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4.56%}}Percentage point>pp)Instant-runoff_voting#Australia>First preference200x200px)| leader1 = John Howard1995 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spill>| party1 = Liberal/National coalitionDivision of Bennelong>Bennelong (NSW)| last_election1 = 80 seats| seats1 = 82 seats| seat_change1 = {{increase}} 2| popular_vote1 = 4,934,959| percentage1 = 42.92%| swing1 = {{increase}} 3.41%200x200px)| leader2 = Kim Beazley1996 Australian Labor Party leadership election>| party2 = Australian Labor PartyDivision of Brand>Brand (WA)| last_election2 = 67 seats| seats2 = 65 seats| seat_change2 = {{decrease}} 2| popular_vote2 = 4,341,420 | percentage2 = 37.84%| swing2 = {{decrease}} 2.26%Prime Minister of Australia>Prime Minister| before_election = John Howard| before_party = Liberal/National coalition| posttitle = Subsequent Prime Minister| after_election = John Howard| after_party = Liberal/National coalitionTwo-party-preferred vote>TPP| 1data1 = 51.03%| 1data2 = 48.97%Two-party-preferred vote>TPP swing| 2data1 = {{increase}} 2.01| 2data2 = {{decrease}} 2.01400px)| map_size =| map_caption = Results by division for the House of Representatives, shaded by winning party's margin of victory.}}{{2001 Australian federal election sidebar}}The 2001 Australian federal election was held in Australia on 10 November 2001. All 150 seats in the House of Representatives and 40 seats in the 76-member Senate were up for election. The incumbent Liberal Party of Australia led by Prime Minister of Australia John Howard and coalition partner the National Party of Australia led by John Anderson defeated the opposition Australian Labor Party led by Kim Beazley. Future Opposition Leader Peter Dutton entered parliament at this election.As of 2023 this was the most recent federal election to have a rematch in 11 years, and the most recent repeated election when Howard beat Beazley just 3 years earlier and until 2013 to have both major party leaders running in previous federal elections as major party leaders when in 2013 (Kevin Rudd didn't became labor leader nor prime minister in the 2010 the same election when Tony Abbott was in his first as Liberal leader), and the last for both major party leaders to appear in consecutive federal elections in 24 years.

Background

File:ABC Tampa.ogv|right|thumb|ABC news report of the Tampa affair and its political context, October 2001.]]Throughout much of 2001, the Coalition had been trailing Labor in opinion polls, thanks to dissatisfaction with the government's economic reform programme and high petrol prices.{{citation needed|date=September 2018}} The opposition Australian Labor Party had won a majority of the two-party-preferred vote at the previous election and had won a series of state and territory elections. Labor also recorded positive swings in two by-elections, taking the Queensland seat of Ryan and coming close in Aston.However following the September 11 attacks, and the Children Overboard and Tampa affairs, Polls swung strongly toward the coalition after the "Tampa" controversy but before the 11 September attacks.Issues that swung elections: Tampa and the national security election of 2001 The ConversationIn fact, voter concern with terrorism in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks in the United States was noted, with the rise in the combined primary votes of the major partiesfrom 79.61% at the previous election in 1998, to 81.17% at this election. There would be further increases in the combined major party primary vote in 2004 and 2007.Another major issue was the collapse of the country's second-biggest airline Ansett Australia and the question of whether it should be given a bailout. The Coalition was opposed to any bailout because the collapse was not the government's fault.{{citation needed|date=September 2018}} However, Labor supported a bailout, because the company's collapse was about to result in the biggest mass job loss in Australian history, whilst also arguing that the government was partially responsible for allowing Ansett to be taken over by Air New Zealand, a move which had caused Ansett's failure.WEB,weblink Tampa issue improves Coalition election prospects: ABC 7.30 report 4/9/2001, Abc.net.au, 2010-06-13,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20081022004215weblink">weblink 22 October 2008, dead, Although the two-party preferred result was reasonably close, the ALP recorded its lowest primary vote since 1934.WEB,weblink australianpolitics.com, australianpolitics.com, 2010-06-13, Political scientists{{who|date=September 2018}} have suggested that television coverage has subtly transformed the political system, with a spotlight on leaders rather than parties, thereby making for more of an American presidential-style system. In this election, television news focused on international issues, especially terrorism and asylum seekers. Minor parties were largely ignored as the two main parties monopolised the media's attention. The election was depicted as a horse-race between Howard and Beazley, with Howard running ahead and therefore being given more coverage than his Labor rival.David Denemark, Ian Ward, and Clive Bean, Election Campaigns and Television News Coverage: The Case of the 2001 Australian Election. Australian Journal of Political Science. (2007) 42#1 pp: 89–109 onlineThe election-eve Newspoll forecast that the Liberal/National Coalition would get 53 percent of the two-party-preferred vote.WEB,weblink Newspoll archive since 1987, Polling.newspoll.com.au.tmp.anchor.net.au, 2016-07-30,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20160303135154weblink">weblink 3 March 2016, dead,

Results

House of Representatives results

File:Australian House of Representatives elected members, 2001.svg|right|thumb|250px|Government (82)Coalition{{Color box|{{Australian politics/party colours|Liberal}}|border=darkgray}} Liberal (68){{Color box|{{Australian politics/party colours|National}}|border=darkgray}} National (13){{Color box|{{party color|Country Liberal Party}}|border=darkgray}} CLP (1)Opposition (65){{Color box|{{Australian politics/party colours|Labor}}|border=darkgray}} Labor (65)Crossbench (3){{Color box|{{Australian politics/party colours|Independent}}|border=darkgray}} Independent (3){{notelist}}]] {{Excerpt|Results of the 2001 Australian federal election (House of Representatives)|Australia|bold=yes}}{{bar box| title=Popular vote| titlebar=#ddd| width=600px| barwidth=410px| bars={{bar percent|Labor|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|37.84}}{{bar percent|Liberal|{{party color|Liberal Party of Australia}}|37.40}}{{bar percent|National|{{party color|National Party of Australia}}|5.61}}{{bar percent|Democrats|#F4940D|5.51}}{{bar percent|Greens|#10C25B|4.96}}{{bar percent|One Nation|{{party color|One Nation (Australia)}}|4.34}}{{bar percent|CLP|#ff9933|0.32}}{{bar percent|Independents|{{party color|Independent (politician)}}|2.71}}{{bar percent|Other|#777777|1.41}}}}{{bar box| title=Two-party-preferred vote| titlebar=#ddd| width=600px| barwidth=410px| bars={{bar percent|Coalition|{{party color|Coalition (Australia)}}|50.95}}{{bar percent|Labor|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|49.05}}}}{{bar box| title=Parliament seats| titlebar=#ddd| width=600px| barwidth=410px| bars={{bar percent|Coalition|{{party color|Coalition (Australia)}}|54.67}}{{bar percent|Labor|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|43.33}}{{bar percent|Independents|{{party color|Independent (politician)}}|2.00}}}}

Senate results

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House of Representatives preference flows

• The Nationals had candidates in 14 seats where three-cornered-contests existed, with 87.34% of preferences favouring the Liberal Party.
• The Democrats contested 145 electorates with preferences favouring Labor (64.13%).
• The Greens contested 145 electorates with preferences strongly favouring Labor (74.83%).
• One Nation contested 120 electorates with preferences slightly favouring the Liberal/National Coalition (55.87%).

Seats changing hands

The following table indicates seats that changed hands from one party to another at this election. It compares the election results with the previous margins, taking into account redistributions in New South Wales, Western Australia, South Australia, Tasmania and both territories. As a result, it includes the seats of Macarthur and Parramatta, which were held by Liberal members but had notional Labor margins. The table also includes the new seat of Hasluck (retained by Labor); the abolished Northern Territory, which was divided into Lingiari (retained by Labor) and Solomon (retained by the CLP); and Paterson, a Labor seat made Liberal by the redistribution{|class="wikitable"! rowspan=2 | Seat! colspan=4 | 1998! rowspan=2 |Notionalmargin{{hsp}}{{efn|For seats that were affected by the redistribution the Australian Electoral Commission calculated "notional" margins for the redistributed divisions by modelling the outcome of the previous election as if the new boundaries had been in place.WEB, National seat status,weblink Australian Electoral Commission, 13 May 2019, |name=Notional}}! Swing! colspan=4| 2001! colspan=2| Party! Member! MarginWEB, Electoral Newsfile 97: Seat Status including notional seat status for SA, NSW, Tas, WA and NT Divisions, 2001, Australian Electoral Commission,weblink !! Margin! Member! colspan=2 | PartyDivision of Ballarat>Ballarat, VicLiberal}}| Liberal}}| Michael Ronaldson 2.77 5.50 2.73Catherine King (politician)>Catherine KingLabor}}Labor}}| Division of Canning>Canning, WALabor}}| Labor}}| Jane Gerick 3.52 0.04 0.42 0.38Don Randall (politician)>Don RandallLiberal}}Liberal}}| Division of Dickson>Dickson, QldLabor}}| Labor}}| Cheryl Kernot 0.12 6.09 5.97| Peter DuttonLiberal}}Liberal}}| Division of Dobell>Dobell, NSWLabor}}| Labor}}Michael Lee (Australian politician)>Michael Lee 3.35 1.53 1.91 0.38| Ken TicehurstLiberal}}Liberal}}| Division of Farrer>Farrer, NSW{{hsp}}{{efnname=Farrer}}Nationals}}| Nationals}}| Tim Fischer 14.6214.18 N/A 16.37| Sussan LeyLiberal}}Liberal}}| Division of Hasluck>Hasluck, WALabor}} |Labor}} New seat 2.55 –0.77 1.78| Sharryn JacksonLabor}}Labor}} |Division of Kennedy>Kennedy, QldNationals}} | Nationals}}| Bob Katter 11.19 N/A 19.69| Bob KatterIndependent}}Independent}} | Division of Lingiari>Lingiari, NTLabor}} |Labor}} New seat 3.53 1.76 5.29| Warren SnowdonLabor}}Labor}} |Division of Macarthur>Macarthur, NSWLiberal}} |Liberal}}John Fahey (politician)>John Fahey 5.63 –1.69{{hsp}}{{efnname=Macarthur}} 8.65 6.96| Pat FarmerLiberal}}Liberal}} | Division of New England>New England, NSWNationals}} | Nationals}}| Stuart St. Clair 13.66 N/A 8.30| Tony WindsorIndependent}}Independent}} | Division of Northern Territory>Northern TerritoryLabor}} |Labor}}| Warren Snowdon 0.57 District abolishedDivision of Parramatta>Parramatta, NSWLiberal}} | Liberal}}| Ross Cameron 1.07–2.49{{hsp}}{{efnname=Parramatta}} 3.64 1.15| Ross CameronLiberal}}Liberal}} | Division of Paterson>Paterson, NSWLabor}} |Labor}}| Bob Horne 1.22 –1.26{{hsp}}{{efnname=Paterson}} 1.42Bob Baldwin (politician)>Bob BaldwinLiberal}}Liberal}} |Division of Solomon>Solomon, NTCLP}} |CLP}} New seat 2.24 –2.15 0.09| Dave TollnerCLP}}CLP}} | Ryan, QldLiberal}} |Liberal}}John Moore (Australian politician)>John Moore 9.52 −0.90 8.62 Michael Johnson {{Australian politics/name|Liberal}}Liberal}} |Labor}} | Labor}}Leonie Short{{hsp}}{{efn>name=RyanJohn Moore (Australian politician)>John Moore ({{Australian politics/nameDivision of Ryan>Ryan at the Results of the 1998 Australian federal election in Queensland#Ryan, however he resigned in 2001 and Leonie Short ({{Australian politics/name>Labor}}) won the seat at the resulting by-election.}} 0.17 9.69

See also

• Candidates of the 2001 Australian federal election
• Members of the Australian House of Representatives, 2001–2004
• Members of the Australian Senate, 2002–2005

Notes

{{Notelist}}

References

{{Reflist}}

External links

• Australian Electoral Commission Results
• University of WA {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150118085343weblink |date=18 January 2015 }} election results in Australia since 1890
• AEC 2PP vote
• AustralianPolitics.com election details
• Preference flows – ABC

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