2016 Australian Senate election

2016 Australian federal election
(Senate)

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All 76 seats in the Australian Senate 39 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Leader George Brandis[a] Penny Wong[b] Richard Di Natale Party Liberal/National Coalition Labor Greens Leader since 20 September 2015 26 June 2013 6 May 2015 Leader's seat Queensland South Australia Victoria Seats before 33 25 10 Seats won 30 26 9 Seat change 3 1 1 Popular vote 4,868,246 4,123,084 1,197,657 Percentage 35.18% 29.79% 8.65% Swing 2.52% 0.16% 0.58%   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Pauline Hanson Nick Xenophon David Leyonhjelm Party One Nation Xenophon Team Liberal Democrats Leader's seat Queensland (won seat) South Australia New South Wales Seats before 0 1 1 Seats won 4 3 1 Seats after 4 3 1 Seat change 4 2 Popular vote 593,013 456,369 298,915 Percentage 4.29% 3.30% 2.16% Swing 3.76% 1.37% 1.59%   Seventh party Eighth party   Leader Derryn Hinch Jacqui Lambie Party Justice Lambie Network Leader's seat Victoria (won seat) Tasmania (won seat) Seats before New New Seats won 1 1 Seats after 1 1 Seat change 1 1 Popular vote 266,607 69,074 Percentage 1.93% 0.50% Swing 1.93% 0.50%
Government (30) Coalition   Liberal (21)   LNP (5)[c]   National (3)   CLP (1)[d] Opposition (26)   Labor (26) Crossbench (20)   Greens (9)   One Nation (4)   Xenophon Team (3)   Family First (1)   Liberal Democrat (1)   Lambie (1)   Hinch (1)
Leader of the Senate before election George Brandis Liberal/National coalition Elected Leader of the Senate George Brandis Liberal/National coalition

2016 Australian federal election
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The 2016 Australian federal election in the Senate was part of a double dissolution election held on Saturday 2 July to elect all 226 members of the 45th Parliament of Australia, after an extended eight-week official campaign period. It was the first double dissolution election since the 1987 election and the first under a new voting system for the Senate that replaced group voting tickets with optional preferential voting.

The final outcome in the 76-seat Australian Senate took over four weeks to complete despite significant voting changes. Earlier in 2016, legislation changed the Senate voting system from a full-preference single transferable vote with group voting tickets to an optional-preferential single transferable vote.^[1] The final Senate result was announced on 4 August: Liberal/National Coalition 30 seats (−3), Labor 26 seats (+1), Greens 9 seats (−1), One Nation 4 seats (+4) and Nick Xenophon Team 3 seats (+2). Former broadcaster and founder of the Justice Party Derryn Hinch, won a seat, while Jacqui Lambie, Liberal Democrat David Leyonhjelm and Family First's Bob Day retained their seats. The number of crossbenchers increased by two to a record 20. The Liberal/National Coalition will require at least nine additional votes to reach a Senate majority, an increase of three.^[2][3][4]

A number of initially-elected senators were declared ineligible a result of the 2017–18 Australian parliamentary eligibility crisis, and replaced after recounts.

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