1934 Tasmanian state election

State election in Australia April 2022 June 2020 1934 Tasmanian state election Tasmania parliamentary no 1931 Tasmanian state election 1931 1937 Tasmanian state election 1937 All 30 seats to the House of Assembly 9 June 1934 Albert Ogilvie 1935 (cropped).jpg 135 130 170 5 3 center Albert Ogilvie October 1929 Australian Labor Party (Tasmanian Branch) Franklin 10 seats 14 seats 4 45.78% 10.85 Sir Walter Lee.jpg 150 130 170 0 17 center Walter Lee 15 March 1934 Nationalist Party (Australia) Wilmot 19 seats 13 seats 6 46.72% 9.68 1934 Tasmanian state election.svg 350px Results of the election Premier Resulting Premier Walter Lee Nationalist Party (Australia) Albert Ogilvie Australian Labor Party (Tasmanian Branch) The 1934 Tasmanian state election was held on 9 June 1934 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. The Nationalist Party won a huge victory in the 1931 election, but Premier of Tasmania John McPhee had resigned due to health problems, and the Nationalists were led into the 1934 election by former Premier Walter Lee. The Labor Party were led by Albert Ogilvie, who had managed to heal some of the rifts in the Labor Party that had contributed to their election loss in 1931.Michael Roe, Ogilvie, Albert George (1890 - 1939), Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 11, Melbourne University Press, 1988, pp 68-70. Labor regained much of their ground in the 1934 election, winning 14 seats compared to the Nationalists' 13 (although the Nationalists had received more votes), not enough to govern in a majority. Three seats were won by Independent candidates, and it was only through the support of one of these (George Carruthers, an ex-Labor man and proponent of the Douglasite Social Credit concept), that Labor was able to form government, with Ogilvie as Premier. Labor began an uninterrupted 35 year rule over Tasmania until 1969, which marks the longest stretch of continuous Labor rule in any state or territory in its history. Results Results of the Tasmanian state election, 1934 File:1934 TAS House of Assembly.svg 127681 3885 -0.52 -0.25 Nationalist 54549 -9.68 13 6 #f00011 Labor 53454 +10.85 14 4 Independents 8764 -1.17 3 2 Popular vote #ddd 600px 410px Nationalist #6495ED 46.72 Labor Australian Labor Party 45.78 Independents Independent 7.51 Seats #ddd 600px 410px Labor Australian Labor Party 46.67 Nationalist #6495ED 43.33 Independents Independent 10.00 Distribution of votes Primary vote by division Bass Darwin Denison Franklin Wilmot Labor Party 50.8% 40.8% 48.7% 51.9% 35.8% Nationalist 49.2% 52.8% 37.8% 37.8% 57.0% Other – 6.3% 13.5% 10.3% 7.3% 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, 1934–1937 Candidates of the 1934 Tasmanian state election References External links Assembly Election Results, 1934 https://web.archive.org/web/20080726172319/http://www.parliament.tas.gov.au/tpl/Elections/e1934.htm 26 July 2008 , Parliament of Tasmania. Report on General Election, 1934, 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:1934 elections in Australia Category:1930s in Tasmania Category:June 1934 in Australia