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The 1927 New South Wales state election to elect the 90 members of the 28th Legislative Assembly was held on 8 October 1927. During the previous parliament the voting system, which had been a form of proportional representation with multi-member seats and a single transferable vote (modified Hare-Clark), was changed to single member constituencies with optional preferential voting (Instant-runoff voting).[1][2][3] Severe divisions occurred within the Labor Party caucus in the four months prior to the election (see Lang Labor) and a caretaker government composed of the supporters of the Premier of New South Wales and party leader, Jack Lang was in power at the time of the election.[4]
As a result of the election the Lang government was defeated and a Nationalist/Country Party coalition government led by Thomas Bavin[5] and Ernest Buttenshaw[6] was formed with a parliamentary majority of 1 and the usual support of the 2 Nationalist independents. The Parliament first met on 3 November 1927, and ran its maximum term of 3 years. Lang remained the leader of the Labor Party throughout the Parliament.
To date Lang is the only elected Labor Premier of New South Wales to be voted out of office.
Key dates
| Date | Event |
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| 7 September 1927 | The Legislative Assembly was dissolved, and writs were issued by the Governor to proceed with an election. |
| 14 September 1927 | Nominations for candidates for the election closed at noon. |
| 8 October 1927 | Polling day. |
| 18 October 1927 | Bavin ministry sworn in |
| 29 October 1927 | The writs were returned and the results formally declared. |
| 3 November 1927 | Opening of 28th Parliament. |
Results
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New South Wales state election, 29 October 1927 | ||||||
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| Enrolled voters | 1,394,254[lower-alpha 1] | |||||
| Votes cast | 1,150,767 | Turnout | 82.54 | +13.47 | ||
| Informal votes | 15,086 | Informal | 1.31 | –2.06 | ||
| Summary of votes by party | ||||||
| Party | Primary votes | % | Swing | Seats | Change | |
| Labor | 488,306 | 43.00 | –2.99 | 40 | –6 | |
| Nationalist | 437,050 | 38.48 | +1.41 | 33 | +1 | |
| Country | 100,963 | 8.89 | –2.58 | 13 | +4 | |
| Independent Labor | 32,217 | 2.84 | +2.58 | 2 | +2 | |
| Ind. Nationalist | 30,061 | 2.65 | +2.06 | 2 | +1 | |
| Protestant Labor | 7,264 | 0.64 | –1.47 | 0 | –1 | |
| Independent Country | 4,316 | 0.38 | +0.38 | 0 | ±0 | |
| Independents | 35,504 | 3.13 | +1.02 | 0 | –1 [lower-alpha 2] | |
| Total | 1,135,681 | 90 | ||||
Changing seats
See also
Notes
- ↑ There were 1,409,493 enrolled voters, but 15,239 were enrolled in Tenterfield which was uncontested.[1]
- 1 2 3 Alick Kay (Independent), a member for North Shore, resigned in 1926 and was replaced by Arthur Tonge (Labor)
References
- 1 2 Green, Antony. "1927 election totals". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 31 July 2019.
- ↑ "Part 5B alphabetical list of all electorates and Members since 1856" (PDF). NSW Parliamentary Record. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
- ↑ "Former members of the New South Wales Parliament, 1856–2006". New South Wales Parliament. Retrieved 4 December 2019.
- ↑ Nairn, Bede. "Lang, John Thomas (Jack) (1876–1975)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
- ↑ McCarthy, John. "Bavin, Sir Thomas Rainsford (Tom) (1874–1941)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
- ↑ Kingston, Beverley. "Buttenshaw, Ernest Albert (1876–1950)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 23 November 2021.
- Nairn, Bede (1986). The 'Big Fella': Jack Lang and the Australian Labor Party 1891-1949. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. p. 369. ISBN 0-522-84406-5. OCLC 34416531.