Australian federal election, 1910

Federal elections were held in Australia on 13 April 1910. All 75 seats in the House of Representatives, and 18 of the 36 seats in the Senate were up for election. The incumbent Commonwealth Liberal Party (the result of a merger between the Protectionist Party and the Free Trade Party) led by Prime Minister of Australia Alfred Deakin was defeated by the opposition Australian Labour Party led by Andrew Fisher.

The election represented a number of firsts: it was Australia's first elected federal majority government; Australia's first Senate majority; the world's first Labour Party majority government; and the first time it controlled both houses of a bicameral legislature. It was also the only election in Australia's federal parliamentary history to have taken place following expiration of the previous parliament by the 'effluxion of time'.^[1]

The 113 acts passed in the second Fisher government (1910–13) exceeded even the output of the second Alfred Deakin government over a similar period. At the time, it represented the culmination of Labour's involvement in politics. It was a period of reform unmatched in the Commonwealth until the 1940s.

Independents: William Lyne (Hume, NSW), George Wise (Gippsland, Vic)

Seats changing hands

• Members in italics did not contest their seat at this election.

Post-election pendulum

See also

• Candidates of the Australian federal election, 1910
• Members of the Australian House of Representatives, 1910–1913
• Members of the Australian Senate, 1910–1913

Notes

References

• University of WA election results in Australia since 1890