1996 Australian federal election

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A federal election was held on 2 March 1996 to elect members of the 38th Parliament of Australia. All 148 seats of the House of Representatives were up for election, along with 40 of the 76 seats in the Senate. The Liberal–National Coalition led by Opposition Leader John Howard defeated the incumbent Labor government led by Prime Minister Paul Keating in a landslide victory. The Coalition won 94 seats in the House of Representatives, at the time the largest number of seats won by a federal government to date (since tied with Labor's win in 2025). It was also only the second time that a party or alliance had won over 90 seats at a federal election; the first occurred in the Coalition's 1975 victory. The election marked the end of the five-term, 13-year Hawke-Keating Government that began in 1983. Howard was sworn in as the new prime minister of Australia on 11 March 1996, along with the First Howard Ministry. This election was the start of the 11-year Howard Government; Labor would remain...

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