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1929 Queensland state election

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Field	Value
election_name	1929 Queensland state election
country	Queensland
type	parliamentary
ongoing	no
previous_election	1926 Queensland state election
previous_year	1926
next_election	1932 Queensland state election
next_year	1932
seats_for_election	All 72 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland
37 Assembly seats were needed for a majority
turnout	89.15 ( 0.42 pp)
election_date
image1	[[File:Arthur Edward Moore and Sir Hal Colebatch (cropped).jpg	170x170px]]
leader1	Arthur Edward Moore
leader_since1	19 April 1924
party1	Country and Progressive National Party
leaders_seat1	Aubigny
popular_vote1	233,977
percentage1	54.24%
swing1	5.03
last_election1	28 seats, 48.48%
seats1	43
seat_change1	15
image2	[[File:William McCormack 1927 (cropped).jpg	170x170px]]
leader2	William McCormack
leader_since2
party2	Australian Labor Party (Queensland Branch)
leaders_seat2	Cairns
popular_vote2	173,242
percentage2	40.16%
swing2	7.80
last_election2	43 seats, 47.96%
seats2	27
seat_change2	16
title	Premier
before_election	William McCormack
before_party	Australian Labor Party (Queensland Branch)
after_election	Arthur Edward Moore
after_party	Country and Progressive National Party

37 Assembly seats were needed for a majority

Elections were held in the Australian state of Queensland on 11 May 1929 to elect the 72 members of the state's Legislative Assembly. In this election, Irene Longman became the first woman to both stand and be elected into the Queensland Parliament.

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 opponent was the Country and Progressive National Party (CPNP), led by Arthur Edward Moore. The term had not gone well for McCormack's government, including a railway lock-out in 1927 which pitted the Labor Party against the union movement, restrictive financial policies and attempts to sell off state-owned enterprises, as well as suggestions of corruption which later came to be known as the Mungana affair.

The election resulted in the defeat of the McCormack government in a landslide, and the first non-Labor ministry since 1915.

Key dates

Date	Event
11 April 1929	The Parliament was dissolved.
12 April 1929	Writs were issued by the Governor to proceed with an election.
19 April 1929	Close of nominations.
11 May 1929	Polling day, between the hours of 8am and 6pm.
21 May 1929	The McCormack Ministry resigned and the Moore Ministry was sworn in.
15 June 1929	The writ was returned and the results formally declared.
29 June 1929	The writ was returned for the seat of Gregory.
20 August 1929	Parliament resumed for business.

Results

The election saw the defeat of the Labor government by the CPNP.

| turnout % = 89.15% | informal % = 1.56% |votes % = 54.23% |votes % = 40.16% |votes % = 0.67% |votes % = 4.94% |}

: 517,466 electors were enrolled to vote at the election, but 4 seats (5.6% of the total) were uncontested—2 Labor seats (3 less than 1926) representing 9,041 enrolled voters and two CPNP seats (one more than 1926) representing 16,536 enrolled voters.

Seats changing party representation

This table lists changes in party representation at the 1929 election.

Seat	Incumbent member	Party
Bulimba	Harry Wright	Labor	Irene Longman
Chillagoe	John O'Keefe	Labor	Ernest Atherton
Cook	Henry Ryan	Labor	James Kenny
Dalby	Wilfred Russell	Independent	Wilfred Russell
Eacham	Cornelius Ryan	Labor	George Duffy
Fitzroy	Harry Hartley	Labor	William Carter
Gympie	Thomas Dunstan	Labor	Vivian Tozer
Ipswich	David Gledson	Labor	James Walker
Kelvin Grove	William Lloyd	Labor	Richard Hill
Keppel	James Larcombe	Labor	Owen Daniel
Lockyer	George Logan	CPNP	Charles Jamieson
Maree	William Bertram	Labor	George Tedman
Merthyr	Peter McLachlan	Labor	Patrick Kerwin
Port Curtis	George Carter	Labor	Frank Butler
Rockhampton	George Farrell	Labor	Thomas Dunlop
Rosewood	William Cooper	Labor	Ted Maher
South Brisbane	Myles Ferricks	Labor	Neil MacGroarty
Toowoomba	Evan Llewelyn	Labor	James Annand

Post-election pendulum

Note: from 1892 until 1942, Queensland used contingency voting, which was similar to the modern optional preferential voting system. In electorates with 3 or more candidates, preferences were not distributed if a candidate received more than 50% of the primary vote.

Aftermath

The CPNP found itself in power as the Great Depression took hold. It lost power after one term.

References

{{Gazette QLD. (11 April 1929)
{{Gazette QLD. (12 April 1929)
{{Gazette QLD. (21 May 1929)
{{Gazette QLD. (25 July 1929)
Australian Government and Politics Database. "Parliament of Queensland, Assembly election, 11 May 1929".

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