1933 Western Australian state election
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All 50 seats in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Elections were held in the
The election occurred at the height of the
Two changes of affiliation had occurred in the previous term, which resulted in the Country Party increasing their parliamentary strength in the Assembly to 12 members. Arnold Piesse, who as an independent had defeated former Country Party leader Alec Thomson in his Katanning seat at the 1930 election, joined the Country Party, as did Richard Sampson, the long-serving member for Swan who had been elected a Nationalist.
Retiring members
- Edwin Corboy (Labor, Yilgarn-Coolgardie)
- Alfred Lamond (Labor, Pilbara)
- Henry Brown (Country, Pingelly)
At the time of the election, the seat of
Results
At the election, 10 sitting members were defeated—nine Nationalists and one Country member. 8 of these seats were won by Labor, while Sussex was won by fellow Nationalist Edmund Brockman, and in Mount Marshall, Independent candidate Frederick Warner defeated Country member and Minister John Lindsay. (Warner went on to join the Country Party.) The only loss to Labor was the seat of Pilbara, which had been vacated by retiring member Alfred Lamond, and was won by the Nationalists' Frank Welsh.
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Western Australian state election, 8 April 1933 | ||||||
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| Enrolled voters | 205,312[1] | |||||
| Votes cast | 186,012 | Turnout | 90.60% | +16.15% | ||
| Informal votes | 4,156 | Informal | 2.23% | +1.10% | ||
| Summary of votes by party | ||||||
| Party | Primary votes | % | Swing | Seats | Change | |
| Labor | 82,702 | 45.48% | +7.04% | 30 | + 7 | |
| Nationalist | 55,522 | 30.53% | –5.65% | 8 | – 7 | |
Country
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25,980 | 14.29% | –4.48% | 11 | – 1 | |
| Ind. Nat. | 2,199 | 1.21% | +1.21% | 0 | ± 0 | |
| Communist | 442 | 0.25% | +0.25% | 0 | ± 0 | |
| Independent | 14,918 | 8.20% | –2.70% | 1 | + 1 | |
| Total | 186,012 | 50 | ||||
- 1 237,197 electors were enrolled to vote at the election, but 9 of the 50 seats were uncontested—6 Labor seats representing 20,069 enrolled voters, 1 Nationalist seat representing 4,139 voters and 2 Country seats representing 7,677 voters.
See also
- Members of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, 1930–1933
- Members of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, 1933–1936
- Second Mitchell Ministry
- Second Collier Ministry