Australian federal election, 1910

13 April 1910 (1910-04-13)

All 75 seats in the Australian House of Representatives 38 seats were needed for a majority in the House 18 (of the 36) seats in the Australian Senate

	First party	Second party

Leader	Andrew Fisher	Alfred Deakin
Party	Labour	Commonwealth Liberal
Leader since	October 1907	1909
Leader's seat	Wide Bay	Ballaarat
Last election	26 seats	N/A
Seats won	42 seats	31 seats
Seat change	16	31
Popular vote	660,864	596,350
Percentage	49.97%	45.09%
Swing	13.33	N/A

Prime Minister before election

Alfred Deakin
Commonwealth Liberal

Resulting Prime Minister

Andrew Fisher
Labour

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 Anti-Socialist/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 elected Senate majority; the world's first Labour Party majority government at a national level; after the 1904 Chris Watson minority government the world's second Labour Party government at a national level; and the first time it controlled both houses of a bicameral legislature. It also remains the only election in Australia's federal history to have occurred following expiration of a full three-year parliamentary term by the 'effluxion of time'.^[1]

Two referenda to approve proposed amendments to the Constitution were held on the same day. The State Debts referendum was carried, but the Surplus Revenue referendum was not carried.

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 under John Curtin and Ben Chifley.

Results

**House of Reps 1910–13 (FPTP) — Turnout 62.80% (Non-CV) — Informal 2.00%**
Party	Votes	%	Swing	Seats	Change
Australian Labour Party	660,864	49.97	+13.33	42	+16	^{(2 elected} _unopposed)
Commonwealth Liberal Party	596,350	45.09	*	31	*	^{(2 elected} _unopposed)
Independents	65,368	4.94	+3.36	2	+1
Total	1,322,582			75
Australian Labour Party	WIN			42	+1
Commonwealth Liberal Party				31	+4

Independents: William Lyne (Hume, NSW), George Wise (Gippsland, Vic)

Popular Vote

Labour			49.97%
Commonwealth Liberal			45.09%
Independent			4.94%

Parliament Seats

Labour			56.00%
Commonwealth Liberal			41.33%
Independent			2.67%

**Senate 1910–13 (FPTP BV) — Turnout 62.16% (Non-CV) — Informal N/A**
Party	Votes	%	Swing	Seats Won	Seats Held	Change
Australian Labour Party	2,021,090	50.30	+11.57	18	22	+7
Commonwealth Liberal Party	1,830,353	45.55	*	0	14	-6
Independents	134,976	3.36	+2.46	0	0	−1
Other	31,700	0.79		0	0	0
Total	4,018,119			18	36

Seats changing hands

Seat	Pre-1910				Swing	Post-1910
Seat	Party		Member	Margin	Swing	Margin	Member	Party
Bass, Tas		Commonwealth Liberal	David Storrer	12.3	56.8	6.8	Jens Jensen	Labour
Batman, Vic		Commonwealth Liberal	Jabez Coon	1.3	15.3	13.6	Henry Beard	Labour
Bendigo, Vic		Independent	John Quick	1.7	0.4	1.3	John Quick	Commonwealth Liberal
Bourke, Vic		Commonwealth Liberal	James Hume Cook	2.2	15.3	8.6	Frank Anstey	Labour
Brisbane, Qld		Commonwealth Liberal	Justin Foxton	11.3	12.5	1.2	William Finlayson	Labour
Capricornia, Qld		Commonwealth Liberal	Edward Archer	5.6	12.4	6.8	William Higgs	Labour
Corangamite, Vic		Commonwealth Liberal	Gratton Wilson	24.7	29.4	4.7	James Scullin	Labour
Corio, Vic		Commonwealth Liberal	Richard Crouch	100.0	54.4	4.4	Alfred Ozanne	Labour
Dalley, NSW		Commonwealth Liberal	William Wilks	2.7	9.3	6.6	Robert Howe	Labour
Denison, Tas		Commonwealth Liberal	Philip Fysh	6.5	18.6	8.1	William Laird Smith	Labour
East Sydney, NSW		Commonwealth Liberal	George Reid	4.9	12.0	7.1	John West	Labour
Gippsland, Vic		Commonwealth Liberal	George Wise	100.0	62.1	12.1	George Wise	Independent
Hume, NSW		Commonwealth Liberal	William Lyne	100.0	66.4	16.4	William Lyne	Independent
Hunter, NSW		Commonwealth Liberal	Frank Liddell	0.8	11.7	0.9	Matthew Charlton	Labour
Indi, Vic		Commonwealth Liberal	Joseph Brown	11.0	14.1	3.1	Parker Moloney	Labour
Maribyrnong, Vic		Commonwealth Liberal	Samuel Mauger	6.9	17.7	10.8	James Fenton	Labour
Nepean, NSW		Commonwealth Liberal	Eric Bowden	10.6	14.8	1.5	George Cann	Labour
Perth, WA		Labour	James Fowler	2.7	13.4	10.7	James Fowler	Commonwealth Liberal
Riverina, NSW		Commonwealth Liberal	John Chanter	100.0	57.0	7.0	John Chanter	Labour
Robertson, NSW		Commonwealth Liberal	Henry Willis	7.0	7.9	0.9	William Johnson	Labour

Members in italics did not contest their seat at this election.

Post-election pendulum

GOVERNMENT SEATS
Australian Labour Party
Marginal
Robertson (NSW)	William Johnson	ALP	00.9
Brisbane (Qld)	William Finlayson	ALP	01.2
Nepean (NSW)	George Cann	ALP	01.5
New England (NSW)	Francis Foster	ALP	02.7
Indi (Vic)	Parker Moloney	ALP	03.1
Calare (NSW)	Thomas Brown	ALP	03.6
Wide Bay (Qld)	Andrew Fisher	ALP	04.1
Corio (Vic)	Alfred Ozanne	ALP	04.4
Werriwa (NSW)	David Hall	ALP	04.6
Corangamite (Vic)	James Scullin	ALP	04.7
Wannon (Vic)	John McDougall	ALP	05.0
Fairly safe
Macquarie (NSW)	Ernest Carr	ALP	06.5
Dalley (NSW)	Robert Howe	ALP	06.6
Capricornia (Qld)	William Higgs	ALP	06.8
Bass (Tas)	Jens Jensen	ALP	06.8 vs IND
East Sydney (NSW)	John West	ALP	07.1
Denison (Tas)	William Laird Smith	ALP	08.1
Riverina (NSW)	John Chanter	ALP	08.5
Bourke (Vic)	Frank Anstey	ALP	08.6
Gwydir (NSW)	William Webster	ALP	09.6
Safe
Maribyrnong (Vic)	James Fenton	ALP	10.8
Hunter (NSW)	Matthew Charlton	ALP	10.9
Herbert (Qld)	Fred Bamford	ALP	11.0
Adelaide (SA)	Ernest Roberts	ALP	13.3
Darwin (Tas)	King O'Malley	ALP	13.3
Batman (Vic)	Henry Beard	ALP	13.6
Boothby (SA)	Lee Batchelor	ALP	13.8 vs IND
Cook (NSW)	James Catts	ALP	14.1
Darling (NSW)	William Spence	ALP	14.7
Kennedy (Qld)	Charles McDonald	ALP	14.8
Melbourne (Vic)	William Maloney	ALP	17.0
Melbourne Ports (Vic)	James Mathews	ALP	19.6
Very safe
Maranoa (Qld)	Jim Page	ALP	21.0
West Sydney (NSW)	Billy Hughes	ALP	21.5
South Sydney (NSW)	Edward Riley	ALP	24.1
Coolgardie (WA)	Hugh Mahon	ALP	25.4
Yarra (Vic)	Frank Tudor	ALP	26.1
Newcastle (NSW)	David Watkins	ALP	26.7
Kalgoorlie (WA)	Charles Frazer	ALP	31.4
Barrier (NSW)	Josiah Thomas	ALP	35.8
Grey (SA)	Alexander Poynton	ALP	unopposed
Hindmarsh (SA)	William Archibald	ALP	unopposed

NON-GOVERNMENT SEATS
Commonwealth Liberal Party
Marginal
Echuca (Vic)	Albert Palmer	LIB	00.4 vs IND
Grampians (Vic)	Hans Irvine	LIB	00.4
Laanecoorie (Vic)	Carty Salmon	LIB	00.8
Wakefield (SA)	Richard Foster	LIB	00.8
Lang (NSW)	Elliot Johnson	LIB	01.0
Ballaarat (Vic)	Alfred Deakin	LIB	01.1
Bendigo (Vic)	John Quick	LIB	01.3
Mernda (Vic)	Robert Harper	LIB	01.8
Illawarra (NSW)	George Fuller	LIB	02.0
Franklin (Tas)	William McWilliams	LIB	03.4
Richmond (NSW)	Walter Massy-Greene	LIB	04.2 vs IND
Fremantle (WA)	William Hedges	LIB	04.5
Parkes (NSW)	Bruce Smith	LIB	05.1
Fairly safe
Kooyong (Vic)	William Knox	LIB	06.3 vs IND
Wilmot (Tas)	Llewellyn Atkinson	LIB	06.6
Flinders (Vic)	William Irvine	LIB	08.1
Fawkner (Vic)	George Fairbairn	LIB	08.9
Barker (SA)	John Livingston	LIB	09.5
Safe
Swan (WA)	John Forrest	LIB	10.2
Perth (WA)	James Fowler	LIB	10.7
Wentworth (NSW)	Willie Kelly	LIB	11.0
Moreton (Qld)	Hugh Sinclair	LIB	11.1
Balaclava (Vic)	Agar Wynne	LIB	12.0
Oxley (Qld)	Richard Edwards	LIB	12.2 vs IND
North Sydney (NSW)	George Edwards	LIB	15.8
Wimmera (Vic)	Sydney Sampson	LIB	16.0
Parramatta (NSW)	Joseph Cook	LIB	18.0
Cowper (NSW)	John Thomson	LIB	19.5
Darling Downs (Qld)	Littleton Groom	LIB	19.9
Very safe
Angas (SA)	Paddy Glynn	LIB	unopposed
Eden-Monaro (NSW)	Austin Chapman	LIB	unopposed
Independents
Gippsland (Vic)	George Wise	IND	12.1 vs LIB
Hume (NSW)	William Lyne	IND	16.4 vs LIB

Notes

↑ Dissolution

References

University of WA election results in Australia since 1890

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