New South Wales state election, 1927

New South Wales state election, 1927

8 October 1927 (1927-10-08)

All 90 seats in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly 46 Assembly seats were needed for a majority   First party Second party   Leader Thomas Bavin Jack Lang Party Nationalist/Country coalition Labor Leader since 24 September 1925 31 July 1923 Leader's seat Gordon Auburn Last election 41 seats 46 seats Seats won 46 seats 40 seats Seat change 5 6 Percentage 47.3% 43.0% Swing 1.3 3.0

Legislative Assembly after the election

Premier before election Jack Lang Labor Elected Premier Thomas Bavin Nationalist/Country coalition

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. Severe divisions occurred within the Australian 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.

As a result of the election the Lang government was defeated and a Nationalist/Country Party coalition government led by Thomas Bavin and Ernest Buttenshaw 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.

Key dates

Results

¹ There were 1,409,493 enrolled voters, but 15,239 were enrolled in a single uncontested Country-held electorate.

References

• "Former members of the New South Wales Parliament, 1856-2006". New South Wales Parliament. Retrieved 2009-01-11. 
• Antony Green. "NSW Elections Analysis". New South Wales Parliament. Retrieved 12 January 2009. 
• Nairn, Bede (1995)Jack Lang the 'Big Fella':Jack Lang and the Australian Labor Party 1891-1949

Melbourne University Press Melbourne ISBN 0-522-84700-5 OCLC 34416531

See also

• Candidates of the New South Wales state election, 1927
• Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, 1927–1930

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