State two-party-preferred tables
This page collects overall two-party-preferred figures for Australian state elections. These are almost all estimates, rather than
exact numbers. The main sources are:
- Colin Hughes' Australian Two-Party Preferred Votes, 1949-82 ("Hughes"), which contains estimates from Hughes himself,
Malcolm Mackerras (NSW, Vic), David Fraser (Qld), and Dean Jaensch (SA).
- Wikipedia's election pages, which usually do not cite a source. Presumably for many recent elections the source is Antony Green
and his old blog that the ABC has messed up; perhaps for some elections the source is ultimately Malcolm Mackerras.
Numbers presented in the tables below are the (estimates of the) Labor share of the two-party-preferred vote.
New South Wales
Victoria
Wikipedia on 2018: "Based on the 87 districts for which the Liberal/National Coalition fielded a candidate. The Liberal Party did
not field a candidate in Richmond. Labor received 73.07% of the two-party-preferred vote in that district at the 2014 election."
Queensland
Hughes: "No figures are provided for Queensland 1957 because the prevailing first-past-the-post electoral system gave no
indication of how preferences might have gone at the 'split' election; by 1960, the availability of figures from the 1958 federal
election allows some informal guessing."
Wikipedia does not give TPP figures in the elections from 1998 to 2004.
South Australia
All preference distributions were fully completed in South Australia from 1977.
Posted 2019-12-29, updated 2020-01-04.