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Australian federal election, 1925

1922 ←

16 December 1925 (1925-12-16)

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All 75 seats in the Australian House of Representatives 38 seats were needed for a majority in the House 22 (of the 36) seats in the Australian Senate

	First party	Second party

Leader	Stanley Bruce	Matthew Charlton
Party	Nationalist/Country coalition	Labor
Leader since	9 February 1923	16 May 1922
Leader's seat	Flinders	Hunter
Last election	40 seats	29 seats
Seats won	51 seats	23 seats
Seat change	11	6

Prime Minister before election

Stanley Bruce
Nationalist/Country coalition

Resulting Prime Minister

Stanley Bruce
Nationalist/Country coalition

Federal elections were held in Australia on 14 November 1925. All 75 seats in the House of Representatives, and 22 of the 36 seats in the Senate were up for election. The incumbent Nationalist Party of Australia led by Prime Minister of Australia Stanley Bruce in power since 1922 with coalition partner the Country Party led by Earle Page defeated the opposition Australian Labor Party led by Matthew Charlton.

Compulsory voting for Federal elections was introduced in 1924 and first used in the 1925 elections where 91% of the electorate cast a vote.

**House of Reps (IRV) — 1925–28—Turnout 91.39% (CV) — Informal 2.36%**
Party	Votes	%	Swing	Seats	Change
Australian Labor Party	1,313,627	45.04	+2.74	23	−6
Nationalist Party of Australia	1,238,397	42.46	+7.23	37	+11	^{(1 elected} _unopposed)
Country Party	313,363	10.74	−1.82	13	−1
Independents/Other	51,251	1.76	−2.80	2	-4
Total	2,916,638			75
Nationalist/Country coalition	WIN			51	+11
Australian Labor Party				23	−6

Independent: Percy Stewart (Wimmera, Vic), William Watson (Fremantle, WA). Labor lost Kennedy when the sitting member Charles McDonald died on the day before the election, leading to his opponent Grosvenor Francis being declared elected unopposed.^[1]

**Senate (P BV) — 1925–28—Turnout 91.31% (CV) — Informal 6.96%**
Party	Votes	%	Swing	Seats Won	Seats Held
Nationalist Party of Australia	1,272,127	45.35	+9.12	18	25
Australian Labor Party	1,262,912	45.02	−0.67	0	8
Country Party	265,155	9.45	−3.53	4	3
Independents	4,808	0.17	−1.87	0	0
Total	2,805,002			22	36

Seats changing hands [edit]

^ "Kennedy Seat". Bribane Courier. 14 November 1925. p. 7. Retrieved 19 July 2010.

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