General election in Australia 2013

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(Share of votes in%)
 %
40
30th
20th
10
0
33.4
32.0
8.9
8.7
5.5
4.3
1.4
1.4
4.4
Independent
Otherwise.
Gains and losses
compared to 2010
 % p
   6th
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
  -6
-4.6
+1.5
-0.2
-3.1
+5.5
+0.6
-0.9
-1.1
+2.3
Independent
Otherwise.
Two-party preferred vote
 %
60
50
40
30th
20th
10
0
53.5
46.5
Coalition
Gains / losses
compared to
 % p
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
+3.6
-3.6
Coalition
Distribution of seats in the House of Representatives after the 2013 election
         
A total of 150 seats
Distribution of seats in the Senate after the 2013 election (in office since July 1, 2014)
         
A total of 76 seats

The 2013 general election in Australia took place on September 7th. The 44th Australian Parliament was elected. Mainly the incumbent Labor (ALP) party chairman Kevin Rudd and his challenger Tony Abbott , who is supported by a civil coalition of Liberals , the Liberal National Party and the National Party of Australia , faced each other. The election was clearly won by the bourgeois coalition parties.

prehistory

In the previous parliamentary election in 2010 it was a hung parliament , i.e. H. came to a stalemate between the Labor Party and the opposition parties of the bourgeois camp. Thereupon, with the support of a few independent members of parliament, a Labor Minority Government was formed under the leadership of the Laboratory at the time and incumbent Prime Minister Julia Gillard . Due to the tight majority, however, your government was clearly restricted in its room for maneuver. Key decisions that were made during her reign were a turn in the previous laboratory asylum policy, according to which asylum seekers boat people now have to wait outside Australia for a decision on their asylum application, and an environmental policy to curb CO 2 emissions with the introduction of a carbon tax . The Prime Minister never really gained popularity with the Australian public. In public opinion polls, the Labor Party fell significantly behind the bourgeois opposition parties. In addition, the power struggles within the Labor Party continued to smolder during her tenure and broke out openly in June 2013 when Gillard's long-standing inner-party rival and former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd prevailed against Gillard with 57 to 45 votes in a battle vote to chair the Labor Party . The Prime Minister then made her announcement before the vote and also resigned from the office of Prime Minister on June 26, 2013. On June 27, 2013, Rudd was sworn in as the new Prime Minister. In his inaugural address, he sharply criticized his predecessor, without giving her name directly, that there had been too much “negativity”, a “loss of confidence” and a loss of prestige in Parliament during her tenure, and that nothing had been done to address the pressing problems facing Australia to solve.

The leading candidate of the opposition parties, Tony Abbott , who had already stood in 2010 , said that the Australians had now deserved "enough of the soap opera" and a new leadership with regard to the replacement of the Prime Minister.

Election campaign

Asylum policy developed into one of the main topics of the election campaign. While Australia had pursued a relatively liberal asylum policy for many decades, this had changed since the early 1990s due to the steadily growing number of asylum seekers. Asylum seekers without a valid right to stay were housed in central detention centers and some were taken to islands far away from the Australian continent as part of the “ Pacific Solution ” or to countries with which Australia had concluded corresponding agreements ( Papua New Guinea , Nauru ). These states received substantial cash payments from Australia in return for accepting these people. Recognized asylum seekers were only given the right to stay in these states and were not allowed to settle in Australia. This practice met with strong criticism from human rights organizations, including the UNHCR and the political left in Australia. When Labor came to power in the 2007 Australian general election , the practice was abandoned, but reintroduced in 2012 under the Labor administration of Julia Gillard. In the election campaign, both opponents, Tony Abbott and Kevin Rudd, took a tough stance on asylum issues. Abbott advocated the use of the military against people smugglers who were bringing asylum-seeking boat people to Australia. Recognized refugees should only receive temporary residence permits and should be able to return to their countries of origin if there is no longer any threat there. Rudd spoke out in favor of the settlement of recognized asylum seekers in New Guinea, i.e. outside Australia. Representatives of the Australian Greens criticized these models as “cruelty” towards people who had fled war, torture and persecution.

Another campaign topic was economic and environmental policy. In a campaign speech, Rudd emphasized that Australia had managed to stay out of the global recession after the 2007 financial crisis . He stressed the need for the Australian economy to diversify. According to Labor's ideas, carbon tax should be gradually converted into emissions trading based on the European model. By 2020, Australia should have 20% renewable energy. Abbott also promised to strengthen the Australian economy under a national-liberal coalition and to abolish the carbon tax . In order to reduce emissions, industry and agriculture are to be supported with state subsidies. Overall, however, government spending should be significantly reduced through spending cuts in order to achieve a balanced budget. The Greens supported the retention of the carbon tax and spoke out against the construction of new coal-fired power plants. The expansion of the broadband internet network was also controversial, where Labor and Greens wanted to make significantly higher investments, while the National Liberals partly relied on already existing copper cable networks.

Suffrage

The 150 members of the House of Representatives and 40 of the 76 members of the Senate were elected. There was compulsory voting .

The election of the members of the House of Representatives took place in 150 one-person constituencies. Here came instant runoff voting is used. The voter numbers the candidates in the constituency in the order he or she wishes. All candidates had to be ranked, otherwise the voting slip is invalid.

Half of the twelve senators in each state were elected for the Senate. These senators will take office on July 1, 2014. In addition, the two senators from each of the two territories were newly elected. These senators took office immediately after the election. The state senators elected in 2010 will remain in office until 2017.

total laboratory Coalition Greens DLP Independent
Elected to states in 2007 36 16 16 3 1
Elected in territories in 2010 4th 2 2
Elected to states in 2010 36 13 16 6th 1

Transferable individual votes were used in the Senate elections . The voter could either order all candidates (where he really had to order all candidates) or the preference order of a party (group ticket) by ticking the appropriate party. For example, in the state of Victoria , the Wikileaks party gave its second preference to the Pirate Party , the third preference to the Animal Justice Party , the fourth preference to the Sex Party, and so on.

Results

Won constituencies by state

The constituencies won are spread over the states or administrative units of New South Wales (NSW), Victoria (VIC), Queensland (QLD), Western Australia (WA), South Australia (SA), Tasmania (TAS), Australian Capital Territory (ACT ) and Northern Territory (NT) as follows:

Majorities after 150 constituencies (lower house election):

Civil Coalition (90) Liberal (58) LNP (22) National Party (9) Country Liberal Party (1) Labor Party (55): Labor (55) Other (5) independent and other parties (4) Australian Greens (1)











Political party NSW VIC QLD WA SA TAS ACT NT Total
(2013)		 Total
(2010)
Australian Labor Party (ALP) 18th 19th 6th 3 5 1 2 1 55 72
Liberal Party of Australia (LPA) 23 14th 0 12 6th 3 0 0 58 44
Liberal National Party (LNP) 0 0 22nd 0 0 0 0 0 22nd 21st
National Party of Australia (NPA) 7th 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 7th
Australian Greens 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
Independent and other parties 0 1 2 0 0 1 0 0 4th 4th
Country Liberal Party (CLP) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1
  total 48 37 30th 15th 11 5 2 2 150 150

House of Representatives

The turnout was 93.23% and 5.91% of the votes cast were invalid. The announcement of the final results dragged on until November 1, 2013, as the election result in the constituency of Fairfax (Queensland) was very tight and was only confirmed after another vote count (50.03% to 49.97%).

Seating in the House of Representatives:

Civic Coalition Government (90) Liberal (58) LNP (22) National Party (9) Country Liberal Party (1) Opposition (55) Labor (55) Other (“Crossbencher”) (5) Independent (2) Australian Greens (1) Palmer (1) Katter (1)













Initial preferences in the election for the 2013 House of Representatives ( IRV )
Political party be right Seats
number % +/- number +/-
Australian Labor Party (ALP) 4,311,365 33.38 −4.61 55 −17
Liberal Party of Australia (LPA) 4,134,865 32.02 +1.56 58 +14
Liberal National Party (LNP) 1,152,217 8.92 −0.20 22nd +1
Australian Greens 1,116,918 8.65 −3.11 1 ± 0
Palmer United Party 709.035 5.49 +5.49 1 +1
National Party of Australia (NPA) 554.268 4.29 +0.56 9 +2
Family First Party (FFP) 181,820 1.41 −0.84 0 ± 0
Katter's Australian Party 131,839 1.04 +0.73 1 +1
Christian Democratic Party (CDP) 88,576 0.69 +0.02 0 ± 0
Australian sex party 78,571 0.61 +0.52 0 ± 0
Country Liberal Party (CLP) 41,468 0.31 +0.01 1 ± 0
other parties 234.381 1.81 +0.86 0 ± 0
independent candidates 177.217 1.37 −0.84 2 ± 0
valid votes 12,914,927 94.09 150
invalid votes 811.193 5.91
Voter participation (compulsory elective) 13,726,120 93.23
Eligible voters 14,722,754 100.0
Two-party preffered vote
Australian Labor Party 5,583,215 46.55 −3.65 55 −17
Liberal / National Coalition 6,411,134 53.45 +3.65 90 +18
Source: Australian Electoral Commission

senate

Forty of the state seats (6 per state, 36 in total) and territorial seats (2 per territory) were newly elected. The elections were separate for each state or territory.

Seating in the Senate after the 2013 election:

Civic coalition government (33) Liberal (24) LNP (5) National Party (3) Country Liberal Party (1) Opposition (26) Labor (26) Other (“Crossbencher”) (17) Australian Greens (9) Palmer United Party (3) FFP (1) DLP (1) Misc. and independent (3)














Political party NSW VIC QLD WA SA TAS ACT NT total
Australian Labor Party (ALP) 2 2 2 1 1 2 1 1 12
Liberal Party of Australia (LPA) / National Party of Australia (NPA) 3 2 0 3 2 2 1 0 13
Liberal National Party (LNP) 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 3
Australian Greens 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 4th
Country Liberal Party (CLP) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
Other 1 1 1 1 2 1 0 0 7th
total 6th 6th 6th 6th 6th 6th 2 2 40

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b First Preferences by Party. (No longer available online.) Australian Electoral Commission , archived from the original October 14, 2013 ; accessed on November 2, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / vtr.aec.gov.au
  2. ↑ Australian PM Kevin Rudd Calls September Election. BBC News, August 4, 2013, accessed August 4, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Clear victory in parliamentary elections: Australians want the conservatives. tagesschau.de, September 7, 2013, archived from the original on September 9, 2013 ; Retrieved September 7, 2013 .
  4. ^ Profiles: Julia Gillard. BBC News, June 27, 2013, accessed June 29, 2013 .
  5. ↑ Kevin Rudd ousts Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard. BBC News, June 26, 2013, accessed June 28, 2013 .
  6. ↑ Kevin Rudd Sworn In as New Australian Prime Minister. BBC News, June 27, 2013, accessed June 29, 2013 .
  7. ^ Profiles: Tony Abbott. BBC News, June 24, 2013, accessed June 29, 2013 .
  8. ^ New Australia Asylum Policy “Troubling”: UNHCR. BBC News, July 26, 2013, accessed August 21, 2013 .
  9. ^ Australia Election: Tony Abbott Proposes Tough Asylum Measures. BBC News, August 18, 2013, accessed August 21, 2013 .
  10. ^ Rudd: Election about "Future Strength of the Economy". BBC News, August 11, 2013, accessed August 21, 2013 .
  11. ↑ a b c d Australia Election: Key Issues. BBC News, September 6, 2013, accessed September 7, 2013 .
  12. ^ Australian Election Rivals Rudd and Abbott Hold First Debate. BBC News, August 11, 2013, accessed August 21, 2013 .
  13. ^ Katie Beck: Australia Election: Why Is Voting Compulsory? BBC News, September 7, 2013, accessed September 7, 2013 .
  14. ↑ http://techgeek.com.au/2013/08/18/who-are-the-wikileaks-party-preferencing/
  15. ↑ The Official 2013 Federal Election Results ( Memento of the original from January 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Australian Electoral Commission @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / vtr.aec.gov.au
  16. ↑ Most recently updated divisions. (No longer available online.) Australian Electoral Commission, archived from the original October 14, 2013 ; accessed on November 2, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / vtr.aec.gov.au
  17. ^ Campbell Newman dismisses Clive Palmer's claims about Qld Government. In: ABC News. November 1, 2013, accessed November 2, 2013 .
  18. ↑ including those classified as non affilated (4850 votes, 0.04%)
  19. ↑ Number of higher preferences of the laboratory or coalition
  20. ^ Senate: Party Representation. Australian Electoral Commission, accessed November 13, 2013 .

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