1925 New South Wales state election

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.

1925 New South Wales state election

← 1922 30 May 1925 (1925-05-30) 1927 →
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 9 9 Percentage 46.19% 47.02% Swing 7.70 7.23
Results of the election
Premier before election George Fuller Nationalist/Progressive coalition Elected Premier Jack Lang Labor

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 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

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

This section is an excerpt from Candidates of the 1925 New South Wales state election § Retiring Members.[edit]

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

• Thomas Rutledge (Goulburn)

Others

• John Bailey (Independent, Goulburn) — had been expelled from the Labor Party

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 Labour

See also

• Candidates of the 1925 New South Wales state election
• Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, 1925–1927

Notes

1. 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.