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The 1920 New South Wales state election was held on 20 March 1920. The 24th parliament of New South Wales was dissolved on 18 February 1920 by the
Governor
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, Sir Walter Edward Davidson, on the advice of the Premier William Holman
William Arthur Holman (4 August 1871 – 5 June 1934) was an Australian politician who served as Premier of New South Wales from 1913 to 1920. He came to office as the leader of the Labor Party, but was expelled from the party in the split o ...
.
The election was for all of the 90 seats in the 25th New South Wales Legislative Assembly
The New South Wales Legislative Assembly is the lower of the two houses of the Parliament of New South Wales, an Australian state. The upper house is the New South Wales Legislative Council. Both the Assembly and Council sit at Parliament Ho ...
, and it was the first to be conducted with multi-member electorates, using the Hare-Clark single transferable vote
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system.
It was conducted using 24 districts, 15 having 3 members and nine having five members.
Key dates
Results
The assembly was evenly divided, with Labor having 43 seats and the support of Percy Brookfield () andArthur Gardiner
Arthur Rowland Gardiner (14 March 1876 – 11 February 1948) was an Australian politician.
Gardiner was born in Windsor, New South Wales and educated at Windsor and Sydney Superior public schools and Sydney Teachers' College (now part of the U ...
(Independent Labor), while the Nationalists had 28 seats and the support of 15 seats of the Progressive Party Progressive Party may refer to:
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and 2 independent Nationalists. The Speaker of the Legislative Assembly Speaker of the Legislative Assembly is a title commonly held by Speaker (politics), presiding officers of parliamentary bodies styled Legislative Assembly, legislative assemblies. The office is most widely used in state and territorial legislatures ...
did not vote unless there was a tie which meant whichever side provided the speaker was unable to command a majority. Nationalist Daniel Levy controversially accepted re-election as speaker, giving Labor an effective majority.
Changing seats
See also
*Candidates of the 1920 New South Wales state election
This is a list of candidates for the 1920 New South Wales state election. The election was held on 20 March 1920. The election was the first of three conducted under the system of proportional representation; as a result, it is not possible to est ...
* Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, 1920–1922
Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly who served in the 25th parliament of New South Wales held their seats from 1920 to 1922. They were elected at the 1920 state election on 20 March 1920. The Speaker was Daniel Levy with the exc ...
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