1970 Australian Senate election

See also: 1969 Australian federal election

1970 Australian Senate election
← 1967 21 November 1970 1974 →
32 of the 60 seats in the Senate
16 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Lionel Murphy Ken Anderson Vince Gair
Party Labor Coalition Democratic Labor Party (Australia, 1955)
Seats won 14 13 3
Seats after 26 26 5
Seat change Decrease1 Decrease2 Increase1
Popular vote 2,376,215 2,149,023 625,142
Percentage 42.22% 38.18% 11.11%
Swing Decrease2.81pp Decrease4.59pp Increase1.34pp

An election was held on 21 November 1970 to elect 32 of the 60 seats in the Australian Senate. This is the most recent occasion on which a Senate election has been held with no accompanying election to the House of Representatives; the two election cycles had been out of synchronisation since 1963.