Elections were held in the

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Queensland ) , nickname = Sunshine State , image_map = Queensland in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of Queensland in Australia , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_title = Before federation , established_ ...

on 11 May 1929 to elect the 72 members of the state's Legislative Assembly. In this election
Irene Longman
became the first woman to both stand and be elected into the Queensland Parliament. The

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government was seeking its sixth continuous term in office since the 1915 election; it would be Premier

William McCormack William McCormack (27 April 1879 – 21 November 1947)McCormack, William (1879–1947) ...

's second election. His main opponent was the

Country and Progressive National Party The Country and Progressive National Party was a short-lived conservative political party in the Australian state of Queensland. Formed in 1925, it combined the state's conservative forces in a single party and held office between 1929 and 1932 ...

(CPNP), led by

Arthur Edward Moore Arthur Edward Moore (9 February 1876 – 7 January 1963) was an Australian politician. He was the Country and Progressive National Party Premier of Queensland, from 1929 to 1932. He was the only Queensland Premier not to come from the ra ...

. The term had not gone well for McCormack's government, including a railway lock-out in 1927 which pitted the Labor Party against the union movement, restrictive financial policies and attempts to sell off state-owned enterprises, as well as suggestions of corruption which later came to be known as the Mungana affair. The election resulted in the defeat of the McCormack government, and the first non-Labor ministry since 1915.

Key dates

Results

The election saw the defeat of the Labor government by the CPNP. : 517,466 electors were enrolled to vote at the election, but 4 seats (5.6% of the total) were uncontested—2 Labor seats (3 less than 1926) representing 9,041 enrolled voters and two CPNP seats (one more than 1926) representing 16,536 enrolled voters.

Seats changing party representation

This table lists changes in party representation at the 1929 election.

Aftermath

The CPNP found itself in power as the

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took hold. It lost power after one term.

References

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Key dates

Results

Seats changing party representation

Aftermath

See also

References