AuspolDB: Elections

1977 Federal Election

Electoral System	FPV
Government Type	Majority
Outgoing Government Party	Liberal
Incoming Government Party	Liberal
Government Seats	86
Nongovernment Seats	38
Majority The difference between the number of Government seats and non-government seats.	48
Date	10/12/1977
House Composition	67 Liberal 38 Australian Labor Party 18 The Nationals/Country Party 1 Country Liberal Party

Candidate	Party	Electorate	Votes	Swing	Status
John Brown	Australian Labor Party	Parramatta	34405	-0.10	Incoming
James Carlton	Liberal	Mackellar	36064	-7.40	Incoming
Barry Jones	Australian Labor Party	Lalor	31693	-7.10	Incoming
Neal Blewett	Australian Labor Party	Bonython	33772	2.10	Incoming
Clem Jones	Australian Labor Party	Fadden	23869	2.60	Incoming
Ben Humphreys	Australian Labor Party	Griffith	28736	-1.10	Incoming
Douglas Everingham	Australian Labor Party	Capricornia	29996	2.00	Incoming
Don Cameron	Liberal	Fadden	20909	-22.30	Incoming
Clyde Holding	Australian Labor Party	Melbourne Ports	31308	-5.50	Incoming
John Dawkins	Australian Labor Party	Fremantle	29700	-6.50	Incoming
William Burns	Liberal	Isaacs	29857	-6.80	Incoming
David Simmons	Australian Labor Party	Calare	26799	-0.90	Incoming
Peter Shack	Liberal	Tangney	32198	-7.70	Incoming
Roger Johnston	Liberal	Hotham	27663	-11.70	Incoming
Brian Howe	Australian Labor Party	Batman	31538	-4.60	Incoming
Ted Lindsay	Australian Labor Party	Herbert	22668	-5.50	Incoming
John Sullivan	The Nationals/Country Party	Riverina	31134	1.10	Outgoing
Col Carige	The Nationals/Country Party	Capricornia	25314	13.60	Outgoing
Tony Whitlam	Australian Labor Party	St George	30227	-3.60	Outgoing
Mac Holten	The Nationals/Country Party	Indi	21832	-25.60	Outgoing
Alexander Mackenzie	The Nationals/Country Party	Calare	20893	-1.40	Outgoing

Name	Jurisdiction	Type
Adelaide	SA	Division
Balaclava	VIC	Division
Ballarat	VIC	Division
Banks	NSW	Division
Barker	SA	Division
Barton	NSW	Division
Bass	TAS	Division
Batman	VIC	Division
Bendigo	VIC	Division
Bennelong	NSW	Division
Berowra	NSW	Division
Blaxland	NSW	Division
Bonython	SA	Division
Boothby	SA	Division
Bowman	QLD	Division
Braddon	TAS	Division
Bradfield	NSW	Division
Brisbane	QLD	Division
Bruce	VIC	Division
Burke	VIC	Division
Calare	NSW	Division
Canberra	ACT	Division
Canning	WA	Division
Capricornia	QLD	Division
Casey	VIC	Division
Chifley	NSW	Division
Chisholm	VIC	Division
Cook	NSW	Division
Corangamite	VIC	Division
Corio	VIC	Division
Cowper	NSW	Division
Cunningham	NSW	Division
Curtin	WA	Division
Darling Downs	QLD	Division
Dawson	QLD	Division
Deakin	VIC	Division
Denison	TAS	Division
Diamond Valley	VIC	Division
Dundas	NSW	Division
Eden-Monaro	NSW	Division
Fadden	QLD	Division
Farrer	NSW	Division
Fisher	QLD	Division
Flinders	VIC	Division
Forrest	WA	Division
Franklin	TAS	Division
Fraser	VIC	Division
Fremantle	WA	Division
Gellibrand	VIC	Division
Gippsland	VIC	Division
Grayndler	NSW	Division
Grey	SA	Division
Griffith	QLD	Division
Gwydir	NSW	Division
Hawker	SA	Division
Henty	VIC	Division
Herbert	QLD	Division
Higgins	VIC	Division
Hindmarsh	SA	Division
Holt	VIC	Division
Hotham	VIC	Division
Hughes	NSW	Division
Hume	NSW	Division
Hunter	NSW	Division
Indi	VIC	Division
Isaacs	VIC	Division
Kalgoorlie	WA	Division
Kennedy	QLD	Division
Kingsford Smith	NSW	Division
Kingston	SA	Division
Kooyong	VIC	Division
La Trobe	VIC	Division
Lalor	VIC	Division
Leichhardt	QLD	Division
Lilley	QLD	Division
Lowe	NSW	Division
Lyne	NSW	Division
Macarthur	NSW	Division
Mackellar	NSW	Division
Macquarie	NSW	Division
Mallee	VIC	Division
Maranoa	QLD	Division
Maribyrnong	VIC	Division
McMillan	VIC	Division
McPherson	QLD	Division
Melbourne	VIC	Division
Melbourne Ports	VIC	Division
Mitchell	NSW	Division
Moore	WA	Division
Moreton	QLD	Division
Murray	VIC	Division
New England	NSW	Division
Newcastle	NSW	Division
North Sydney	NSW	Division
Northern Territory	NT	Division
Oxley	QLD	Division
Parramatta	NSW	Division
Paterson	NSW	Division
Perth	WA	Division
Petrie	QLD	Division
Phillip	NSW	Division
Port Adelaide	SA	Division
Prospect	NSW	Division
Reid	NSW	Division
Richmond	NSW	Division
Riverina	NSW	Division
Robertson	NSW	Division
Ryan	QLD	Division
Scullin	VIC	Division
Shortland	NSW	Division
St George	NSW	Division
Stirling	WA	Division
Sturt	SA	Division
Swan	WA	Division
Sydney	NSW	Division
Tangney	WA	Division
Wakefield	SA	Division
Wannon	VIC	Division
Warringah	NSW	Division
Wentworth	NSW	Division
Werriwa	NSW	Division
Wide Bay	QLD	Division
Wills	VIC	Division
Wilmot	TAS	Division

Candidate	Party	State	Votes	Elected
Barry Bracken	Workers Party/Progress Party	NSW	56379	No
Robert Howard	Workers Party/Progress Party	NSW	5942	No
Robert Schollbach	Workers Party/Progress Party	NSW	2236	No
Colin Mason	Australian Democrats	NSW	211169	Yes (5)
Paul Mclean	Australian Democrats	NSW	2642	No
Malcolm Hilbery	Australian Democrats	NSW	698	No
Ronald Mallett	Australian Democrats	NSW	852	No
Patricia Clark	Australian Democrats	NSW	3003	No
Allan Chan	Independent	NSW	2903	No
Chan Chung Ling	Independent	NSW	729	No
John Notary	Australia Party	NSW	2437	No
Clifford Willard	Australia Party	NSW	730	No
Allan Jones	Australia Party	NSW	1287	No
Shirley Smith	Independent	NSW	5333	No
Bruce Miles	Independent	NSW	907	No
Cecil Patten	Independent	NSW	476	No
Christos Roumeliotis	Independent	NSW	519	No
Fred Nile	Christian Democratic Party (Fred Nile Group)	NSW	45756	No
Reuben Scarf	Christian Democratic Party (Fred Nile Group)	NSW	2512	No
Patricia Judge	Christian Democratic Party (Fred Nile Group)	NSW	1127	No
William Wentworth	Independent	NSW	53974	No
Leah Young	Independent	NSW	1256	No
James Mulvihill	Australian Labor Party	NSW	1044176	Yes (2)
Arthur Gietzelt	Australian Labor Party	NSW	3154	Yes (4)
Kerry Sibraa	Australian Labor Party	NSW	3342	No
James Billington	Marijuana Party	NSW	21218	No
Diana Fuller	Marijuana Party	NSW	948	No
Peter Livesey	Marijuana Party	NSW	713	No
Peter Baume	Liberal	NSW	1126620	Yes (1)
Milivoj Lajovic	Liberal	NSW	1797	Yes (3)
Dorothy Ross	The Nationals/Country Party	NSW	7798	No
Edgar Woodbury	Communist Party of Australia (1971)	NSW	3401	No
Patrick Clancy	Communist Party of Australia (1971)	NSW	2036	No
Henry Harding	Independent	NSW	442	No
John Esposito	Independent	NSW	2737	No
James Brosnan	Democratic Labour Party (DLP)	VIC	116933	No
Leslie Hilton	Democratic Labour Party (DLP)	VIC	1878	No
Richard Mcmanus	Democratic Labour Party (DLP)	VIC	4381	No
Carolyn Ingvarson	Independent	VIC	3269	No
Elizabeth Morton	Independent	VIC	507	No
Marie Quinn	Independent	VIC	510	No
Donald Chipp	Australian Democrats	VIC	320209	Yes (5)
John Siddons	Australian Democrats	VIC	892	No
Janice Bateman	Australian Democrats	VIC	607	No
Harold Jeffrey	Australian Democrats	VIC	289	No
Neil Sleep	Australian Democrats	VIC	496	No
Alan Missen	Liberal	VIC	816031	Yes (1)
David Hamer	Liberal	VIC	13601	Yes (3)
Thomas Tehan	The Nationals/Country Party	VIC	3845	No
Ronald Hearn	Communist Party of Australia (1971)	VIC	3005	No
Trevor Mccandless	Communist Party of Australia (1971)	VIC	159	No
Hariklia Kokkinos	Communist Party of Australia (1971)	VIC	429	No
Gareth Evans	Australian Labor Party	VIC	676380	Yes (2)
John Button	Australian Labor Party	VIC	1935	Yes (4)
William Brown	Australian Labor Party	VIC	2358	No
Jay Mcroach	Marijuana Party	VIC	14383	No
Peter Mckenzie	Marijuana Party	VIC	390	No
Derek Kruse	Australia Party	VIC	942	No
David Heath	Australia Party	VIC	148	No
Gail Farrell	Australia Party	VIC	261	No
Shane Watson	Independent	VIC	1355	No
Ronald Batey	Independent	VIC	729	No
Peter Kavanagh	Independent	VIC	491	No
Terence Vine	Independent	VIC	4023	No
Kenneth Kitto	Workers Party/Progress Party	NT	1435	No
David Cooper	Workers Party/Progress Party	NT	390	No
Bernard Kilgariff	Country Liberal Party	NT	14763	Yes (1)
Barry Wyatt	Country Liberal Party	NT	700	No
Dennis Booth	Australian Democrats	NT	2486	No
Peter Dean	Australian Democrats	NT	280	No
Edward Robertson	Australian Labor Party	NT	12975	Yes (2)
Harry Maschke	Australian Labor Party	NT	618	No
Charles Murphy	Communist Party of Australia (1971)	QLD	26771	No
David Ryan	Communist Party of Australia (1971)	QLD	3460	No
Ivan Ivanoff	Communist Party of Australia (1971)	QLD	1595	No
Kathryn Martin	Liberal	QLD	557107	Yes (1)
Stanley Collard	The Nationals/Country Party	QLD	4261	Yes (3)
David Macgibbon	Liberal	QLD	2822	Yes (5)
Anne Glew	Independent	QLD	5619	No
Geoffrey Crouch	Independent	QLD	1055	No
James Drabsch	Independent	QLD	3417	No
Lloyd Drabsch	Independent	QLD	431	No
Ace Drabsch	Independent	QLD	485	No
George Georges	Australian Labor Party	QLD	371192	Yes (2)
Malcolm Colston	Australian Labor Party	QLD	6653	Yes (4)
Verona Wake	Australian Labor Party	QLD	2573	No
Vivian Forbes	Workers Party/Progress Party	QLD	7003	No
Owen Pershouse	Workers Party/Progress Party	QLD	601	No
Suzanne Ham	Workers Party/Progress Party	QLD	418	No
Barrie Fulcher	Workers Party/Progress Party	QLD	354	No
Paul Griffin	Australian Democrats	QLD	96377	No
Michael Macklin	Australian Democrats	QLD	641	No
Maureen Burton	Australian Democrats	QLD	1147	No
John Jones	Independent	QLD	3730	No
Bruce Chambers	Independent	QLD	1160	No
Peter Walsh	Australian Labor Party	WA	191373	Yes (2)
Ruth Coleman	Australian Labor Party	WA	3914	Yes (5)
Howard Olney	Australian Labor Party	WA	1494	No
Peter Richardson	Workers Party/Progress Party	WA	9222	No
Robert Scott	Workers Party/Progress Party	WA	651	No
Janet Beeck	Workers Party/Progress Party	WA	539	No
Fred Chaney	Liberal	WA	276714	Yes (1)
Andrew Thomas	Liberal	WA	1054	Yes (3)
Allan Rocher	Liberal	WA	645	Yes (4)
Donald Eckersley	The Nationals/Country Party	WA	35462	No
Donald Thomas	The Nationals/Country Party	WA	445	No
Moira Jones	The Nationals/Country Party	WA	712	No
Francesco Nesci	Independent	WA	689	No
Nellie Stuart	Independent	WA	325	No
John Evans	Australian Democrats	WA	72389	No
Uri Themal	Australian Democrats	WA	342	No
Shirley De La Hunty	Australian Democrats	WA	2181	No
Geoffrey Gray	Independent	WA	929	No
John Cowley	Independent	WA	1078	No
Anthony Messner	Liberal	SA	334161	Yes (1)
Harold Young	Liberal	SA	6986	Yes (3)
Baden Teague	Liberal	SA	3204	Yes (5)
Colyn Van Reenen	Australia Party	SA	1793	No
Kathy Dancer	Australia Party	SA	685	No
Ian Gilfillan	Australian Democrats	SA	77127	No
Michael Lee	Australian Democrats	SA	660	No
Nicholas Theologou	Australian Democrats	SA	709	No
John Whiting	Workers Party/Progress Party	SA	2643	No
Verna Oakley	Workers Party/Progress Party	SA	390	No
Alan Miller	Communist Party of Australia (1971)	SA	1514	No
Muriel Goss	Communist Party of Australia (1971)	SA	370	No
George Jukes	Independent	SA	4840	No
Jean Jukes	Independent	SA	415	No
Geoffrey Mclaren	Australian Labor Party	SA	256488	Yes (2)
Ronald Elstob	Australian Labor Party	SA	637	Yes (4)
Nick Bolkus	Australian Labor Party	SA	1518	No
Stephen Dimitriou	Marijuana Party	SA	4331	No
Andrew Jones	Independent	SA	3747	No
Shirley Walters	Liberal	TAS	89450	Yes (1)
Brian Archer	Liberal	TAS	16542	Yes (3)
John Watson	Liberal	TAS	11225	Yes (5)
Norman Siberry	Australian Democrats	TAS	11970	No
Liz Holloway	Australian Democrats	TAS	1823	No
Rudge Townley	Independent	TAS	13257	No
Ann Waterhouse	Independent	TAS	2438	No
Donald Grimes	Australian Labor Party	TAS	76859	Yes (2)
Michael Tate	Australian Labor Party	TAS	4327	Yes (4)
John White	Australian Labor Party	TAS	7536	No
Anthony O`Dea	Independent	ACT	3734	No
Noel Mccann	Independent	ACT	341	No
Susan Ryan	Australian Labor Party	ACT	48181	Yes (1)
Robert Smith	Australian Labor Party	ACT	1193	No
John Knight	Liberal	ACT	43446	Yes (2)
Stanley Sparrow	Liberal	ACT	451	No
Gerhard Zatschler	Marijuana Party	ACT	2293	No
Donald Evans	Australian Democrats	ACT	14561	No

1977 Federal Election

Incoming/Outgoing Members

Lower House

Upper House