1928 Tasmanian state election

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1928 Tasmanian state election
Flag of Tasmania.svg
  1925 30 May 1928 1931  

All 30 seats to the House of Assembly
 First partySecond party
 
Sir John McPhee.jpg
Joseph Lyons.jpg
Leader John McPhee Joseph Lyons
Party Nationalist Labor
Leader sinceJuly 1925November 1916
Leader's seat Denison Wilmot
Last election11 seats16 seats
Seats won15 seats14 seats
Seat changeIncrease2.svg4Decrease2.svg2
Percentage42.20%47.15%
SwingIncrease2.svg2.83Decrease2.svg1.32

1928 Tasmanian state election.svg
Results of the election

Premier before election

Joseph Lyons
Labor

Resulting Premier

John McPhee
Nationalist

The 1928 Tasmanian state election was held on Wednesday, 30 May 1928 in the Australian state of Tasmania to elect 30 members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly. The election used the Hare-Clark proportional representation system [1] — six members were elected from each of five electorates.

Contents

Labor had won the 1925 election in a landslide, with the Nationalist Party losing five seats in the House of Assembly. In 1928, leading up to the election, the Nationalists reverted to "hard politics", criticising Labor Premier Joseph Lyons for an increasing unemployment problem and economic stagnation. This shift was much to the chagrin of Lyons, who had encouraged cordial relations with the Nationalists, and referred to their leader John McPhee as a "colleague and mate". [2]

The Labor Party won a slim majority of the vote in the 1928 election, but only fourteen seats. As the Nationalist Party held half the seats in the House of Assembly and had the support of one Independent, Nationalist leader McPhee became Premier of Tasmania, and praised Lyons for his statesmanship. [2]

Lyons stood for the federal seat of Wilmot in 1929, and he became Prime Minister of Australia in 1932. [2]

Results

1928 TAS House of Assembly.svg
PartyVotes%+/–Seats+/–
Labor 41,82947.16-1.3214Decrease2.svg 2
Nationalist [a] 37,43242.20+2.8315Increase2.svg 4
Independents 7,4618.41-0.301Decrease2.svg 2
Independent Labor 1,9822.23-1.220Steady2.svg
Total88,704100.0030
Valid votes88,70496.76
Invalid/blank votes2,9733.24+1.02
Total votes91,677100.00
Registered voters/turnout111,95681.89+14.63
Popular vote
Labor
47.15%
Nationalist
42.20%
Independents
10.65%
Seats
Nationalist
50.00%
Labor
46.67%
Independents
3.33%
a Prior to the 1925 election, the Nationalist Party had split with a number of candidates, including former Premier Walter Lee, contesting the election under a "Liberal" banner. The grouping subsequently reunited with the Nationalists.

Distribution of votes

Primary vote by division

BassDarwinDenisonFranklinWilmot
Labor Party 54.6%46.7%40.9%43.5%50.9%
Nationalist 45.4%45.7%40.4%37.4%42.0%
Other7.5%18.7%19.1%7.0%

Distribution of seats

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References

  1. House of Assembly Elections, Parliament of Tasmania.
  2. 1 2 3 P. R. Hart, C. J. Lloyd, Lyons, Joseph Aloysius (1879 - 1939), Australian Dictionary of Biography , Volume 10, Melbourne University Press, 1986, pp 184-189.