State election for New South Wales, Australia in October 1930
1930 New South Wales state election
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All 90 seats in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly 46 Assembly seats were needed for a majority
Registered
1,440,785
Turnout
1,325,945 (94.94%) (12.4 pp)
First party
Second party
Third party
Leader
Jack Lang
Thomas Bavin
Ernest Buttenshaw
Party
Labor
Nationalist
Country
Leader since
31 July 1923
24 September 1925
1925
Leader's seat
Auburn
Gordon
Lachlan
Last election
40 seats, 43.00%
33 seats, 38.48%
13 seats, 8.89%
Seats won
55
23
12
Seat change
15
10
1
Popular vote
729,914
404,405
126,779
Percentage
55.05%
30.50%
9.56%
Swing
12.05%
7.98%
0.67%
Results by division for the Legislative Assembly, shaded by winning party's margin of victory.
Composition of New South Wales Legislative Assembly following the election.
Premier before election
Thomas Bavin
Nationalist (Nationalist–Country Coalition)
Elected Premier
Jack Lang
Labor
The 1930 New South Wales state election was held on 25 October 1930. The election was conducted in single member constituencies with compulsory preferential voting. The election occurred at the height of the Great Depression and was a landslide victory for the expansionary monetary policies of Jack Lang.[1][2][3]
As a result of the election, the Nationalist/Country Party coalition government of Thomas Bavin and Ernest Buttenshaw was defeated and the Labor party, led by Jack Lang, formed government with a parliamentary majority of 20. The Parliament first met on 25 November 1930, and had a maximum term of 3 years. However it was dissolved after only 18 months on 18 May 1932 when the Governor, Sir Philip Game dismissed the Premier Jack Lang[4] and commissioned Bertram Stevens to form a caretaker government. Thomas Bavin was the Leader of the Opposition until 5 April 1932 when he was replaced by Bertram Stevens.[5] Michael Bruxner replaced Buttenshaw as leader of the Country Party in early 1932.[6]
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^"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.
^Ward, John M. "Stevens, Sir Bertram Sydney Barnsdale (1889–1973)". 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.
^Aitkin, Don. "Bruxner, Sir Michael Frederick (1882–1970)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 5 April 2007.
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