1970 Australian Senate election

1970 Australian Senate election

← 1967 21 November 1970 1974 →
32 of the 60 seats in the Senate 16 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Leader Lionel Murphy Ken Anderson Vince Gair Party Labor Coalition Democratic Labor Seats won 14 13 3 Seats after 26 26 5 Seat change 1 2 1 Popular vote 2,376,215 2,149,023 625,142 Percentage 42.22% 38.18% 11.11% Swing 2.81pp 4.59pp 1.34pp

An election was held on 21 November 1970 to elect 32 of the 60 seats in the Australian Senate. This is the most recent occasion on which a Senate election has been held with no accompanying election to the House of Representatives; the two election cycles had been out of synchronisation since 1963.