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1927 New South Wales state election

State election for New South Wales, Australia in October 1927

Field	Value
election_name	1927 New South Wales state election
country	New South Wales
type	parliamentary
ongoing	no
previous_election	1925 New South Wales state election
previous_year	1925
next_election	1930 New South Wales state election
next_year	1930
seats_for_election	All 90 seats in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
46 Assembly seats were needed for a majority
election_date
image1	[[File:Premier Thomas Bavin sitting in his office, Sydney, ca. 1930 (cropped) (cropped).jpg	170x170px]]
leader1	Thomas Bavin
leader_since1	24 September 1925
party1	Nationalist/Country coalition
leaders_seat1	Gordon
percentage1	47.3%
swing1	1.3
last_election1	41 seats
seats1	46 seats
seat_change1	5
image2	[[File:Jack Lang 1928 (cropped).jpg	170x170px]]
leader2	Jack Lang
leader_since2	31 July 1923
party2	Australian Labor Party (New South Wales Branch)
leaders_seat2	Auburn
percentage2	43.0%
swing2	3.0
last_election2	46 seats
seats2	40 seats
seat_change2	6
map_image	1927 New South Wales election.svg
map_size	400px
map_caption	Two-candidate-preferred margin by electorate
title	Premier
before_election	Jack Lang
before_party	Australian Labor Party (New South Wales Branch)
after_election	Thomas Bavin
after_party	Nationalist/Country coalition

46 Assembly seats were needed for a majority

The 1927 New South Wales state election to elect the 90 members of the 28th Legislative Assembly was held on 8 October 1927. During the previous parliament the voting system, Single transferable voting, a form of proportional representation with multi-member seats (modified Hare-Clark), had been changed to single member constituencies and Instant-runoff voting (optional preferential voting).

Severe divisions occurred within the Labor Party caucus in the four months prior to the election (see Lang Labor). A caretaker government composed of the supporters of the Premier of New South Wales and party leader, Jack Lang was in power at the time of the election.

As a result of the election the Lang government was defeated and a Nationalist/Country Party coalition government led by Thomas Bavin and Ernest Buttenshaw was formed with a parliamentary majority of 1 and the usual support of the 2 Nationalist independents. The Parliament first met on 3 November 1927, and ran its maximum term of 3 years. Lang remained the leader of the Labor Party throughout the Parliament.

To date Lang is the only elected Labor Premier of New South Wales to be voted out of office. Subsequent Labor Premiers who has lost office were all non-elected.

Key dates

Date	Event
7 September 1927	The Legislative Assembly was dissolved, and writs were issued by the Governor to proceed with an election.
14 September 1927	Nominations for candidates for the election closed at noon.
8 October 1927	Polling day.
18 October 1927	Bavin ministry sworn in
29 October 1927	The writs were returned and the results formally declared.
3 November 1927	Opening of 28th Parliament.

Results

| turnout % = 82.54 | informal % = 1.31 |votes % = 43.00 |votes % = 38.48 |votes % = 8.89 |votes % = 2.84 |votes % = 2.65 |votes % = 0.64 |votes % = 0.38 |votes % = 3.13 |}

Changing seats

1925 election	1927 election	Old Electorate	Member	Party	Note	New Electorate	Party
Balmain					Changed party	Balmain	Ind
				Defeated	Leichhardt		Labor NSW}}
	Labor NSW}}			Retired	Hartley
Botany		Changed party	Botany		Ind
	Enmore
Byron				/	Defeated as Ind	Byron
				Defeated as Ind	Byron
	Clarence			Country NSW}}
Cootamundra				/	Defeated as Ind	Young
Eastern Suburbs		Nationalist}}			Changed party	Bondi
	Defeated	Bondi
				Retired	Coogee		Nationalist}}
	Randwick
	Waverley
	Labor NSW}}			Defeated as Ind	Woollahra
Goulburn		Defeated	Monaro
Murray		/	Defeated as Ind	Albury
Newcastle		Newcastle			Labor NSW}}
				Defeated	Wallsend
North Shore					Resigned	Lane Cove		Nationalist}}
	Neutral Bay
				Retired	North Sydney
				Defeated as Ind	Rozelle
				Changed party	Willoughby
Northern Tablelands					Defeated	Armidale
Oxley					Retired	Oxley
	Labor NSW}}			Retired
Ryde		Retired	Ryde			Labor NSW}}
St George		Canterbury	Arthur Tonge
				Retired	Hurstville
				Defeated as Ind	Lakemba
Sturt					Defeated	Illawarra
Sydney		Labor NSW}}			Defeated as Ind	Auburn
	Retired	King			Labor NSW}}
	Surry Hills
Wammerawa					Defeated	Castlereagh
	Liverpool Plains
Western Suburbs					Retired	Croydon
				Defeated as	Dulwich Hill

Notes

References

{{NSW Parliamentary Record
"Former members of the New South Wales Parliament, 1856–2006". New South Wales Parliament.
Nairn, Bede. "Lang, John Thomas (Jack) (1876–1975)".
McCarthy, John. "Bavin, Sir Thomas Rainsford (Tom) (1874–1941)".
Kingston, Beverley. "Buttenshaw, Ernest Albert (1876–1950)".
Green, Antony. "1927 election totals". [[Parliament of New South Wales]].

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