1933 South Australian state election













South Australian state election, 1933







← 1930
8 April 1933 (1933-04-08)
1938 →


All 46 seats in the South Australian House of Assembly
24 seats were needed for a majority












































































































 
First party
Second party
 

Richard Layton Butler.jpg

Edgar Dawes.jpg
Leader

Richard L. Butler

Edgar Dawes
Party

Liberal and Country League

Labor
Leader since
1925
1931
Leader's seat

Wooroora

Sturt
Last election

30 seats
Seats won
29 seats
6 seats
Seat change


Decrease24
Percentage
34.62%
27.78%

 
Third party
Fourth party
 

Robert Richards (Australia).gif

No image.svg
Leader

Robert Richards

Doug Bardolph
Party

Parliamentary Labor Party

Lang Labor
Leader since
1933
1931
Leader's seat

Wallaroo

Adelaide
Last election
new party
new party
Seats won
4 seats
3 seats
Seat change

Increase4

Increase3
Percentage
16.30%
3.68%
Swing

Increase16.30

Increase3.68








Premier before election

Robert Richards
Parliamentary Labor



Elected Premier

Richard L. Butler
Liberal and Country League




State elections were held in South Australia on 8 April 1933. All 46 seats in the South Australian House of Assembly were up for election. The incumbent Parliamentary Labor Party government led by Premier Robert Richards was defeated by the opposition Liberal and Country League led by Leader of the Opposition Richard L. Butler. Each district elected multiple members.




Contents






  • 1 Background


  • 2 Results


  • 3 See also


  • 4 References





Background


After the ALP government of Premier Lionel Hill endorsed the controversial Premiers' Plan following the start of the Great Depression in Australia and the subsequent Australian Labor Party split of 1931, the ALP state executive expelled 23 of the 30 members of the ALP caucus, including the entire cabinet. The expelled MPs formed the Parliamentary Labor Party (also known as Premiers Plan Labor), with Hill as leader and Premier, and continued in office with the support of the Butler-led Liberal Federation.


Amid increasing riots and protests, as well as skyrocketing unemployment, Hill left politics to become Australian Agent-General to the United Kingdom. He was succeeded by Robert Richards, who had the impossible task of leading the government into the election.


In contrast to the ructions in Labor, the conservative forces in the state presented a united front at the 1931 federal election, when all anti-Labor major party candidates in the state ran under the banner of the Emergency Committee of South Australia. This grouping took an additional two seats to hold six of the state's seven seats in the federal House of Representatives and all three available seats in the bloc-voting winner-take-all Senate. In 1932, buoyed by this success, the Liberal Federation and the Country Party merged as the Liberal and Country League under Butler's leadership.


With three Labor factions—the official ALP, Premiers Plan Labor and Lang Labor—splitting the combined 47.8% total Labor vote, the result was a landslide victory for the LCL. The LCL won 29 seats versus only 13 for the three Labor factions combined. Though the Labor split in South Australia would only last until 1934, this would be the start of 32 years of LCL government in South Australia—one of the longest unbroken runs for a governing party in the Commonwealth. The LCL would stay in office until the 1965 state election with the assistance of a pro-LCL electoral malapportionment known as the Playmander, which would be introduced in 1936.



Results











































































































South Australian state election, 8 April 1933[1]
House of Assembly
<< 1930–1938 >>


Enrolled voters
338,576


Votes cast
182,693


Turnout
59.45%
–11.91%
Informal votes
8,904

Informal
4.87%
-0.84%
Summary of votes by party
Party
Primary votes
%
Swing
Seats
Change
 

Liberal and Country
60,159
34.62%
*

29
*
 

Labor
48,273
27.78%
–20.86%
6
– 24
 

Parliamentary Labor
28,319
16.30%
*
4
*
 

Lang Labor
6,398
3.68%
*
3
*
 

Single Tax League
5,429
3.12%
+1.80%
1
± 0
 

Communist
1,908
1.10%
+0.77%
0
± 0
 

Independent
23,303
13.41%
+11.09%
3
+ 3
Total
173,789
 
 
46
 


See also



  • Results of the South Australian state election, 1933 (House of Assembly)

  • Candidates of the South Australian state election, 1933

  • Members of the South Australian House of Assembly, 1933-1938

  • Members of the South Australian Legislative Council, 1933–1938



References



  • History of South Australian elections 1857-2006, volume 1: ECSA


  • State and federal election results in Australia since 1890


Specific



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