Tasmanian state election, 1919

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31 May 1919

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	First party	Second party

Leader	Walter Lee	Joseph Lyons
Party	Nationalist	Labor
Leader since	September 1915	November 1916
Leader's seat	Wilmot	Wilmot
Last election	15 seats	14 seats
Seats won	16 seats	13 seats
Seat change	1	1
Percentage	55.20%	41.44%
Swing	6.97	7.03

Premier before election

Walter Lee
Nationalist

Elected Premier

Walter Lee
Nationalist

A general election for the House of Assembly was held in the Australian state of Tasmania on 31 May 1919.

By the time of the 1919 election, the Liberal Party had regrouped and been renamed as the Nationalist Party. The Premier of Tasmania, Walter Lee, had led the party for a relatively untroubled three years, despite the Liberals' one-seat majority over Labor and the uncertainty of World War I.

The leader of the Labor Party in Tasmania going into the 1919 election was Joseph Lyons.

Tasmanian state election, 31 May 1919
House of Assembly
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Lee led the Nationalist Party to victory, with a 14% margin over Labor, although they only won 16 of the 30 seats in the House of Assembly. Independent Joshua Whitsitt retained his seat in the Division of Darwin.

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