The 1928 Tasmanian state election was held on Wednesday, 30 May 1928 in the
Australian state
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of
Tasmania
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to elect 30 members of the
Tasmanian House of Assembly
The House of Assembly, or Lower House, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of Tasmania in Australia. The other is the Legislative Council or Upper House. It sits in Parliament House in the state capital, Hobart.
The Assembly has 25 m ...
. The election used the
Hare-Clark proportional representation
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system
House of Assembly Elections
Parliament of Tasmania
The Parliament of Tasmania is the bicameral legislature of the Australian state of Tasmania. It follows a Westminster-derived parliamentary system and consists of the Governor of Tasmania, the Tasmanian House of Assembly (the lower house), and T ...
. — six members were elected from each of five electorates.
Labor had won the 1925 election in a landslide, with the Nationalist Party losing five seats in the House of Assembly. In 1928, leading up to the election, the Nationalists reverted to "hard politics", criticising Labor Premier
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Joseph Lyons
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for an increasing unemployment
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problem and economic stagnation
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. This shift was much to the chagrin of Lyons, who had encouraged cordial relations with the Nationalists, and referred to their leader John McPhee
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as a "colleague and mate".[P. R. Hart, C. J. Lloyd]
Lyons, Joseph Aloysius (1879 - 1939)
''Australian Dictionary of Biography
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'', Volume 10, Melbourne University Press, 1986, pp 184-189.
The Labor Party won a slim majority of the vote in the 1928 election, but only fourteen seats. As the Nationalist Party held half the seats in the House of Assembly and had the support of one Independent, Nationalist leader McPhee became Premier of Tasmania
The premier of Tasmania is the head of the executive government in the Australian state of Tasmania. By convention, the leader of the party or political grouping which has majority support in the House of Assembly is invited by the governor of Ta ...
, and praised Lyons for his statesmanship.
Lyons stood for the federal seat of Wilmot Wilmot may refer to:
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in 1929, and he became Prime Minister of Australia
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in 1932.
Results
: Prior to the 1925 election, the Nationalist Party had split with a number of candidates, including former Premier Walter Lee, contesting the election under a "Liberal" banner. The grouping subsequently reunited with the Nationalists.
Distribution of votes
Primary vote by division
Distribution of seats
See also
* Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly, 1928–1931
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* Candidates of the 1928 Tasmanian state election
References
External links
Assembly Election Results, 1928
Parliament of Tasmania
The Parliament of Tasmania is the bicameral legislature of the Australian state of Tasmania. It follows a Westminster-derived parliamentary system and consists of the Governor of Tasmania, the Tasmanian House of Assembly (the lower house), and T ...
.
Report on General Election, 1928
Tasmanian Electoral Commission, 24 September 1928.
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Elections in Tasmania
1928 elections in Australia
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May 1928 events