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1925 New South Wales state election
State election for New South Wales, Australia in May 1925 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.
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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]
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Key dates
Results

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 Labour | 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 |
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Retiring members
Nationalist
- 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
Others
- John Bailey (Independent, Goulburn) — had been expelled from the Labor Party
Changing seats
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See also
Notes
- 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.
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References
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