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.