The 2019 federal election was the 46th since federation. Labor has won 14 of those elections and the Liberal party and its direct ancestors have now won 32. Such a lopsided scoreboard is unusual in modern democracies. Over the same period there have been 29 US presidential elections. Republicans have won 15 and Democrats 14.
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