1914 Adelaide by-election explained

Election Name:1914 Adelaide by-election
Percentage2:15.67%
Party1:Australian Labor Party
Turnout:12,446 (36.97%)
Next Year:1914
Next Election:1914 Australian federal election
Election Date:10 January 1914
Previous Year:1913
Previous Election:1913 Australian federal election
Type:Parliamentary
Seats For Election:The Adelaide seat in the House of Representatives
Registered:33,662
Candidate1:George Edwin Yates
Percentage1:84.33%
After Party:Australian Labor Party
Before Party:Australian Labor Party
Ongoing:no
After Election:George Edwin Yates
Before Election:Ernest Roberts
MP
Swing2: 11.21
Popular Vote2:1,936
Party2:Single Tax League
Candidate2:Edward Craigie
Swing1: 18.18
Popular Vote1:10,418
Country:Australia
Colour2:F29CB9

A by-election was held for the Australian House of Representatives seat of Adelaide on 10 January 1914. This was triggered by the death of Labor Party MP Ernest Roberts.

The by-election was won by Labor Party candidate George Edwin Yates. Single Tax League[1] candidate Edward Craigie had previously contested the seat at the 1913 federal election as an independent candidate, achieving 4.6 percent of the vote. Voting was not compulsory in 1914.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: House of Representatives by-elections, 1901-2009 . . 2011-06-13 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110116045037/http://www.aph.gov.au/Library/pubs/rp/2010-11/11rp02.pdf . 2011-01-16 .