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
  First party Second party
 
Leader Jack Lang George Fuller
Party Labor Nationalist/Progressive coalition
Leader since 31 July 1923 14 April 1920
Leader's seat Parramatta Wollondilly
Last election 36 seats 50 seats
Seats won 46 seats 41 seats
Seat change Increase9 Decrease9
Percentage 46.19% 47.02%
Swing Increase7.70 Decrease7.23
Legislative Assembly after the election
Premier before election

George Fuller
Nationalist/Progressive coalition

Elected Premier

Jack Lang
Labor

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. 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

Date Event
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

See also: Results of the 1925 New South Wales state election
Results of 1925

New South Wales state election, 30 May 1925 [1]
Legislative Assembly
<< 1922–1927 >>

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  
Popular vote
Labor
 
 47.85%
Nationalist
 
 36.26%
Progressive
 
 9.10%
Independent
 
 3.11%
Protestant Labor
 
 2.55%
Ind. Nationalist
 
 0.99%
Others
 
 0.14%
Parliamentary seats
Labor
 
 46
Nationalist
 
 32
Progressive
 
 9
Independent
 
 1
Protestant Labor
 
 1
Ind. Nationalist
 
 1

Retiring members

Nationalist[edit]

Progressive[edit]

Others[edit]

Changing seats

Seats changing hands [a]
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

Notes

  1. ^ 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]
  2. ^ 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

  1. ^ a b Green, Antony. "1925 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. ^ Green, Antony. "1922 Wammerawa". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
  5. ^ "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.
  6. ^ Green, Antony. "1922 Wammerawa re-count". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
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