AUSTRALIAN LEGISLATIVE ELECTION OF 23 OCTOBER 1937 ======================================================================================== THE SENATE ======================================================================================== NATIONAL SUMMARY ======================================================================================== Enrolled voters: 4,080,638 Votes counted: 3,921,337 96.1 Informal votes: 416,707 10.6 -00.7 Formal votes: 3,504,630 89.4 +00.7 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Change 1937 + 1934 = Total ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- United Australia / Country Party 1,636,889 46.7 -01.3 3 + 17 = 20 Australian Labor Party 1,699,172 48.5 +20.4 15 + 1 = 16 Others 168,569 04.8 - + - = - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 3,504,630 18 + 18 = 36 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This table shows the number of seats won by each party at this election, plus the seats won in 1934, to give the total number of seats held by each party in the new Senate. The Nationalist and Country parties ran joint tickets. The UAP had 16 Senate places and the Country Party had four.