All 150 seats in the House of Representatives 76 seats were required for a majority in the House 40 (of the 76) seats in the Senate
Registered
13,646,539 4.18%
Turnout
12,930,814 (94.72%) (0.40 pp)
First party
Second party
Leader
Kevin Rudd
John Howard
Party
Labor
Liberal/National coalition
Leader since
4 December 2006 (2006-12-04)
30 January 1995 (1995-01-30)
Leader's seat
Griffith (Qld)
Bennelong (NSW) (lost seat)
Last election
60 seats
87 seats
Seats won
83 seats
65 seats
Seat change
23
22
First preference vote
5,388,184
5,229,024
Percentage
43.38%
42.09%
Swing
5.74 pp
4.62 pp
TPP
52.70%
47.30%
TPP swing
5.44 pp
5.44 pp
Results by division for the House of Representatives, shaded by winning party's margin of victory.
Prime Minister before election
John Howard
Liberal/National coalition
Subsequent Prime Minister
Kevin Rudd
Labor
2007 Australian federal election
Candidates
National results
House of Representatives
Senate
Post-election pendulum
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 Senators
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The 2007 Australian federal election was held in Australia on 24 November 2007. All 150 seats in the House of Representatives and 40 of the seats in the 76-member Senate were up for election. The election featured a 39-day campaign, with 13.6 million Australians enrolled to vote.[1]
The centre-left Australian Labor Party opposition, led by Kevin Rudd and deputy leader Julia Gillard, defeated the incumbent centre-right Coalition government, led by Liberal Party leader and Prime Minister, John Howard, and Nationals leader and Deputy Prime Minister, Mark Vaile, by a landslide. The election marked the end of the 11 year Howard Liberal-National Coalition government that had been in power since the 1996 election.[2] This election also marked the start of the six-year Rudd-Gillard Labor government.
Future Prime Minister Scott Morrison, future opposition leader Bill Shorten and future Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles entered parliament at this election. This would be the last time the Labor Party would win a majority at the federal level until the 2022 election. This remains the most recent election in which both major parties won over 40% of first preference votes.
Rudd became the third Labor leader after World War II to lead the party to victory from opposition, after Gough Whitlam in 1972, Bob Hawke in 1983, and before most recently Anthony Albanese in 2022.
Although the Coalition was defeated, the results in Western Australia bucked the national trend. While there was a swing against the Liberal Party and to the Labor Party, which allowed Labor to gain the seat of Hasluck from the Liberals, the Liberals managed to gain the seats of Cowan and Swan from Labor.
^"Gazetted Enrolment as at 31 October 2007" (Press release). Australian Electoral Commission. 15 November 2007. Retrieved 23 May 2010.
^"State of the parties". Australia Votes 2007. ABC Online. Archived from the original on 22 October 2007. Retrieved 25 November 2007.
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