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1920 Kalgoorlie by-election
Australian federal by-election
Australian federal by-election
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| country | Australia |
| type | parliamentary |
| ongoing | no |
| election_date | 18 December 1920 |
| vote_type | Popular |
| image1 | George Foley.jpg |
| candidate1 | George Foley |
| party1 | Nationalist Party (Australia) |
| popular_vote1 | 8,382 |
| percentage1 | 51.4% |
| swing1 | 3.5pp |
| image2 | Portrait of Hugh Mahon (cropped).jpg |
| candidate2 | Hugh Mahon |
| party2 | Australian Labor Party |
| popular_vote2 | 7,939 |
| percentage2 | 48.6% |
| swing2 | 3.5pp |
| title | MP |
| before_election | Hugh Mahon |
| before_party | Australian Labor Party |
| after_election | George Foley |
| after_party | Nationalist Party (Australia) |
| election_name | 1920 Kalgoorlie by-election |
A by-election was held for the Australian House of Representatives seat of Kalgoorlie on 18 December 1920. It was triggered by the expulsion from the House of Labor Party MP Hugh Mahon.
The subsequent by-election was won by Nationalist Party candidate George Foley. It was the only federal by-election at which the government had won a seat from the opposition until the 2023 Aston by-election over 102 years later. Voting was not compulsory in 1920.
Background
After the death of the Irish nationalist Terence McSwiney, as the result of a hunger strike in October 1920, Mahon attacked British policy in Ireland, and the British Empire as a whole, at an open-air meeting in Melbourne on 7 November, referring to it as "this bloody and accursed despotism". Subsequently, Prime Minister Billy Hughes moved to expel him from the House of Representatives.{{cite Australian Dictionary of Biography
Under Section 8 of the Parliamentary Privileges Act 1987, neither house of the Australian Parliament now has the power to expel someone from membership of the Parliament.
Results
References
References
- "Parliamentary Privileges Act 1987". Australian Government.
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