New South Wales state election, 1917

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24 March 1917 (1917-03-24)

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All 90 seats in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
46 Assembly seats were needed for a majority

	First party	Second party

Leader	William Holman	John Storey
Party	Nationalist	Labor
Leader since	15 November 1916	February 1917
Leader's seat	Cootamundra	Balmain
Last election	39 seats	49 seats
Seats won	52 seats	33 seats
Seat change	13	16
Percentage	47.44%	43.63
Swing	1.17	4.00

Legislative Assembly after the election

Premier before election

William Holman
Nationalist

Elected Premier

William Holman
Nationalist

The 1917 New South Wales state election was held on 24 March 1917. This election was for all of the 90 seats in the 24th New South Wales Legislative Assembly and it was conducted in single-member constituencies with a second ballot if a majority was not achieved on the first. The 23rd parliament of New South Wales was dissolved on 21 February 1917 by the Governor, Sir Gerald Strickland, on the advice of the Premier William Holman.

Since the previous election, Premier Holman had left the Australian Labor Party with his supporters and entered into a coalition with the opposition Liberal Party, as a result of the 1916 conscription dispute that split the Labor Party nationally. In early 1917, Holman's supporters merged with the Liberals to form the New South Wales branch of the Nationalist Party of Australia.

The Nationalists won a sweeping victory, scoring a 17-point swing which was magnified by the large number of former Labor MPs who followed Holman out of the party. It thus presaged the federal Nationalists' equally comprehensive victory in the federal election two months later.

New South Wales state election, 24 March 1917
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