sentences:  Despite a Coalition campaign depicting Labor as a party dominated and controlled by union bosses, the result was very close.Labor became the biggest single party in the House, taking 59 seats—an 18-seat swing from 1966.It also won a bare majority of the two-party-preferred vote, winning 50.2 percent to the Coalition's 49.8 percent—a 7.1-point swing from 1966, the largest not to have resulted in a change of government.