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2022 Australian federal election |
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State and territory results |
The 2022 Australian Senate election was held on 21 May 2022 to elect 40 of the 76 senators in the Australian Senate as part of the 2022 federal election. Senators elected at this election took office on 1 July 2022, with the exception of the Senators elected from two territories whose terms commenced from election day. The elected senators sit alongside continuing senators elected in 2019 as part of the 47th Parliament of Australia.
The Coalition remained the largest parliamentary grouping in the Senate, despite their defeat in the House of Representatives. The Greens won three additional seats in the Senate, thereby gaining the balance of power in the upper house; two senators from every state were Greens as a result of this election. Meanwhile, the incoming Labor government's numbers in the Senate remained unchanged. The six other crossbench seats were 2 One Nation, 2 Jacqui Lambie Network, 1 United Australia Party, and 1 independent (David Pocock).
Party | First-preference votes | % | ± | Seats | |||||
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Seats won | Not up | New total | Seat change | ||||||
Liberal/National joint ticket | 2,997,004 | 19.93 | –1.66 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 1 | ||
Liberal National (Qld) | 1,061,638 | 7.06 | –0.67 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 | ||
Liberal | 1,052,571 | 7.00 | –1.24 | 7 | 8 | 15 | 2 | ||
Country Liberal (NT) | 32,846 | 0.22 | –0.04 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||
National | 3,969 | 0.03 | –0.14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Liberal/National Coalition | 5,148,028 | 34.24 | –3.75 | 15 | 17 | 32 | 4 | ||
Labor | 4,525,598 | 30.09 | +1.30 | 15 | 11 | 26 | |||
Greens | 1,903,403 | 12.66 | +2.47 | 6 | 6 | 12 | 3 | ||
One Nation | 644,744 | 4.29 | –1.11 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
United Australia | 520,520 | 3.46 | +1.10 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||
Legalise Cannabis | 501,421 | 3.33 | +1.53 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Liberal Democrats | 340,132 | 2.26 | +1.10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Animal Justice | 240,696 | 1.60 | +0.34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Shooters, Fishers and Farmers | 147,737 | 0.98 | –0.75 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Great Australian | 82,237 | 0.55 | +0.32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Sustainable Australia | 78,181 | 0.52 | +0.11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Reason | 74,223 | 0.49 | +0.49 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Indigenous-Aboriginal | 71,811 | 0.48 | +0.48 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Australian Democrats | 65,532 | 0.44 | +0.27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
David Pocock | 60,406 | 0.40 | +0.40 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||
Justice | 54,366 | 0.36 | –0.36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Fusion | 51,676 | 0.34 | +0.34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Informed Medical Options | 48,830 | 0.32 | +0.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Australian Values | 41,351 | 0.27 | +0.27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Federation | 33,551 | 0.22 | +0.22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Christians | 33,143 | 0.22 | +0.06 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Lambie Network | 31,203 | 0.21 | +0.00 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||
Citizens | 29,799 | 0.20 | +0.13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Socialist Alliance | 28,057 | 0.19 | +0.14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Western Australia | 26,555 | 0.18 | +0.06 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Patrick Team | 23,425 | 0.16 | +0.16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 [a] | ||
Victorian Socialists | 21,739 | 0.14 | +0.14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Federal ICAC Now | 18,508 | 0.12 | +0.12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
TNL | 13,217 | 0.09 | +0.09 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Seniors United | 12,790 | 0.09 | +0.04 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Kim for Canberra | 12,622 | 0.08 | +0.08 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Local | 7,605 | 0.05 | +0.05 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Progressives | 5,932 | 0.04 | +0.04 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Democratic Alliance | 5,566 | 0.04 | +0.04 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Unendorsed/ungrouped | 136,054 | 0.90 | +0.40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 [b] | ||
Total | 15,040,658 | 100.00 | – | 40 | 36 | 76 | – | ||
Invalid/blank votes | 532,003 | 3.42 | −0.39 | – | – | – | – | ||
Turnout | 15,572,661 | 90.47 | –2.01 | – | – | – | – | ||
Registered Voters | 17,213,433 | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||
Source: AEC for votes, ABC for seats |
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