1920 New South Wales state election

1920 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
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader John Storey William Holman George Beeby
Party Labor Nationalist Progressive
Leader since February 1917 15 November 1916 1915
Leader's seat Balmain Cootamundra (defeated) Murray
Last election 33 seats 52 seats 0 seats
Seats won 43 seats 28 seats 15 seats
Seat change Increase10 Decrease24 Increase15
Percentage 43.08% 29.92% 15.12%
Swing Increase0.45 Decrease17.52 Increase15.12

Results of the election

Premier before election

William Holman
Nationalist

Elected Premier

John Storey
Labor

The 1920 New South Wales state election was held on 20 March 1920. The 24th parliament of New South Wales was dissolved on 18 February 1920 by the Governor, Sir Walter Edward Davidson, on the advice of the Premier William Holman. The election was for all of the 90 seats in the 25th New South Wales Legislative Assembly, and it was the first to be conducted with multi-member electorates, using the Hare-Clark single transferable vote system.

It was conducted using 24 districts, 15 having 3 members and nine having five members.