Australian referendum, 1967 (Parliament)

1967 Australian referendum
27 May 1967
Do you approve the proposed law for the alteration of the Constitution entitled 'An Act to alter the Constitution so that the number of members of the House of Representatives may be increased without necessarily increasing the number of Senators'?
Results
Votes %
Yes 2,298,669 40.25%
No 3,411,940 59.75%
Valid votes 5,710,609 98.43%
Invalid or blank votes 90,975 1.57%
Total votes 5,801,584 100.00%
Registered voters/turnout 6,182,585 93.84%
Results by state
  Yes     No
Note: Saturation of colour denotes strength of vote

One of the two parts of the Australian referendum, 1967 was a question relating to the relative number of members in each house of the Australian Parliament − the so-called "nexus". Section 24 of the Australian Constitution requires that the number of members in the House of Representatives be, as nearly as possible, no more than twice the number of members in the Senate.

The most important effect of the "nexus" in the Australian Constitution is to prevent the dilution of the collective voting power of the Senate, which represents the Australian States equally, in any Joint Sitting of both houses following a double dissolution election. The nexus ensures that Senators will always have about one-third of the votes in a Joint Sitting, and Members of the House of Representatives about two-thirds.

Question

Do you approve the proposed law for the alteration of the Constitution entitled 'An Act to alter the Constitution so that the number of members of the House of Representatives may be increased without necessarily increasing the number of Senators'?

Results

Result [1]
StateOn

rolls

 Ballots

issued

 For Against Invalid Result
% %
New South Wales2,315,828 2,166,507 1,087,69451.01 1,044,458 48.9934,355 Yes
Victoria1,734,476 1,630,594 496,82630.87 1,112,506 69.1321,262 No
Queensland904,808 848,728 370,20044.13 468,673 55.879,855 No
South Australia590,275 560,844 186,34433.91 363,120 66.0911,380 No
Western Australia437,609 405,666 114,84129.05 280,523 70.9510,302 No
Tasmania199,589189,245 42,76423.06 142,660 76.943,821 No
Total for Commonwealth6,182,585 5,801,584 2,298,66940.25 3,411,940 59.7590,975 No
Obtained majority in one State and an overall minority of 1,113,271 votes.
Not carried

See also

References

  1. ↑ Handbook of the 44th Parliament (2014) "Part 5 - Referendums and Plebiscites - Referendum results". Parliamentary Library of Australia. Archived from the original on 29 September 2017. .

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