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1893 Queensland colonial election

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1893 Queensland colonial election

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All 72 seats in the Legislative Assembly
37 Assembly seats were needed for a majority
  First party Second party
 
Leader Thomas McIlwraith Thomas Glassey
Party Ministerialist Labour
Leader's seat Brisbane North Bundaberg
Seats won 42 16
Popular vote 34,927 25,984
Percentage 44.78% 33.32%

Premier before election

Thomas McIlwraith
Ministerialist

Elected Premier

Thomas McIlwraith
Ministerialist

Elections were held in the Colony of Queensland between 18 April 1893 and 25 May 1893 to elect the members of the colony’s Legislative Assembly.

This election was an early use of contingent voting in a government election.[1]

Key dates

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Due to problems of distance and communications, it was not possible to hold the elections on a single day.[2]

Results

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42 16 7 7
Ministerialists Labour Opposition Independent

Queensland colonial election, 29 April 1893[3]
Legislative Assembly
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Enrolled voters 86,983
Votes cast 77,993 Turnout 73.11
Informal votes Informal
Summary of votes by party
Party Primary votes % Swing Seats Change
  Ministerialist 34,927 44.78 42 -
  Labour 25,984 33.32 16 +12
  Independent 7,905 10.14 7 +1
  Opposition 7,154 9.17 7 -
  Farmers Rep. 1,230 1.58 0 -
Total 77,993     72  

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Bowler, Shaun; Grofman, Bernard Norman (2000). Elections in Australia, Ireland, and Malta under the single transferable vote: reflections on an embedded institution. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. p. 40. doi:10.3998/mpub.16507. ISBN 978-0-472-02681-4. The contingent vote … was used in Queensland from 1892 to 1942 and for Democratic primary elections in the U.S. state of Alabama between 1915 and 1931. It has been used for presidential elections in Sri Lanka since 1978 and in 1996 … the United Kingdom … called it the 'supplementary vote'.
  2. ^ "Queensland General Election Dates 1860-1929" (PDF). Queensland Parliament. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 December 2013. Retrieved 16 December 2013.
  3. ^ "Summary of 1893 Election". University of Western Australia. Retrieved 26 July 2017.