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1912 Queensland state election

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Field	Value
election_name	1912 Queensland state election
country	Queensland
type	parliamentary
ongoing	no
previous_election	1909 Queensland state election
previous_year	1909
next_election	1915 Queensland state election
next_year	1915
seats_for_election	All 72 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland
37 Assembly seats were needed for a majority
turnout	75.52 ( 2.85 pp)
election_date
image1	[[File:Denham, unknown date (cropped).jpg	170x170px]]
leader1	Digby Denham
leader_since1
party1	Liberal
colour1	8CB4D2
leaders_seat1	Oxley
popular_vote1	110,981
percentage1	51.37%
swing1	0.46
last_election1	41 seats, 50.91%
seats1	46
seat_change1	5
image2	[[File:StateLibQld 1 51912 The Honourable David Bowman (cropped).jpg	170x170px]]
leader2	David Bowman
leader_since2
party2	Australian Labor Party (Queensland Branch)
leaders_seat2	Fortitude Valley
popular_vote2	100,878
percentage2	46.70%
swing2	9.85
last_election2	27 seats, 36.85%
seats2	25
seat_change2	2
title	Premier
before_election	Digby Denham
before_party	Liberal
after_election	Digby Denham
after_party	Liberal

37 Assembly seats were needed for a majority

Elections were held in the Australian state of Queensland on 27 April 1912 to elect the 72 members of the state's Legislative Assembly.

The election was the first for the recently formed Liberal government of Digby Denham, who had been premier since 7 February 1911. The opposition Labor Party was led by David Bowman, who had been Labor leader since 15 April 1907.

This election used contingent voting in single-member districts. Five districts that had been two-seat districts - Mackay, Maryborough, North Brisbane, Rockhampton and South Brisbane - were reformed and hereafter have only one seat.

Results

Denham and his government were returned to office despite a swing to Labor of almost 10 percent. This was largely due to winning newly created seats in rural areas, while losing seats in Brisbane which mostly went to Labor.

| turnout % = 75.52 | informal % = N/A |votes % = 51.37 |votes % = 46.70 |votes % = 1.74 |}

References

(2000). "Elections in Australia, Ireland, and Malta under the single transferable vote: reflections on an embedded institution". University of Michigan Press.
Hughes and Graham, "Voting for the Queensland Legislative Assembly 1890-1964" (online) accessed February 20, 2025
"Parliament of Queensland: Legislative Assembly election: Election of 27 April 1912". [[University of Western Australia]].

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