13 December 1941 1946 → 18 seats 12 seats 2 2 Start date December 13, 1941 | 18 December 1939 July 1936 20 seats 10 seats 62.59% 36.58% | |
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Winner Robert Cosgrove | ||
A general election for the House of Assembly was held in the Australian state of Tasmania on 13 December 1941.
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Background
The Australian Labor Party had won the 1937 election with a three-seat majority over the Nationalist Party. Labor leader and Premier Albert Ogilvie had died in office on 10 June 1939, and had been replaced by Edmund Dwyer-Gray and then Robert Cosgrove, who led Labor into the 1941 election. Sir Henry Baker continued to lead the Nationalists.
Aftermath
In spite of Cosgrove's refusal to placate the Labor Party's left wing, and criticism from Bill Morrow of the Launceston Trades Hall Council, Labor consolidated its substantial majority even further, winning a further two seats for a total of 20.
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Tasmanian state election, 1941 Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA