1893 Queensland colonial election

1893 Queensland colonial election
All 72 seats in the Legislative Assembly; 37 Assembly seats were needed for a majority
Premier before election; Thomas McIlwraith; Ministerialist	Elected Premier ; Thomas McIlwraith; Ministerialist

Elections were held in the Colony of Queensland between 18 April 1893 and 25 May 1893 to elect the members of the colony’s Legislative Assembly.

This election was an early use of contingent voting in a government election.^[1]

Key dates

Due to problems of distance and communications, it was not possible to hold the elections on a single day.^[2]

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42	16	7	7
Ministerialists	Labour	Opposition	Independent

Queensland colonial election, 29 April 1893^[3] Legislative Assembly << 1888–1896 >>
Enrolled voters		86,983
Votes cast		77,993		Turnout	73.11
Informal votes				Informal
Summary of votes by party
Party		Primary votes	%	Swing	Seats	Change
	Ministerialist	34,927	44.78		42	-
	Labour	25,984	33.32		16	+12
	Independent	7,905	10.14		7	+1
	Opposition	7,154	9.17		7	-
	Farmers Rep.	1,230	1.58		0	-
Total		77,993			72

^ Bowler, Shaun; Grofman, Bernard Norman (2000). Elections in Australia, Ireland, and Malta under the single transferable vote: reflections on an embedded institution. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. p. 40. doi:10.3998/mpub.16507. ISBN 978-0-472-02681-4. The contingent vote … was used in Queensland from 1892 to 1942 and for Democratic primary elections in the U.S. state of Alabama between 1915 and 1931. It has been used for presidential elections in Sri Lanka since 1978 and in 1996 … the United Kingdom … called it the 'supplementary vote'.
^ "Queensland General Election Dates 1860-1929" (PDF). Queensland Parliament. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 December 2013. Retrieved 16 December 2013.
^ "Summary of 1893 Election". University of Western Australia. Retrieved 26 July 2017.