See also: Members of the Australian Senate, 1987–1990
1987 Australian Senate elections
← 1984
11 July 1987
1990 →
All 76 seats in the Australian Senate 39 seats needed for a majority
First party
Second party
Leader
Fred Chaney
John Button
Party
Liberal/National Coalition
Labor
Leader since
11 March 1983
7 November 1980
Leader's seat
Western Australia
Victoria
Seats before
33
34
Seats after
34
32
Seat change
1
2
Popular vote
3,939,432
4,013,860
Percentage
42.04%
42.83%
Swing
2.50%
0.66%
Third party
Fourth party
Leader
Janine Haines
Robert Wood
Party
Democrats
NDP
Leader since
18 August 1986
Leader's seat
South Australia
New South Wales (won seat)
Seats before
7
1
Seats after
7
1
Seat change
Popular vote
794,107
102,480
Percentage
8.47%
1.09%
Swing
0.85%
6.14%
Senators elected in the 1987 federal election
Leader of the Senate before election
John Button
Labor
Elected Leader of the Senate
John Button
Labor
1987 Australian federal election
Candidates
National results
House of Representatives
Senate
State and territory results
New South Wales
Victoria
Queensland
Western Australia
South Australia
Tasmania
Australian Capital Territory
Northern Territory
Elected House of Representative members
Elected Senate members
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The following tables show state-by-state results in the Australian Senate at the 1987 federal election. This election was a Double dissolution, which means that all 12 senators from each state were up for election. Senators total 29 coalition (27 Liberal, one coalition National, one CLP), 32 Labor, one Jo Vallentine Peace Group, four non-coalition National, seven Democrats, one Nuclear Disarmament and one Independent.[1] Territory Senators served until the next federal election. State Senator terms were nominally three or six years, backdated from 1 July 1987. The Senate used the order-elected method to allocate three- and six-year seats, despite provisions for the AEC to conduct a special recount.
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