New South Wales state election, 1932

New South Wales state election, 1932

11 June 1932 (1932-06-11)

All 90 seats in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly 46 Assembly seats were needed for a majority   First party Second party   Leader Bertram Stevens Jack Lang Party UAP/Country coalition Labor (NSW) Leader since 5 April 1932 31 July 1923 Leader's seat Croydon Auburn Last election 35 seats 55 seats Seats won 66 seats 24 seats Seat change 31 31 Percentage 51.6% 40.1% Swing 11.6 15.0

Legislative Assembly after the election

Premier before election Jack Lang Labor (NSW) Elected Premier Bertram Stevens UAP/Country coalition

The 1932 New South Wales state election was held on 11 June 1932. This election was for all of the 90 seats in the 30th New South Wales Legislative Assembly and it was conducted in single member constituencies with compulsory preferential voting. It was a landslide victory for the UAP/Country Party coalition of Bertram Stevens, which had a majority of 42 in the Assembly.

The 29th parliament of New South Wales was dissolved on 18 May 1932 after the Governor, Sir Philip Game dismissed the Premier Jack Lang (see the crisis of 1931–32) and commissioned Bertram Stevens to form a caretaker government. Lang's government had a majority of 20 at the time of the dismissal.In this election, the Australian Labor Party (NSW) and the Federal Executive of the Australian Labor Party, which had separated in 1931 (see Lang Labor), endorsed separate candidates. The ALP (Federal) had candidates in 43 seats but none were elected. The parties were re-united in 1936. The campaign was marked by mass Labor Party public meetings including, allegedly, the largest public meeting in Australian history when Lang addressed 200,000 people at Moore Park on 5 June.

Key dates

Results

¹ Of the 1,465,008 enrolled voters, 46,867 were enrolled in three electorates that were uncontested at the election (one UAP-held and two Country-held).

² The swing figures for the United Australia Party (and independent UAP candidates) are calculated using the Nationalist Party's figures at the previous election.

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

• Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, 1932–1935
• Candidates of the New South Wales state election, 1932

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