1925 New South Wales state election
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All 90 seats in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly 46 Assembly seats were needed for a majority | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1925 New South Wales state election was held on 30 May 1925. This election was for all of the 90 seats in the 27th New South Wales Legislative Assembly and was conducted in multiple-member constituencies using the Hare Clark single transferable vote. This was the last election to use STV to elect the NSW Assembly.
The 26th parliament of New South Wales was dissolved on 18 April 1925 by the Governor, Sir Dudley de Chair, on the advice of the Premier Sir George Fuller.
It was a close win for the Labor Party Leader, Jack Lang, which had a majority of just one seat in the Assembly, defeating Fuller's Nationalist/Progressive Coalition.[1][2][3]
Key dates
[edit]| Date | Event |
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| 18 April 1925 | The Legislative Assembly was dissolved, and writs were issued by the Governor to proceed with an election. |
| 27 April 1925 | Nominations for candidates for the election closed at noon. |
| 30 May 1925 | Polling day. |
| 17 June 1925 | First Lang ministry sworn in |
| 24 June 1925 | Opening of 27th Parliament. |
Results
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New South Wales state election, 30 May 1925 [1] | ||||||
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| Enrolled voters | 1,339,080 | |||||
| Votes cast | 924,979 | Turnout | 69.08 | −0.93 | ||
| Informal votes | 30,155 | Informal | 3.26 | −0.37 | ||
| Summary of votes by party | ||||||
| Party | Primary votes | % | Swing | Seats | Change | |
| Labor | 413,275 | 46.19 | +7.70 | 46 | +9 [a] | |
| Nationalist | 339,306 | 37.92 | −5.25 | 32 | −9 | |
| Progressive | 81,450 | 9.10 | −1.98 | 9 | ±0 | |
| Independent | 23,454 | 2.62 | −1.16 | 1 | ±0 | |
| Protestant Labor | 22,843 | 2.55 | +2.55 | 1 | +1 | |
| Ind. Nationalist | 6,965 | 0.78 | +0.78 | 1 | +1 | |
| Independent Labor | 3,214 | 0.36 | −0.52 | 0 | ±0 | |
| Protestant Independent National | 1,883 | 0.21 | +0.21 | 0 | ||
| Young Australia Party | 1,407 | 0.16 | +0.16 | 0 | ||
| Communist | 831 | 0.09 | +0.09 | 0 | ||
| Majority Labor | 196 | 0.02 | +0.02 | 0 | ||
| Total | 894,824 | 90 | ||||
Retiring members
[edit]Nationalist
[edit]- Arthur Cocks (North Shore)
- Arthur Grimm (Murrumbidgee)
- Thomas Ley (St George) — retired to contest Barton at the 1925 federal election
- Edward Loxton (Ryde)
- George Nesbitt (Byron)
- Charles Oakes (Eastern Suburbs)
- Reginald Weaver (North Shore)
- James Wilson (Western Suburbs)
Progressive
[edit]Others
[edit]- John Bailey (Independent, Goulburn) — had been expelled from the Labor Party
Changing seats
[edit]| Seats changing hands [a] | |||||||||
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| Seat | 1922 | Swing [b] | 1925 | ||||||
| Party | Member | ± | ± | Member | Party | ||||
| Balmain | Nationalist | Robert Stopford | -11.3 | +13.3 | +15.2 | H. V. Evatt | Labor | ||
| Bathurst | Charles Rosenthal | -6.4 | +9.1 | +11.7 | Gus Kelly | ||||
| Byron | George Nesbitt | -41.2 | +14.8 | +9.0 | Robert Gillies | ||||
| Stephen Perdriau | +26.4 | +32.2 | Frederick Stuart | Progressive | |||||
| Eastern Suburbs | Democratic | Cyril Fallon | +0.2 | +5.1 | +10.4 | Septimus Alldis | Labor | ||
| Goulburn | Progressive | Thomas Rutledge | -18.0 | +13.6 | +9.2 | Paddy Stokes | |||
| Newcastle | Nationalist | Magnus Cromarty | -0.5 | +12.9 | +25.2 | George Booth | |||
| North Shore | Arthur Cocks | -14.2 | +12.0 | +9.7 | Alick Kay | Independent | |||
| Parramatta | Thomas Morrow | -6.8 | +6.3 | +5.7 | Bill Ely | Labor | |||
| St George | William Bagnall | -5.6 | +5.6 | +5.6 | Joseph Cahill | ||||
| Wollondilly | Mark Morton | -7.8 | +8.2 | +8.5 | Andrew Lysaght | ||||
| Members changing party | |||||||||
| Seat | 1922 | ± | 1925 | ||||||
| Party | Member | % | % | Member | Party | ||||
| Newcastle | Independent | Walter Skelton | Walter Skelton | Protestant Labor | |||||
See also
[edit]- Candidates of the 1925 New South Wales state election
- Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, 1925–1927
Notes
[edit]- ^ a b Wammerawa has been included as a second Labor seat from the 1922 election. The returning officer declared that William Ashford (Independent) had been elected 3rd,[4] however the Elections and Qualifications Committee upheld a petition by Joseph Clark (Labor) and after re-counting the votes declared that Clark had been elected.[5][6]
- ^ Swing is calculated using the Butler method, being the average of the winning party percentage-point gain and the losing party percentage-point loss. NA is used where one of the parties did not contest both elections.
References
[edit]- ^ a b Green, Antony. "1925 election totals". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 31 July 2019.
- ^ "Part 5B alphabetical list of all electorates and Members since 1856" (PDF). NSW Parliamentary Record. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
- ^ "Former members of the New South Wales Parliament, 1856–2006". New South Wales Parliament. Retrieved 4 December 2019.
- ^ Green, Antony. "1922 Wammerawa". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
- ^ "Wammerawa: Mr Ashford ousted, Mr Clark elected, committee's decision". The Sydney Morning Herald. 27 July 1922. p. 6. Retrieved 29 October 2020 – via Trove.
- ^ Green, Antony. "1922 Wammerawa re-count". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
- 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.
