NSW Elections - 1978 Results

1978 Election Totals - Overall Election Results (Explain this table)
Party	Districts	Candidates	Seats Won	Votes	%
Labor Party	98	99	63	1,615,949	57.77
Liberal Party	78	78	18	754,796	26.98
Country Party	25	26	17	276,984	9.90
Australian Democrats	46	46	..	74,019	2.65
Communist Party	5	5	..	6,357	0.23
Socialist Workers Party	4	4	..	4,467	0.16
Socialist Party	1	1	..	2,115	0.08
Independents	18	18	1	56,039	2.00
Marijuana Party	1	1	..	593	0.02
Independent Labor	1	1	..	952	0.03
Truckers Against Government Group	1	1	..	349	0.01
Independent Liberal	2	2	..	4,722	0.17
District Totals (Roll: 3,085,661)	99	282	99	2,797,342	92.77
Persons Voting / Turnout	99	282	99	2,797,342	92.77
Informal Votes	..	..	..	65,274	2.28

All 99 districts were contested. Preferences were required in 10 districts, changing the result in 2.

Seats Won by Party
Party	Seats won
Labor Party	Albury (Preferences) Armidale (Preferences) Ashfield Auburn Balmain Bankstown (See By-elections) Bass Hill Blacktown Blue Mountains Broken Hill Burrinjuck Burwood (Preferences) Campbelltown Canterbury Casino Castlereagh (See By-elections) Cessnock (See By-elections) Charlestown Coogee Corrimal Cronulla Drummoyne Earlwood East Hills Fairfield Fuller Georges River Gosford Granville Heathcote Heffron Hurstville Illawarra Kogarah Lake Macquarie Lakemba Liverpool Manly Maroubra Marrickville Merrylands Miranda Monaro Mount Druitt Munmorah Murrumbidgee Nepean Newcastle Parramatta Peats Penrith Phillip Rockdale Wakehurst Wallsend Waratah Waverley Wentworthville Willoughby (Preferences, Result Changed) Wollondilly (Preferences, Result Changed) Wollongong Woronora Yaralla
Liberal Party	Bligh Davidson Dubbo Eastwood Gordon Hawkesbury Hornsby Kirribilli Ku-ring-gai (See By-elections) Lane Cove Maitland (See By-elections) Mosman Murray (Preferences) (See By-elections) Northcott Pittwater (Preferences) The Hills Vaucluse (Preferences) Wagga Wagga
Country Party	Barwon Bathurst Burrendong Byron Clarence Gloucester Goulburn (Preferences) Lismore Orange Oxley (See By-elections) Raleigh Sturt (See By-elections) Tamworth (Preferences) Temora Tenterfield Upper Hunter Young
Independents	South Coast