State election for New South Wales, Australia in October 1927
1927 New South Wales state election
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8 October 1927 (1927-10-08)
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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
Two-candidate-preferred margin by electorate
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, Single transferable voting, a form of proportional representation with multi-member seats (modified Hare-Clark), had been changed to single member constituencies and Instant-runoff voting (optional preferential voting).[1][2][3]
Severe divisions occurred within the Labor Party caucus in the four months prior to the election (see Lang Labor). 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.[citation needed]
^Cite error: The named reference Green 1927 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^"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. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
^McCarthy, John. "Bavin, Sir Thomas Rainsford (Tom) (1874–1941)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
^Kingston, Beverley. "Buttenshaw, Ernest Albert (1876–1950)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 23 November 2021.
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