Australian Parliamentary Candidates, 1990 Federal Election

The study contains data on social and political characteristics of all candidates standing for election to the House of Representatives and the Senate in the Australian federal election of 24 March 1990, plus certain social and political features of the electoral divisions in which they stood (for House of Representatives candidates only). Basic variables are: house contested; state; electoral division*; party affiliation; sex; occupation; whether elected or not; first preference vote in 1990 election*; position on ballot; incumbency status; years in parliament; ministerial status; number of candidates on ballot; median income in electoral division*; urban-rural location of electoral division*; two-party preferred vote in 1987 in the electoral division*; two-party preferred vote in 1990 in the electoral division*. *for House of Representatives candidates only