The following tables show state-by-state results in the Australian Senate at the 1984 federal election. Seven Senators were elected in each state in this election, plus two in each Territory.
Following this election, the Senate was composed of 29 coalition (27 Liberal, one coalition National, one CLP), 34 Labor, one Nuclear Disarmament Party, four non-coalition National, seven Democrats, and one Independent.[1][2] Senator terms were six years (three for territories), and all took their seats immediately due to the expansion of the senate from 64 to 76 members.
As the previous election was a double dissolution, half of the senators elected at that election had their terms backdated to 1 July 1982, to end on 30 June 1988. Senator terms for those contesting this election would have been for 6 year intervals starting from 1 July 1985, but the Double dissolution election of 1987 removed this necessity.
This election was the last time that Labor won more seats than the Coalition, despite receiving more votes than them in subsequent Senate elections and winning several victories in the House of Representatives since then.
The Liberals and Nationals contested the previous election as a Coalition in the previous election, and did not do so in this election. The Coalition vote of 1983 of 38.2% was unchanged from the combined Liberal and National vote of this election.
