Australian federal election, 1931

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Australian federal election, 1931

Federal elections were held in Australia

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Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
on 19 December 1931.

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< 1929 Australian federal election, 1929 Federal elections were held in Australia on 12 October 1929. All 75 seats in the Australian House of Representatives were up for election, with no Australian Senate seats up for election, as a result of Billy Hughes and other rebel backbenchers crossing the floor over industrial relations legislation, depriving the Bruce government of a lower... 1931 Australian federal election, 1931 Federal elections were held in Australia on 19 December 1931. All 75 seats in the Australian House of Representatives, and 18 of the 36 seats in the Australian Senate were up for election.... 1934 Australian federal election, 1934 Federal elections were held in Australia on 15 September 1934. All 74 seats in the Australian House of Representatives, and 18 of the 36 seats in the Australian Senate were up for election.... >
Labor James Scullin James Scullin James Henry Scullin , Australian Labor politician and ninth Prime Minister of Australia. Two days after he was sworn in as Prime Minister, the Wall Street Crash of 1929 occurred, marking the beginning of the Great Depression and subsequent Great Depression in Australia.... Prime Minister Parliament: 9 years Leader since: 1928 Division: Yarra Division of Yarra The Division of Yarra was an Divisions of the Australian House of Representatives in the States and territories of Australia of Victoria . It was located in inner eastern suburban Melbourne, and was named after the Yarra River, which originally formed the eastern border of the Division, and eventually ran through it....
United Australia Joseph Lyons Joseph Lyons Joseph Aloysius Lyons, Companion of Honour , Australian politician. He was Australian Labor Party Premiers of Tasmania of Tasmania from 1923 to 1928 and a Minister in the James Scullin government from 1929 until his resignation from the Labor Party in March 1931.... Opposition Leader Parliament: 2 years Leader since: 1931 Division: Wilmot Division of Wilmot The Division of Wilmot was an Divisions of the Australian House of Representatives in the States and territories of Australia of Tasmania. It was located in central Tasmania, and was named after Sir John Eardley-Wilmot, 1st Baronet, the sixth Governors of Tasmania.... WIN

Federal elections were held in Australia

Australia

Australian House of Representatives

The House of Representatives is one of the two houses of the Parliament of Australia; it is the lower house, the upper house being the Australian Senate....
, and 18 of the 36 seats in the Senate

Australian Senate

The Senate is the upper house of the two houses of the Parliament of Australia. The lower house is known as the Australian House of Representatives....
were up for election. The incumbent Australian Labor Party

Australian Labor Party

The Australian Labor Party is an List of political parties in Australia.Known as the Australian Labor Party#Etymology for short, the party is the current governing party of Australia, since the Australian federal election, 2007....
led by Prime Minister of Australia

Prime Minister of Australia

The Prime Minister of Australia is the head of government of the Australia, holding office on commission from the Governor-General of Australia....
James Scullin

James Scullin

James Henry Scullin , Australian Labor politician and ninth Prime Minister of Australia. Two days after he was sworn in as Prime Minister, the Wall Street Crash of 1929 occurred, marking the beginning of the Great Depression and subsequent Great Depression in Australia....
was defeated by the newly-formed opposition United Australia Party

United Australia Party

The United Australia Party or UAP was an Australian political party that was the political successor to the Nationalist Party of Australia and the predecessor to the Liberal Party of Australia ....
(descended from the Nationalist Party of Australia

Nationalist Party of Australia

The Nationalist Party of Australia was an Australian political party. It was formed on 17 February 1917 from a merger between the conservative Commonwealth Liberal Party and the so-called "National Labor Party", the name given to the pro-conscription defectors from the Australian Labor Party led by Prime Minister of Australia Billy Hughes....
) led by ex-Labor Joseph Lyons

Joseph Lyons

Joseph Aloysius Lyons, Companion of Honour , Australian politician. He was Australian Labor Party Premiers of Tasmania of Tasmania from 1923 to 1928 and a Minister in the James Scullin government from 1929 until his resignation from the Labor Party in March 1931....
with coalition

Coalition (Australia)

The Coalition in Australian politics refers to a pragmatic grouping of centre-right parties that has existed in the form of a coalition since 1922....
partner the Country Party led by Earle Page

Earle Page

Sir Earle Christmas Grafton Page, Order of St Michael and St George, Order of the Companions of Honour , Australian politician, was the eleventh Prime Minister of Australia, and is to date the List of longest-serving members of the Australian House of Representatives in Australian history with 41 years, 361 days in Parliament....
.

Results

House of Reps (IRV
Instant-runoff voting

**Instant-runoff voting** is the American English term for a voting system used for Single-winner voting system, in which voting rank candidates in an order of preference....
) — 1931-34 — Turnout 95.04% (CV
Compulsory voting

**Compulsory voting** requires electors to vote in elections or attend a polling place on voting day. With a secret ballot voters remain free to Spoilt vote or remove them from the polling booth, depending on the voting system....
) — Informal 3.48%
Party	Votes	%	Swing	Seats	Change
United Australia Party United Australia Party The United Australia Party or UAP was an Australian political party that was the political successor to the Nationalist Party of Australia and the predecessor to the Liberal Party of Australia ....	1,145,083	36.10	+2.20	34	+20	^{(1 elected} _unopposed)
Australian Labor Party Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an List of political parties in Australia.Known as the Australian Labor Party#Etymology for short, the party is the current governing party of Australia, since the Australian federal election, 2007....	859,513	27.10	-21.74	14	-32
Country Party	388,544	12.25	+1.98	16	+6	^{(3 elected} _unopposed)
Lang Labor Lang Labor Lang Labor was the name commonly used to describe two successive break-away sections of the Australian Labor Party, both led by the New South Wales Labor leader Jack Lang ....	335,309	10.57	*	4	+4
Emergency Committee (SA) Emergency Committee (SA) The Emergency Committee of South Australia was a political party who ran at the Australian federal election, 1931, and opposed what they saw as the "financial extremists" in James Scullin's Federal Australian Labor Party government after the effects of the Great Depression in Australia....	174,288	5.49	*	6	+6
Independents	260,786	8.22	+6.09	1	-3
Other	8,511	0.27		0	-1
Total	3,172,034			75
UAP/Country coalition Coalition (Australia) The Coalition in Australian politics refers to a pragmatic grouping of centre-right parties that has existed in the form of a coalition since 1922....	WIN			50	+26
Australian Labor Party Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an List of political parties in Australia.Known as the Australian Labor Party#Etymology for short, the party is the current governing party of Australia, since the Australian federal election, 2007....				14	-32

Senate (P
Preferential voting

**Preferential voting** is a type of ballot structure used in several voting systems in which voters rank a list or group of candidates in order of preference....
BV) — 1931-34 — Turnout 95.02% (CV
Compulsory voting

**Compulsory voting** requires electors to vote in elections or attend a polling place on voting day. With a secret ballot voters remain free to Spoilt vote or remove them from the polling booth, depending on the voting system....
) — Informal 9.60%
Party	Votes	%	Swing	Seats Won	Seats Held
UAP/Country (Joint Ticket)	945,741	30.16	*	6
Australian Labor Party Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an List of political parties in Australia.Known as the Australian Labor Party#Etymology for short, the party is the current governing party of Australia, since the Australian federal election, 2007....	917,218	29.25	-19.70	3	10
United Australia Party United Australia Party The United Australia Party or UAP was an Australian political party that was the political successor to the Nationalist Party of Australia and the predecessor to the Liberal Party of Australia ....	791,870	25.26	-14.02	9	21
Lang Labor Lang Labor Lang Labor was the name commonly used to describe two successive break-away sections of the Australian Labor Party, both led by the New South Wales Labor leader Jack Lang ....	379,870	12.12	*	0	0
Communist Party of Australia Communist Party of Australia The Communist Party of Australia was founded in 1920 and dissolved in 1991. It achieved its greatest political strength in the 1940s and faced an attempted banning in 1951....	29,443	0.94	*	0	0
Country Party	*	*	-11.18	0	5
Independents	71,181	2.27	+1.68	0	0
Total	3,135,323			18	36

Issues

The election was dominated by the Great Depression in Australia

Great Depression in Australia

The Great Depression of the 1930s was an economic catastrophe that severely affected most nations of the world, and Australia was not immune. In fact, Australia, with its extreme dependence on exports, particularly primary products such as wool and wheat, is thought to have been one of the hardest-hit countries in the Western world along wit...
, which was at its height. As the Labor Government had come to office two days before the Wall Street Crash of 1929

Wall Street Crash of 1929

The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as the Great Crash, was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States, taking into consideration the full extent and longevity of its fallout....
, it was seen as being responsible for many of the economic and social problems Australia faced. Lang Labor

Lang Labor

Lang Labor was the name commonly used to describe two successive break-away sections of the Australian Labor Party, both led by the New South Wales Labor leader Jack Lang ....
also split from the Labor Party, the result was Labor's vote dropping to its lowest level since 1901.

Australian federal election, 1931

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