Australian federal election, 1910
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Federal elections were held in Australia on 13 April 1910. All 75 seats in the House of Representatives
, and 18 of the 36 seats in the Senate
were up for election. The incumbent Commonwealth Liberal Party
(the result of a merger between the Protectionist Party
and the Free Trade Party
) led by Prime Minister of Australia
Alfred Deakin
was defeated by the opposition Australian Labour Party led by Andrew Fisher
.
The election represented a number of firsts: it was Australia's first elected federal majority government
; Australia's first Senate
majority; the world's first Labour Party majority government; and the first time it controlled both houses of a bicameral legislature. It was also the only election in Australia's federal parliamentary history to have taken place following expiration of the previous parliament by the 'effluxion of time'.
The 113 acts passed in the second Fisher government (1910–13) exceeded even the output of the second Alfred Deakin
government over a similar period. At the time, it represented the culmination of Labour's involvement in politics. It was a period of reform unmatched in the Commonwealth until the 1940s.
Independents: William Lyne
(Hume
, NSW), George Wise
(Gippsland
, Vic)
Australian House of Representatives
The House of Representatives is one of the two houses of the Parliament of Australia; it is the lower house; the upper house is the Senate. Members of Parliament serve for terms of approximately three years....
, and 18 of the 36 seats in the Senate
Australian Senate
The Senate is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of Australia, the lower house being the House of Representatives. Senators are popularly elected under a system of proportional representation. Senators are elected for a term that is usually six years; after a double dissolution, however,...
were up for election. The incumbent Commonwealth Liberal Party
Commonwealth Liberal Party
The Commonwealth Liberal Party was a political movement active in Australia from 1909 to 1916, shortly after federation....
(the result of a merger between the Protectionist Party
Protectionist Party
The Protectionist Party was an Australian political party, formally organised from 1889 until 1909, with policies centred on protectionism. It argued that Australia needed protective tariffs to allow Australian industry to grow and provide employment. It had its greatest strength in Victoria and in...
and the Free Trade Party
Free Trade Party
The Free Trade Party which was officially known as the Australian Free Trade and Liberal Association, also referred to as the Revenue Tariff Party in some states and renamed the Anti-Socialist Party in 1906, was an Australian political party, formally organised between 1889 and 1909...
) led by Prime Minister of Australia
Prime Minister of Australia
The Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Australia is the highest minister of the Crown, leader of the Cabinet and Head of Her Majesty's Australian Government, holding office on commission from the Governor-General of Australia. The office of Prime Minister is, in practice, the most powerful...
Alfred Deakin
Alfred Deakin
Alfred Deakin , Australian politician, was a leader of the movement for Australian federation and later the second Prime Minister of Australia. In the last quarter of the 19th century, Deakin was a major contributor to the establishment of liberal reforms in the colony of Victoria, including the...
was defeated by the opposition Australian Labour Party led by Andrew Fisher
Andrew Fisher
Andrew Fisher was an Australian politician who served as the fifth Prime Minister on three separate occasions. Fisher's 1910-13 Labor ministry completed a vast legislative programme which made him, along with Protectionist Alfred Deakin, the founder of the statutory structure of the new nation...
.
The election represented a number of firsts: it was Australia's first elected federal majority government
Majority government
A majority government is when the governing party has an absolute majority of seats in the legislature or parliament in a parliamentary system. This is as opposed to a minority government, where even the largest party wins only a plurality of seats and thus must constantly bargain for support from...
; Australia's first Senate
Australian Senate
The Senate is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of Australia, the lower house being the House of Representatives. Senators are popularly elected under a system of proportional representation. Senators are elected for a term that is usually six years; after a double dissolution, however,...
majority; the world's first Labour Party majority government; and the first time it controlled both houses of a bicameral legislature. It was also the only election in Australia's federal parliamentary history to have taken place following expiration of the previous parliament by the 'effluxion of time'.
The 113 acts passed in the second Fisher government (1910–13) exceeded even the output of the second Alfred Deakin
Alfred Deakin
Alfred Deakin , Australian politician, was a leader of the movement for Australian federation and later the second Prime Minister of Australia. In the last quarter of the 19th century, Deakin was a major contributor to the establishment of liberal reforms in the colony of Victoria, including the...
government over a similar period. At the time, it represented the culmination of Labour's involvement in politics. It was a period of reform unmatched in the Commonwealth until the 1940s.
Party | Votes | % | Swing | Seats | Change | ||
Australian Labour Party | 660,864 | 49.97 | +13.33 | 42 | +16 | (2 elected unopposed) |
|
Commonwealth Liberal Party Commonwealth Liberal Party The Commonwealth Liberal Party was a political movement active in Australia from 1909 to 1916, shortly after federation.... |
596,350 | 45.09 | * | 31 | * | (2 elected unopposed) |
|
Independent Independent (politician) In politics, an independent or non-party politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, a viewpoint more extreme than any major party, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do... s |
65,368 | 4.94 | +3.36 | 2 | +1 | ||
Total | 1,322,582 | 75 | |||||
Australian Labour Party | WIN | 42 | +1 | ||||
Commonwealth Liberal Party Commonwealth Liberal Party The Commonwealth Liberal Party was a political movement active in Australia from 1909 to 1916, shortly after federation.... |
31 | +4 |
Independents: William Lyne
William Lyne
Sir William John Lyne KCMG , Australian politician, was Premier of New South Wales and a member of the first federal ministry.-Early life:...
(Hume
Division of Hume
The Division of Hume is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of New South Wales. The Division is located in the central part of the state, just north of the Australian Capital Territory. The Division covers a predominantly rural area, with agriculture and coal mining the main industries...
, NSW), George Wise
George Wise
George Henry Wise was an Australian politician and solicitor.Wise was born in Melbourne and educated at Scotch College from five years of age to he matriculated in 1868. He became an articled clerk and was admitted to the bar in September 1874 and set up his own practice in 1877 in Sale...
(Gippsland
Division of Gippsland
The Division of Gippsland is anAustralian Electoral Division in Victoria. The division was one of the original 75 divisions contested at the first federal election. It is named for the Gippsland region of eastern Victoria, which in turn is named for Sir George Gipps, Governor of New South Wales...
, Vic)
Party | Votes | % | Swing | Seats Won | Seats Held | |
Australian Labour Party | 2,021,090 | 50.30 | +11.57 | 18 | 22 | |
Commonwealth Liberal Party Commonwealth Liberal Party The Commonwealth Liberal Party was a political movement active in Australia from 1909 to 1916, shortly after federation.... |
1,830,353 | 45.55 | * | 0 | 14 | |
Independent Independent (politician) In politics, an independent or non-party politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, a viewpoint more extreme than any major party, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do... s |
134,976 | 3.36 | +2.46 | 0 | 0 | |
Other | 31,700 | 0.79 | 0 | 0 | ||
Total | 4,018,119 | 18 | 36 |
Seats changing hands
Seat | Pre-1910 | Swing | Post-1910 | ||||||
Party | Member | Margin | Margin | Member | Party | ||||
Bass, Tas Division of Bass The Division of Bass is an Australian Electoral Division in Tasmania. The division was created in 1903 and is named for the explorer George Bass. It has always been based on the city of Launceston and surrounding rural areas, and its boundaries have changed very little in the century since its... |
Commonwealth Liberal | David Storrer David Storrer David Storrer was an Australian politician. Born in Freshwater Point, Tasmania, he was educated at Chalmers Church Grammar School before becoming a cabinet maker and furniture warehouseman. He was an alderman at Launceston in 1894... |
12.3 | 56.8 | 6.8 | Jens Jensen Jens Jensen Jens August Jensen was an Australian politician and Minister for the Navy.Jensen was born in Ballarat, Victoria and educated at Ballarat, leaving school at 11. He became a rabbit-hawker and miner at Beaconsfield, Tasmania. In July 1885 he married Elizabeth Frances Broadhurst; she died in 1894... |
Labour | ||
Batman, Vic Division of Batman The Division of Batman is an Australian Electoral Division in Victoria. The division was created in 1906 , and is named after John Batman, one of the founders of the city of Melbourne. When it was created it covered the inner suburbs of Carlton and Fitzroy, but successive boundary changes have... |
Commonwealth Liberal | Jabez Coon Jabez Coon Jabez Coon was an Australian politician. Born in Maldon, Victoria, he received a primary education before becoming a goldminer and then a boot merchant in Melbourne. In 1906, he was elected to the Australian House of Representatives as the Protectionist member for the new seat of Batman. He held... |
1.3 | 15.3 | 13.6 | Henry Beard Henry Beard (Australian politician) Henry Elisha Beard was an Australian politician. Born in Victoria, he received a primary education before becoming a bricklayer and railway inspector, as well as a union official. In 1904 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the Labor member for Jika Jika, holding the seat until... |
Labour | ||
Bendigo, Vic Division of Bendigo The Division of Bendigo is an Australian Electoral Division in Victoria. The division was created in 1900 and was one of the original 75 divisions contested at the first federal election. It is named for the city of Bendigo... |
Independent | John Quick John Quick (politician) Sir John Quick , Australian politician and author, was the federal Member of Parliament for Bendigo from 1901 to 1913 and a leading delegate to the constitutional conventions of the 1890s.-Early life:... |
1.7 | 0.4 | 1.3 | John Quick John Quick (politician) Sir John Quick , Australian politician and author, was the federal Member of Parliament for Bendigo from 1901 to 1913 and a leading delegate to the constitutional conventions of the 1890s.-Early life:... |
Commonwealth Liberal | ||
Bourke, Vic Division of Bourke The Division of Bourke was an Australian Electoral Division in Victoria. The division was created in 1900 and was one of the original 75 divisions contested at the first federal election. It was abolished in 1949. It was named for Sir Richard Bourke, who was Governor of New South Wales at the time... |
Commonwealth Liberal | James Hume Cook | 2.2 | 15.3 | 8.6 | Frank Anstey Frank Anstey Frank Anstey , Australian politician, served 38 years as a Labor member of the Victorian and Commonwealth parliaments.... |
Labour | ||
Brisbane, Qld Division of Brisbane The Division of Brisbane is an Australian Electoral Division in Queensland. The division was one of the original 75 divisions contested at the first federal election... |
Commonwealth Liberal | Justin Foxton | 11.3 | 12.5 | 1.2 | William Finlayson William Finlayson (Australian politician) William Fyfe Finlayson was an Australian politician. Born in Dunbartonshire, Scotland, he was educated there before becoming an apprentice grocer. He migrated to Australia in 1887 and became a grocer in Brisbane. In 1910, he was elected to the Australian House of Representatives as the Labor... |
Labour | ||
Capricornia, Qld Division of Capricornia The Division of Capricornia is an Australian Electoral Division in Queensland. The division was one of the original 75 divisions contested at the first federal election. It is named for the Tropic of Capricorn, which runs through the Division. It is located on the central Queensland coast and its... |
Commonwealth Liberal | Edward Archer Edward Archer Edward Walker Archer was an Australian politician.Archer gained election to the Australian House of Representatives electoral Division of Capricornia on an Anti-Socialist platform on 12 December 1906, serving until 13 April 1910.Later, Archer switched to state politics, serving as member for the... |
5.6 | 12.4 | 6.8 | William Higgs William Higgs William Guy Higgs was an Australian politician.William Higgs was born on 18 January 1862 at Wingham, New South Wales, the son of a Cornish storekeeper, William Guy Higgs.... |
Labour | ||
Corangamite, Vic Division of Corangamite The Division of Corangamite is an Australian Electoral Division in Victoria. The division was one of the original 75 divisions contested at the first federal election... |
Commonwealth Liberal | Gratton Wilson Gratton Wilson John Gratton Wilson was an Australian politician. Born in Melbourne, he was educated at Wesley College and the University of London before becoming a doctor and farmer near Warrnambool... |
24.7 | 29.4 | 4.7 | James Scullin James Scullin James Henry Scullin , Australian Labor politician and the ninth Prime Minister of Australia. Two days after he was sworn in as Prime Minister, the Wall Street Crash of 1929 occurred, marking the beginning of the Great Depression and subsequent Great Depression in Australia.-Early life:Scullin was... |
Labour | ||
Corio, Vic Division of Corio The Division of Corio is an Australian Electoral Division in Victoria. The division one of the original 75 divisions contested at the first federal election. It is named for Corio Bay. It has always been based on the city of Geelong, although in the past it has also included parts of the western... |
Commonwealth Liberal | Richard Crouch Richard Crouch Richard Armstrong Crouch was an Australian politician.Crouch was born on at Ballarat East, Victoria, son of George Crouch, miner, storekeeper and later a wealthy boot-retailer from Tottenham, London, and his wife Selina Durham, née Marks, from Aberdeen, Scotland.Crouch was elected to Federal... |
100.0 | 54.4 | 4.4 | Alfred Ozanne Alfred Ozanne Alfred Thomas Montgomery Madden Ozanne was an Australian politician. Born in Melbourne, he was the son of Marcel Charles Ozanne a frenchman and his wife Emilia Josephine Reinhardt. Ozanne has four siblings, a brother and three sisters. Ozanne married Edith Stewart Moody in 1900 and they had four... |
Labour | ||
Dalley, NSW Division of Dalley The Division of Dalley was an Australian Electoral Division in New South Wales. The division was created in 1900 and was one of the original 75 divisions contested at the first federal election. It was abolished in 1969. It was named for the colonial politician William Dalley. It was located in the... |
Commonwealth Liberal | William Wilks William Wilks (Australian politician) -Early life:Wilks was born in Sydney to English sea captain Joseph Henry Wilks and Susannah, née Harris. He was educated at Balmain Public School and, before establishing a wood and coal yard at Balmain, became associated with Billy Hughes... |
2.7 | 9.3 | 6.6 | Robert Howe Robert Howe (Australian politician) Robert Howe was an Australian politician. Born in Newcastle in England, he received a primary education and migrated to Australia in 1882, where he became a patternmaker and engineer. An official with the Engineers' Union, he rose to become Secretary-General of the Labor Federation of Australia... |
Labour | ||
Denison, Tas Division of Denison The Division of Denison is anAustralian Electoral Division in Tasmania.The division was created in 1903 and is named for Sir William Denison, who was Lt-Governor of Van Diemens Land 1847-55... |
Commonwealth Liberal | Philip Fysh Philip Fysh Sir Philip Oakley Fysh, KCMG was an Australian politician, Premier of Tasmania and a member of the first federal ministry.... |
6.5 | 18.6 | 8.1 | William Laird Smith | Labour | ||
East Sydney, NSW Division of East Sydney The Division of East Sydney was anAustralian Electoral Division in New South Wales. The division was created in 1900 and was one of the original 75 divisions contested at the first federal election. It was abolished in 1969. It was named for the suburb of East Sydney. It was located in the inner... |
Commonwealth Liberal | George Reid George Reid (Australian politician) Sir George Houstoun Reid, GCB, GCMG, KC was an Australian politician, Premier of New South Wales and the fourth Prime Minister of Australia.... |
4.9 | 12.0 | 7.1 | John West John West (Australian politician) John Edward West was an English-born Australian trade unionist and politician, and a key figure in the establishment of the Australian Labor Party.-Early life:... |
Labour | ||
Gippsland, Vic Division of Gippsland The Division of Gippsland is anAustralian Electoral Division in Victoria. The division was one of the original 75 divisions contested at the first federal election. It is named for the Gippsland region of eastern Victoria, which in turn is named for Sir George Gipps, Governor of New South Wales... |
Commonwealth Liberal | George Wise George Wise George Henry Wise was an Australian politician and solicitor.Wise was born in Melbourne and educated at Scotch College from five years of age to he matriculated in 1868. He became an articled clerk and was admitted to the bar in September 1874 and set up his own practice in 1877 in Sale... |
100.0 | 62.1 | 12.1 | George Wise George Wise George Henry Wise was an Australian politician and solicitor.Wise was born in Melbourne and educated at Scotch College from five years of age to he matriculated in 1868. He became an articled clerk and was admitted to the bar in September 1874 and set up his own practice in 1877 in Sale... |
Independent | ||
Hume, NSW Division of Hume The Division of Hume is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of New South Wales. The Division is located in the central part of the state, just north of the Australian Capital Territory. The Division covers a predominantly rural area, with agriculture and coal mining the main industries... |
Commonwealth Liberal | William Lyne William Lyne Sir William John Lyne KCMG , Australian politician, was Premier of New South Wales and a member of the first federal ministry.-Early life:... |
100.0 | 66.4 | 16.4 | William Lyne William Lyne Sir William John Lyne KCMG , Australian politician, was Premier of New South Wales and a member of the first federal ministry.-Early life:... |
Independent | ||
Hunter, NSW Division of Hunter The Division of Hunter is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of New South Wales. It is located in northern rural New South Wales, and encompasses much of the Hunter Valley region, including the towns of Singleton, Maitland, Muswellbrook, Cessnock and Denman... |
Commonwealth Liberal | Frank Liddell Frank Liddell Frank Liddell was an Australian politician. Born in Maitland, New South Wales, he was educated at Sydney Grammar School and subsequently attended the University of Edinburgh. He returned as a doctor to Maitland, and was elected to West Maitland Council... |
0.8 | 11.7 | 0.9 | Matthew Charlton Matthew Charlton Matthew Charlton was an Australian Labor Party politician.Charlton was born at Linton in rural Victoria but moved to Lambton, New South Wales at the age of five. He worked as a coal miner after only a primary education and then married Martha Rollings in 1889... |
Labour | ||
Indi, Vic Division of Indi The Division of Indi is an Australian Electoral Division in Victoria. It is located in north-eastern Victoria. Its northern border is formed by the Murray River... |
Commonwealth Liberal | Joseph Brown Joseph Brown (Australian politician) Joseph Tilley Brown was an English-born Australian politician.- Early life :Brown was born at St. John's, Surrey, England, to marine captain Joseph Brown and Amelia, née Tilley. The family migrated to Victoria, Australia when young Joseph was seven... |
11.0 | 14.1 | 3.1 | Parker Moloney Parker Moloney Parker John Moloney was an Australian politician, teacher and public servant. He was born at Port Fairy, Victoria to Maurice Moloney and Mary, née Bowe. He became a teacher at John O'Hara's South Melbourne College in 1902 and then at University High School... |
Labour | ||
Maribyrnong, Vic Division of Maribyrnong The Division of Maribyrnong is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of Victoria. It is located in the north-western suburbs of Melbourne. It covers the suburbs of Moonee Ponds, Essendon, Niddrie, Keilor East, Avondale Heights, Tullamarine, Airport West, Sunshine and Brooklyn. Due to... |
Commonwealth Liberal | Samuel Mauger Samuel Mauger Samuel Mauger was an Australian social reformer, hat manufacturing unionist and a Protectionist politician.-Early life:... |
6.9 | 17.7 | 10.8 | James Fenton James Fenton (Australian politician) James Edward Fenton CMG was an Australian politician. He is notable for having been appointed a cabinet minister by two governments of different political complexions, but resigning from both governments on matters of principle.Born at Nette Yallock, near Avoca, Victoria, Fenton was educated at a... |
Labour | ||
Nepean, NSW Division of Nepean The Division of Nepean was an Australian Electoral Division in the state of New South Wales. It was located in the western suburbs of Sydney. It originally covered the suburbs of Granville, Lithgow and Penrith... |
Commonwealth Liberal | Eric Bowden Eric Bowden Eric Kendall Bowden was an Australian solicitor and politician.-Early life:The second son of John and Sarah Bowden, he was born in Parramatta, New South Wales, where his family had resided for four generations... |
10.6 | 14.8 | 1.5 | George Cann George Cann George Cann was an Australian miner and politician in the Parliaments of Australia and New South Wales.Cann was born at Shankhouse, Cramlington, Northumberland, England, educated at Cramlington National School and became a coalminer at eleven. He married Catherine Roberts in 1890 and they had one... |
Labour | ||
Perth, WA Division of Perth The Division of Perth is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of Western Australia. It is named after Perth, the capital city of Western Australia, where the Division is located... |
Labour | James Fowler James Fowler (Australian politician) James Mackinnon Fowler was a member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1901 to 1922.Fowler was born in Strathaven, South Lanarkshire, Scotland and educated at local schools and the Glasgow Athenaeum. He migrated to Australia in 1891 and was a foundation member of the Victorian... |
2.7 | 13.4 | 10.7 | James Fowler James Fowler (Australian politician) James Mackinnon Fowler was a member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1901 to 1922.Fowler was born in Strathaven, South Lanarkshire, Scotland and educated at local schools and the Glasgow Athenaeum. He migrated to Australia in 1891 and was a foundation member of the Victorian... |
Commonwealth Liberal | ||
Riverina, NSW Division of Riverina The Division of Riverina is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of New South Wales. It is located in south-west rural New South Wales, generally following the Murrumbidgee River valley. It includes the cities of Wagga Wagga and Griffith as well as the towns of Junee, West Wyalong, Tumut,... |
Commonwealth Liberal | John Chanter John Chanter John Moore Chanter was an Australian politician, farmer and commission agent. He was variously a member of the Protectionist Party, Australian Labor Party and Nationalist Party of Australia.... |
100.0 | 57.0 | 7.0 | John Chanter John Chanter John Moore Chanter was an Australian politician, farmer and commission agent. He was variously a member of the Protectionist Party, Australian Labor Party and Nationalist Party of Australia.... |
Labour | ||
Robertson, NSW Division of Robertson The Division of Robertson is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of New South Wales. The Division is located on the Central Coast, immediately north of the Hawkesbury River. It encompasses the towns of Woy Woy, Gosford and Terrigal.... |
Commonwealth Liberal | Henry Willis Henry Willis (Australian politician) Henry Willis was an Australian politician, born in Port Adelaide, South Australia to English mariner John Willis and Jane, née Emmerson. Having been locally educated, Willis worked at his father's tannery, and in 1884 became a committee member of the South Australian Literary Societies' Union... |
7.0 | 7.9 | 0.9 | William Johnson William Johnson (Australian politician) William James Johnson was an Australian politician and soldier.Born in Yass, New South Wales, he received a primary education before becoming a coachbuilder. He was involved in local politics as a member of Auburn Council. In 1910, he was elected to the Australian House of Representatives as the... |
Labour | ||
- Members in italics did not contest their seat at this election.
Post-election pendulum
GOVERNMENT SEATS | |||
Australian Labour Party | |||
Marginal | |||
Robertson (NSW) Division of Robertson The Division of Robertson is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of New South Wales. The Division is located on the Central Coast, immediately north of the Hawkesbury River. It encompasses the towns of Woy Woy, Gosford and Terrigal.... |
William Johnson William Johnson (Australian politician) William James Johnson was an Australian politician and soldier.Born in Yass, New South Wales, he received a primary education before becoming a coachbuilder. He was involved in local politics as a member of Auburn Council. In 1910, he was elected to the Australian House of Representatives as the... |
ALP | 00.9 |
Brisbane (Qld) Division of Brisbane The Division of Brisbane is an Australian Electoral Division in Queensland. The division was one of the original 75 divisions contested at the first federal election... |
William Finlayson William Finlayson (Australian politician) William Fyfe Finlayson was an Australian politician. Born in Dunbartonshire, Scotland, he was educated there before becoming an apprentice grocer. He migrated to Australia in 1887 and became a grocer in Brisbane. In 1910, he was elected to the Australian House of Representatives as the Labor... |
ALP | 01.2 |
Nepean (NSW) Division of Nepean The Division of Nepean was an Australian Electoral Division in the state of New South Wales. It was located in the western suburbs of Sydney. It originally covered the suburbs of Granville, Lithgow and Penrith... |
George Cann George Cann George Cann was an Australian miner and politician in the Parliaments of Australia and New South Wales.Cann was born at Shankhouse, Cramlington, Northumberland, England, educated at Cramlington National School and became a coalminer at eleven. He married Catherine Roberts in 1890 and they had one... |
ALP | 01.5 |
New England (NSW) Division of New England The Division of New England is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of New South Wales. It is located in the north-east of the state, adjoining the border with Queensland. It includes such towns as Armidale, Ashford, Barraba, Bingara, Bundarra, Glen Innes, Gunnedah, Guyra, Inverell,... |
Francis Foster Francis Foster (Australian politician) Francis James Foster was an Australian politician. Born in Sofala, New South Wales, he received a primary education, and held various jobs including a miner, farmhand and teacher. He then became a shopkeeper and orchardist in Inverell... |
ALP | 02.7 |
Indi (Vic) Division of Indi The Division of Indi is an Australian Electoral Division in Victoria. It is located in north-eastern Victoria. Its northern border is formed by the Murray River... |
Parker Moloney Parker Moloney Parker John Moloney was an Australian politician, teacher and public servant. He was born at Port Fairy, Victoria to Maurice Moloney and Mary, née Bowe. He became a teacher at John O'Hara's South Melbourne College in 1902 and then at University High School... |
ALP | 03.1 |
Calare (NSW) Division of Calare The Division of Calare is an Australian Electoral Division in New South Wales. The division was first contested at the 1906 election and is named for the local Aboriginal name for the Lachlan River, which runs through the western part of the division... |
Thomas Brown | ALP | 03.6 |
Wide Bay (Qld) Division of Wide Bay The Division of Wide Bay is an Australian Electoral Division in Queensland. The division was one of the original 75 divisions contested at the first federal election... |
Andrew Fisher Andrew Fisher Andrew Fisher was an Australian politician who served as the fifth Prime Minister on three separate occasions. Fisher's 1910-13 Labor ministry completed a vast legislative programme which made him, along with Protectionist Alfred Deakin, the founder of the statutory structure of the new nation... |
ALP | 04.1 |
Corio (Vic) Division of Corio The Division of Corio is an Australian Electoral Division in Victoria. The division one of the original 75 divisions contested at the first federal election. It is named for Corio Bay. It has always been based on the city of Geelong, although in the past it has also included parts of the western... |
Alfred Ozanne Alfred Ozanne Alfred Thomas Montgomery Madden Ozanne was an Australian politician. Born in Melbourne, he was the son of Marcel Charles Ozanne a frenchman and his wife Emilia Josephine Reinhardt. Ozanne has four siblings, a brother and three sisters. Ozanne married Edith Stewart Moody in 1900 and they had four... |
ALP | 04.4 |
Werriwa (NSW) Division of Werriwa The Division of Werriwa is a Federal Electoral Division for the Australian House of Representatives.The name Werriwa derives from a local Aboriginal name for Lake George, which was located in the division when it was established in 1900. The division was one of the original 75 divisions first... |
David Hall David Hall (Australian politician) David Robert Hall was an Australian politician.Hall was born in Harrietville, Victoria, and studied law at the University of Sydney before becoming a barrister in 1903... |
ALP | 04.6 |
Corangamite (Vic) Division of Corangamite The Division of Corangamite is an Australian Electoral Division in Victoria. The division was one of the original 75 divisions contested at the first federal election... |
James Scullin James Scullin James Henry Scullin , Australian Labor politician and the ninth Prime Minister of Australia. Two days after he was sworn in as Prime Minister, the Wall Street Crash of 1929 occurred, marking the beginning of the Great Depression and subsequent Great Depression in Australia.-Early life:Scullin was... |
ALP | 04.7 |
Wannon (Vic) Division of Wannon The Division of Wannon is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of Victoria. It is located in the south-west of the state, and encompasses most of the Western Region of the state. It adjoins the South Australian border in the west, and the Bass Strait coast in the south. The Division... |
John McDougall John McDougall (Australian politician) John Keith "J.K." McDougall was an Australian politician, poet and Labor activist.-Early life:McDougall was born at Learmonth, Victoria to farmer Donald McDougall and Margaret, née Keith. He attended Rossbridge Common School but left school at the age of 13 to assist on the family farm... |
ALP | 05.0 |
Fairly safe | |||
Macquarie (NSW) Division of Macquarie The Division of Macquarie is an Australian Electoral Division in New South Wales. The division was created in 1900 and was one of the original 75 divisions contested at the first federal election. It is named for Lachlan Macquarie, who was Governor of New South Wales between 1810 and 1821... |
Ernest Carr Ernest Carr Ernest "Ernie" Shoebridge Carr was an early twentieth century member of the Australian House of Representatives and the New South Wales Legislative Assembly.... |
ALP | 06.5 |
Dalley (NSW) Division of Dalley The Division of Dalley was an Australian Electoral Division in New South Wales. The division was created in 1900 and was one of the original 75 divisions contested at the first federal election. It was abolished in 1969. It was named for the colonial politician William Dalley. It was located in the... |
Robert Howe Robert Howe (Australian politician) Robert Howe was an Australian politician. Born in Newcastle in England, he received a primary education and migrated to Australia in 1882, where he became a patternmaker and engineer. An official with the Engineers' Union, he rose to become Secretary-General of the Labor Federation of Australia... |
ALP | 06.6 |
Capricornia (Qld) Division of Capricornia The Division of Capricornia is an Australian Electoral Division in Queensland. The division was one of the original 75 divisions contested at the first federal election. It is named for the Tropic of Capricorn, which runs through the Division. It is located on the central Queensland coast and its... |
William Higgs William Higgs William Guy Higgs was an Australian politician.William Higgs was born on 18 January 1862 at Wingham, New South Wales, the son of a Cornish storekeeper, William Guy Higgs.... |
ALP | 06.8 |
Bass (Tas) Division of Bass The Division of Bass is an Australian Electoral Division in Tasmania. The division was created in 1903 and is named for the explorer George Bass. It has always been based on the city of Launceston and surrounding rural areas, and its boundaries have changed very little in the century since its... |
Jens Jensen Jens Jensen Jens August Jensen was an Australian politician and Minister for the Navy.Jensen was born in Ballarat, Victoria and educated at Ballarat, leaving school at 11. He became a rabbit-hawker and miner at Beaconsfield, Tasmania. In July 1885 he married Elizabeth Frances Broadhurst; she died in 1894... |
ALP | 06.8 vs IND |
East Sydney (NSW) Division of East Sydney The Division of East Sydney was anAustralian Electoral Division in New South Wales. The division was created in 1900 and was one of the original 75 divisions contested at the first federal election. It was abolished in 1969. It was named for the suburb of East Sydney. It was located in the inner... |
John West John West (Australian politician) John Edward West was an English-born Australian trade unionist and politician, and a key figure in the establishment of the Australian Labor Party.-Early life:... |
ALP | 07.1 |
Denison (Tas) Division of Denison The Division of Denison is anAustralian Electoral Division in Tasmania.The division was created in 1903 and is named for Sir William Denison, who was Lt-Governor of Van Diemens Land 1847-55... |
William Laird Smith | ALP | 08.1 |
Riverina (NSW) Division of Riverina The Division of Riverina is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of New South Wales. It is located in south-west rural New South Wales, generally following the Murrumbidgee River valley. It includes the cities of Wagga Wagga and Griffith as well as the towns of Junee, West Wyalong, Tumut,... |
John Chanter John Chanter John Moore Chanter was an Australian politician, farmer and commission agent. He was variously a member of the Protectionist Party, Australian Labor Party and Nationalist Party of Australia.... |
ALP | 08.5 |
Bourke (Vic) Division of Bourke The Division of Bourke was an Australian Electoral Division in Victoria. The division was created in 1900 and was one of the original 75 divisions contested at the first federal election. It was abolished in 1949. It was named for Sir Richard Bourke, who was Governor of New South Wales at the time... |
Frank Anstey Frank Anstey Frank Anstey , Australian politician, served 38 years as a Labor member of the Victorian and Commonwealth parliaments.... |
ALP | 08.6 |
Gwydir (NSW) Division of Gwydir The Division of Gwydir was an Australian Electoral Division in New South Wales. The division was created in 1900 and was one of the original 75 divisions contested at the first federal election... |
William Webster William Webster (Australian politician) William Webster was an Australian politician. Born in Everton, Lancashire in England, he was the son of John Webster, a labourer, and Elizabeth, née Poynton. Leaving school at 13, Webster migrated to New South Wales in 1879 and, having quarried stone at Pyrmont and saved prodigiously, was able to... |
ALP | 09.6 |
Safe | |||
Maribyrnong (Vic) Division of Maribyrnong The Division of Maribyrnong is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of Victoria. It is located in the north-western suburbs of Melbourne. It covers the suburbs of Moonee Ponds, Essendon, Niddrie, Keilor East, Avondale Heights, Tullamarine, Airport West, Sunshine and Brooklyn. Due to... |
James Fenton James Fenton (Australian politician) James Edward Fenton CMG was an Australian politician. He is notable for having been appointed a cabinet minister by two governments of different political complexions, but resigning from both governments on matters of principle.Born at Nette Yallock, near Avoca, Victoria, Fenton was educated at a... |
ALP | 10.8 |
Hunter (NSW) Division of Hunter The Division of Hunter is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of New South Wales. It is located in northern rural New South Wales, and encompasses much of the Hunter Valley region, including the towns of Singleton, Maitland, Muswellbrook, Cessnock and Denman... |
Matthew Charlton Matthew Charlton Matthew Charlton was an Australian Labor Party politician.Charlton was born at Linton in rural Victoria but moved to Lambton, New South Wales at the age of five. He worked as a coal miner after only a primary education and then married Martha Rollings in 1889... |
ALP | 10.9 |
Herbert (Qld) Division of Herbert The Division of Herbert is an Australian Electoral Division in Queensland. Eligible voters within the Division elect a single representative, known as the member for Herbert, to the Australian House of Representatives. The division was first contested at the 1901 election... |
Fred Bamford Fred Bamford Frederick William "Fred" Bamford was an Australian politician.Bamford was born in Dubbo, New South Wales and educated at Toowoomba, Queensland. He left school at 14 and worked as a carpenter around the Toowoomba area. In September 1871 he married Mary Ann Miller... |
ALP | 11.0 |
Adelaide (SA) Division of Adelaide The Division of Adelaide is an Australian Electoral Division in South Australia. The division was created in 1903 and is named for the city of Adelaide, South Australia's capital. The seat has always been based in the inner suburbs of Adelaide... |
Ernest Roberts Ernest Roberts (Australian politician) Ernest Alfred Roberts was a Labor member of the Australian House of Representatives.Roberts was born in London and educated in Guernsey. He became a sailor and then travelled to Queensland in 1886... |
ALP | 13.3 |
Darwin (Tas) Division of Darwin The Division of Darwin was an Australian Electoral Division in Tasmania. The division was created in 1903 and abolished in 1955, when it was replaced by the Division of Braddon. It was named after Charles Darwin, who visited Australia in 1836. It was located in north-western Tasmania, including the... |
King O'Malley King O'Malley King O'Malley was an Australian politician. He was a member in the South Australian House of Assembly from 1896 to 1899, and the Australian House of Representatives from 1901 to 1917. O'Malley was also Minister for Home Affairs in the second and third Fisher Labor ministry... |
ALP | 13.3 |
Batman (Vic) Division of Batman The Division of Batman is an Australian Electoral Division in Victoria. The division was created in 1906 , and is named after John Batman, one of the founders of the city of Melbourne. When it was created it covered the inner suburbs of Carlton and Fitzroy, but successive boundary changes have... |
Henry Beard Henry Beard (Australian politician) Henry Elisha Beard was an Australian politician. Born in Victoria, he received a primary education before becoming a bricklayer and railway inspector, as well as a union official. In 1904 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the Labor member for Jika Jika, holding the seat until... |
ALP | 13.6 |
Boothby (SA) Division of Boothby The Division of Boothby is an Australian Electoral Division in South Australia. The division was created in 1903 and is named after William Boothby , the Returning Officer for the first election of Members of the House of Representatives in 1901.... |
Lee Batchelor Lee Batchelor Egerton Lee Batchelor, known as Lee Batchelor, , Australian politician, was the 2nd leader of the South Australian branch of the Australian Labor Party, a member of the First Australian Parliament, and the first member for the Federal Division of Boothby in South Australia, from 1903 to 1911... |
ALP | 13.8 vs IND |
Cook (NSW) Division of Cook (1906-55) The Division of Cook was an Australian Electoral Division in New South Wales. The division was created in 1906 and abolished in 1955. The Division was named for James Cook, who discovered the east coast of Australia in 1770. It was located in the inner suburbs of Sydney, taking in the suburbs of... |
James Catts James Catts James Howard Catts was an Australian politician, unionist and businessman.-Early life:Catts was born at Wagga Wagga, New South Wales to joiner and grocer James Catts and Amy, née Hedger... |
ALP | 14.1 |
Darling (NSW) Division of Darling The Division of Darling was an Australian Electoral Division in New South Wales. The division was created in 1900 and was one of the original 75 divisions contested at the first federal election. From 1901 until 1922 it was based on Bourke, Cobar, Nyngan, Coonamble and Gilgandra. From 1906 it also... |
William Spence William Spence William Guthrie Spence , Australian trade union leader and politician, played a leading role in the formation of both Australia's largest union, the Australian Workers Union, and the Australian Labor Party.-Early life:... |
ALP | 14.7 |
Kennedy (Qld) Division of Kennedy The Division of Kennedy is an Australian Electoral Division in Queensland. The division was one of the original 75 divisions contested at the first federal election. The division is notable for its size, relative to other electoral divisions... |
Charles McDonald Charles McDonald (Australian politician) Charles McDonald was an Australian politician who served as Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives during the second and third Andrew Fisher Labor governments between 1910 and 1913 and between 1914 and 1917.... |
ALP | 14.8 |
Melbourne (Vic) Division of Melbourne The Division of Melbourne is an Australian Electoral Division of Victoria. It is represented by Adam Bandt of the Australian Greens.Created at Federation in 1900 the division was one of the original 75 divisions contested at the first federal election... |
William Maloney William Maloney Dr William Robert Nuttal Maloney was a long serving Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives for 36 years from 1904 to 1940.... |
ALP | 17.0 |
Melbourne Ports (Vic) Division of Melbourne Ports The Division of Melbourne Ports is an Australian federal electoral division in the inner south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.... |
James Mathews James Mathews (Australian politician) James Mathews was an Australian politician who held the safe federal Labor seat of Melbourne Ports from 1906 until 1931... |
ALP | 19.6 |
Very safe | |||
Maranoa (Qld) Division of Maranoa The Division of Maranoa is an Australian Electoral Division in Queensland. The division was one of the original 75 divisions contested at the first federal election. It is named for the Maranoa River, which runs through the division... |
James Page James Page (Australian politician) James Page was an Australian politician. Born in London, England, he was educated there at a Dr Barnardo's Home. He served in the military from 1877 to 1883, whereupon he migrated to Australia, where he was a railway worker, unionist and labour organiser... |
ALP | 21.0 |
West Sydney (NSW) Division of West Sydney The Division of West Sydney was an Australian Electoral Division in the state of New South Wales. It was located in the inner western suburbs of Sydney, and at various times included the suburbs of Pyrmont, Darling Harbour, Surry Hills, Balmain and Glebe.... |
Billy Hughes Billy Hughes William Morris "Billy" Hughes, CH, KC, MHR , Australian politician, was the seventh Prime Minister of Australia from 1915 to 1923.... |
ALP | 21.5 |
South Sydney (NSW) Division of South Sydney The Division of South Sydney was an Australian Electoral Division in the state of New South Wales. It was located in the south of the city of Sydney.... |
Edward Riley Edward Riley (Australian politician) Edward Riley was an Australian politician. Born in Glasgow in Scotland, he received a primary education and migrated to Australia in 1883. He became a plasterer and an official in the Plasterers Union, and eventually rose to become President of the Trades and Labour Council. In 1891, he was a... |
ALP | 24.1 |
Coolgardie (WA) Division of Coolgardie The Division of Coolgardie was an Australian Electoral Division in Western Australia. The division was created in 1900 and was one of the original 75 divisions contested at the first federal election. It was abolished in 1913. It was named for the gold-mining centre of Coolgardie, on which it was... |
Hugh Mahon Hugh Mahon Hugh Mahon was an Irish-born Australian politician and a member of the first Commonwealth Parliament for the Australian Labor Party... |
ALP | 25.4 |
Yarra (Vic) Division of Yarra The Division of Yarra was an Australian Electoral Division in the state of Victoria. It was located in inner eastern suburban Melbourne, and was named after the Yarra River, which originally formed the eastern border of the Division, and eventually ran through it. It originally covered the suburbs... |
Frank Tudor Frank Tudor Francis Gwynne "Frank" Tudor was an Australian-born felt hatter and politician. He was the leader of the Australian Labor Party from 1916 till his death.-Early life:... |
ALP | 26.1 |
Newcastle (NSW) Division of Newcastle The Division of Newcastle is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of New South Wales. The Division is centred around the city of Newcastle, after which it is named.... |
David Watkins David Watkins (Australian politician) David Watkins was an Australian politician and Member of the Australian House of Representatives for Newcastle from 1901 until his death in 1935.... |
ALP | 26.7 |
Kalgoorlie (WA) Division of Kalgoorlie The Division of Kalgoorlie was an Australian Electoral Division in the state of Western Australia, named after the city of Kalgoorlie. The Division, which was proclaimed in 1900 as one of the original 75 divisions to be contested at the first Federal election, covered most of the land area of... |
Charles Frazer Charles Frazer (Australian politician) Charles Edward Frazer was an Australian politician.Frazer was born in Yarrawonga, Victoria and educated locally until he was 15, when he left for Western Australia during its goldrush... |
ALP | 31.4 |
Barrier (NSW) Division of Barrier The Division of Barrier was an Australian Electoral Division in New South Wales. The division was created in 1900 and was one of the original 75 divisions contested at the first federal election. It was named for the Barrier Range near the city of Broken Hill in western New South Wales... |
Josiah Thomas Josiah Thomas Josiah Thomas was an Cornish Australian miner and politician.Thomas was born in Camborne, Cornwall, UK and went to Mexico as a child with his father and later worked in mines in Cornwall. He travelled to Australia in the mid-1880s and worked at the Barrier Range, near Broken Hill... |
ALP | 35.8 |
Grey (SA) Division of Grey The Division of Grey is an Australian Electoral Division in South Australia.The division was created in 1903 and is named for Sir George Grey, who was Governor of South Australia 1841-45 .... |
Alexander Poynton Alexander Poynton Alexander Poynton, OBE, , was an inaugural member of the Australian House of Representatives.Born in Castlemaine, Victoria to Alexander, who took part in the Eureka Stockade rebellion, and Rosanna Poynton, Poynton left school at 14 to work as a shearer, station-hand and miner, and marry Harriet... |
ALP | unopposed |
Hindmarsh (SA) Division of Hindmarsh The Division of Hindmarsh is an Australian Electoral Division in South Australia covering the western gulfside suburbs of Adelaide.The division was created in 1903 and is named for Sir John Hindmarsh, who was Governor of South Australia 1836-38. For many years it was one of the safest Labor seats... |
William Archibald | ALP | unopposed |
NON-GOVERNMENT SEATS | |||
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Echuca (Vic) Division of Echuca The Division of Echuca was anAustralian Electoral Division in Victoria.The division was created in 1900 and was one of the original 75 divisions contested at the first federal election. It was abolished in 1937. It was named for the town of Echuca. It was located in the Murray Valley area,... |
Albert Palmer Albert Palmer (Australian politician) Albert Clayton Palmer was an Australian politician. Born in Melbourne, he received a primary education before becoming a bank clerk and later a flour-miller and grazier. He sat on Euroa Shire Council and was the leader of the Kyabram Reform Movement, a conservative rural group that aimed to reduce... |
LIB | 00.4 vs IND |
Grampians (Vic) Division of Grampians The Division of Grampians was anAustralian Electoral Division in Victoria. The division was created in 1900 and was one of the original 75 divisions contested at the first federal election. It was abolished in 1922. It was named for the Grampian Ranges in central Victoria, and included the towns of... |
Hans Irvine Hans Irvine Hans William Henry Irvine was an Australian politician and vigneron.-Early life:Irvine was born in Melbourne on 2 August 1856 to flour-miller John William Henry Irvine and Mary, née Gray. His father had a business at Learmonth, near Ballarat... |
LIB | 00.4 |
Laanecoorie (Vic) Division of Laanecoorie The Division of Laanecoorie was an Australian Electoral Division in the state of Victoria. It was located in the centre of the state, covering the towns of Creswick, Maldon and Maryborough, and later Castlemaine. It was named after the town of Laanecoorie.... |
Charles Salmon Charles Salmon Charles Carty Salmon , generally known as Carty Salmon, was an Australian politician and Speaker of the House of Representatives.-Early life:... |
LIB | 00.8 |
Wakefield (SA) Division of Wakefield The Division of Wakefield is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of South Australia. It is located north of Adelaide, incorporating the outer northern suburbs of Salisbury and Elizabeth, and extending north as far as Clare. It covers the east coast of the Gulf St Vincent north of... |
Richard Foster | LIB | 00.8 |
Lang (NSW) Division of Lang The Division of Lang was an Australian Electoral Division in the state of New South Wales. It was located in the southern suburbs of Sydney, and was named after Rev. John Dunmore Lang, a Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly and advocate of Australian independence... |
Elliot Johnson | LIB | 01.0 |
Ballaarat (Vic) Division of Ballarat The Division of Ballarat is an Australian Electoral Division in Victoria. The division was one of the original 75 divisions contested at the first federal election. It is named for the provincial city of Ballarat.... |
Alfred Deakin Alfred Deakin Alfred Deakin , Australian politician, was a leader of the movement for Australian federation and later the second Prime Minister of Australia. In the last quarter of the 19th century, Deakin was a major contributor to the establishment of liberal reforms in the colony of Victoria, including the... |
LIB | 01.1 |
Bendigo (Vic) Division of Bendigo The Division of Bendigo is an Australian Electoral Division in Victoria. The division was created in 1900 and was one of the original 75 divisions contested at the first federal election. It is named for the city of Bendigo... |
John Quick John Quick (politician) Sir John Quick , Australian politician and author, was the federal Member of Parliament for Bendigo from 1901 to 1913 and a leading delegate to the constitutional conventions of the 1890s.-Early life:... |
LIB | 01.3 |
Mernda (Vic) Division of Mernda The Division of Mernda was an Australian Electoral Division in the state of Victoria. It was named after the town of Mernda, now a suburb in the City of Whittlesea in the northern suburbs of Melbourne. It originally included the towns of Lilydale and Mitcham, now suburbs, and the towns of Seymour... |
Robert Harper Robert Harper (Australian politician) Robert Harper was an Australian politician. Born in Glasgow, Scotland, he was educated at Glasgow Academy and migrated to Australia in 1856, becoming a tea and coffee merchant and a pastoralist... |
LIB | 01.8 |
Illawarra (NSW) Division of Illawarra The Division of Illawarra was an Australian Electoral Division in the state of New South Wales. It covered part of the Illawarra region, after which it was named. The Division was proclaimed in 1900, and was one of the original 75 divisions to be contested at the first Federal election. It was... |
George Fuller George Fuller (Australian politician) Sir George Warburton Fuller KCMG was Premier of New South Wales, Australia on two occasions during the 1920s. His first term of office lasted less than one day ; his second lasted from 13 April 1922 to 17 June 1925.-Early life:Fuller was born in Kiama, New South Wales and was educated at Kiama... |
LIB | 02.0 |
Franklin (Tas) Division of Franklin The Division of Franklin is an Australian Electoral Division in Tasmania. The division was created in 1903 and is named for Sir John Franklin, the polar explorer who was Lt Governor of Van Diemen's Land 1843-46. It is located in southern Tasmania, including the Hobart suburbs of Bridgewater,... |
William McWilliams William McWilliams William James McWilliams was the inaugural leader of the Country Party of Australia.Born in Bream Creek, near Sorell, Tasmania, the son of Irish immigrants who ran the local school. Originally trained as a teacher, McWilliams became a journalist in 1877, rising to editor of the Launceston... |
LIB | 03.4 |
Richmond (NSW) Division of Richmond The Division of Richmond is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of New South Wales. It is located in the far north-east of the state, along the Pacific coast... |
Walter Massy-Greene | LIB | 04.2 vs IND |
Fremantle (WA) Division of Fremantle The Division of Fremantle is an Australian Electoral Division in Western Australia.The division was created at Federation in 1900 and was one of the original 75 divisions contested at the first federal election... |
William Hedges William Hedges (Australian politician) William Noah Hedges was an Australian politician. Born in Hertfordshire in England, he received a primary education before his migration to Australia in 1878, where he became a public works contractor. He moved to Western Australia in 1893, where he became a company director... |
LIB | 04.5 |
Parkes (NSW) Division of Parkes (1901-69) The Division of Parkes was an Australian Electoral Division in the state of New South Wales. It was located in the south-west of Sydney, and originally included the suburbs of Canterbury, Burwood and Ashfield... |
Bruce Smith Bruce Smith (Australian politician) Arthur Bruce Smith KC was a long serving Australian politician and leading political opponent of the White Australia policy.-Early life:... |
LIB | 05.1 |
Fairly safe | |||
Kooyong (Vic) Division of Kooyong The Division of Kooyong is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of Victoria. It is located in the inner eastern suburbs of Melbourne, and encompasses the suburbs of Kew, Hawthorn, Hawthorn East, Balwyn, Canterbury, Camberwell and Surrey Hills. The Division was proclaimed in 1900, and was... |
William Knox | LIB | 06.3 vs IND |
Wilmot (Tas) Division of Wilmot The Division of Wilmot was an Australian Electoral Division in the state of Tasmania. It was located in central Tasmania, and was named after Sir John Eardley-Wilmot, the sixth Lieutenant-Governor of Tasmania... |
Llewellyn Atkinson | LIB | 06.6 |
Flinders (Vic) Division of Flinders The Division of Flinders is an Australian Electoral Division in Victoria. The division was one of the original 75 divisions contested at the first federal election... |
William Irvine William Irvine (Australian politician) Sir William Hill Irvine GCMG , Australian politician and judge, was the 21st Premier of Victoria. Irvine was born in Newry in County Down, Ireland, into a Scottish-Presbyterian family... |
LIB | 08.1 |
Fawkner (Vic) Division of Fawkner The Division of Fawkner was an Australian Electoral Division in Victoria. The division was created in 1906 , and was abolished itself in 1969. It was named for John Pascoe Fawkner, one of the founders of Melbourne. It was located in the inner southern suburbs of Melbourne, including at various... |
George Fairbairn | LIB | 08.9 |
Barker (SA) Division of Barker The Division of Barker is an Australian Electoral Division in the south-east of South Australia.The division was created in 1903 and is named for Collet Barker, an early explorer of the region at the mouth of the Murray River... |
John Livingston John Livingston (Australian politician) John Livingston was a member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1906 to 1922.Livingston was born in Mount Gambier, South Australia and educated privately at the family home of Curratum. He worked on farms in New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria and in 1880 explored the Gascoyne... |
LIB | 09.5 |
Safe | |||
Swan (WA) Division of Swan The Division of Swan is an Australian Electoral Division located in Western Australia. The division is named after the Swan River.For several decades, it has been a marginal seat, extending along the Swan and Canning Rivers from the affluent suburbs in the City of South Perth to the west, which... |
John Forrest John Forrest Sir John Forrest GCMG was an Australian explorer, the first Premier of Western Australia and a cabinet minister in Australia's first federal parliament.... |
LIB | 10.2 |
Perth (WA) Division of Perth The Division of Perth is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of Western Australia. It is named after Perth, the capital city of Western Australia, where the Division is located... |
James Fowler James Fowler (Australian politician) James Mackinnon Fowler was a member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1901 to 1922.Fowler was born in Strathaven, South Lanarkshire, Scotland and educated at local schools and the Glasgow Athenaeum. He migrated to Australia in 1891 and was a foundation member of the Victorian... |
LIB | 10.7 |
Wentworth (NSW) Division of Wentworth The Division of Wentworth is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of New South Wales. It was proclaimed in 1900 and was one of the original 75 divisions contested at the first federal election. The Division is named after William Charles Wentworth , a noted Australian explorer and statesman... |
William Kelly William Kelly (Australian politician) William Henry Kelly was an Australian politician.Kelly was born in Sydney and educated at All Saints College, Bathurst, and Eton College from 1893 to 1896... |
LIB | 11.0 |
Moreton (Qld) Division of Moreton The Division of Moreton is an Australian Electoral Division in Queensland. The division was one of the original 75 divisions contested at the first federal election. It is named after Moreton Bay. The electorate is a bellwether in elections, having voted for the party winning government at every... |
Hugh Sinclair Hugh Sinclair (Australian politician) Hugh Sinclair was an Australian politician. Born in Cambewarra, New South Wales, he received a primary education, and moved to Queensland in 1890, where he was a dairy farmer. He managed a company called Queensland Framers Co-operative... |
LIB | 11.1 |
Balaclava (Vic) Division of Balaclava The Division of Balaclava was an Australian Electoral Division in Victoria. The division was created in 1900 and was one of the original 75 divisions contested at the first federal election. It was named for the suburb of Balaclava, which in turn was named for a battlefield of the Crimean War... |
Agar Wynne Agar Wynne Agar Wynne was an Australian politician.Wynne was born in London, but his family emigrated to Australia when he was a child. He educated at Melbourne Church of England Grammar School and enrolled in an articled clerk's course at the University of Melbourne and was admitted as an attorney in July... |
LIB | 12.0 |
Oxley (Qld) Division of Oxley The Division of Oxley is an Australian Electoral Division in Queensland. The current division is the second to bear the name, and was created in 1949. The division is named after the Australian explorer, John Oxley... |
Richard Edwards Richard Edwards (Australian politician) Richard Edwards was an Australian politician. Born in Montgomeryshire, Wales, he migrated to Australia in 1862, becoming first a goldminer in Victoria and then a shopkeeper in Brisbane. He invested in both sugar and newspapers... |
LIB | 12.2 vs IND |
North Sydney (NSW) Division of North Sydney The Division of North Sydney is an Australian Electoral Division in New South Wales. The division is named after the North Sydney area where it is located. It was proclaimed in 1900 and was one of the original 75 divisions contested at the first federal election... |
George Edwards George Edwards (Australian politician) George Bertrand Edwards was an Australian politician. Born in Hobart, Tasmania, where he was educated, he was a journalist in Tasmania before moving to Melbourne, where he became a businessman, later moving to Sydney. In 1901, he contested the first federal election as the Free Trade candidate for... |
LIB | 15.8 |
Wimmera (Vic) Division of Wimmera The Division of Wimmera was an Australian Electoral Division in the state of Victoria. It was named after the Wimmera region in which it was located. It originally encompassed the towns of Mildura, Swan Hill and Warracknabeal, but by the time it was abolished in 1977, it had drifted south and grown... |
Sydney Sampson Sydney Sampson -Biography:Born in Creswick, Victoria, he was educated there and became a journalist with the country papers. Moving to Warracknabeal in 1883, he became a farmer and newspaper proprietor. Sampson's nephew was the future Prime Minister of Australia Robert Menzies... |
LIB | 16.0 |
Parramatta (NSW) Division of Parramatta The Division of Parramatta is an Australian Electoral Division in New South Wales. The division was created in 1900 and was one of the original 75 divisions contested at the first federal election. It is named for the locality of Parramatta. The name Parramatta has been sourced to an Aboriginal... |
Joseph Cook Joseph Cook Sir Joseph Cook, GCMG was an Australian politician and the sixth Prime Minister of Australia. Born as Joseph Cooke and working in the coal mines of Silverdale, Staffordshire during his early life, he emigrated to Lithgow, New South Wales during the late 1880s, and became General-Secretary of the... |
LIB | 18.0 |
Cowper (NSW) Division of Cowper The Division of Cowper is an Australian Electoral Division in New South Wales. The division was created in 1900 and was one of the original 75 divisions contested at the first federal election and is named for Charles Cowper, an early Premier of New South Wales... |
John Thomson John Thomson (Australian politician) John Thomson was an Australian politician. Born near Taree, New South Wales, he received a primary education before becoming a shopkeeper and grazier at Taree. He was an alderman on Taree Council before becoming a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1901–04, representing... |
LIB | 19.5 |
Darling Downs (Qld) Division of Darling Downs The Division of Darling Downs was an Australian Electoral Division in Queensland. The division was created at Federation in 1900 and was one of the original 75 divisions contested at the first federal election. It was abolished in 1984 when it was replaced by the Division of Groom... |
Littleton Groom Littleton Groom Sir Littleton Ernest Groom, KCMG was an Australian Commonwealth Minister, Speaker of the House of Representatives and Australia's 17th longest serving federal Parliamentarian . He was a member of every non-Australian Labor Party ministry from 1905 to 1926... |
LIB | 19.9 |
Very safe | |||
Angas (SA) Division of Angas (1903-34) The Division of Angas was an Australian Electoral Division in South Australia. The division was created in 1903 and abolished in 1934. It was named for George Fife Angas, a South Australian pioneer, and was based in rural areas including Angaston, Eudunda, Gawler and Kapunda... |
Patrick Glynn Patrick Glynn Patrick McMahon Glynn KC was an Attorney General of Australia and Minister for External Affairs.-Early life:... |
LIB | unopposed |
Eden-Monaro (NSW) Division of Eden-Monaro The Division of Eden-Monaro is anAustralian Electoral Division in New South Wales.The division was created in 1900, and was one of the original 75 divisions contested at the first federal election. It is named for the town of Eden and the Monaro district of southern New South Wales... |
Austin Chapman Austin Chapman Sir Austin Chapman KCMG , Australian politician, was a member of several early federal ministries. He was born in Bong Bong near Bowral, New South Wales and educated at Marulan Public School and was apprenticed as a saddler at an early age... |
LIB | unopposed |
Independents | |||
Gippsland (Vic) Division of Gippsland The Division of Gippsland is anAustralian Electoral Division in Victoria. The division was one of the original 75 divisions contested at the first federal election. It is named for the Gippsland region of eastern Victoria, which in turn is named for Sir George Gipps, Governor of New South Wales... |
George Wise George Wise George Henry Wise was an Australian politician and solicitor.Wise was born in Melbourne and educated at Scotch College from five years of age to he matriculated in 1868. He became an articled clerk and was admitted to the bar in September 1874 and set up his own practice in 1877 in Sale... |
IND | 12.1 vs LIB |
Hume (NSW) Division of Hume The Division of Hume is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of New South Wales. The Division is located in the central part of the state, just north of the Australian Capital Territory. The Division covers a predominantly rural area, with agriculture and coal mining the main industries... |
William Lyne William Lyne Sir William John Lyne KCMG , Australian politician, was Premier of New South Wales and a member of the first federal ministry.-Early life:... |
IND | 16.4 vs LIB |
See also
- Candidates of the Australian federal election, 1910Candidates of the Australian federal election, 1910This article provides information on candidates who stood for the 1910 Australian federal election. The election was held on 13 April 1910.The Commonwealth Liberal Party was formed in 1909 as a merger between several conservative groups...
- Members of the Australian House of Representatives, 1910–1913
- Members of the Australian Senate, 1910–1913Members of the Australian Senate, 1910–1913This is a list of members of the Australian Senate from 1910 to 1913. Half of its members were elected at the 12 December 1906 election and had terms starting on 1 January 1907 and finishing on 30 June 1913—they had an extended term as a result of the 1906 referendum, which changed Senate terms to...