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In which year did Malcolm Fraser's Coalition win a landslide victory?

  • 1978

  • 1977

  • 1980

  • 1975

Answer

Malcolm Fraser's Coalition won a landslide victory in the 1975 Australian federal election, winning 55.1% of the two-party preferred vote and 88 of the 127 seats in the House of Representatives. This was the first time in Australian history that a party had won a majority of seats in the House of Representatives without also winning a majority of the two-party preferred vote.
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