Federal elections were held in Australia on 9 October 2004. 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 Mark Latham. |Liberal Party of
Australia||4,741,458||40.47||+3.39||74||+5| |National Party of
Australia||690,275||5.89||+0.28||12||−1| |Country Liberal
Party||39,855||0.34||+0.02||1||0| |Australian Labor
Party||4,408,820||37.63||−0.21||60||−4| |Family First
Party||235,315||2.01||+2.01||0||0| |One Nation
Party||139,956||1.19||−3.15||0||0| |Australian Labor
Party||47.26||−1.79||60||-5| |Party||Votes||%||Swing||Seats
Won||Seats Held| |Australian Labor
Party||4,186,715||35.02||+0.70||16||28| |Liberal/National (Joint
Ticket)||3,074,952||25.72||+1.85||6| |Liberal Party of
Australia||2,109,978||17.65||+1.96||13||33| |Family First
Party||210,