1930 New South Wales state election

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.

1930 New South Wales state election
25 October 1930 (1930-10-25)
All 90 seats in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
46 Assembly seats were needed for a majority
  First party Second party
 
Leader Jack Lang Thomas Bavin
Party Labor Nationalist/Country coalition
Leader since 31 July 1923 24 September 1925
Leader's seat Auburn Gordon
Last election 40 seats 46 seats
Seats won 55 seats 35 seats
Seat change 15 11
Percentage 55.1% 40.0%
Swing 12.1 7.3
Legislative Assembly after the election
Premier before election

Thomas Bavin
Nationalist/Country coalition

 Elected Premier

Jack Lang
Labor

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 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. Michael Bruxner replaced Buttenshaw as leader of the Country Party in early 1932.

Results
See also: Results of the 1930 New South Wales state election

New South Wales state election, 25 October 1930
Legislative Assembly
<< 1927–1932 >>

Enrolled voters 1,428,648[lower-alpha 1]
Votes cast 1,325,945 Turnout 94.94 +12.4
Informal votes 30,478 Informal 2.25 +0.94
Summary of votes by party
Party Primary votes % Swing Seats Change
  Labor 729,914 55.05 +12.05 55 +15
  Nationalist 404,405 30.50 –7.98 23 –10
  Country 126,779 9.56 +0.67 12 –1
  Australian 27,493 2.07 +2.07 0 ±0
  Communist 10,445 0.79 +0.79 0 ±0
  Independent Labor 7,186 0.54 –2.30 0 –2
  Independent Country 3,298 0.25 –0.13 0 ±0
  Ind. Nationalist 977 0.07 –2.58 0 –2
  Independents 15,448 1.17 –1.95 0 ±0
Total 1,325,945     90  

See also

Notes
  1. There were 1,440,785 enrolled voters, but 12,137 were enrolled in the Country-held seat of Byron, which was uncontested.[1]

References
  1. Green, Antony. "1930 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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