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The 2016 Australian federal election was an election held on Saturday 2 July to elect all 226 members of the 45th Parliament of Australia. It lasted eight weeks. It was the first under a new voting system for the Senate that replaced group voting tickets with optional preferential voting.[2] Incumbent Malcolm Turnbull was narrowly re-elected by forming a coalition government with other smaller parties.
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| Turnout | 91.01% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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After a week of vote counting, no party had won enough seats in the House of Representatives to form a majority government.[3][4] Neither the Liberal/National Coalition's incumbent Turnbull Government nor the Australian Labor Party's Shorten Opposition were in a position to claim victory.[5][6] Turnbull talked with the crossbench. He won a confidence and supply support from Bob Katter, Andrew Wilkie and Cathy McGowan in the event of a hung parliament and resulting minority government.[7][8] On 10 July, Shorten conceded defeat. Turnbull claimed victory later that day.[9]
The election is the closest federal majority result since 1961, the ABC declared on 11 July that the Coalition could form a one-seat majority government.[10]
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