Seats Changing Hands At The 2004 Federal Election

The table on this page shows the seats that changed hands in the 2004 House of Representatives election.

A total of 15 seats changed hands. A new seat was created in Queensland (Bonner) and a South Australian seat (Bonython) was abolished. A number of seats had notional majorities for one side or the other, due to redistributions.

The ALP won 60 seats, a net loss of 5. It lost 8 seats to the Coalition (including the new and notionally ALP seat of Bonner) but won 4 back. The South Australian seat of Bonython was abolished in a redistribution and its sitting member transferred to the notionally Labor seat of Wakefield, but was defeated. The ALP also regained Cunningham, lost in a 2002 by-election to the Greens.

The Coalition won 87 seats, a net gain of 5. It won 9 seats from the ALP but also lost 4 to the ALP. The Coalition’s parliamentary majority was an overall 24 seats. It was the Howard government’s 4th consecutive election win and the second in a row in which the government increased its majority.

The three independents from the previous parliament all retained their seats: Peter Andren (Calare), Bob Katter (Kennedy) and Tony Windsor (New England).

Summary of Seats Changing Hands – 2004 Federal Election
Party/Group	2007 Seats	Seats Won	Seats Lost	2010 Total
ALP	65 64	5	9	60
Coalition (Liberal, Nationals & Country Liberals)	82	9	4	87
Independent	3	–	–	3 (Calare, Kennedy, New England)

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 2004 FEDERAL ELECTION
No.	Seat	State/ Territory	Member/ Candidate	HELD BY	Member	WON BY
1.	Cunningham	NSW	Michael Organ	Greens	Sharon Bird	ALP
2.	Greenway	NSW	Frank Mossfield Ed Husic	ALP	Louise Markus	Liberal
3.	Parramatta	NSW	Ross Cameron	Liberal	Julie Owens	ALP
4.	Richmond	NSW	Larry Anthony	National	Justine Elliot	ALP
5.	McMillan	VIC	Christian Zahra	ALP (nominally Liberal)	Russell Broadbent	Liberal
6.	Bonner	QLD	Con Sciacca	ALP (nominally ALP)	Ross Vasta	Liberal
7.	Bowman	QLD	Con Sciacca Donna Webster	ALP (nominally Liberal)	Andrew Laming	Liberal
8.	Hasluck	WA	Sharryn Jackson	ALP	Stuart Henry	Liberal
9.	Stirling	WA	Jann McFarlane	ALP	Michael Keenan	Liberal
10.	Adelaide	SA	Trish Worth	Liberal	Kate Ellis	ALP
11.	Hindmarsh	SA	Christine Gallus Simon Birmingham	Liberal	Steve Georganas	ALP
12.	Kingston	SA	David Cox	ALP	Kym Richardson	Liberal
13.	Wakefield	SA	Martyn Evans (ex-Bonython – abolished)	ALP (nominally ALP)	David Fawcett	Liberal
14.	Bass	TAS	Michelle O’Byrne	ALP	Michael Ferguson	Liberal
15.	Braddon	TAS	Sid Sidebottom	ALP	Mark Baker	Liberal