1931 Tasmanian state election

State election in Australia April 2022 June 2020 1931 Tasmanian state election Tasmania parliamentary no 1928 Tasmanian state election 1928 1934 Tasmanian state election 1934 All 30 seats to the House of Assembly 9 May 1931 John McPhee 1930 (cropped).jpg 135 130 170 5 0 center John McPhee July 1925 Nationalist Party (Australia) Denison 15 seats 19 seats 4 56.40% 14.20 Albert Ogilvie 1935 (cropped).jpg 135 130 170 5 3 center Albert Ogilvie October 1929 Australian Labor Party (Tasmanian Branch) Franklin 14 seats 10 seats 4 34.92% 12.23 1931 Tasmanian state election.svg 350px Results of the election Premier John McPhee Nationalist Party (Australia) John McPhee Nationalist Party (Australia) The 1931 Tasmanian state election was held on 9 May 1931 in the Australian state of Tasmania to elect 30 members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly. The election used the Hare-Clark proportional representation systemHouse of Assembly Elections https://web.archive.org/web/20180709035743/http://www.parliament.tas.gov.au/tpl/Backg/HAElections.htm 9 July 2018 , Parliament of Tasmania. — six members were elected from each of five electorates. For the first time, voting was compulsory, resulting in a high voter turnout.Report on General Election, 1931 https://web.archive.org/web/20080720183514/http://www.electoral.tas.gov.au/pages/ElectoralInformation/Election%20Reports/1931.pdf 2008-07-20 , Tasmanian Electoral Commission. The Nationalist Party had defeated Labor by one seat at the 1928 election, and John McPhee had been Premier of Tasmania since then. Joseph Lyons left state politics in 1929 to enter federal politics, and was succeeded by Albert Ogilvie as leader of the dispirited Labor Party. The depression had struck Tasmania hard with unemployment nearly 30% and unions impotent. The Nationalist Party won the 1931 election in a landslide, with 19 seats in the House of Assembly and a margin over Labor of more than 22%, the largest victory over Labor in Tasmania since Hare-Clark elections began in 1909. The win was attributed to public endorsement of McPhee's expenditure cuts over Ogilvie's expansionist policies.R. P. Davis, McPhee, Sir John Cameron (1878 - 1952), Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 10, Melbourne University Press, 1986, pp 355-356. It has been said that Ogilvie's error was in identifying with an unpopular federal Labor government. Despite the scale of the Nationalist victory, the non-Labor forces in Tasmania did not win another election until 1969. Results Results of the Tasmanian state election, 1931 File:1931 TAS House of Assembly.svg 118730 3885 +13.10 +0.20 Nationalist 61414 +14.20 19 4 #f00011 Labor 38030 -12.23 10 4 Independents 9450 -2.07 1 Popular vote #ddd 600px 410px Nationalist #6495ED 56.40 Labor Australian Labor Party 34.92 Independents Independent 8.68 Seats #ddd 600px 410px Nationalist #6495ED 63.33 Labor Australian Labor Party 33.33 Independents Independent 3.33 Distribution of votes Primary vote by division Bass Darwin Denison Franklin Wilmot Labor Party 37.2% 31.4% 40.3% 31.8% 34.2% Nationalist 62.8% 60.0% 53.7% 43.9% 62.1% Other – 8.5% 6.1% 24.3% 3.7% Distribution of seats auto Electorate Seats won Bass             Darwin             Denison             Franklin             Wilmot             5em   Nationalist   Labor   Independent See also Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly, 1931–1934 Candidates of the 1931 Tasmanian state election References External links Assembly Election Results, 1931, Parliament of Tasmania. Report on General Election, 1931, Tasmanian Electoral Commission. Further reading Neil Batt Neil Batt Tasmania's Depression elections 1969 111–120 10.2307/27507957 Labour History Liverpool University Press 17 17 27507957 Category:Elections in Tasmania Category:1931 elections in Australia Category:1930s in Tasmania Category:May 1931 in Oceania