List of Landslide Victories - Australia

Australia

After the 2007 federal election some commentators referred to the Labor Party's win under Kevin Rudd as a ruddslide. By historical standards though, the victory was not unusually large. Some notable election results in Australia have been:

• 1917 - Nationalist Party won 53 of the 75 seats in the House of Representatives
• 1925 - Nationalist-Country Coalition won 51 of the 75 seats in the House of Representatives
• 1929 - Australian Labor Party won 46 of the 75 seats in the House of Representatives
• The 1931 election stands as the greatest loss of seats for a government - 32 seats in a 74-seat parliament
• 1943 - Australian Labor Party won 49 of the 74 seats and a 58.2% TPP in the House of Representatives
• 1946 - Australian Labor Party won 43 of the 74 seats and a 54.1% TPP in the House of Representatives
• 1949 - Liberal-Country Coalition won 74 of the 121 seats and a 51.0% TPP in the House of Representatives
• 1958 - Liberal-Country Coalition won 77 of the 121 seats and a 54.1% TPP in the House of Representatives
• 1966 - Liberal-Country Coalition won 82 of the 124 seats and a 56.9% TPP in the House of Representatives
• 1975 - Liberal-National Coalition won 91 of the 127 seats and a 55.7% TPP in the House of Representatives
• 1983 - Australian Labor Party won 75 of the 125 seats and a 53.2% TPP in the House of Representatives
• 1996 - Liberal-National Coalition won 94 of the 148 seats and a 53.6% TPP in the House of Representatives

Australian elections are characterised by few changes in government — since 1949 there have been only five elections where a new party has won government. When a new party is elected, however, it is often by a landslide.

Some notable state election landslides include:

• 1911 Western Australian state election - The Labor party, previously in opposition, won 34 of the 50 seats in the state Legislative Assembly.
• 1933 Western Australian state election - The Labor party, previously in opposition, won 30 of the 50 seats in the state Legislative Assembly, reducing the previous party of government, the Nationalists, to minor party status.
• 1974 Queensland state election - Country-Liberal Coalition won 69 of the 82 seats in the state parliament (the Coalition's win, while overwhelming, was exaggerated by the Bjelkemander in operation in the state's electoral divisions at the time)
• 1981 New South Wales state election - Australian Labor Party won 69 of the 99 seats in the state Legislative Assembly.
• 1993 South Australian state election - Liberal Party, previously in opposition, won 37 of the 47 seats in the state House of Assembly.
• 2001 Queensland state election - Australian Labor Party won 66 of the 89 seats in the state Legislative Assembly.
• 2002 Victorian state election - Australian Labor Party won 62 of the 88 seats in the state Legislative Assembly.
• 2011 New South Wales state election- Liberal/National coalition won 69 of the 93 seats in the Legislative Assembly
• 2012 Queensland state election - Liberal National Party of Queensland won 78 of the 89 seats in the state Legislative Assembly.