The 1921 Victorian state election was held in the
Australian state
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of
Victoria
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on Tuesday 30 August 1921 to elect the 65 members of the state's
Legislative Assembly.
[Colin A Hughes, ''A Handbook of Australian Government and Politics 1890-1964'', Canberra: Australian National University Press, 1968 ().]
Background
The trigger for the 1921 Victorian election was a dissolution of parliament caused by the
Victorian Farmers' Union
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voting with Labor to defeat
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's minority Nationalist government after Lawson, who was also the agriculture minister, had abolished the compulsory wheat pool operating in the state.
Results
Legislative Assembly
Notes:
*Nineteen seats were uncontested at this election, and were retained by the incumbent parties:
**Nationalist (11):
Benambra,
Boroondara
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,
Brighton
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Bulla
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,
Dalhousie,
Gippsland West,
Hawthorn
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,
Ovens
upA double oven
A ceramic oven
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,
Toorak,
Walhalla,
Waranga
**Labor (7):
Abbotsford,
Carlton
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,
Melbourne
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North Melbourne
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,
Port Melbourne
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,
Richmond
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,
Williamstown
**Victorian Farmers' Union (1):
Wangaratta
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Outcome
See also
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Candidates of the 1921 Victorian state election
*
Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1921–1924
This is a list of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 6 September 1921 to 28 May 1924, as elected at the 1921 state election and subsequent by-elections:
: On 13 July 1922, the Nationalist member for Gippsland South, Thomas Li ...
*
1922 Victorian Legislative Council election
Elections were held in the Australian state of Victoria on Saturday 31 May 1922 to elect 17 of the 34 members of the state's Legislative Council. This was the first Legislative Council election for which preferential voting was used.
Results
Le ...
References
{{Victorian elections
1921 elections in Australia
Elections in Victoria (state)
1920s in Victoria (state)
August 1921 events