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1996 Australian Senate Election
The following tables show state-by-state results in the Australian Senate at the 1996 Australian federal election, 1996 federal election. Senators total 35 Coalition (Australia), coalition (31 Liberal Party of Australia, Liberal, three coalition National Party of Australia, National, one Country Liberal Party, CLP), 29 Australian Labor Party, Labor, two Australian Greens, Green, two non-coalition National Party of Australia, National, seven Australian Democrats, Democrats, and one Independent (politician), Independent. Senator terms are six years (three for territories), and took their seats from 1 July 1996, except the territories who took their seats immediately. Australia New South Wales , - , , , style="text-align:left;", Beryl Evans, The Seniors , style="text-align:left;", 1. Beryl Evans (politician), Beryl Evans 2. Lorraine Welsh , style="text-align:right;", 8,268 , style="text-align:right;", 0.2 , style="text-align:right;", +0.2 , - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Senate
The Senate is the upper house of the Bicameralism, bicameral Parliament of Australia, the lower house being the Australian House of Representatives, House of Representatives. The powers, role and composition of the Senate are set out in Chapter I of the Constitution of Australia, federal constitution as well as federal legislation and Constitutional convention (political custom), constitutional convention. There are a total of 76 senators: twelve are elected from each of the six states and territories of Australia, Australian states, regardless of population, and two each representing the Australian Capital Territory (including the Jervis Bay Territory and Norfolk Island) and the Northern Territory (including the Australian Indian Ocean Territories). Senators are popularly elected under the single transferable vote system of proportional representation in state-wide and territory-wide districts. Section 24 of the Constitution of Australia, Section 24 of the Constitution provi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
