1946 Tasmanian state election

1946 Tasmanian state election
All 30 seats to the House of Assembly
	Results of the election
Premier before election; Robert Cosgrove; Labor	Elected Premier ; Robert Cosgrove; Labor

The 1946 Tasmanian state election was held on 23 November 1946 in the Australian state of Tasmania to elect 30 members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly. The election used the Hare-Clark proportional representation system^[1] — six members were elected from each of five electorates.

Incumbent Premier Robert Cosgrove continued to lead the Labor Party into the 1946 election. The Nationalist Party had reformed into the modern Liberal Party, and was led by Neil Campbell. This was Tasmania's first election since the end of World War II.

Labor won a majority in the election, although the party's vote was significantly reduced. Cosgrove dominated the government throughout Tasmania's post-war recovery.^[2]

Results



Party		Votes	%	+/–	Seats	+/–
	Labor	65,843	51.00	11.63	16	4
	Liberal	44,158	34.20	2.33	12	2
	Ind. Lib.^[a]	11,339	8.78	8.78	1	1
	Independents	7,765	6.01	5.18	1	1
Total		129,105	100.00	–	30	–

Valid votes		129,105	89.91
Invalid/blank votes		14,484	10.09	5.09
Total votes		143,589	100.00	–
Registered voters/turnout		157,756	91.02	0.16

Popular vote

Labor			50.97%
Liberal			34.25%
Independents			14.79%

Seats

Labor			53.33%
Liberal			40.00%
Independents			6.67%

^a Several Nationalists did not join the new Liberal Party and ran as independents. Rex Townley was elected in Denison.

Distribution of votes

Primary vote by division

	Bass	Darwin	Denison	Franklin	Wilmot
Labor Party	57.9%	49.5%	45.3%	51.5%	51.2%
Liberal Party	31.9%	47.7%	19.4%	35.2%	36.3%
Other	10.3%	2.9%	35.4%	13.3%	12.5%

Distribution of seats

Electorate	Seats won
Bass
Darwin
Denison
Franklin
Wilmot

	Labor
	Liberal
	Independent

References

^ House of Assembly Elections, Parliament of Tasmania.
^ W. A. Townsley, Cosgrove, Sir Robert (1884 - 1969), Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 13, Melbourne University Press, 1993, pp 505-507.

External links

Assembly Election Results, 1946, Parliament of Tasmania.
Report on Parliamentary Elections, 1947, Tasmanian Electoral Commission.

[1] House of Assembly Elections, Parliament of Tasmania.

[2] W. A. Townsley, Cosgrove, Sir Robert (1884 - 1969), Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 13, Melbourne University Press, 1993, pp 505-507.

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