Elections were held in the Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n state

States and territories of Australia

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 of Queensland

Queensland

Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...

 on 11 June 1932 to elect the 62 members of the state's Legislative Assembly

Queensland Legislative Assembly

The Queensland Legislative Assembly is the unicameral chamber of the Parliament of Queensland. Elections are held approximately once every three years. Voting is by the Optional Preferential Voting form of the Alternative Vote system...

.

The election was the first electoral test of the Country and Progressive National Party

Country and Progressive National Party

The Country and Progressive National Party was a short-lived conservative political party in the Australian state of Queensland.-History:It was created in 1925 as the result of a merger between the state's two conservative parties, the United Party and the Country Party, in an attempt to end...

 government led by Arthur Edward Moore

Arthur Edward Moore

Arthur Edward Moore, CMG was an Australian politician. He was the Country and Progressive National Party Premier of Queensland, from 1929 to 1932. He was the only Queensland Premier not to come from the ranks of the Labor Party between 1915 and 1957...

, and was held in the midst of the Great Depression

Great Depression

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. Labor had previously held office from 1915 until 1929.

The election resulted in the defeat of the one-term Moore government by the Labor Party

Australian Labor Party

The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

, led by William Forgan Smith

William Forgan Smith

William Forgan Smith , generally known as Forgan Smith, was Premier of the Australian state of Queensland from 1932 to 1942. He came to dominate politics in the state during the 1930s, and his populism, firm leadership, defence of states' rights and interest in state development make him something...

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Key dates

Date	Event
3 February 1932	The new electoral boundaries under the Electoral Districts Act 1931 were proclaimed.
19 April 1932	The Parliament was dissolved.
20 April 1932	Writs were issued by the Governor to proceed with an election.
28 April 1932	Close of nominations.
11 June 1932	Polling day, between the hours of 8am and 6pm.
18 June 1932	The Moore Ministry Moore Ministry (Queensland) The Moore Ministry was a ministry of the Government of Queensland and was led by Country and Progressive National Party Premier Arthur Edward Moore. It succeeded the McCormack Ministry on 21 May 1929, ten days after William McCormack's Labor government was defeated at the 1929 state election...  resigned and the Forgan Smith Ministry Forgan Smith Ministry The Forgan Smith Ministry was a ministry of the Government of Queensland and was led by Labor Premier William Forgan Smith. It succeeded the Moore Ministry on 18 June 1932, seven days after Arthur Edward Moore's CPNP government was defeated at the 1932 state election...  was sworn in.
2 July 1932	Polling day in the seat of Hamilton Electoral district of Hamilton (Queensland) Hamilton was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland from 1932 to 1950.The district was based in the inner northeastern suburbs of Brisbane, and included the suburbs of Albion, Ascot, Eagle Farm, Hamilton and Hendra. It was a safe seat for the... , delayed due to the death of a candidate.
16 July 1932	The writ was returned and the results formally declared.
15 August 1932	Parliament resumed for business.

Results

The election saw a major swing to Labor from the 1929 election

Queensland state election, 1929

Elections were held in the Australian state of Queensland on 11 May 1929 to elect the 72 members of the state's Legislative Assembly.The Labor government was seeking its sixth continuous term in office since the 1915 election; it would be Premier William McCormack's second election. His main...

. The election took place on modified boundaries — the Assembly had been reduced by the Electoral Districts Act 1931 from 72 to 62 seats, mainly accomplished by the abolition of sitting Labor members' seats. Despite this, Labor went from a deficit of 16 seats to a surplus of 5 seats.
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525,944 electors were enrolled to vote at the election, but 5 seats (8.1% of the total) were uncontested—4 Labor seats (two more than in 1929) representing 27,083 enrolled voters and one Independent seat (held by Arnold Wienholt

Arnold Wienholt

Arnold Wienholt was an Australian politician. Born in Goomburra, Queensland, he was educated in England at Eton College before returning to Australia as a grazier on the Darling Downs. He served in the military 1899-1902 and 1914–1916, and was a published author...

) representing 6,825 enrolled voters.

Aftermath

Forgan Smith would go on to be premier for over 10 years, and Labor held power continuously until the party's split in 1957.

See also

• Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 1929–1932
  Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 1929–1932
  This is a list of members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1929 to 1932, as elected at the 1929 state election.*Moore Ministry...
  
  
• Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 1932–1935
  Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 1932–1935
  This is a list of members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1932 to 1935, as elected at the 1932 state election.*Forgan Smith Ministry -References:...
  
  
• Candidates of the Queensland state election, 1932
  Candidates of the Queensland state election, 1932
  This is a list of candidates who stood for the 1932 Queensland state election. The election was held on 11 June 1932.The main parties in the election were the Country and Progressive National Party, led by Premier Arthur Edward Moore, and the Labor Party, led by Leader of the Opposition William...
  
  
• Moore Ministry (Queensland)
  Moore Ministry (Queensland)
  The Moore Ministry was a ministry of the Government of Queensland and was led by Country and Progressive National Party Premier Arthur Edward Moore. It succeeded the McCormack Ministry on 21 May 1929, ten days after William McCormack's Labor government was defeated at the 1929 state election...
  
  
• Forgan Smith Ministry
  Forgan Smith Ministry
  The Forgan Smith Ministry was a ministry of the Government of Queensland and was led by Labor Premier William Forgan Smith. It succeeded the Moore Ministry on 18 June 1932, seven days after Arthur Edward Moore's CPNP government was defeated at the 1932 state election...