All 72 seats in the Legislative Assembly 37 Assembly seats were needed for a majority
First party
Second party
Leader
Thomas McIlwraith
Thomas Glassey
Party
Ministerialist
Labour
Leader's seat
Brisbane North
Bundaberg
Seats won
42
16
Popular vote
34,927
25,984
Percentage
44.78%
33.32%
Premier before election
Thomas McIlwraith
Ministerialist
Elected Premier
Thomas McIlwraith
Ministerialist
Elections were held in the Colony of Queensland between 18 April 1893 and 25 May 1893 to elect the members of the colony’s Legislative Assembly.
This election was an early use of contingent voting in a government election.[1]
^Bowler, Shaun; Grofman, Bernard Norman (2000). "The Single Transferable Vote and the Alternative Vote Compared". Elections in Australia, Ireland, and Malta under the Single Transferable Vote: Reflections on an Embedded Institution. University of Michigan Press. p. 40. doi:10.3998/mpub.16507. ISBN 978-0-472-02681-4. The contingent vote … was used in Queensland from 1892 to 1942 and for Democratic primary elections in the U.S. state of Alabama between 1915 and 1931. It has been used for presidential elections in Sri Lanka since 1978 and in 1996 … the United Kingdom … called it the "supplementary vote.". {{cite book}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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