Australian federal election, 1925

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14 November 1925 (1925-11-14)

1928 →

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

	First party	Second party

Leader	Stanley Bruce	Matthew Charlton
Party	Nationalist/Country coalition	Labor
Leader since	9 February 1923	16 May 1922
Leader's seat	Flinders	Hunter
Last election	40 seats	29 seats
Seats won	51 seats	23 seats
Seat change	11	6
Percentage	53.80%	46.20%
Swing	2.60	2.60

Prime Minister before election

Stanley Bruce
Nationalist/Country coalition

Resulting Prime Minister

Stanley Bruce
Nationalist/Country coalition

Federal elections were held in Australia on 14 November 1925. All 75 seats in the House of Representatives and 22 of the 36 seats in the Senate were up for election. The incumbent Nationalist Party of Australia led by Prime Minister Stanley Bruce, which had been in power since 1922 with coalition partner the Country Party led by Earle Page, defeated the opposition Australian Labor Party led by Matthew Charlton.

Compulsory voting for federal elections was introduced in 1924 and first used in the 1925 elections, where 91% of the electorate cast a vote.

Prime Minister Stanley Bruce was a supporter of the White Australia Policy, and made it an issue in his campaign for the 1925 Australian Federal election.

It is necessary that we should determine what are the ideals towards which every Australian would desire to strive. I think those ideals might well be stated as being to secure our national safety, and to ensure the maintenance of our White Australia Policy to continue as an integral portion of the British Empire. We intend to keep this country white and not allow its people to be faced with the problems that at present are practically insoluble in many parts of the world.

Independent: Percy Stewart (Wimmera, Vic), William Watson (Fremantle, WA). Labor lost Kennedy when the sitting member Charles McDonald died on the day before the election, leading to his opponent Grosvenor Francis being declared elected unopposed.

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