AUSTRALIAN SENATE ELECTION OF 5 DECEMBER 1964 ======================================================================================== Source: Australian Government publications Since the election of 30 November 1963 was for the House of Representatives only, and since the terms of Senators elected in 1958 ran until 30 June 1965, an election for half the Senate was held on 5 December 1964. NATIONAL SUMMARY ======================================================================================== Enrolled voters: 5,880,952 Votes counted: 5,556,980 94.5 Informal votes: 387,930 07.0 Formal votes: 5,169,050 93.0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party Votes % Change 1964 + 1961 = Total ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Liberal CP coalition 2,362,081 45.7 +04.3 14 + 16 = 30 Australian Labor Party 2,308,670 44.7 +00.0 14 + 13 = 29 Democratic Labor Party 433,511 08.4 -01.4 2 + - = 2 Others 64,788 01.2 - + 1 = 1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 5,169,050 30 + 30 = 60 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This table shows the number of seats won by each party at this election, plus the seats won in 1961, to give the total number of seats held by each party in the new Senate. Voting figures are compared with the 1961 Senate election. The "Other" was an independent.