1912 Queensland state election

none June 2020 August 2019 1912 Queensland state election Queensland parliamentary no 1909 Queensland state election 1909 1915 Queensland state election 1915 All 72 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland37 Assembly seats were needed for a majority 75.52 ( 2.85 pp) yes 1912 04 27 170x170px Digby Denham yes 1911 02 07 Liberal 8CB4D2 Oxley 110,981 51.37% 0.46 41 seats, 50.91% 46 5 170x170px David Bowman yes 1907 04 15 Australian Labor Party (Queensland Branch) Fortitude Valley 100,878 46.70% 9.85 27 seats, 36.85% 25 2 Premier Digby Denham Liberal Digby Denham Liberal Elections were held in the Australian state of Queensland on 27 April 1912 to elect the 72 members of the state's Legislative Assembly. The election was the first for the recently formed Liberal government of Digby Denham, who had been premier since 7 February 1911. The opposition Labor Party was led by David Bowman, who had been Labor leader since 15 April 1907. This election used contingent voting in single-member districts.Bowler Shaun Grofman Bernard Norman 10.3998/mpub.16507 Elections in Australia, Ireland, and Malta under the single transferable vote: reflections on an embedded institution 2000 University of Michigan Press Ann Arbor 978-0-472-02681-4 40 The contingent vote … was used in Queensland from 1892 to 1942 and for Democratic primary elections in the U.S. state of Alabama between 1915 and 1931. It has been used for presidential elections in Sri Lanka since 1978 and in 1996 … the United Kingdom … called it the 'supplementary vote'. Five districts that had been two-seat districts - Mackay, Maryborough, North Brisbane, Rockhampton and South Brisbane - were reformed and hereafter have only one seat.Hughes and Graham, "Voting for the Queensland Legislative Assembly 1890-1964" (online) accessed February 20, 2025 Results Results of the Queensland state election, 1912 Denham and his government were returned to office despite a swing to Labor of almost 10 percent. This was largely due to winning newly created seats in rural areas, while losing seats in Brisbane which mostly went to Labor. Queensland state election, 27 April 1912http://elections.uwa.edu.au/elecdetail.lasso?keyvalue=775 Parliament of Queensland: Legislative Assembly election: Election of 27 April 1912 Australian Politics and Elections Archive 1856-2018 University of Western Australia 10 April 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20180831175101/http://elections.uwa.edu.au/elecdetail.lasso?keyvalue=775 31 August 2018 live Legislative Assembly Queensland state election 1909 1915 309,590 216,032 75.52 +2.85 N/A N/A N/A yes Liberal QLD 1908 Liberals 110,981 51.37 +0.46 46 +5 Labor QLD Labour 100,878 46.70 +9.85 25 –2 Independent 3,766 1.74 +0.14 1 +1 216,032 72 |} See also Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 1909–1912 Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 1912–1915 Denham Ministry References Category:Elections in Queensland Category:1912 elections in Australia Category:1910s in Queensland Category:April 1912 in Australia