2010 Australian Senate election

2010 Australian Senate elections
21 August 2010
40 of the 76 seats in the Australian Senate
39 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party
 
Leader Eric Abetz Chris Evans
Party Liberal–National Coalition Labor
Leader since 3 May 2010 22 October 2004
Leader's seat Tasmania Western Australia
Seats before 37 32
Seats won 18 15
Seats after 34 31
Seat change 3 1
Popular vote 4,871,871 4,469,734
Percentage 38.30% 35.13%
Swing 1.47% 5.17%
  Third party Fourth party
 
Leader Bob Brown John Madigan
Party Greens Democratic Labour
Leader since 28 November 2005
Leader's seat Tasmania Victoria
(won seat)
Seats before 5 0
Seats won 6 1
Seats after 9 1
Seat change 4 1
Popular vote 1,667,315 134,987
Percentage 13.11% 1.06%
Swing 4.07% 0.14%
Senators elected in the 2010 federal election
Leader of the Senate before election

Chris Evans
Labor

 Elected Leader of the Senate

Chris Evans
Labor

The following tables show state-by-state results in the Australian Senate at the 2010 federal election. Senators total 34 Coalition, 31 Labor, nine Green, one Democratic Labor Party, and one independent, Nick Xenophon. New Senators took their places from 1 July 2011.

As of 2025, this is the latest senate election where the three major party senate leaders were male.

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