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Senate Summary

Retiring Senators (Elected 2001)
  LIB NAT CLP ALP DEM GRN FFP OTH Total
NSW 2 1 .. 2 .. 1 .. .. 6
VIC 3 .. .. 2 1 .. .. .. 6
QLD 2 1 .. 2 1 .. .. .. 6
WA 3 .. .. 2 1 .. .. .. 6
SA 3 .. .. 2 1 .. .. .. 6
TAS 3 .. .. 2 .. 1 .. .. 6
ACT 1 .. .. 1 .. .. .. .. 2
NT .. .. 1 1 .. .. .. .. 2
Total 17 2 1 14 4 2 .. .. 40
Continuing Senators (Elected 2004)
  LIB NAT CLP ALP DEM GRN FFP OTH Total
NSW 2 1 .. 3 .. .. .. .. 6
VIC 3* .. .. 2 .. .. 1 .. 6
QLD 3 1 .. 2 .. .. .. .. 6
WA 3 .. .. 2 .. 1 .. .. 6
SA 3 .. .. 3 .. .. .. .. 6
TAS 3 .. .. 2 .. 1 .. .. 6
Total 17 2 .. 14 .. 2 1 .. 36

(* - Victorian Senator Julian McGauran resigned from the National Party and joined the Liberal Party.)

Total Senators
  LIB NAT CLP ALP DEM GRN FFP OTH Total
NSW 4 2 .. 5 .. 1 .. .. 12
VIC 6* .. .. 4 1 .. 1 .. 12
QLD 5 2 .. 4 1 .. .. .. 12
WA 6 .. .. 4 1 1 .. .. 12
SA 6 .. .. 5 1 .. .. .. 12
TAS 6 .. .. 4 .. 2 .. .. 12
ACT 1 .. .. 1 .. .. .. .. 2
NT .. .. 1 1 .. .. .. .. 2
Total 34* 4 1 28 4 4 1 .. 76

(* - Victorian Senator Julian McGauran resigned from the National Party and joined the Liberal Party.)

Below is a list of retiring and continuing Senators. They are listed in the order in which they were declared elected. Senators marked with an asterisk '*" are Senators elected to fill a casual vacancy. More details can be found using the state links.

Current Senators (in order of election)
    Senators facing election   Continuing Senators
NSW LIB Helen Coonan LIB Bill Heffernan
  ALP Ursula Stephens ALP Steve Hutchins
  NAT Sandy Macdonald (retiring) LIB Concetta Fierravanti-Wells
  ALP George Campbell (retiring) ALP John Faulkner
  LIB Marise Payne NAT Fiona Nash
  GRN Kerry Nettle ALP Michael Forshaw
VIC LIB Mitch Fifield (*) LIB Michael Ronaldson
  ALP Robert Ray (retiring) ALP Kim Carr
  LIB Rod Kemp (retiring) LIB Julian McGauran (+)
  ALP Gavin Marshall ALP Stephen Conroy
  LIB Kay Patterson (retiring) LIB Judith Troeth
  DEM Lyn Alison FFP Steve Fielding
QLD LIB Ian Macdonald LIB Brett Mason
  ALP John Hogg ALP Jan McLucas
  LIB Sue Boyce (*) LIB George Brandis
  ALP Claire Moore ALP Joe Ludwig
  DEM Andrew Bartlett NAT Barnaby Joyce
  NAT Ron Boswell LIB Russell Trood
WA LIB Alan Eggleston LIB Chris Ellison
  ALP Mark Bishop ALP Chris Evans
  LIB David Johnston LIB Mathias Cormann (*)
  ALP Ruth Webber ALP Glenn Sterle
  LIB Ross Lightfoot (retiring) LIB Judith Adams
  DEM Andrew Murray (retiring) GRN Rachel Siewert
SA LIB Cory Bernardi (*) LIB Nick Minchin
  ALP Penny Wong ALP Anne McEwen
  LIB Simon Birmingham (*) LIB Mary Jo Fisher (*)
  ALP Linda Kirk (retiring) ALP Annette Hurley
  LIB Grant Chapman LIB Alan Ferguson
  DEM Natasha Stott Despoja (retiring) ALP Dana Wortley
TAS LIB David Bushby (*) LIB Eric Abetz
  ALP Carol Brown (*) ALP Kerry O'Brien
  LIB John Watson (retiring) LIB Guy Barnett
  ALP Nick Sherry ALP Helen Polley
  GRN Bob Brown LIB Stephen Parry
  LIB Rochard Colbeck GRN Christine Milne
ACT ALP Kate Lundy
  LIB Gary Humphries
NT CLP Nigel Scullion
  ALP Trish Crossin

(*) - indicates Senators appointed to fill casual vacancies

Summary of Past Elections
Election Percentage of Vote Seats Won
Year Vacancies ALP LNP DEM GRN ONP OTH   ALP LIB NAT DEM GRN OTH
1977 34 36.8 45.6 11.1 .. .. 6.5 14 16 2 2 .. ..
1980 34 42.3 43.5 9.3 .. .. 4.9 15 13 2 3 .. 1
1983 64 45.5 39.8 9.6 .. .. 5.1 30 24 4 5 .. 1
1984 46 42.2 39.5 7.6 .. .. 10.7 20 17 3 5 .. 1
1987 76 42.8 42.0 8.5 0.4 .. 6.3 32 27 7 7 .. 3
1990 40 38.4 41.9 12.6 2.8 .. 4.3 15 16 3 5 1 ..
1993 40 43.5 43.0 5.3 2.9 .. 5.3 17 15 4 2 1 1
1996 40 36.2 44.0 10.8 3.2 .. 5.8 14 17 3 5 1
1998 40 37.3 37.7 8.5 2.7 9.0 4.8 17 15 2 4 .. 2
2001 40 34.3 41.8 7.2 4.9 5.5 6.1 14 17 3 4 2 ..
2004 40 35.0 45.1 2.1 7.7 1.7 8.4 16 17 4 .. 2 1

The 1977 and 1980 elections were half-Senate elections with five Senators per state. Elections since 1990 have been half Senate elections with six Senators per state. The 1983 election was a double dissolution for 10 senators from each state, while the 1987 election was a double dissolution  for the expanded Senate with 12 Senators per state.  The 1984 election elected seven Senators per state to produce the increase in the size of the Senate. Note that the four Territory Senators were elected at each election.

The 'Others' column includes Senator Harradine in 1980, 1983, 1987, 1993 and 1998. Nuclear Disarmament Party senators were elected from Western Australia in 1984 and 1987 and from NSW in 1987. A One Nation Senator was elected in Queensland in 1998, and a Family First Senator from Victoria in 2004. The Northern Territory's  Country Liberal Senator has been included in the National Party total. Family First contested its first election in 2004 and recorded 1.8% of the national vote.