Australian federal election, 1910

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13 April 1910 (1910-04-13)

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

	First party	Second party

Leader	Andrew Fisher	Alfred Deakin
Party	Labour	Commonwealth Liberal
Leader since	October 1907	1909
Leader's seat	Wide Bay	Ballaarat
Last election	26 seats	N/A
Seats won	42 seats	31 seats
Seat change	16	31
Popular vote	660,864	596,350
Percentage	49.97%	45.09%
Swing	13.33	N/A

Prime Minister before election

Alfred Deakin
Commonwealth Liberal

Resulting Prime Minister

Andrew Fisher
Labour

Alfred Deakin
Commonwealth Liberal

Andrew Fisher
Labour

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 Anti-Socialist/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 elected Senate majority; the world's first Labour Party majority government at a national level; after the 1904 Chris Watson minority government the world's second Labour Party government at a national level; and the first time it controlled both houses of a bicameral legislature. It also remains the only election in Australia's federal history to have occurred following expiration of a full three-year parliamentary term by the 'effluxion of time'.

Two referenda to approve proposed amendments to the Constitution were held on the same day. The State Debts referendum was carried, but the Surplus Revenue referendum was not carried.

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