AuspolDB: Elections

1975 Federal Election

Electoral System	FPV
Government Type	Majority
Outgoing Government Party	Australian Labor Party
Incoming Government Party	Liberal
Government Seats	91
Nongovernment Seats	36
Majority The difference between the number of Government seats and non-government seats.	55
Date	13/12/1975
House Composition	68 Liberal 36 Australian Labor Party 22 The Nationals/Country Party 1 Country Liberal Party

Candidate	Party	Electorate	Votes	Swing	Status
Donald Dobie	Liberal	Cook	34334	7.30	Incoming
Marshall Baillieu	Liberal	La Trobe	41276	8.50	Incoming
John Haslem	Liberal	Canberra	25697	13.20	Incoming
John Abel	Liberal	Evans	29762	7.50	Incoming
David Jull	Liberal	Bowman	36458	5.80	Incoming
James Porter	Liberal	Barker	36894	10.00	Incoming
Francis Hall	Australian Labor Party	Calare	18845	0.00	Incoming
John Martyr	Liberal	Swan	30914	9.90	Incoming
Ray Groom	Liberal	Braddon	27131	8.60	Incoming
Reginald Gillard	Liberal	Macquarie	37739	14.90	Incoming
Michael Hodgman	Liberal	Denison	26253	6.00	Incoming
Michael Baume	Liberal	Macarthur	41341	6.40	Incoming
Peter Richardson	Liberal	Tangney	34677	12.80	Incoming
Tony Whitlam	Australian Labor Party	Grayndler	32416	-7.90	Incoming
Wallace Fife	Liberal	Farrer	29570	-6.10	Incoming
Ross Mclean	Liberal	Perth	31658	13.00	Incoming
Bill Wood	Australian Labor Party	Leichhardt	25920	-3.10	Incoming
Jack Birney	Liberal	Phillip	31869	6.50	Incoming
Neil Brown	Liberal	Diamond Valley	47975	10.20	Incoming
Max Burr	Liberal	Wilmot	25407	5.30	Incoming
Kenneth Aldred	Liberal	Henty	29621	7.50	Incoming
John Cotter	Liberal	Kalgoorlie	25994	9.80	Incoming
Roger Shipton	Liberal	Higgins	35577	2.10	Incoming
Maurice Neil	Liberal	St George	28371	5.40	Incoming
William Yates	Liberal	Holt	39436	9.00	Incoming
Leslie Mcmahon	Australian Labor Party	Sydney	31493	-5.80	Incoming
David Hamer	Liberal	Isaacs	30646	8.80	Incoming
James Short	Liberal	Ballaarat	29708	5.00	Incoming
John Moore	Liberal	Ryan	31096	-14.00	Incoming
Peter Falconer	Liberal	Casey	39597	9.70	Incoming
William Rutherford	Australian Labor Party	McMillan	22402	-4.30	Incoming
Bruce Goodluck	Liberal	Franklin	23829	12.30	Incoming
Grant Chapman	Liberal	Kingston	34893	12.50	Incoming
James Bradfield	Liberal	Barton	34209	9.50	Incoming
John Coates	Australian Labor Party	Denison	22104	-8.00	Outgoing
Richard Gun	Australian Labor Party	Kingston	30296	-11.00	Outgoing
Ronald Davies	Australian Labor Party	Braddon	23270	-7.90	Outgoing
Raymond Sherry	Australian Labor Party	Franklin	23011	-15.20	Outgoing
Gilbert Duthie	Australian Labor Party	Wilmot	21365	-8.50	Outgoing
Keppel Enderby	Australian Labor Party	Canberra	23517	-8.60	Outgoing
John Dawkins	Australian Labor Party	Tangney	26697	-8.70	Outgoing
Ray Thorburn	Australian Labor Party	Cook	24857	-8.00	Outgoing
Adrian Bennett	Australian Labor Party	Swan	29954	-6.10	Outgoing
Joseph Berinson	Australian Labor Party	Perth	29902	-8.60	Outgoing
Fred Collard	Australian Labor Party	Kalgoorlie	22734	-5.10	Outgoing
Leonard Keogh	Australian Labor Party	Bowman	32825	-7.60	Outgoing
Antony Lamb	Australian Labor Party	La Trobe	35504	-9.40	Outgoing
Gareth Clayton	Australian Labor Party	Isaacs	23506	-5.30	Outgoing
Maxwell Oldmeadow	Australian Labor Party	Holt	38069	-7.80	Outgoing
Joan Child	Australian Labor Party	Henty	25158	-5.80	Outgoing
David Mckenzie	Australian Labor Party	Diamond Valley	34252	-7.80	Outgoing
Race Mathews	Australian Labor Party	Casey	30611	-8.50	Outgoing
William Morrison	Australian Labor Party	St George	28203	-6.30	Outgoing
Joseph Riordan	Australian Labor Party	Phillip	29525	-5.80	Outgoing
John Kerin	Australian Labor Party	Macarthur	36247	-8.20	Outgoing
Allan Mulder	Australian Labor Party	Evans	27357	-6.00	Outgoing
Henry Hewson	The Nationals/Country Party	McMillan	12971	-1.90	Outgoing

Name	Jurisdiction	Type
Adelaide	SA	Division
Angas	SA	Division
Balaclava	VIC	Division
Ballaarat	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	NSW	Division
Darling Downs	QLD	Division
Dawson	QLD	Division
Deakin	VIC	Division
Denison	TAS	Division
Diamond Valley	VIC	Division
Eden-Monaro	NSW	Division
Evans	NSW	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
Lang	NSW	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
Wimmera	VIC	Division

Candidate	Party	State	Votes	Elected
Helen Jarvis	Independent	NSW	22541	No
Gordon Adler	Independent	NSW	1664	No
Robert Cotton	Liberal	NSW	1249256	Yes (1)
John Carrick	Liberal	NSW	1329	Yes (3)
Douglas Scott	The Nationals/Country Party	NSW	1234	Yes (5)
Peter Baume	Liberal	NSW	2664	Yes (7)
Milivoj Lajovics	Liberal	NSW	590	Yes (9)
Dorothy Ross	The Nationals/Country Party	NSW	3786	No
Frieda Brown	Australian Family Movement	NSW	43848	No
Fred Nile	Australian Family Movement	NSW	1271	No
Kenneth Harrison	Australian Family Movement	NSW	539	No
Ron Kelly	Independent	NSW	726	No
Robert Khoury	Independent	NSW	235	No
Jack Kane	Democratic Labour Party (DLP)	NSW	42759	No
Peter Daly	Democratic Labour Party (DLP)	NSW	502	No
Anne Mccosker	Democratic Labour Party (DLP)	NSW	539	No
William Casey	Democratic Labour Party (DLP)	NSW	196	No
James Keogh	Democratic Labour Party (DLP)	NSW	223	No
Peter Westmore	Democratic Labour Party (DLP)	NSW	324	No
Ross Green	Independent	NSW	745	No
Lyn Wilson	Independent	NSW	509	No
Terence Morgan	Liberal Movement	NSW	5972	No
Bill Payne	Liberal Movement	NSW	246	No
Douglas Mcclelland	Australian Labor Party	NSW	1114934	No
James Mcclelland	Australian Labor Party	NSW	4141	No
Tony Mulvihill	Australian Labor Party	NSW	697	Yes (6)
Arthur Gietzelt	Australian Labor Party	NSW	812	Yes (8)
Kerry Sibraa	Australian Labor Party	NSW	434	Yes (10)
Emily Renshaw	Australian Labor Party	NSW	2444	No
John Hill	Workers Party/Progress Party	NSW	27448	No
Mark Tier	Workers Party/Progress Party	NSW	126	No
Susan O`Sullivan	Workers Party/Progress Party	NSW	324	No
Neville Kennard	Workers Party/Progress Party	NSW	73	No
John Grant	Workers Party/Progress Party	NSW	243	No
John Edmonds	Workers Party/Progress Party	NSW	299	No
Colin Mason	Australia Party	NSW	10064	No
Robert Newman	Australia Party	NSW	117	No
Mavis Mcmillan	Australia Party	NSW	435	No
Athol Martin	Independent	NSW	2215	No
Adrian Alle	Independent	NSW	670	No
Noel Howard	Independent	NSW	206	No
Darius Pourshasb	Independent	NSW	36	No
Lawrence Woods	Independent	NSW	142	No
Kenneth Burke	Independent	NSW	147	No
Luciano Becher	Independent	NSW	63	No
David Mcpherson	Independent	NSW	138	No
Bruce Taber	Independent	NSW	140	No
Thomas Guy	Independent	NSW	73	No
Reginald Appleby	Independent	NSW	123	No
Andrew Boyton	Independent	NSW	94	No
Michael Steuart	Independent	NSW	273	No
Michael Wojeszlovszky	Independent	NSW	140	No
John Breen-Hemingway	Independent	NSW	999	No
Ivor Greenwood	Liberal	VIC	974313	Yes (1)
Margaret Guilfoyle	Liberal	VIC	11752	Yes (3)
James Webster	The Nationals/Country Party	VIC	2160	Yes (5)
Magnus Cormack	Liberal	VIC	1554	Yes (7)
Alan Missen	Liberal	VIC	1759	Yes (9)
Thomas Tehan	The Nationals/Country Party	VIC	2096	Yes (10)
John Roseman	Independent	VIC	1616	No
Alan Anderson	Independent	VIC	738	No
Peter Conrick	Independent	VIC	906	No
Diane Ewin	Independent	VIC	341	No
John Siddons	Australia Party	VIC	18788	No
Trevor Cooke	Australia Party	VIC	223	No
Harold Jeffrey	Australia Party	VIC	308	No
Frank Mcmanus	Democratic Labour Party (DLP)	VIC	113860	No
Jack Little	Democratic Labour Party (DLP)	VIC	441	No
Richard Mcmanus	Democratic Labour Party (DLP)	VIC	1142	No
Marianne Crowe	Democratic Labour Party (DLP)	VIC	184	No
Michael Houlihan	Democratic Labour Party (DLP)	VIC	239	No
Jean Melzer	Australian Labor Party	VIC	800434	Yes (2)
Cyril Primmer	Australian Labor Party	VIC	1206	Yes (4)
John Button	Australian Labor Party	VIC	1970	Yes (6)
Bill Brown	Australian Labor Party	VIC	757	Yes (8)
Bill Hartley	Australian Labor Party	VIC	2713	No
Gareth Evans	Australian Labor Party	VIC	4693	No
Andrew Farran	Liberal Movement	VIC	15894	No
Robert Laing	Liberal Movement	VIC	144	No
Ian Robertson	Liberal Movement	VIC	110	No
Philip Martyn	Liberal Movement	VIC	131	No
Bruce Mcguinness	Independent	VIC	2205	No
Elizabeth Hoffman	Independent	VIC	147	No
Alma Thorpe	Independent	VIC	157	No
Shane Watson	Independent	VIC	1461	No
Maurice Smith	Independent	VIC	113	No
Chris Tsolos	Independent	VIC	297	No
Ian Dunne	Independent	VIC	196	No
Neil Leicht	Independent	VIC	49	No
George Alexander	Independent	VIC	322	No
Donald Maggs	Independent	VIC	658	No
Bernard Kilgariff	Country Liberal Party	NT	14149	Yes (1)
Martyn Finger	Country Liberal Party	NT	1370	No
Edward Giblin	Australia Party	NT	448	No
Joan Breen	Australia Party	NT	117	No
Edward Robertson	Australian Labor Party	NT	9438	Yes (2)
Kevin Frazer	Australian Labor Party	NT	769	No
David Fisher	Workers Party/Progress Party	NT	251	No
Alexander Allan-Stewart	Independent	NT	243	No
Kenneth Day	Workers Party/Progress Party	NT	364	No
Charles Perkins	Independent	NT	1278	No
David Russell	Workers Party/Progress Party	QLD	19278	No
Roger Wickham	Workers Party/Progress Party	QLD	779	No
Susan Benfer	Workers Party/Progress Party	QLD	800	No
Neville Bonner	Liberal	QLD	590836	Yes (1)
Ronald Maunsell	The Nationals/Country Party	QLD	3334	Yes (3)
Glenister Sheil	The Nationals/Country Party	QLD	1276	Yes (5)
Kathryn Martin	Liberal	QLD	3608	Yes (7)
Ian Wood	Liberal	QLD	2333	Yes (9)
Stanley Collard	The Nationals/Country Party	QLD	603	Yes (10)
Richard Austin	Liberal	QLD	1238	No
Desmond Breen	Liberal Movement	QLD	4173	No
Michael Hartwig	Liberal Movement	QLD	341	No
Alan Williams	Liberal Movement	QLD	195	No
Condon Byrne	Democratic Labour Party (DLP)	QLD	26133	No
John Williams	Democratic Labour Party (DLP)	QLD	199	No
John Fox	Democratic Labour Party (DLP)	QLD	139	No
Therese Sheil	Democratic Labour Party (DLP)	QLD	133	No
Edgar Lanigan	Democratic Labour Party (DLP)	QLD	82	No
Andrew Jackson	Democratic Labour Party (DLP)	QLD	147	No
John Lamb	Australia Party	QLD	2368	No
Arthur Smith	Australia Party	QLD	148	No
James Keeffe	Australian Labor Party	QLD	380730	Yes (2)
Ronald Mcauliffe	Australian Labor Party	QLD	1121	Yes (4)
George Georges	Australian Labor Party	QLD	660	Yes (6)
Malcolm Colston	Australian Labor Party	QLD	3550	Yes (8)
Colleen Freeman	Australian Labor Party	QLD	917	No
Kenneth Vaughan	Australian Labor Party	QLD	762	No
James Drabsch	Independent	QLD	400	No
Philip Di Felice	Independent	QLD	88	No
Leonard Gravishchuk	Independent	QLD	968	No
Grace Plunkett	Independent	QLD	85	No
Renfrey Clarke	Independent	QLD	128	No
Albert Field	Independent	QLD	2909	No
John Mcrae	Independent	QLD	98	No
Douglas Gillespie	Independent	QLD	78	No
Anthony Catip	Independent	QLD	48	No
Malcolm Just	Independent	QLD	904	No
Anne Glew	Independent	QLD	928	No
George Allard	Independent	QLD	58	No
Hubert Giesberts	Independent	QLD	634	No
Thomas Drake-Brockman	The Nationals/Country Party	WA	36864	Yes (10)
David Reid	The Nationals/Country Party	WA	670	No
Winifred Piesse	The Nationals/Country Party	WA	261	No
Lloyd Nelson	The Nationals/Country Party	WA	138	No
Kevin Critch	The Nationals/Country Party	WA	136	No
Jennifer Lewis	The Nationals/Country Party	WA	297	No
Donald Galloway	Independent	WA	3257	No
Abert Prince	Independent	WA	102	No
Robert Russell-Brown	Australia Party	WA	1512	No
John Stuart	Australia Party	WA	66	No
John Kernot	Australia Party	WA	38	No
William Sullivan	Democratic Labour Party (DLP)	WA	2633	No
Rosemary Taboni	Democratic Labour Party (DLP)	WA	48	No
Peter Moorehouse	Democratic Labour Party (DLP)	WA	55	No
Alan Crofts	Democratic Labour Party (DLP)	WA	40	No
John Poole	Democratic Labour Party (DLP)	WA	28	No
Paul Daly	Democratic Labour Party (DLP)	WA	61	No
Jack Evans	Liberal Movement	WA	4918	No
Diana Downs	Liberal Movement	WA	88	No
Bruce Thomson	Liberal Movement	WA	78	No
James Mazza	Independent	WA	1379	No
Sydney Greenacre	Independent	WA	57	No
George Gaunt	Independent	WA	37	No
Reginald Withers	Liberal	WA	284820	Yes (1)
Peter Durack	Liberal	WA	665	Yes (3)
John Sim	Liberal	WA	132	Yes (5)
Fred Chaney	Liberal	WA	1123	Yes (7)
Andrew Thomas	Liberal	WA	132	Yes (8)
Cynthia Smart	Liberal	WA	486	No
Sydney Negus	Independent	WA	2154	No
Lorraine Negus	Independent	WA	126	No
James Macdonald	Workers Party/Progress Party	WA	6493	No
Geoffrey Mcneil	Workers Party/Progress Party	WA	86	No
Valda Harris	Workers Party/Progress Party	WA	29	No
Kenneth Bellemore	Workers Party/Progress Party	WA	70	No
Roy Morien	Workers Party/Progress Party	WA	48	No
John Wheeldon	Australian Labor Party	WA	200711	Yes (2)
Gordon Mcintosh	Australian Labor Party	WA	250	Yes (4)
Peter Walsh	Australian Labor Party	WA	184	Yes (6)
Ruth Coleman	Australian Labor Party	WA	1068	Yes (9)
Robert Hetherington	Australian Labor Party	WA	317	No
Duncan Graham	Australian Labor Party	WA	621	No
Francesco Nesci	Independent	WA	1268	No
Nellie Stuart	Independent	WA	29	No
Robert Townsend	Independent	WA	33	No
Eric Woodard	Independent	WA	15	No
Kenneth Baines	Independent	WA	61	No
George Abdullah	Independent	WA	1352	No
Keith Lockhart	Independent	WA	161	No
Frederick Bourke	Independent	WA	178	No
Arthur Wight	Independent	WA	28	No
John Furey	Independent	WA	423	No
Mervyn Lambert	Independent	WA	286	No
Gordon Davidson	Liberal	SA	347889	Yes (1)
Donald Jessop	Liberal	SA	1436	Yes (3)
Condor Laucke	Liberal	SA	984	Yes (5)
Harold Young	Liberal	SA	653	Yes (7)
Anthony Messner	Liberal	SA	184	Yes (9)
Jennifer Adamson	Liberal	SA	672	No

1975 Federal Election

Incoming/Outgoing Members

Lower House

Upper House