1933 Barossa state by-election

South Australian state by-election April 2022 The 1933 Barossa state by-election was a by-election held on 8 July 1933 for the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Barossa.http://www.ecsa.sa.gov.au/publications?view=document&id=480 History of South Australian Elections 1857 - 2006 Volume 1: ECSA 2016-10-04 https://web.archive.org/web/20140302093736/http://www.ecsa.sa.gov.au/publications?view=document&id=480 2014-03-02 dead The by-election was caused by the death on 4 June 1933 of independent MP Dr Herbert Basedow, who had regained the seat at the 1933 election less than two months prior. He had previously held the seat from 1927 to 1930.basedow-herbert-5151 Basedow, Herbert (1881–1933) 4 October 2016 The seat was contested by four candidates: solicitor Reginald Rudall for the governing Liberal and Country League, former MP Thomas Edwards, who listed his occupation as "out of business", for the Parliamentary Labor Party, labourer Leslie McMullin for the Labor Party, and farmer Lindsay Yelland as an independent.https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article77976309 Barossa by-election The Border Watch 20 June 1933 4 October 2016 1 Trove All four candidates had contested Barossa at the 1933 election. The by-election was held, as with the 1933 election, in the aftermath of the 1932 Labor split, in which the state Labor Party had split into three separate and competing parties. Edwards had been an incumbent at the time of the split, and had followed the Cabinet into the separate Parliamentary Labor Party when they were expelled over their response to the Great Depression, before his defeat by Basedow in 1933. A rumoured candidate from the third Labor splinter, the Lang Labor Party, did not emerge.https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article96649081 Barossa by-election Bunyip 9 June 1933 4 October 2016 9 Trove The largest booths were at Gawler (987 votes), Tanunda (774 votes), Gawler South (685 votes), Salisbury (326 votes), Angaston (375 votes) and Willaston (322 votes). There were also booths at Abattoirs, Blanchetown, Cockatoo Valley, Dublin, Enfield, Gawler Blocks, Gaza, Keyneton, Lights Pass, Loos, Long Plains, Lyndoch, Mallala, Mount McKenzie, Moculta, Northfield, Nuriootpa, Onetree Hill, Punyelroo, Red Banks, Rosedale, Roseworthy, Rowlands Flat, Sandleton, Sedan, Smithfield, St Kilda, Stockwell, Stonefield, Towitta, Truro, Two Wells, Virginia, Wasleys, Wild Horse Plains, Williamstown and Windsor.https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article96647995 Barossa by-election Bunyip 14 July 1933 7 October 2016 9 Trove The election campaign was described by the Bunyip newspaper as "quiet in character". Seats in the multi-member Barossa electorate had changed control several times over the previous decade; The Advertiser noted that Barossa "had never been a safe district for any party".https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article46979375 Keen by-election in Barossa likely The Advertiser 7 June 1933 4 October 2016 15 Trove A number of prominent figures featured in the campaign: Premier Richard Layton Butler, Minister of Agriculture Percy Blesing and Attorney-General Shirley Jeffries campaigned for Rudall, official Labor leader Andrew Lacey campaigned for McMullin, and Parliamentary Labor leader Robert Richards for Edwards.https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article74016622 Party Leaders In Barossa By-Election Campaign The Advertiser 21 June 1933 4 October 2016 18 Trove The by-election was resoundingly won by Rudall, who polled 48% of the primary vote. Edwards and McMullin recorded small improvements from their general election vote in the absence of competing candidates from their respective parties, while independent candidate Yelland improved his vote significantly. Rudall won an overwhelming majority of booths, including Labor-leaning Gawler; Edwards topped the vote in Cockatoo Valley, Mt McKenzie, Tanunda, Willaston and Williamstown, McMullin in Blanchetown, Enfield and Gawler South, and Yelland in Abattoirs and Gaza. Many commentators in the aftermath of the by-election highlighted the ongoing political impact of the Labor split.https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article74022746 Barossa by-election The Advertiser 12 July 1933 4 October 2016 18 Trovehttps://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article147376555 Barossa by-election The Narracoorte Herald 11 July 1933 4 October 2016 3 Trovehttps://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article146005562 Barossa by-election The Australian Worker 19 July 1933 4 October 2016 15 Trove Rudall continued as an MP until 1955, serving in both houses of parliament, and becoming a long-serving minister in the government of Thomas Playford IV.http://www.parliament.sa.gov.au/AboutParliament/From1836/Documents/StatisticalRecordoftheLegislature1836to20093.pdf Statistical Register of the Legislature, 1836-2006 Parliament of South Australia 11 September 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20110312023915/http://www.parliament.sa.gov.au/AboutParliament/From1836/Documents/StatisticalRecordoftheLegislature1836to20093.pdf 12 March 2011 dead Results Barossa state by-election, 8 July 1933 Reginald Rudall LCL 3,518 48.0 +45.9 Thomas Edwards PLP 1,911 26.1 +3.6 Leslie McMullin Labor SA 965 13.2 +0.5 Lindsay Yelland Independent 935 12.8 +12.1 7,329 98.1 +3.2 140 1.9 -3.2 7,469 52.9 -13.7 LCL Independent N/A See also List of South Australian state by-elections References Category:South Australian state by-elections Category:1933 elections in Australia Category:1930s in South Australia