1935 New South Wales state election

1935 New South Wales state election
← 1932 11 May 1935 1938 →
All 90 seats in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
46 Assembly seats were needed for a majority
Registered1,528,713
Turnout1,255,419 (96.06%)
(Decrease0.34 pp)
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Bertram Stevens Jack Lang Michael Bruxner
Party United Australia Lang Labor Country
Leader since 5 April 1932 31 July 1923 27 April 1932
Leader's seat Croydon Auburn Tenterfield
Last election 41 seats, 36.74% 24 seats, 40.16% 23 seats, 13.16%
Seats won 38 29 23
Seat change Decrease 3 Increase 5 Steady
Popular vote 415,485 532,486 162,178
Percentage 33.10% 42.42% 12.92%
Swing Decrease 3.64% Increase 2.26% Decrease 0.24%
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

Bertram Stevens
United Australia (United Australia–Country Coalition)

Elected Premier

Bertram Stevens
United Australia (United Australia–Country Coalition)

Campaigning in 1934

The 1935 New South Wales state election was held on 11 May 1935. This election was for all of the 90 seats in the 31st New South Wales Legislative Assembly and was conducted in single member constituencies with compulsory preferential voting.[1][2][3]

The result of the election was:

The UAP/Country Party coalition of Bertram Stevens/Michael Bruxner had a majority of 32 (down 10) and continued in government throughout the term.[4]

Labor (NSW) and the Federal Executive of the Australian Labor Party were still divided at the 1935 election and Federal Labor ran candidates in 22 seats without success. The parties were re-united in 1936. Jack Lang remained party leader and Leader of the Opposition throughout the term of the parliament.[5]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Green 1935 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. ^ 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.
  5. ^ 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.