Seats Changing Hands At The 2010 Federal Election

The table on this page shows the seats that changed hands in the 2010 House of Representatives election.

A total of 16 seats changed hands.

The ALP lost 13 (including 7 in Queensland) of the 83 seats it won in 2007. It picked up 2, both in Victoria (La Trobe and McEwen), giving it a net 72 seats.

The Coalition won 65 seats at the 2007 election. The seat of Lyne moved from coalition to independent as a result of a mid-term by-election. In 2010, the Coalition won 11 seats and lost 2. One seat (O’Connor) moved from the Liberal Party to the Nationals (WA) and was not formally part of the coalition. The net result for the coalition was 72 seats, with O’Connor effectively making it 73.

In Queensland, the Liberal and National Parties merged to form the Liberal National Party (LNP). The LNP won 21 seats. This is included in the coalition count.

The 2010 crossbench consisted of 5 members: Greens (Adam Bandt) 1, KAP (Bob Katter) 1, Independent (Tony Windsor, Rob Oakeshott, Andrew Wilkie) 3.

Summary of Seats Changing Hands – 2010 Federal Election
Party/Group	2007 Seats	Seats Won	Seats Lost	2010 Total
ALP	83	2	13	72
Coalition (Liberal, Nationals & Country Liberals)	65 64	11	3	72
National Party (WA)	0	1	–	1
Greens	–	1 (Melbourne)	–	1
Katter’s Australian Party	1 (Kennedy)	–	–	1
Independent	1 2 (New England, Lyne)	1 (Denison)		3

In the following table, the names of retiring sitting members are shown in italics, followed by the name of the new candidate for that party.

SEATS CHANGING HANDS AT THE 2010 FEDERAL ELECTION
No.	Seat	State/ Territory	Former Member/ Candidate	HELD BY	New Member	WON BY
1.	Bennelong	NSW	Maxine McKew	ALP	John Alexander	Liberal
2.	Macquarie	NSW	Bob Debus Susan Templeman	ALP	Louise Markus	Liberal
3.	La Trobe	VIC	Jason Wood	Liberal	Laura Smyth	ALP
4.	McEwen	VIC	Fran Bailey Cameron Caine	Liberal	Rob Mitchell	ALP
5.	Melbourne	VIC	Lindsay Tanner Cath Bowtell	ALP	Adam Bandt	Greens
6.	Bonner	QLD	Kerry Rea	ALP	Ross Vasta	Liberal National
7.	Brisbane	QLD	Arch Bevis	ALP	Teresa Gambaro	Liberal National
8.	Dawson	QLD	James Bidgood Mike Brunker	ALP	George Christensen	Liberal National
9.	Flynn	QLD	Chris Trevor	ALP	Ken O’Dowd	Liberal National
10.	Forde	QLD	Brett Raguse	ALP	Bert van Manen	Liberal National
11.	Leichhardt	QLD	Jim Turnour	ALP	Warren Entsch	Liberal National
12.	Longman	QLD	Jon Sullivan	ALP	Wyatt Roy	Liberal National
13.	Hasluck	WA	Sharryn Jackson	ALP	Ken Wyatt	Liberal
14.	O’Connor	WA	Wilson Tuckey	Liberal	Tony Crook	Nationals (WA)
15.	Denison	TAS	Duncan Kerr Jonathan Jackson	ALP	Andrew Wilkie	Independent
16.	Solomon	NT	Damian Hale	ALP	Natasha Griggs	Country Liberal