1919 Tasmanian state election

State election in Australia April 2022 June 2020 1919 Tasmanian state election Tasmania parliamentary no 1916 Tasmanian state election 1916 1922 Tasmanian state election 1922 All 30 seats to the House of Assembly 31 May 1919 150px Walter Lee September 1915 Nationalist Party (Australia) Wilmot 15 seats 16 seats 1 55.20% 6.97 150px Joseph Lyons November 1916 Australian Labor Party (Tasmanian Branch) Wilmot 14 seats 13 seats 1 41.44% 7.03 1919 Tasmanian state election.svg 350px Results of the election Premier Walter Lee Nationalist Party (Australia) Walter Lee Nationalist Party (Australia) The 1919 Tasmanian state election was held on 31 May 1919 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. By the 1919 election, the Liberal Party had regrouped and been renamed as the Nationalist Party. The Premier of Tasmania, Walter Lee, had led the party for a relatively untroubled three years, despite the Liberals' one-seat majority over Labor and the uncertainty of World War I.Scott Bennett, Lee, Sir Walter Henry (1874 - 1963), Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 10, Melbourne University Press, 1986, pp 52-53. The Labor Party in Tasmania went into the 1919 election led by Joseph Lyons. Lee led the Nationalist Party to victory, with a 14% margin over Labor, although they only won 16 of the 30 seats in the House of Assembly. Independent Joshua Whitsitt retained his seat. Results Results of the Tasmanian state election, 1919 File:1919 TAS House of Assembly.svg 107541 2814 7.52 1.70 Nationalist 37677 6.97 16 1 #f00011 Labor 28286 7.03 13 1 Independents 2289 0.05 1 Popular vote #ddd 600px 410px Nationalist #6495ED 55.20 Labor Australian Labor Party 41.44 Independents Independent 3.35 Seats #ddd 600px 410px Nationalist #6495ED 53.33 Labor Australian Labor Party 43.33 Independents Independent 3.33 Distribution of votes Primary vote by division Bass Darwin Denison Franklin Wilmot Labor Party 37.9% 47.5% 44.3% 44.9% 30.2% Nationalist 62.1% 37.2% 55.7% 52.0% 69.8% Other – 15.3% – 3.2% – Distribution of seats auto Electorate Seats won Bass             Darwin             Denison             Franklin             Wilmot             5em   Labor   Nationalist   Independent See also Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly, 1919–1922 Candidates of the 1919 Tasmanian state election References External links Assembly Election Results, 1919 https://web.archive.org/web/20080726172714/http://www.parliament.tas.gov.au/tpl/Elections/e1919.htm 26 July 2008 , Parliament of Tasmania. Report on General Election, 1916, Tasmanian Electoral Commission, 29 October 1919. Category:Elections in Tasmania Category:1919 elections in Australia Category:1910s in Tasmania Category:May 1919 in Australia