1990 Australian federal election

1990 Australian federal election

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All 148 seats in the House of Representatives 75 seats were needed for a majority in the House 40 (of the 76) seats in the Senate
Registered	10,728,435 3.62%
Turnout	10,225,800 (95.31%) (1.47 pp)
First party Second party   Leader Bob Hawke Andrew Peacock Party Labor Liberal/National coalition Leader since 8 February 1983 9 May 1989 Leader's seat Wills (Vic.) Kooyong (Vic.) Last election 86 seats 62 seats Seats won 78 seats 69 seats Seat change 8 7 First preference vote 3,904,138 4,302,127 Percentage 39.44% 43.46% Swing 6.46% 2.44% TPP 49.90% 50.10% TPP swing 0.93 0.93
Results by division for the House of Representatives, shaded by winning party's margin of victory.
Prime Minister before election Bob Hawke Labor Subsequent Prime Minister Bob Hawke Labor

1990 Australian federal election
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The 1990 Australian federal election was held in Australia on 24 March 1990. All 148 seats in the House of Representatives and 40 seats in the 76-member Senate were up for election. The incumbent Australian Labor Party, led by Bob Hawke, defeated the opposition Liberal Party of Australia, led by Andrew Peacock, with its coalition partner, the National Party of Australia, led by Charles Blunt, despite losing the nationwide popular and two-party-preferred vote. The result saw the re-election of the Hawke government for a fourth successive term.

It was the first and, to date, only time the Labor party won four consecutive elections. As of 2023^[update] it is the most recent federal election in which leaders of both the largest parties represented divisions outside New South Wales, the last to have both major party leaders from the same city other than Sydney, the last to have a rematch just six years earlier and until 2001, thus was the last for the 20th century, which unlike 13 years earlier in 1977 when it's the last rematch with the same major party leaders appeared consecutively after the previous federal election in the 20th century just 2 years earlier, and the last to have both major party leaders born prior to World War II.