June 2020 House Hold General Election

June 2020 House Hold federal election

20 June 2020
25 seats in the House Hold House of Representatives 13 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Turnout	92.5% ▼ 3.3
First party Second party Third party   GRN Leader Rufus Wolf Cool-Dude Creeper Craft Party Labor Coalition Greens Leader since 26 October 2019 3 February 2020 19 January 2020 Leader's seat Play Books Play Books Side Hall Last election 13 seats, 41.9% 1 seats, 20.1% 7 seats, 27.1% Seats before 9 2 8 Seats won 12 8 2 Seat change ▼ 1 ▲ 7 ▼ 5 Popular vote 79 57 30 Percentage 40.3% 29.1% 15.3% Swing ▼ 1.6 ▲ 9.0 ▼ 12.8
Prime Minister before election Rufus Wolf Labor Prime Minister after election Rufus Wolf Labor

The June 2020 House Holdian federal election was held on Saturday 20 June 2020 to elect members of the 12th Parliament of House Hold. The election was called after the dissolution of the 11th Parliament. All 25 seats in the House of Representatives and all 14 seats in the Senate were up for election. The governing minority Labor government, led by Rufus Wolf, won a third one year term against the Conservative/National Coalition, led by Cool-Dude. Many minor parties and Independents contested this election. The small parties elected to the parliament were the Green Party of House Hold, Bolderash, and the Open Up Party.

House Hold has compulsory voting and uses full-preferential Instant-runoff voting in single members electorates in the House of Representatives and Single Transferable Vote in the Senate.

On election night BNN and HH1 projected that Labor had won at least 10 seats and the Coalition on 5 seats. 10 seats were still Too Early or Too Close to call on election night. BNN was the only network to project a Labor victory on election night. On the morning of the 22nd, BNN projected a Labor minority government. When counting was completed on the afternoon of the 22nd Labor was just one seat short of an overall majority with 12 seats, the Coalition finished with 8 seats, the Greens 2, Open Up 1, Bolderash 1, and 1 Independent.

The result of the election shock. For more than 4 months Labor and the Coalition were tied at 35% of first preferences and 50% on the TPP. This was just the second time a party had won a third consecutive term. This partly thanks to strong results for Labor in the Bedroom and Livingroom.

Results

House of Representatives

	Party	Votes	%	Swing	Seats	Change
	Labor Party	79	40.3	−1.6	12	▼ 1
	Conservative/National Coalition
	Conservative	28	14.3	−3.6	3	▲ 2
	National	22	11.2	+9.0	4	▲ 4
	Country Liberal	7	3.6	New	1	▲ 1
	Coalition Total	57	29.1	+8.0%	8	▲ 7
	Green Party	30	15.3	−12.8	2	▼ 5
	Open Up	17	8.7	New	1	▲ 1
	Bolderash Party	5	2.6	−4.4	1	▼ 1
	Independents	5	2.6	+0.9	1	▲ 1
	DBP	2	1.0	−1.2	0
	Animal Justice	1	0.5	New	0
Total		196	100.0	–	25
Two-party-preferred vote
	Labor	106	54.1	−14.9
	Conservative/National Coalition	90	45.9	+14.9
Invalid/blank votes		1	0.5	+0.1	–	–
Registered voters/turnout		213	92.5	−3.3	–	–
Source: House Hold Electoral Commission

Independent: Wood Elephant

Popular vote
Labor			40.3%
Green			15.3%
Conservatives			14.3%
National			11.2%
Open Up			8.7%
CLP			3.6%
Bolderash			2.6%
Independents			2.6%
Other			1.5%

Two-party-preferred vote
Labor			54.1%
Coalition			45.9%

Share of Seats
Labor			48.0%
Coalition			32.0%
Green			8.0%
Open Up			4.0%
Bolderash			4.0%
Independents			4.0%

Senate

All 14 Senators were up for election, Labor won 7, the Coalition 5, the Greens 1, and Bolderash 1.

	Party	Votes	%	Swing	Seats	Change
	Labor Party of House Hold	55	27.9	−6.3	7	▼ 1
	Conservative/National Coalition
	Conservative/National joint ticket	45	22.8	+22.8	–
	Conservative	5	2.5	−7.8	3	▲ 3
	Country Liberal	6	3.0	New	1	▲ 1
	National	1	0.5	−2.9	1	▲ 1
	Coalition Total	57	28.9	+6.3	5	▲ 5
	Green Party of House Hold	29	14.7	−25.0	1	▼ 4
	Open Up Party	18	9.1	New	0
	Sustainable House	14	7.1	New	0
	Bolderash Party	10	5.1	−1.1	1
	DBP	6	3.0	−3.2	0
	Ungrouped	4	2.0	New	0
	Spartan Party	2	1.0	New	0
	Animal Justice	2	1.0	New	0
Invalid/blank votes		1	0.5	−6.5	–	–
Registered voters/turnout		213	93.0	+27.6	–	–
Source: House Hold Electoral Commission

Retiring members

Representatives and Senators who did not run for re-election:

Greens

• John Puffin MP (Laundry, BR) − announced retirement on 14 April 2020

Election timeline

• 24 May − 7:45 am: Prorogation of the 12th parliament
• 24 May − 5:15 pm: Dissolution of the House of Representatives
• 25 May − Issue of writs
• 1 June − Close of electoral roles. (Enrolment was 95.5%)
• 1 June − Close of nominations
• 2 June − Candidates announced
• 10 June − Early voting starts
• 20 June − Polling day (6am−8pm)
• 1 July − Results announced
• 17 July − First sitting day of the new parliament

Redistribution

Since the October 2019 the election the Bathroom and Kitchen were given 1 seat each in the House of Representatives. The total number of seats in the House of Representatives increased from 23 to 25 seats.

State	Seats	Change
Bedroom	8
Livingroom	5
Playroom	4
Hallway	3
Diningroom	2
Computer	1
Bathroom Territory	1	▲ 1
Kitchen Territory	1	▲ 1
Total	25

Aftermath

On election night Wolf say "The idea of putting working people first has won tonight". He also said that this was a upset. Even with his party winning the most seats Wolf lost his own seat and resigned as the leader of the Labor Party the next day. Cool-Dude remained as Coalition leader after the election.

See also

• October 2019 House Hold General Election
• List of political parties in the Kingdom of House Hold