1893 Queensland colonial election

1893 Queensland colonial election
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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]

  1. ^ Bowler, Shaun; Grofman, Bernard Norman (2000). Elections in Australia, Ireland, and Malta under the single transferable vote: reflections on an embedded institution. Ann Arbor: 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'.