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Timestamp: 2020-07-13 03:04:53
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Parliament of Western Australia Legislative Council election results for 14 December 1996
Election of 14 December 1996
Assembly 14 December 1996
1,119,992
979,162
Elections held in 14 December 1996
Liberal Party 22 332,588 33.97 -11.63 9 26.47 14 41.18
Australian Labor Party 32 323,886 33.08 -3.74 12 35.29 12 35.29
Liberal Party - National Party (joint ticket) 18 117,211 11.97 * 8 23.53
Australian Democrats 12 64,461 6.58 +3.57 2 5.88 2 5.88
Greens WA 9 54,336 5.55 +0.39 3 8.82 3 8.82
Independents 8 37,236 3.80 -0.38 0
Australian Marijuana Party 5 24,373 2.49 * 0
Call to Australia 4 6,675 0.68 +0.41 0
Australia First Party 2 5,856 0.60 * 0
Natural Law Party 12 5,514 0.56 * 0
National Party 3 5,087 0.52 -3.47 0 3 8.82
Racism No! 2 1,939 0.20 * 0
Totals 129 979,162 100.00 34 100.00 34 100.00
Seats held by parties: The total number of members in the Legislative Council affiliated with each party after an election is shown in the seats held by party column of the 'Votes and seats' table, above. With the abolition of staggered terms from 1989 (see notes above), the seats held by party will usually be the same as seats won by party. At this election (1996), the Liberal Party and the National Party ran a joint ticket which resulted in the seats won by party differing from the seats held by party (see note below).
Liberal Party-National Party (joint ticket): At this election (1996), the Liberal and National parties ran candidates for both parties on a joint ticket in two of the six multimember districts for the Legislative Council (the Agricultural and South-West regions). Of the 8 members elected on this ticket, 5 sat as members of the Liberal Party, and 3 as members of the National Party (see note above).
Australian Marijuana Party: This party (under the name Marijuana Party) was formed in 1977; for details, see Dean Jaensch and David Mathieson, A Plague on Both Your Houses: Minor Parties in Australia, p.59 (St Leonards, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 1998, ISBN 1864484217).
Australia First Party: This party was formed in 1996 by Graeme Campbell, the former Australian Labor Party member for the House of Representatives seat of Kalgoorlie, who left the party and ran successfully for the seat in the 1996 election until defeated in 1998; for more information, see Dean Jaensch and David Mathieson, A Plague on Both Your Houses: Minor Parties in Australia, p.87 (St Leonards, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 1998, ISBN 1864484217).
Natural Law Party: Formed in 1992, this party was committed to '... bring national life in harmony with Natural law so that every Australian will enjoy peace, happiness and prosperity ...', Dean Jaensch and David Mathieson, A Plague on Both Your Houses: Minor Parties in Australia, pp 71-72 (St Leonards, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 1998, ISBN 1864484217).
Antony Green, Western Australian State Election 1996, Western Australian Parliamentary Library, Election Paper Series 1/2001 (Perth, Western Australian Parliamentary Library, 2001, ISBN 0730761002), also online at:
https://bit.ly/2HUumzt
See also Colin A Hughes, A Handbook of Australian Government and Politics 1985-1999, (Sydney: Federation Press, 2002, ISBN 1862873433), and David Black, Legislative Council of Western Australia: Membership Register, Electoral Law and Statistics 1890-1989, (Perth: Western Australian Parliamentary History Project, 1989, revised 1991, ISBN 0730936414).