Enderronian federal election, 1974

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1970 ← 	19 October 1974 	19 October 1974 	→ 1978
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All 125 seats in the Enderronian Parliament63 seats needed for a majority	All 125 seats in the Enderronian Parliament63 seats needed for a majority	All 125 seats in the Enderronian Parliament63 seats needed for a majority	All 125 seats in the Enderronian Parliament63 seats needed for a majority
Turnout 	11,398,133 (91.67%) ( 0.08pp) 	11,398,133 (91.67%) ( 0.08pp) 	11,398,133 (91.67%) ( 0.08pp)
 	 	 	
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Leader 	Calvin Rhinehart 	Alex Holthe 	Susan Liew
Party 	United 	Social Democrats 	New Democratic
Leader since 	16 December 1967 	6 April 1967 	4 May 1967
Leader's seat 	Parkes (JZ) 	Fairfax (FL) 	Won Chung'an (LS)
Last election 	94 seats, 55.51% 	30 seats, 33.14% 	0 seats, 6.23%
Seats won 	77 	45 	1
Seat change 	17 	15 	1
Popular vote 	5,920,017 	3,534,306 	866,258
Percentage 	48.26% 	38.50% 	7.60%
Swing 	7.25pp 	5.36pp 	1.37pp
TPP 	55.09% 	44.91% 	
TPP swing 	3.31pp 	3.31pp 	
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Winning party by electorate 	Winning party by electorate 	Winning party by electorate 	Winning party by electorate
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Prime Minister before election 	Prime Minister before election 	Elected Prime Minister 	Elected Prime Minister
Calvin RhinehartSocial Democrats 	Calvin RhinehartSocial Democrats 	Calvin RhinehartSocial Democrats 	Calvin RhinehartSocial Democrats
A federal election was held in Enderron on Saturday 19 October 1974 to elect the 125 members of the 8th Enderronian Parliament. It was held concurrently with two referendums, one on daylight saving and one on speed limits.
The incumbent Social Democratic Party government, led by Prime Minister Calvin Rhinehart, defeated the opposition United Party, led by Alex Holthe, and retained a substantial majority, although much reduced from the previous election. It was the first time a Social Democratic majority government was re-elected, and only the second time since 1911 where the major conservative party lost two elections in a row. Additionally, the New Democratic Party returned to parliament by winning a seat at a federal election for the first time since 1962, with leader Susan Liew narrowly winning the seat of Chung'an.
Prime Minister Calvin Rhinehart was hugely popular during his first years in office, but his government began to lose its shine after suffering through the 1973 oil crisis and 1973–1975 recession. The soaring inflation and unemployment rate created a difficult environment for the Social Democrats and an opportunity for United to make gains. The SDP government largely campaigned on the personal popularity of Rhinehart, the continued implementation of its progressive and reformist agenda, and steering Enderron out of recession through its Keynesian economic platform. While the United opposition focused on the SDP's failure to act quickly during the crisis and questioned the government's economic credentials, voters remained doubtful of the United Party's alternative platform; on the most part the public was satisfied with the Rhinehart Government's direction and there was little mood for a change in government. Ultimately, United was able to take 15 seats off the Social Democrats, mostly in areas of United heartland lost during the 1970 landslide. The SDP suffered a 3.3 percent TPP swing, but the damage was cushioned by the large majority it won at the previous election.
This election saw the election of the first two Asian Enderronian women to parliament: Susan Liew of the NDP, and Rei Nagasawa of the United Party. Liew's brother, Marcel, was also elected to parliament at this election, making them the first pair of siblings to serve together in parliament since James and Robert Canley in 1930.
==Results==
↓ 	↓	↓
77 	3	45
Social Democrats	O	United
 	 	 	 	 	 	
Party 	Party 	Votes 	% 	Swing 	Seats 	+/−
 	Social Democrats 	5,500,739 	48.26 	7.25 	77 	17
 	United 	4,388,281 	38.50 	5.36 	45 	15
 	New Democratic 	866,258 	7.60 	1.37 	1 	1
 	Conservative 	377,278 	3.31 	1.61 	0 	0
 	Other 	265,576 	2.33 	1.09 	2 	1
Two-party-preferred vote	Two-party-preferred vote	Two-party-preferred vote	Two-party-preferred vote	Two-party-preferred vote	Two-party-preferred vote	Two-party-preferred vote
 	Social Democrats 	6,279,231 	55.09 	3.31 	77 	17
 	United 	5,118,902 	44.91 	3.31 	45 	15
Total 	Total 	11,398,133 	100 	 	125 	
Independents: Frank Blackburn, Brian Callister
===Results by prefecture===
Party 	Party 	Party 	PL	WE	NS	CO	TJ	WS	JZ	LS	FL	KA	MA	LR	NC	SY	SA 	Total
rowspan="2"	Social Democrats	Seats: 	12	15	7 	7 	7 	4 	6 	5 	2 	3 	3 	1 	3 	2 	0 	77
Vote: 	Social Democrats	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	48.26	
rowspan="2"	United 	Seats: 	8 	4 	8 	5 	4 	5 	2 	0 	4 	1 	1 	2 	0 	0 	1 	45
Vote: 	United 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	38.50	
rowspan="2"	New Democratic 	Seats: 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	1 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	1
Vote: 	New Democratic 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	7.60 	
rowspan="2"	Other 	Seats: 	1 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	1 	2
Vote: 	Other 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	5.64 	
Total seats	Total seats 	Total seats	21	19	15	12	11	9 	8 	6 	6 	4 	4 	3 	3 	2 	2 	125
===Results by region===
Party 	Party 	Party 	Central	West	East	North	Total
rowspan="2"	Social Democrats	Seats: 	41 	13 	15 	8 	77
Vote: 	Social Democrats	 	 	 	 	48.26	
rowspan="2"	United 	Seats: 	24 	14 	5 	2 	45
Vote: 	United 	 	 	 	 	38.50	
rowspan="2"	New Democratic 	Seats: 	0 	0 	0 	1 	1
Vote: 	New Democratic 	 	 	 	 	7.60 	
rowspan="2"	Other 	Seats: 	1 	0 	0 	1 	2
Vote: 	Other 	 	 	 	 	5.64 	
Total seats	Total seats 	Total seats	66 	27 	20 	12 	125
===Seats changing hands===
Seat 	Pre-1974	Pre-1974 	Pre-1974 	Pre-1974	Swing	Post-1974	Post-1974 	Post-1974 	Post-1974
Seat 	Party 	Party 	Member 	Margin 	Swing	Margin 	Member 	Party 	Party
Bayswater, WE 	 	Social Democrats	Simone Volakis 	1.63 	9.84 	8.21 	Spencer Fox 	United 	
Braddon, NS 	 	Social Democrats	Nick Carey 	6.14 	9.89 	3.75 	Clay Gordon 	United 	
Chung'an, LS 	 	Social Democrats	Andrew Rolland 	10.45 	10.72	0.27 	Susan Liew 	New Democratic	
Cook, PL 	 	Social Democrats	Carl Bailey 	3.75 	4.72 	0.97 	Charles Edwards 	United 	
Devereaux, WE 	 	Social Democrats	Larry Valencia 	2.90 	4.16 	1.26 	John Paul Hanson	United 	
East Shore, JZ 	 	Social Democrats	Joan Swanson 	2.05 	12.73	10.68 	Anthony Babbage 	United 	
Epsom, NS 	 	Social Democrats	Eddie Maddox 	2.48 	7.05 	4.57 	Len Severn 	United 	
Formosa, JZ 	 	Social Democrats	Bill Bennett 	2.28 	7.15 	4.87 	Andrew Quinton 	United 	
Gibson, PL 	 	Social Democrats	John Morris 	4.28 	4.37 	0.09 	Kelvin Davidson 	United 	
Kingfisher, FL 	 	Social Democrats	John Beringer 	0.25 	13.51	13.26 	Steven Falconer 	United 	
Latham, WS 	 	Social Democrats	John Murphy-Day	7.10 	7.86 	0.76 	Leland Smith 	United 	
Normanhurst, CO 	 	Social Democrats	Len Trevarthen 	3.98 	9.82 	5.84 	Terry Ziegler 	United 	
Oxley, CO 	 	Social Democrats	Harry Cortez 	4.01 	14.13	10.12 	Peter Washington	United 	
Plymouth Northern, PL	 	Social Democrats	Oscar Reid 	1.38 	2.53 	1.15 	Neil Rothenberg 	United 	
Sierra, SA 	 	Social Democrats	Owen McKinley 	5.69 	N/A 	1.77 	Brian Callister 	Independent 	
Tojima West, TJ 	 	Social Democrats	Rudy Horne 	2.17 	2.99 	0.82 	Rei Nagasawa 	United 	
Van Buren, SA 	 	Social Democrats	Martin Wagner 	4.32 	6.11 	1.79 	Tom Preston 	United 	
Wolseley, NS 	 	Social Democrats	Malcolm Brown 	3.25 	5.39 	2.14 	Mike Behrens 	United 	
Yamaguchi, TJ 	 	Social Democrats	Ken Tamura 	1.76 	5.19 	3.43 	Ross Aldous 	United 	
==Background==
===Parties===
Name	Name 	Ideology 	Party leader 	Seats 	Seats
Name	Name 	Ideology 	Party leader 	1970 result	At dissolution
 	Social Democratic Party 	Social democracy 	Calvin Rhinehart	/ 	/
 	United Party 	Conservative liberalism	Alex Holthe 	/ 	/
 	IndependentsIndependents who sat in Parliament as of the end of the parliamentary term were Frank Blackburn.	– 	– 	/ 	/
==Pendulum==
SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC SEATS (77)	SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC SEATS (77)	SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC SEATS (77)	SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC SEATS (77)
Marginal 	Marginal 	Marginal 	Marginal
Lowe (WE) 	Hayden Burgess 	SDP 	0.41
O'Malley (MA) 	Pete Randall 	SDP 	0.72
Wollstonecraft (LR) 	Darlene McDonald 	SDP 	0.77
Simpson (CO) 	Frank Hunter 	SDP 	1.03
Eltham (WE) 	Dylan Collins 	SDP 	1.50
Jackson (WE) 	Hamish Lewis 	SDP 	1.78
Spilner (WS) 	Alex Reynolds 	SDP 	2.08
Stewart (PL) 	George Coombes 	SDP 	2.14
Endeavour (CO) 	Carl Feighan 	SDP 	2.18
Forrest (MA) 	Clancy Street 	SDP 	2.37
Devon (PL) 	Arthur Finlay 	SDP 	2.57
Hexham (PL) 	Tom Johnston 	SDP 	2.76
Duyfken (SY) 	Glen Ellis 	SDP 	2.81
Brooklyn (JZ) 	Bill Myers 	SDP 	2.95
Lake Macquarie (KA) 	Douglas Chang 	SDP 	3.05
Nishihama (TJ) 	Craig Taggart 	SDP 	3.33
Matsunaga (TJ) 	Ichiro Matsuno 	SDP 	3.39
Lynn (PL) 	Lionel Wicks 	SDP 	3.82
Forsythia Central (NS) 	Jack Bancroft 	SDP 	3.85
Barris (WE) 	Frances Crawford 	SDP 	3.92
Rosslea (JZ) 	Jim Cargill 	SDP 	4.02
Newton (WE) 	Louise Haase 	SDP 	4.51
Whetstone (WE) 	Rob Shadbolt 	SDP 	4.67
Warwick (FL) 	Ian Bowden 	SDP 	4.83
Cunningham (SY) 	Earl Ousley 	SDP 	4.88
Timmermans (NS) 	Jonas Bloemen 	SDP 	5.65
Johnson (PL) 	Jack Warren 	SDP 	5.94
Palmerston East (LS) 	Scott McKinnon 	SDP 	5.94
Fairly safe 	Fairly safe 	Fairly safe 	Fairly safe
Nanshan (LS) 	Dwight Suzuki 	SDP 	7.08
Avalon City (FL) 	Jasper Neal 	SDP 	7.52
Kingston (PL) 	Jeff Brown 	SDP 	7.74
Coburn (NS) 	Ben Wall 	SDP 	7.79
Rockingham Central (CO) 	Austin Shillingford 	SDP 	8.42
St Claire (PL) 	Richard Hart 	SDP 	8.57
Summer Coast (WS) 	Stu Weston 	SDP 	8.61
Lyndhurst (NS) 	Ruth Ziegler 	SDP 	9.01
Rockingham North (CO) 	David Drew 	SDP 	9.03
Anderson (WE) 	Marcel Wu 	SDP 	9.10
Longshan West (LS) 	Charlie Lin 	SDP 	9.21
Hannigan (WE) 	Sam Donovan 	SDP 	9.34
Edison (WE) 	William Watt 	SDP 	9.90
Safe 	Safe 	Safe 	Safe
Cheltenham (CO) 	Mike Saunders 	SDP 	10.44
Tanshui (JZ) 	Leonard Lee 	SDP 	10.45
Parkes (JZ) 	Calvin Rhinehart 	SDP 	10.46
Wellington (WE) 	Stephen Laing 	SDP 	11.04
Hamilton (WS) 	Reg Wardell 	SDP 	11.05
Lewisham (PL) 	Luke Hodges 	SDP 	11.35
Kensington (WE) 	Scott Jackson 	SDP 	12.02
Heathbridge (WE) 	Danny George 	SDP 	12.14
Taylor (PL) 	Brendan Mulligan 	SDP 	12.19
Hayakita (TJ) 	Danielle Lawrie 	SDP 	12.20
Nanhai (PL) 	Joe Moriarty 	SDP 	12.50
Durston (TJ) 	Curt Goodwin 	SDP 	12.67
Gardner (JZ) 	Harry O'Donnell 	SDP 	13.02
Jingcheng (LS) 	Lillian Atkins 	SDP 	13.62
Leightonfield (NS) 	Michael Warner 	SDP 	13.75
Rockingham South (CO) 	Bert Ollongren 	SDP 	13.85
Grey (NS) 	Ed Allison 	SDP 	14.93
Wentworth (WE) 	Jeremy Hagans 	SDP 	15.02
Fairfield (NC) 	Benjamin Leitner 	SDP 	15.07
Woodleigh (NS) 	John Sullivan 	SDP 	15.31
Shirakawa Central (TJ) 	Jon Nakamura 	SDP 	15.58
Mizuoka (KA) 	Aaron Crowe 	SDP 	16.23
Kingscliffe (JZ) 	James Thorpe 	SDP 	16.49
Harvey (TJ) 	Cheryl White 	SDP 	16.75
Douglas (PL) 	Tim Arnett 	SDP 	17.05
Reedijk (CO) 	Taylor Colbeck 	SDP 	17.51
Shirakawa South (TJ) 	Jim Halston 	SDP 	17.53
Taralga (KA) 	Vic Cooper 	SDP 	17.71
Nottingham (MA) 	Hugh Dunford 	SDP 	18.83
Torrens (WE) 	Toby Price 	SDP 	19.01
Karburgh (NC) 	Billy Caines 	SDP 	19.07
Very safe 	Very safe 	Very safe 	Very safe
Palmerston West (LS) 	Ray Sutton 	SDP 	20.98
Victoria (PL) 	Darnell Walker 	SDP 	22.07
Dover (NC) 	Alex Dos Santos 	SDP 	24.87
Port William (WS) 	Thomas Groff 	SDP 	25.06
Bexley (WE) 	Margaret Lyons 	SDP 	26.46
UNITED SEATS (45) 	UNITED SEATS (45) 	UNITED SEATS (45)	UNITED SEATS (45)
Marginal 	Marginal 	Marginal 	Marginal
Gibson (PL) 	Kelvin Davidson 	UP 	0.09
Monash (NS) 	William Carroll 	UP 	0.30
Latham (WS) 	Leland Smith 	UP 	0.76
Tojima West (TJ) 	Rei Nagasawa 	UP 	0.82
Cook (PL) 	Charles Edwards 	UP 	0.97
Plymouth Northern (PL)	Neil Rothenberg 	UP 	1.15
Devereaux (PL) 	John Paul Hanson 	UP 	1.26
Wendell (PL) 	Charles Bland 	UP 	1.52
McLaughlin (LR) 	Matthew Spradlin 	UP 	1.62
Van Buren (SA) 	Tom Preston 	UP 	1.79
Wolseley (NS) 	Mike Behrens 	UP 	2.14
Linden (WE) 	Roger Baker 	UP 	2.34
Mount Gilbert (MA) 	Randy McBride 	UP 	2.75
Merewether (NS) 	Ingrid Olson 	UP 	3.15
Hacking (NS) 	Jack Deane 	UP 	3.41
Yamaguchi (TJ) 	Ross Aldous 	UP 	3.43
Braddon (NS) 	Clay Gordon 	UP 	3.75
Orange (WS) 	Jeff McAllister 	UP 	4.52
Epsom (NS) 	Len Severn 	UP 	4.57
Formosa (JZ) 	Andrew Quinton 	UP 	4.87
Roscoe (WS) 	Lyndon Howison 	UP 	5.72
Berkeley (PL) 	Paul Everman 	UP 	5.79
Normanhurst (CO) 	Terry Ziegler 	UP 	5.84
Plymouth Southern (PL)	Brad Toole 	UP 	5.96
Fairly safe 	Fairly safe 	Fairly safe 	Fairly safe
Hunter (LR) 	Frederick Bosman 	UP 	6.55
Sunshine (TJ) 	Lawrence MacMahon 	UP 	7.11
Mayfair (CO) 	Lou Abbott 	UP 	7.75
Fairfax (FL) 	Alex Holthe 	UP 	7.99
Bayswater (WE) 	Spencer Fox 	UP 	8.21
Kuiper (TJ) 	David Kawasaki 	UP 	8.33
Goulburn (KA) 	Jeremy Kenner 	UP 	8.64
Middle Range (WS) 	John Epstein 	UP 	8.88
Safe 	Safe 	Safe 	Safe
Oxley (CO) 	Peter Washington 	UP 	10.12
Harrison (FL) 	Robert Shields 	UP 	10.40
East Shore (JZ) 	Anthony Babbage 	UP 	10.68
Tregear (CO) 	Blake Edwards 	UP 	10.83
Carlisle (FL) 	Jeremy Kohler 	UP 	11.75
Double Bay (NS) 	Bert Campbell 	UP 	12.22
Dorterhoek (WE) 	Keith Herbert 	UP 	12.33
Rock Valley (NS) 	Rupert Clarke 	UP 	13.03
Kingfisher (FL) 	Steven Falconer 	UP 	13.26
Marshall Bay (CO) 	Ken Harding 	UP 	13.77
Kennedy (WS) 	Clive Dobson 	UP 	15.94
Epping (PL) 	Vincent Speakman 	UP 	17.33
Brighton (WE) 	Christopher Gallagher	UP 	18.42
CROSSBENCH SEATS (3) 	 	 	
Chung'an (LS) 	Susan Liew 	NDP 	0.27
Sierra (SA) 	Brian Callister 	IND 	1.77
Aston (PL) 	Frank Blackburn 	IND 	7.24