-by-state results in the Australian Senate at the 1998 federal election. Senators total 34 coalition (31 Liberal, two coalition National, one CLP), 29 Labor, one Green, one non-coalition National, nine Democrats, one Independent and one One Nation. Senator terms are six years (three for territories), and took their seats from 1 July 1999, except the territories who took their seats immediately.