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Chris Watson, first federal Labour Party leader as of two months after the election, and would later be Prime Minister in 1904.. The parties contesting the election were the Protectionist Party, led by Prime Minister of Australia Edmund Barton, and the Free Trade Party, unofficially led by former New South Wales Premier George Reid.
The current federal government structure was established in 1901 by the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act, 1901. The first three national elections resulted in minority governments. The world’s first ever Labor Party Prime Minister took office in Australia in 1904, though Labor governed in minority.
Australian federal election, 29–30 March 1901 [1] House of Representatives –1903 >> Enrolled voters 977,993 Votes cast 502,556 Turnout: 51.39 Informal votes 8,469 Informal 1.69 Summary of votes by party Party Primary votes % Swing Seats Change Protectionist: 135,996 27.52% * 27 * Free Trade: 164,085 33.21% * 25 * Labour: 90,174 18.25% * 15 *
The Speaker has a discretion as to when to call a by-election and may not call one at all, for example, if a general election is imminent. At least 33 days must elapse between the issue by the Speaker of a writ and the date of a by-election, and the Speaker cannot issue the writ until receipt of a formal letter of resignation.
This article provides a timeline of elections in Australia, including all the colonial, state, territorial and federal elections. The information starts from when each state or territory held its first election, and continues through to the present day.
To date, the election is the most decisive result at any Australian state or federal election since Federation, in terms of both percentage of lower house seats controlled by the governing party (89.8%) and two-party preferred margin. [35] [36] Map displaying Labor's landslide victory at the 2021 Western Australian state election.
The term of Australian parliaments is determined by the opening and dissolution (or expiration) of the House of Representatives. The Senate is not normally dissolved at all, except at a double dissolution, when the entire parliament is dissolved. Parliaments do not have a fixed term. The maximum term permitted by section 28 of the Constitution of Australia is three years, counted from the date ...
The right to vote in federal elections was extended to Indigenous people who had served in the armed forces or were enrolled to vote in state elections. 1957 Under the Northern Territory Welfare Ordinance, [7] almost all Indigenous people in the Northern Territory were declared to be "wards of the state" and denied the vote. In 1961, 17,000 ...