Results of the 1996 Victorian state election (Legislative Council)

Victorian state election, 30 March 1996[1]
Legislative Council
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Enrolled voters 3,000,076
Votes cast 2,826,467 Turnout 94.21 –1.01
Informal votes 72,800 Informal 2.58 –1.53
Summary of votes by party
Party Primary votes % Swing Seats
won
Seats
held
  Liberal 1,208,168 43.87 +0.38 14 28
  Labor 1,114,843 40.49 +1.93 5 10
  National 182,494 6.63 –2.11 3 6
  Democrats 157,798 5.73 +5.42 0 0
  Democratic Labor 43,553 1.58 –2.96 0 0
  Natural Law 14,129 0.51 –0.11 0 0
  Call to Australia 5,576 0.20 +0.12 0 0
  Friendly Migrant Workers 1,339 0.05 +0.05 0 0
  Independent 25,767 0.94 –2.15 0 0
Total 2,753,667     22 44
Two-party-preferred
  Liberal/National 1,482,617 53.96 –2.69
  Labor 1,264,879 46.04 +2.69

This is a list of Legislative Council results for the Victorian 1996 state election. 22 of the 44 seats were contested.

  1. ^ Hughes (2002) p.319.