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Members of the Australian Senate, 2014–2016

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This is a list of members of the Australian Senate between July 2014 and May 2016. This includes senators elected at the 2010 federal election (whose terms normally would have been July 2011 – June 2017), and those elected at the 2013 federal election (whose terms would have been July 2014 – June 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).

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 which led to a full-senate election, rather than a more common half-senate election, at the 2 July 2016 general election. The new state senators' terms will be deemed to have begun on 1 July 2016, and the senate will decide which of their number have 3-year terms expiring after the next half-senate election, and which members have full six-year terms. Senators from Territories have terms aligned to those of the House of Representatives.

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Members of the Australian Senate, 2014–2016 Wikipedia