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Commonwealth Parliament, Senate election in Tasmania

(for more information on this election see national summary for the Senate)

Election of 19 December 1931

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Senate enrolment and voting in Tasmania

Total number of voters on the rollin this state/territory
312,746
Total ballots cast (may differ from number of votes in multiple voting systems)
116,471
Turnout (rate of voting in contested seats)
96.36%
Total valid votes
100,310
Rate of informal (invalid) voting
13.88%

Electoral composition of the Senate for this election inTasmania

Total number of seats in the Senate
36
Total number of seats for each state
6
Number of seats for each territory
0
Seats to be filled at this Senate election in this state/territory
3
Casual vacancies/additional seats included in seats to be filled
0
Electoral System
Adult franchise at 21 years; multimember districts; preferential voting (AV), optional preferences, compulsory voting

Senate votes and seats won, and seats held in Tasmania

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Election held on 19 December 1931
Criteria for the inclusion of parties in this table are set out in the Glossary under listed party

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Party Name First preference vote nFirst preference vote share %Change from previous election %Seats won by ticket nSeats won by ticket %Seats won by party nSeats won by party %Seats held by party nSeats held by party %
United Australia Party 73,349  73.12  * 3  100.003  100.00  6  100.00 
Federal Labor Party 26,961  26.88  * 0  0.000  0.00  0  0.00 
Votes for other than listed parties00.00 0.00       
Totals100,310  100    3  100%  3  100%  6  100% 

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* Party did not contest previous election or did not meet criteria for listing, or contested previous election under a different party name.

Notes

In the table above, see the Glossary distinctions between Seats won by ticket and Seats won by party, and between Seats won by party and Seats held by party.

At the 1931 and 1934 Senate elections, a split in the Australian Labor Party led to rivalry between a Federal Labor Party and other Labor groupings, particularly in New South Wales.

The 1931 Senate election was the first contested by the United Australia Party as the new conservative party grouping opposing the Labor Party. It was also the first election at which anti-Labor parties (at this election, the United Australian Party and the Country Party) ran joint tickets for Senate elections in some states; see the Glossary entry for Seats won by ticket.

Note - 104068

Sources

Colin A Hughes and B D Graham, A Handbook of Australian Government and Politics 1890-1964, (Canberra; Australian National University Press, 1968 SBN 708112700); Commonwealth Parliament, Department of the Senate.

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