This article lists candidates for the 2016 Australian federal election.
Typically, the first six successful candidates from each state are elected to six-year terms, the remaining six to three-year terms, although this can create distorted results in the single transferable vote system.
[33] Section 282 of the Commonwealth Electoral Act provides for a fairer method of allocation, involving a re-count of the Senate votes cast as if the election had been a half-Senate election for six seats.
Following the 1987 double dissolution, the Senate chose to ignore the alternative count and instead use the traditional method based on order of election.
Tickets that elected at least one Senator are highlighted in the relevant colour.
Michael Hay (VOTEFLUX) Anthony Hanson (Mature) Twelve seats were up for election.
The Palmer United Party was defending one seat, although Senator Glenn Lazarus had left the party and was contesting for his Glenn Lazarus Team.
The Palmer United Party was defending one seat, although Senator Jacqui Lambie had left the party and contested for her Jacqui Lambie Network.
Stephen Juhasz Karthik Arasu Dennis Hall Dana Spasojevic John Karagiannidis Geoff Lutz Allan Mull Chris Ryan Eric Vadarlis Mark Dickenson Immanuel Shmuel Glenn Floyd Meredith Urie Trevor Nye Peter Hawks Christopher Beslis Twelve seats were up for election.
Kai Jones (Ind) Tammara Moody (AAP) Julie Matheson (Ind) Peter Castieau (Ind) Susan Hoddinott (KAP) Norm Ramsay (Ind) Beside each party is the number of seats contested by that party in the House of Representatives for each state, as well as an indication of whether the party contested the Senate election in the respective state.