Country: | Victoria |
Type: | parliamentary |
Ongoing: | no |
Election Date: | 10 July 1920 |
Vote Type: | Popular |
Image1: | David Charles McGrath - Richard & Co (cropped).jpg |
Candidate1: | Charles McGrath |
Party1: | Australian Labor Party |
Popular Vote1: | 15,058 |
Percentage1: | 51.7% |
Swing1: | 1.7pp |
Candidate2: | Edwin Kerby |
Party2: | Nationalist Party (Australia) |
Popular Vote2: | 11,443 |
Percentage2: | 39.3% |
Swing2: | 10.7pp |
MP | |
Before Election: | Charles McGrath |
Before Party: | Australian Labor Party |
After Election: | Charles McGrath |
After Party: | Australian Labor Party |
Election Name: | 1920 Ballaarat by-election |
1Blank: | TPP |
1Data1: | 56.1% |
1Data2: | 45.9% |
2Blank: | TPP swing |
2Data1: | 6.1pp |
2Data2: | 6.1pp |
A by-election was held for the Australian House of Representatives seat of Ballaarat on 10 July 1920.
At the 1919 federal election, Nationalist candidate Edwin Kerby had defeated the sitting Labor MP, Charles McGrath, by a single vote, the narrowest margin in Australian electoral history. McGrath challenged the result successfully on the grounds of electoral irregularities, triggering the by-election, at which McGrath was victorious.