Members of the Australian Senate, 2014–2017

This is a list of members of the Australian Senate between 2014 and 2017. This includes senators elected at the 2010 federal election (whose terms are 2011–2017), and those elected at the 2013 federal election (whose terms are 2014–2020). The new Senate first met in July 2014, with state senators elected in 2013 sworn in on 7 July 2014. 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).

Notes

a ^ Northern Territory Senator Nigel Scullion sits as the sole representative of the Country Liberal Party, the local equivalent of both the National and Liberal parties. He sits in the National party room, and serves as the National Party deputy leader in the Senate.

b ^ There is no separate LNP party room. Senators Brandis, Mason, McGrath and Macdonald sit in the Liberal party room. Senators Canavan and O'Sullivan sit in the National Party room.

c ^ Victorian Senator John Madigan resigned from the DLP on 4 September 2014 and sat thereafter as an independent.

d ^ Tasmanian Senator Jacqui Lambie resigned from the Palmer United Party on 24 November 2014 and sat thereafter as an independent.

e ^ New South Wales Senator John Faulkner resigned from the Senate on 6 February 2015.

f ^ Queensland Senator Glenn Lazarus resigned from the Palmer United Party on 13 March 2015 and sat thereafter as an independent.

g ^ Australian Capital Territory Labor Senator Kate Lundy resigned from the Senate on 24 March 2015. Former ACT Chief Minister Katy Gallagher was appointed as her replacement on 25 March 2015.

h ^ Queensland LNP Senator Brett Mason resigned from the Senate on 26 March 2015.

See also

• Australian electoral system
• Australian Senate
• Australian federal election, 2013

References

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