1980 Australian federal election
[1] Perhaps as evidence of this, then ACTU President Bob Hawke (elected to parliament in the election as the member for Wills) and then Premier of New South Wales Neville Wran featured heavily in the campaign, almost as heavily as Hayden.However, due to the uneven nature of the swing, Labor came up 12 seats short of a majority, giving the Coalition a third term in government.Hayden, however, did manage to regain much of what Labor had lost in the previous Coalition landslides of 1975 and 1977.In the subsequent term, the government delivered budgets significantly in deficit, and Fraser was challenged for the Liberal leadership by Andrew Peacock.The Australian Democrats made further gains, winning the balance of power in the Senate.
Coalition
Liberal (54)
NCP (19)
CLP (1)
Opposition (51)
Labor (51)
Coalition
Liberal (27)
NCP (3)
CLP (1)
Opposition (27)
Labor (27)
Crossbench (6)
Democrats (5)
Independent (1)
outgoing memberselected membersHouse of RepresentativesSenateMalcolm FraserBill HaydenLiberal/NCP coalition21 March 197522 December 1977WannonPrime MinisterLiberal–NCP coalitionLabor Party1996 electionBob HawkeKim Beazley1973 oil shockmemberPremier of New South WalesNeville WranResults of the 1980 Australian federal election (House of Representatives)GovernmentCoalitionLiberalOppositionNational CountryCountry LiberalDemocratsDemocratic LaborProgressSocialist WorkersCommunistSocialist LabourProgressive ConservativeUnited ChristianImperial British ConservativeAustraliaMarijuanaIndependentTwo-party-preferredResults of the 1980 Australian federal election (Senate)CrossbenchCall to AustraliaSocialistNational Front of AustraliaBrian HarradineBallarat, VicJim ShortJohn MildrenBrisbane, QldPeter JohnsonManfred CrossCanberra, ACTJohn HaslemRos KellyHenty, VicKen AldredJoan ChildHolt, VicWilliam YatesMichael DuffyHotham, VicRoger JohnstonLewis KentIsaacs, VicBill BurnsDavid CharlesKalgoorlie, WAMick CotterGraeme CampbellLa Trobe, VicMarshall BaillieuPeter MiltonLilley, QldKevin CairnsElaine DarlingMacquarie, NSWReg GillardRoss FreeMcMillan, VicBarry SimonBarry CunninghamRiverina, NSWJohn FitzPatrickNoel HicksSt George, NSWMaurice NeilBill MorrisonSwan, WAJohn MartyrGallagher IndexAndrew PeacockAustralian DemocratsHoward governmentCandidates of the Australian federal election, 1980Members of the Australian House of Representatives, 1980–1983Members of the Australian Senate, 1981–1983Wayback MachineelectionsreferendumsFederal electionsConstitutional ConventionBy-elections