1920 New South Wales state election

1920 New South Wales state election
20 March 1920 (1920-03-20)
All 90 seats in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
46 Assembly seats were needed for a majority
  First party Second party
 
Leader John Storey William Holman
Party Labor Nationalist
Leader since February 1917 15 November 1916
Leader's seat Balmain Cootamundra
(lost seat)
Last election 33 seats 52 seats
Seats won 43 28
Seat change 10 24
Primary vote 252,371 175,280
Percentage 43.08% 29.92%
Swing 0.45 17.52
  Third party Fourth party
 
Leader George Beeby Ernie Judd
Party Progressive Socialist Labor
Leader since 1920 1920
Leader's seat Murray None (contested Sydney)
Last election Did not exist 0 seats
Seats won 15 1
Seat change 15 1
Primary vote 88,557 6,143
Percentage 15.12% 1.05%
Swing 15.12 0.99
Results of the election
Premier before election

William Holman
Nationalist

 Subsequent Premier

John Storey
Labor

The 1920 New South Wales state election was held on 20 March 1920. The 24th parliament of New South Wales was dissolved on 18 February 1920 by the Governor, Sir Walter Edward Davidson, on the advice of the Premier William Holman. The election was for all of the 90 seats in the 25th New South Wales Legislative Assembly, and it was the first to be conducted with multi-member electorates, using the Hare-Clark single transferable vote system.

It was conducted using 24 districts, 15 having 3 members and nine having five members.

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