1927 New South Wales state election

1927 New South Wales state election
All 90 seats in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly; 46 Assembly seats were needed for a majority
	Two-candidate-preferred margin by electorate
Premier before election; Jack Lang; Labor	Elected Premier ; Thomas Bavin; Nationalist/Country coalition

The 1927 New South Wales state election to elect the 90 members of the 28th Legislative Assembly was held on 8 October 1927. During the previous parliament the voting system, Single transferable voting, a form of proportional representation with multi-member seats (modified Hare-Clark), had been changed to single member constituencies and Instant-runoff voting (optional preferential voting).^[1]^[2]^[3]

Quick Facts All 90 seats in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly 46 Assembly seats were needed for a majority, First party ...

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Severe divisions occurred within the Labor Party caucus in the four months prior to the election (see Lang Labor). A caretaker government composed of the supporters of the Premier of New South Wales and party leader, Jack Lang was in power at the time of the election.^[4]

As a result of the election the Lang government was defeated and a Nationalist/Country Party coalition government led by Thomas Bavin^[5] and Ernest Buttenshaw^[6] was formed with a parliamentary majority of 1 and the usual support of the 2 Nationalist independents. The Parliament first met on 3 November 1927, and ran its maximum term of 3 years. Lang remained the leader of the Labor Party throughout the Parliament.

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Date	Event
7 September 1927	The Legislative Assembly was dissolved, and writs were issued by the Governor to proceed with an election.
14 September 1927	Nominations for candidates for the election closed at noon.
8 October 1927	Polling day.
18 October 1927	Bavin ministry sworn in
29 October 1927	The writs were returned and the results formally declared.
3 November 1927	Opening of 28th Parliament.

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New South Wales state election, 29 October 1927 Legislative Assembly << 1925–1930 >>
Enrolled voters		1,394,254^[a]
Votes cast		1,150,767		Turnout	82.54	+13.47
Informal votes		15,086		Informal	1.31	–2.06
Summary of votes by party
Party		Primary votes	%	Swing	Seats	Change
	Labor	488,306	43.00	–2.99	40	–6
	Nationalist	437,050	38.48	+1.41	33	+1
	Country	100,963	8.89	–2.58	13	+4
	Independent Labor	32,217	2.84	+2.58	2	+2
	Ind. Nationalist	30,061	2.65	+2.06	2	+1
	Protestant Labor	7,264	0.64	–1.47	0	–1
	Independent Country	4,316	0.38	+0.38	0	±0
	Independents	35,504	3.13	+1.02	0	–1 ^[b]
Total		1,135,681			90

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Popular vote

Labor			43.00%
Nationalist			38.48%
Country			8.89%
Ind. Labor			2.84%
Ind. Nationalist			2.65%
Others			4.15%
Parliamentary seats
Labor			40
Nationalist			33
Country			13
Ind. Labor			2
Ind. Nationalist			2

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1925 election					1927 election
Old Electorate	Member	Party		Note	New Electorate	New Member	Party
Balmain	H. V. Evatt	style=\"background-color:#F00011;\""},{"html":""}]]}">	Labor	Changed party	Balmain	H. V. Evatt	Ind Labor	style=\"background-color:#F00011;\""},{"html":""}]]}">
	Albert Lane	style=\"background-color:#6495ED;\""},{"html":""}]]}">	Nationalist	Defeated	Leichhardt	Barney Olde	Labor	style=\"background-color:#F00011;\""},{"html":""}]]}">
	James Dooley	style=\"background-color:#F00011;\""},{"html":""}]]}">	Labor	Retired	Hartley	Hamilton Knight	Labor	style=\"background-color:#F00011;\""},{"html":""}]]}">
Botany	Thomas Mutch	style=\"background-color:#F00011;\""},{"html":""}]]}">	Labor	Changed party	Botany	Thomas Mutch	Ind Labor	style=\"background-color:#F00011;\""},{"html":""}]]}">
Botany					Enmore	Joe Lamaro	Labor	style=\"background-color:#F00011;\""},{"html":""}]]}">
Byron	Robert Gillies	style=\"background-color:#F00011;\""},{"html":""}]]}">	Labor / Independent	Defeated as Ind Labor	Byron	Arthur Budd	Country	style=\"background-color:#008000;\""},{"html":""}]]}">
	Frederick Stuart	style=\"background-color:#7BA05B;\""},{"html":""}]]}">	Progressive	Defeated as Ind Country	Byron
					Clarence	Alfred Pollack	Country	style=\"background-color:#008000;\""},{"html":""}]]}">
Cootamundra	Peter Loughlin	style=\"background-color:#F00011;\""},{"html":""}]]}">	Labor / Independent	Defeated as Ind Labor	Young	Albert Reid	Country	style=\"background-color:#008000;\""},{"html":""}]]}">
Eastern Suburbs	Harold Jaques	style=\"background-color:#6495ED;\""},{"html":""}]]}">	Nationalist	Changed party	Bondi	Harold Jaques	Ind. Nationalist	style=\"background-color:#6495ED;\""},{"html":""}]]}">
	Millicent Preston-Stanley	style=\"background-color:#6495ED;\""},{"html":""}]]}">	Nationalist	Defeated	Bondi
	Bob O'Halloran	style=\"background-color:#F00011;\""},{"html":""}]]}">	Labor	Retired	Coogee	Hyman Goldstein	Nationalist	style=\"background-color:#6495ED;\""},{"html":""}]]}">
					Randwick	Ernest Tresidder
					Waverley	Carl Glasgow
	Septimus Alldis	style=\"background-color:#F00011;\""},{"html":""}]]}">	Labor	Defeated as Ind Labor	Woollahra	Maurice O'Sullivan	Labor	style=\"background-color:#F00011;\""},{"html":""}]]}">
Goulburn	Paddy Stokes		Labor	Defeated	Monaro	William Hedges	Country	style=\"background-color:#008000;\""},{"html":""}]]}">
Murray	Vern Goodin		Labor / Independent	Defeated as Ind Labor	Albury	John Ross	Nationalist	style=\"background-color:#6495ED;\""},{"html":""}]]}">
Newcastle					Newcastle	Peter Connolly	Labor	style=\"background-color:#F00011;\""},{"html":""}]]}">
Newcastle	Walter Skelton	style=\"background-color:#CD7F32;\""},{"html":""}]]}">	Protestant Labor	Defeated	Wallsend	Robert Cameron	Labor	style=\"background-color:#F00011;\""},{"html":""}]]}">
North Shore	Alick Kay ^[b]	style=\"background-color:#888888;\""},{"html":""}]]}">	Independent	Resigned	Lane Cove	Bryce Walmsley	Nationalist	style=\"background-color:#6495ED;\""},{"html":""}]]}">
					Neutral Bay	Reginald Weaver
	William Fell	style=\"background-color:#6495ED;\""},{"html":""}]]}">	Ind. Nationalist	Retired	North Sydney	Ernest Marks
	Cecil Murphy	style=\"background-color:#F00011;\""},{"html":""}]]}">	Labor	Defeated as Ind Labor	Rozelle
	Edward Sanders	style=\"background-color:#6495ED;\""},{"html":""}]]}">	Nationalist	Changed party	Willoughby	Edward Sanders	Ind. Nationalist	style=\"background-color:#6495ED;\""},{"html":""}]]}">
Northern Tablelands	Alfred McClelland	style=\"background-color:#F00011;\""},{"html":""}]]}">	Labor	Defeated	Armidale
Oxley	Theodore Hill	style=\"background-color:#6495ED;\""},{"html":""}]]}">	Nationalist	Retired	Oxley	Lewis Martin	Nationalist	style=\"background-color:#6495ED;\""},{"html":""}]]}">
Oxley	Joseph Fitzgerald	style=\"background-color:#F00011;\""},{"html":""}]]}">	Labor	Retired
Ryde	Robert Greig	style=\"background-color:#F00011;\""},{"html":""}]]}">	Labor	Retired	Ryde	Henry McDicken	Labor	style=\"background-color:#F00011;\""},{"html":""}]]}">
St George					Canterbury	Arthur Tonge ^[b]
	William Bagnall	style=\"background-color:#6495ED;\""},{"html":""}]]}">	Nationalist	Retired	Hurstville	Walter Butler
	George Cann	style=\"background-color:#F00011;\""},{"html":""}]]}">	Labor	Defeated as Ind Labor	Lakemba	Fred Stanley
Sturt	Brian Doe	style=\"background-color:#6495ED;\""},{"html":""}]]}">	Nationalist	Defeated	Illawarra
Sydney	Patrick Minahan	style=\"background-color:#F00011;\""},{"html":""}]]}">	Labor	Defeated as Ind Labor	Auburn
	William Holdsworth	style=\"background-color:#F00011;\""},{"html":""}]]}">	Labor	Retired	King	Daniel Clyne	Labor	style=\"background-color:#F00011;\""},{"html":""}]]}">
					Surry Hills	Tom Shannon	Labor	style=\"background-color:#F00011;\""},{"html":""}]]}">
Wammerawa	Joseph Clark	style=\"background-color:#F00011;\""},{"html":""}]]}">	Labor	Defeated	Castlereagh
Wammerawa					Liverpool Plains	Harry Carter	Country	style=\"background-color:#008000;\""},{"html":""}]]}">
Western Suburbs	Edward McTiernan	style=\"background-color:#F00011;\""},{"html":""}]]}">	Labor	Retired	Croydon	Bertram Stevens	Nationalist	style=\"background-color:#6495ED;\""},{"html":""}]]}">
Western Suburbs	Tom Hoskins	style=\"background-color:#6495ED;\""},{"html":""}]]}">	Nationalist	Defeated as Ind. Nationalist	Dulwich Hill

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There were 1,409,493 enrolled voters, but 15,239 were enrolled in Tenterfield which was uncontested.^[1]
Alick Kay (Independent), a member for North Shore, resigned in 1926 and was replaced by Arthur Tonge (Labor)

[1]
Green, Antony. "1927 election totals". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 31 July 2019.
[2]
"Part 5B alphabetical list of all electorates and Members since 1856" (PDF). NSW Parliamentary Record. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
[3]
"Former members of the New South Wales Parliament, 1856–2006". New South Wales Parliament. Retrieved 4 December 2019.
[4]
Nairn, Bede. "Lang, John Thomas (Jack) (1876–1975)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
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McCarthy, John. "Bavin, Sir Thomas Rainsford (Tom) (1874–1941)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
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Kingston, Beverley. "Buttenshaw, Ernest Albert (1876–1950)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 23 November 2021.

Nairn, Bede (1986). The 'Big Fella': Jack Lang and the Australian Labor Party 1891-1949. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. p. 369. ISBN 0-522-84406-5. OCLC 34416531.

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[7] There were 1,409,493 enrolled voters, but 15,239 were enrolled in Tenterfield which was uncontested.^[1]

[Independent-8] Alick Kay (Independent), a member for North Shore, resigned in 1926 and was replaced by Arthur Tonge (Labor)

[Green_1927-1] [1]
Green, Antony. "1927 election totals". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 31 July 2019.

[Record-2] [2]
"Part 5B alphabetical list of all electorates and Members since 1856" (PDF). NSW Parliamentary Record. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 20 April 2020.

[3] [3]
"Former members of the New South Wales Parliament, 1856–2006". New South Wales Parliament. Retrieved 4 December 2019.

[Lang_adb-4] [4]
Nairn, Bede. "Lang, John Thomas (Jack) (1876–1975)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 2 November 2021.

[Bavin_adb-5] [5]
McCarthy, John. "Bavin, Sir Thomas Rainsford (Tom) (1874–1941)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 6 May 2019.

[Buttenshaw_adb-6] [6]
Kingston, Beverley. "Buttenshaw, Ernest Albert (1876–1950)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 23 November 2021.

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