1911 Western Australian state election

State election in Western Australia in 1911 April 2022 June 2020 1911 Western Australian state election 1870 Western Australia parliamentary no 1908 Western Australian state election 1908 1914 Western Australian state election 1914 All 50 seats in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly 3 October 1911 Members of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, 1908–1911 Members of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, 1911–1914 130px John Scaddan 3 August 1910 Australian Labour Party (Western Australian Branch) Brown Hill-Ivanhoe 52.64% 14.73 22 seats 34 seats 12 138px Frank Wilson 16 September 1910 Ministerialist 6797EA Sussex 44.80% 16.82 28 seats 16 seats 12 Premier Frank Wilson Ministerialist John Scaddan Australian Labour Party (Western Australian Branch) Elections were held in the state of Western Australia on 3 October 1911 to elect 50 members to the Western Australian Legislative Assembly. The Labor Party, led by Opposition Leader John Scaddan, defeated the conservative Ministerialist government led by Premier Frank Wilson. In doing so, Scaddan achieved Labor's first absolute majority on the floor of the Assembly and, with 68% of the seats (34 of 50), set a record for Labor's biggest majority in Western Australia. The house on the hill: A history of the Parliament of Western Australia 1832-1990 Black David David Black (historian) Black, David 1991 Parliament of Western Australia West Perth 0-7309-3983-9 Factionalism and Stability, 1911-1947 97 The record would stand for nearly 106 years until Labor won 69% of seats (41 of 59) at the 2017 election. At the time, it was also the worst defeat of a sitting government in Western Australia's history, also since outdone by the 2017 election. The result came as something of a surprise to many commentators and particularly to the Ministerialists, as they went to an election for the first time as a single grouping backed by John Forrest's Western Australian Liberal League, under a new system of compulsory preferential voting and new electoral boundaries both of which had been passed by Parliament earlier in the year despite ardent Labor opposition.De Garis in Black (1991), p.90.January 2025 The 1911 election is considered by political historians such as Brian de Garis and David Black to mark the end of the first phase of the development of party politics in Western Australia, which had begun with the granting of responsible government to the then British colony in 1890.Q125995168 cs1 de Garis Brian Self-government and the evolution of party politics 326 Labor held onto government with a one-seat majority in the following 1914 election but lost power in 1916 after losing a by-election and after another member left the Labor Party to sit as an Independent. The Scaddan government was characterised by its involvement in a number of State-owned manufacturing and service businesses on the back of a relatively sluggish economy. The Government Trading Concerns Act 1912 saw it establishing and running the State Brickworks, the State Saw Mills, the State Implement Works, the State Shipping Service, the State Hotels, the State Quarry at Boya as well as meatworks, ferries and tramways.http://register.heritage.wa.gov.au/PDF_Files/G%20-%20A-D/16788%20Government%20Quarries%20(P-AD).PDF Register of Heritage Places - Assessment Doc'n Government Quarries (fmr) Heritage Council of Western Australia 7 September 2006 2008-08-25 https://web.archive.org/web/20080723213635/http://register.heritage.wa.gov.au/PDF_Files/G%20-%20A-D/16788%20Government%20Quarries%20(P-AD).PDF 23 July 2008 dead Results Results of the 1911 Western Australian state election Western Australian state election, 3 October 1911 Legislative Assembly 122,375cont 1 1 Western Australian state election 1908 1914 91,630 74.88 +8.48 1,287 1.40 +0.19 yes Labor WA 47,558 52.64 +14.73 34cont 1 1 + 12 Nationalist Ministerialistmini 2 2 40,472 44.80 –16.82 16 – 12 Independent 2,313 2.56 +2.09 0 ± 0 90,343 50 Labor WA Labor Ministerialist |} Notes: mini 1 1 The Labor Party's total of 34 seats includes 10 which were uncontested, representing 30,270 of the 152,645 enrolled voters. mini 2 2 The Ministerialist group (whose elected members formed the Liberal Party soon after the election) stood 65 candidates for a total of 38 seats - notably five in the Moore district and four in Canning. See also Members of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, 1908–1911 Members of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, 1911–1914 References Category:Elections in Western Australia Category:1911 elections in Australia Category:1910s in Western Australia Category:October 1911 in Australia