Western Australian state election, 1914
- Western Australian state election, 1914
Elections were held in the state of Western Australia on 21 October 1914 to elect 50 members to the Western Australian Legislative Assembly. The Labor party, led by Premier John Scaddan, retained government against the opposition conservative Liberal Party led by Opposition Leader Frank Wilson, though with only the barest of majorities. The election also saw the emergence of the Western Australian Country Party, which had been formed at a conference of the Farmers and Settlers Association the previous year to fight for rural interests, and won eight seats at the election.
The fragility of the Labor Party's majority was demonstrated when, a year later, Labor member Joseph Gardiner's seat was declared vacant on account of his non-attendance and a Liberal was elected in his stead, and Labor became a minority government when on 18 December 1915, Edward Johnston resigned from the Labor Party and became an independent. On 27 July 1916, the Scaddan Ministry was defeated and Wilson became the new Premier.
Results
Australian elections/Title row
title = Western Australian state election, 21 October 1914
house = Legislative Assembly
enrolled = 168,546ref label|cont|1|1
total_votes = 96,605
turnout % = 57.32%
turnout chg = –17.56%
informal = 1,147
informal % = 1.19%
informal chg = –0.22%Australian elections/Party summary
government = yes
party_id = Labor
votes = 40,205
votes % = 42.12%
votes chg =
seats = 26ref label|cont|1|1
seats chg = – 8Australian elections/Party summary
party_id = Nationalist
party = Liberal
votes = 41,874
votes % = 43.87%
votes chg =
seats = 16
seats chg = ± 0Australian elections/Party summary
party_id = Nationals
party = Country
votes = 13,344
votes % = 13.98%
votes chg =
seats = 8
seats chg = + 8Australian elections/Total row
total_votes = 95,458
total_seats = 50
winner_id = Labor
winner = Labor
Notes::note label|mini|1|1 The Labor Party's total of 26 seats includes 12 which were uncontested, representing 39,731 of the 214,741 enrolled voters. The Liberal and Country parties won one seat each uncontested—the Liberal member (Arthur Male, Kimberley) representing 1,663 enrolled voters, and the Country member (Alfred Napoleon Piesse, Electoral district of Toodyay) representing 4,801 enrolled voters.
ee also
* Members of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, 1911–1914
* Members of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, 1914–1917
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