1943 Australian federal election

April 2024 April 2022 Federal Election in Australia in 1943 September 2021 1943 Australian federal election Australia parliamentary no 1940 Australian federal election 1940 1946 Australian federal election 1946 Members of the Australian House of Representatives, 1940–1943 Members of the Australian House of Representatives, 1943–1946 4,466,637 5.36% 4,245,369 (96.32%)Turnout in contested seats(1.50 pp) All 75The Northern Territory had one seat, but members for the territories did not have full voting rights until 1966 and did not count toward government formation. seats in the House of Representatives 38 seats were needed for a majority in the House 19 (of the 36) seats in the Senate 21 August 1943 File:JohnCurtin.jpg 190x190px John Curtin yes 1935 10 1 Australian Labor Party Fremantle (WA) 32 seats 49 seats 2,058,582 17 49.93% 9.77 58.20% 7.90 File:FaddenPEO.jpg Arthur Fadden yes 1941 3 12Fadden was appointed acting leader of the Country Party in October 1940.http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article40932204 Fadden May Stay As C.P. Leader The Courier-Mail 2223 Queensland, Australia 17 October 1940 4 June 2022 1 National Library of Australia He remained in that position until a March 1941 Country Party pre-sessional meeting, where Fadden was formally appointed leader of the party.http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2573017 Mr. Fadden – Country Party Leader The Canberra Times 15 4058 Australian Capital Territory, Australia 13 March 1941 4 June 2022 6 National Library of Australia Country Party of Australia CountryUnited Australia Darling Downs (Qld.) 36 seats 1,248,506The total for the Coalition. Country Party total was: 350,378. 23 seats 13 30.44% 13.49 41.80% 7.90 TPP TPP swing Prime Minister John Curtin Australian Labor Party Subsequent Prime Minister John Curtin Australian Labor Party 1943_Australian_federal_election.svg Results by division for the House of Representatives, shaded by winning party's margin of victory. Primary thumb|right|Advertisement used by the UAP during the 1943 Australian federal election, its final campaign before the party was wound up A federal election was held in Australia on 21 August 1943. All 74 seats in the House of Representatives and 19 of the 36 seats in the Senate were up for election. The incumbent Labor Party, led by Prime Minister John Curtin, defeated the opposition Country–UAP coalition led by Arthur Fadden in a landslide. The Labor party's two-party preferred (TPP) result of 58.2% is its highest in its history. Fadden, the leader of the Country Party, was serving as Leader of the Opposition despite the Country Party holding fewer seats in parliament than the United Australia Party (UAP). He was previously the Prime Minister in August 1941, after he was chosen by the coalition parties to lead the government after the forced resignation of Prime Minister Robert Menzies, the UAP leader. However, he stayed in office for only six weeks before the two independents who held the balance of power joined Labor in voting down his budget. Governor-General Lord Gowrie was reluctant to call an election for a parliament barely a year old, especially considering the international situation. At his urging, the independents threw their support to Labor for the remainder of the parliamentary term. Over the next two years, Curtin proved to be a very popular and effective leader, and the Coalition was unable to get the better of him. A number of groups also split away from the UAP prior to the election, the most prominent of which was the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). Labor thus went into the election in a commanding position, and flipped 13 seats on a 7.9% swing, winning 50.2% of the primary (first preference) vote and 58.2% of the two-party preferred vote. The Coalition was reduced to 23 seats, including only nine for the Country Party. Notably, Labor won every seat in Western Australia and all but one in South Australia: Archie Cameron, the member for Barker in South Australia, was left as the only Coalition MP outside the eastern states. The LDP did not win any seats. This election was significant in the fact that it resulted in the election of the first female member of the House of Representatives, the UAP's Enid Lyons for Darwin, Tasmania, and the first female Senator, Labor's Dorothy Tangney, in Western Australia. The election also remains Labor's greatest federal victory in terms of proportion of seats and two-party votes in the lower house, and primary vote in the Senate as of 2022. The lack of effective opposition to the Labor party in the lead up to and following the election became the catalyst for the creation of the Liberal Party of Australia from the ashes of the UAP, and for George Cole, Keith Murdoch and other big business magnates to form the conservative think tank the Institute of Public Affairs. This was the last major election that did not involve the current Liberal and Labor Party competition. Results House of Representatives Results of the 1943 Australian federal election (House of Representatives) thumb|1943 Australian Federal Election (House of Representatives) {{Australian elections/Title row | table style=float:right;clear:right;margin-left:1em; | title = Australian federal election, 21 August 1943http://psephos.adam-carr.net/countries/a/australia/1943/1943reps1.txt Australian Legislative Election of 21 August 1943: The House of Representatives psephos.adam-carr.net | house = House of Representatives alt=|center|300x300px | series = Australian federal election | back = 1940 | forward = 1946 | enrolled = 4,466,749 | total_votes = 4,249,369 | turnout % = 95.13 | turnout chg = +1.27 | informal = 148,785 | informal % = 3.50 | informal chg = +0.95 }} yes Labor 2,058,582 49.93% +9.77% 49 +13 UAP 898,128 21.90% –8.34% 14 –9 Country 350,378 8.54% –4.97% 9 –4 One Parliament 87,112 2.11% +2.11% 0 ±0 Communist 81,816 1.98% +1.98% 0 ±0 Liberal Democrat 42,149 1.48% +1.48% 0 ±0 State Labor 29,752 0.72% –1.89% 0 ±0 Independent 501,054 12.15% +4.69% 3Including Northern Territory ±0 4,100,584 75 |} First preference vote var(--background-color-interactive) 600px 410px Labor Australian Labor Party 49.93 United Australia United Australia Party 21.90 Independent Independent (politician) 12.15 Country National Party of Australia 8.54 One Parliament #FF6600 2.11 Communist Communist Party of Australia 1.98 Liberal Democratic Liberal Democrats (UK) 1.48 State Labor #800000 0.72 Two-party-preferred vote (estimated) var(--background-color-interactive) 600px 410px Labor Australian Labor Party 58.20 Coalition United Australia Party 41.80 Parliament seats var(--background-color-interactive) 600px 410px Labor Australian Labor Party 66.22 United Australia United Australia Party 18.92 Country National Party of Australia 12.16 Independent Independent (politician) 2.70 Senate + Senate (PBV) — 1943–46 — Turnout 96.31% (CV) — Informal 9.73%alt=|center|300x300pxParty First preference voteshttps://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Departments/Parliamentary_Library/pubs/rp/rp1617/FederalElectionResults Federal election results 1901–2016 Parliament of Australia 31 March 2017 24 March 2022 % Swing Seats won Seats held ChangeLabor 2,139,164 55.10 +17.57 19 22 +5Country–UAP Coalition 1,481,563 38.15 –12.26 0 14 –5 Country–UAP joint ticket (NSW & Vic) 995,910 25.65 colspan=3 ±0 Country–National (Qld) 184,181 4.74 colspan=3 ±0 Liberal & Country League (SA) 148,419 3.82 colspan=3 ±0 Nationalist–Country joint ticket (WA) 101,738 2.62 colspan=3 ±0 United Australia (Tas) 51,315 1.32 colspan=3 ±0Christian New Order 101,247 2.61 colspan=3 ±0Queensland Country 37,350 0.96 colspan=3 ±0One Parliament 29,700 0.77 colspan=3 ±0Monetary Reform 19,401 0.48 colspan=3 ±0Independent 75,105 1.93 –0.39 0 0±0Total 3,882,120 1001936 Seats changing hands Seat Pre-1943 Swing Post-1943 Party Member Margin Margin Member Party Adelaide, SA   United Australia Fred Stacey 4.7 20.3 15.6 Cyril Chambers Labor  Barker, SA   Country Archie CameronUAP Ran as candidate for the UAP N/A 14.2 1.7 Archie Cameron United Australia  Boothby, SA   United Australia Grenfell Price 6.6 16.1 0.9 Thomas Sheehy Labor  Denison, Tas   United Australia Arthur Beck 1.1 10.1 9.0 Frank Gaha Labor  Eden-Monaro, NSW   United Australia John Perkins 4.8 10.8 5.4 Allan Fraser Labor  Grey, SA   Country Oliver Badman 7.7 10.2 2.5 Edgar Russell Labor  Hume, NSW   Country Thomas Collins 0.9 7.2 6.3 Arthur Fuller Labor  Lilley, Qld   United Australia William Jolly 9.6 9.9 0.4 Jim Hadley Labor  Maranoa, Qld  Labor Frank Baker 1.6 2.6 1.0 Charles Adermann Country  Martin, NSW   United Australia William McCall 2.6 8.3 5.7 Fred Daly Labor  Parkes, NSW   United Australia Charles Marr 7.4 10.3 2.9 Les Haylen Labor  Perth, WA   United Australia Walter Nairn 14.5 20.5 6.0 Tom Burke Labor  Robertson, NSW   United Australia Eric Spooner 0.3 9.2 8.9 Thomas Williams Labor  Swan, WA   Country Thomas Marwick 7.5 10.5 3.0 Don Mountjoy Labor  Wakefield, SA   United Australia Jack Duncan-Hughes 3.4 4.6 1.2 Albert Smith Labor  See also Candidates of the Australian federal election, 1943 Members of the Australian House of Representatives, 1943–1946 Members of the Australian Senate, 1944–1947 Notes References External links University of WA https://web.archive.org/web/20150118085343/http://elections.uwa.edu.au/ 18 January 2015 election results in Australia since 1890 Two-party-preferred vote since 1937 Category:Federal elections in Australia Category:1943 elections in Australia Category:August 1943 in Australia