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A by-election was held for the Australian House of Representatives seat of Grampians on 27 October 1917. This was triggered by the death of Nationalist MP and former Speaker Carty Salmon.
The by-election was won by Nationalist candidate Edmund Jowett, who was also endorsed by the Victorian Farmers' Union and who would defect to them before the 1919 election.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nationalist | Edmund Jowett | 11,232 | 54.80 | −2.19 | |
| Labor | David Russell | 9,265 | 45.20 | +2.19 | |
| Total formal votes | 20,497 | 99.47 | +1.36 | ||
| Informal votes | 109 | 0.53 | −1.36 | ||
| Registered electors | 31,346 | ||||
| Turnout | 20,606 | 65.74 | −18.65 | ||
| Nationalist hold | Swing | −2.19 | |||
The Nationalist Party, also known as the National Party, was an Australian political party. It was formed in February 1917 from a merger between the Liberal Party and the National Labor Party, the latter formed by Prime Minister Billy Hughes and his supporters after the 1916 Labor Party split over World War I conscription. The Nationalist Party was established as a 'united' non-Labor opposition that had remained a political trend once the Labor party established itself in federal politics. The party was in government until electoral defeat in 1929. From that time it was the main opposition to the Labor Party until it merged with pro-Joseph Lyons Labor defectors to form the United Australia Party (UAP) in 1931. The party is a direct ancestor of the Liberal Party of Australia, the main centre-right party in Australia.
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Sir George Warburton Fuller was an Australian politician who served as the 22nd Premier of New South Wales, in office from 1922 to 1925 and for one day in December 1921. He previously served in the federal House of Representatives from 1901 to 1913, representing the Division of Illawarra, and was Minister for Home Affairs under Alfred Deakin from 1909 to 1910.
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