5 September 1914 (1914-09-05) 1917 → 37 seats 38 seats 5 6 | October 1907 20 January 1913 42 seats 32 seats 858,451 796,397 | |
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Federal elections were held in Australia on 5 September 1914. The election had been called before the declaration of war in August 1914. All 75 seats in the House of Representatives, and all 36 seats in the Senate were up for election in a double dissolution. The incumbent Commonwealth Liberal Party led by Prime Minister of Australia Joseph Cook was defeated by the opposition Australian Labor Party led by Andrew Fisher.
Until the defeat of the Howard Government in 2007, the Cook Government was the only non-Labor Government in Australian history that did not last longer than the Labor Government it had replaced.
Results
Independents: George Wise (Gippsland, Vic)
References
Australian federal election, 1914 Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA