1930 New South Wales state election

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
Registered1,440,785
Turnout1,325,945 (94.94%)
(Increase12.4 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 Increase 15 Decrease 10 Decrease 1
Popular vote 729,914 404,405 126,779
Percentage 55.05% 30.50% 9.56%
Swing Increase 12.05% Decrease 7.98% Increase 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]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Green 1930 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Part 5B alphabetical list of all electorates and Members since 1856" (PDF). NSW Parliamentary Record. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
  3. ^ "Former members of the New South Wales Parliament, 1856–2006". New South Wales Parliament. Retrieved 4 December 2019.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ 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.