1933 South Australian state election
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State elections were held in
Background
After the ALP government of Premier Lionel Hill endorsed the controversial Premiers' Plan following the start of the Great Depression in Australia and the subsequent Australian Labor Party split of 1931, the ALP state executive expelled 23 of the 30 members of the ALP caucus, including the entire cabinet. The expelled MPs formed the Parliamentary Labor Party (also known as Premiers Plan Labor), with Hill as leader and Premier, and continued in office with the support of the Butler-led Liberal Federation.
Amid increasing riots and protests, as well as skyrocketing unemployment, Hill left politics to become Australian Agent-General to the United Kingdom. He was succeeded by Robert Richards, who had the impossible task of leading the government into the election.
In contrast to the ructions in Labor, the conservative forces in the state presented a united front at the
With three Labor factions—the
Results
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South Australian state election, 8 April 1933[1] | ||||||
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| Enrolled voters | 338,576 | |||||
| Votes cast | 182,693 | Turnout | 59.45% | –11.91% | ||
| Informal votes | 8,904 | Informal | 4.87% | -0.84% | ||
| Summary of votes by party | ||||||
| Party | Primary votes | % | Swing | Seats | Change | |
Liberal and Country
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60,159 | 34.62% | * | 29 | * | |
| Labor | 48,273 | 27.78% | –20.86% | 6 | – 24 | |
| Parliamentary Labor | 28,319 | 16.30% | * | 4 | * | |
| Lang Labor | 6,398 | 3.68% | * | 3 | * | |
| Single Tax League | 5,429 | 3.12% | +1.80% | 1 | ± 0 | |
| Communist | 1,908 | 1.10% | +0.77% | 0 | ± 0 | |
| Independent | 23,303 | 13.41% | +11.09% | 3 | + 3 | |
| Total | 173,789 | 46 | ||||
See also
- Results of the South Australian state election, 1933 (House of Assembly)
- Candidates of the South Australian state election, 1933
- Members of the South Australian House of Assembly, 1933-1938
- Members of the South Australian Legislative Council, 1933–1938
References
- History of South Australian elections 1857-2006, volume 1: ECSA
- State and federal election results Archived 18 January 2015 at the Wayback Machine in Australia since 1890
- Specific
- ^ "Summary of 1938 Election". University of Western Australia. Retrieved 7 July 2015.