1927 New South Wales state election

The 1927 New South Wales state election to elect the 90 members of the 28th Legislative Assembly was held on 8 October 1927. During the previous parliament the voting system, which had been a form of proportional representation with multi-member seats and a single transferable vote (modified Hare-Clark), was changed to single member constituencies with optional preferential voting. Severe divisions occurred within the Labor Party caucus in the four months prior to the election (see Lang Labor) and a caretaker government composed of the supporters of the Premier of New South Wales and party leader, Jack Lang was in power at the time of the election.

1927 New South Wales state election
8 October 1927 (1927-10-08)
All 90 seats in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
46 Assembly seats were needed for a majority
  First party Second party
 
Leader Thomas Bavin Jack Lang
Party Nationalist/Country coalition Labor
Leader since 24 September 1925 31 July 1923
Leader's seat Gordon Auburn
Last election 41 seats 46 seats
Seats won 46 seats 40 seats
Seat change 5 6
Percentage 47.3% 43.0%
Swing 1.3 3.0
Legislative Assembly after the election
Premier before election

Jack Lang
Labor

 Elected Premier

Thomas Bavin
Nationalist/Country coalition

As a result of the election the Lang government was defeated and a Nationalist/Country Party coalition government led by Thomas Bavin and Ernest Buttenshaw was formed with a parliamentary majority of 1 and the usual support of the 2 Nationalist independents. The Parliament first met on 3 November 1927, and ran its maximum term of 3 years. Lang remained the leader of the Labor Party throughout the Parliament.

To date, it remains the only time that an elected Labor Premier has been sacked by the people.

Key dates
Date Event
7 September 1927 The Legislative Assembly was dissolved, and writs were issued by the Governor to proceed with an election.
14 September 1927 Nominations for candidates for the election closed at noon.
8 October 1927 Polling day.
29 October 1927 The writs were returned and the results formally declared.
3 November 1927 Opening of 28th Parliament.

Results
See also: Results of the 1927 New South Wales state election

New South Wales state election, 29 October 1927
Legislative Assembly
<< 1925–1930 >>

Enrolled voters 1,394,254[lower-alpha 1]
Votes cast 1,135,681 Turnout 82.54 +13.47
Informal votes 15,086 Informal 1.31 –2.06
Summary of votes by party
Party Primary votes % Swing Seats Change
  Labor 488,306 43.00 –2.99 40 –6
  Nationalist 437,050 38.48 +1.41 33 +1
  Country 100,963 8.89 –2.58 13 +4
  Independent Labor 32,217 2.84 +2.58 2 +2
  Ind. Nationalist 30,061 2.65 +2.06 2 +1
  Protestant Labor 7,264 0.64 –1.47 0 –1
  Independent Country 4,316 0.38 +0.38 0 ±0
  Constitutionalist 106 0.01 +0.01 0 ±0
  Independents 35,398 3.12 +1.01 0 ±0
Total 1,135,681     90  

See also

Notes
  1. There were 1,409,493 enrolled voters, but 15,239 were enrolled in Tenterfield which was uncontested.[1]

References
  1. Green, Antony. "1927 election totals". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 31 July 2019.
  • Nairn, Bede (1995) Jack Lang the 'Big Fella':Jack Lang and the Australian Labor Party 1891-1949 Melbourne University Press Melbourne ISBN 0-522-84700-5 OCLC 34416531
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