New South Wales state election, 1950

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17 June 1950 (1950-06-17)

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All 94 seats in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
48 Assembly seats were needed for a majority

	First party	Second party

Leader	James McGirr	Vernon Treatt
Party	Labor	Liberal/Country coalition
Leader since	6 February 1947	20 March 1946
Leader's seat	Liverpool	Woollahra
Last election	48 seats	33 seats
Seats won	46 seats	46 seats
Seat change	2	13
Percentage	46.75%	46.51%
Swing	0.8	6.7

Legislative Assembly after the election

Premier before election

James McGirr
Labor

Resulting Premier

James McGirr
Labor

The 1950 New South Wales state election was held on 17 June 1950. It was conducted in single member constituencies with compulsory preferential voting and was held on boundaries created at a 1949 redistribution. The election was for all of the 94 seats in the Legislative Assembly, which was an increase of 4 seats since the previous election.

At the time of the election, Labor had been in power for 9 years, James McGirr had been the Premier for 3 years and Labor had lost power federally to the Liberal Party of Robert Menzies 6 months earlier. The NSW Labor Government, under McGirr, was beginning to show signs of age. Severe divisions had appeared in the party at the beginning of 1950 when the state executive expelled 4 members of the Assembly James Geraghty (North Sydney), John Seiffert (Monaro), Roy Heferen (Barwon) and Fred Stanley (Lakemba) from the parliamentary party for breaking party solidarity during an indirect election of the Legislative Council. They had voted for the businessman Asher Joel instead of the endorsed Labor candidates. All four served out the remainder of their terms as independents and stood in the election as Independent Labor candidates. An attempt by the caucus to overturn the expulsions led to resentment among party branch members which was reflected in the defeat of four members who were standing for pre-selection; Baden Powell, Bob Gorman, Mary Quirk and Kevin Dwyer. Two members of Lang Labor: James Lang (Auburn) and Lillian Fowler (Newtown) were still in the Assembly and they both stood for re-election.

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