Crossbench (18) Greens (10) Palmer United (3) [i] Democratic Labour (1) [ii] Family First (1) Liberal Democrats (1) Motoring Enthusiast (1) Xenophon (1)
Changes in composition This is a list of members of the Australian Senate between July 2014 and May 2016.
The territory senators were elected at the September 2013 election and their terms ended at the dissolution of the House of Representatives, which was May 2016.
Ascertaining the chamber's final composition was complicated by the loss of 1,375 ballot papers in Western Australia, leading to the Court of Disputed Returns voiding the result there, and necessitating a special Senate election in Western Australia (held on 5 April 2014).
All senators' terms were truncated when the double dissolution deadlock provisions were triggered in 2016, leading to the dissolution of all of both houses of parliament on 9 May 2016[2] which led to a full-senate election, rather than a more common half-senate election, at the 2 July 2016 general election.