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Victorian state election, 1921

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30 August 1921 (1921-08-30)
  
1924 →

30 seats
  
20 seats

31 seats
  
21 seats

Start date
  
August 30, 1921

May 1918
  
18 June 1918

20 seats
  
13 seats

21 seats
  
12 seats

Victorian state election, 1921

Winner
  
Harry Lawson

The 1921 Victorian state election was held in the Australian state of Victoria on Tuesday 30 August 1921 to elect 46 of the 65 members of the state's Legislative Assembly.

Contents

Background

The trigger for the 1921 Victorian election was a dissolution of parliament caused by the Victorian Farmers' Union voting with Labor to defeat Harry Lawson's minority Nationalist government after Lawson, who was also the agriculture minister, had abolished the compulsory wheat pool operating in the state.

Legislative Assembly

Notes:

  • Nineteen seats were uncontested at this election, and were retained by the incumbent parties:
  • Nationalist (11): Benambra, Boroondara, Brighton, Bulla, Dalhousie, Gippsland West, Hawthorn, Ovens, Toorak, Walhalla, Waranga
  • Labor (7): Abbotsford, Carlton, Melbourne, North Melbourne, Port Melbourne, Richmond, Williamstown
  • Victorian Farmers' Union (1): Wangaratta

    • References

    Victorian state election, 1921 Wikipedia
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