Tasmanian state election, 1922

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10 June 1922

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	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Walter Lee	Joseph Lyons	Ernest Blyth
Party	Nationalist	Labor	Country
Leader since	September 1915	November 1916	1922
Leader's seat	Wilmot	Wilmot	Wilmot
Last election	16 seats	13 seats	0 seats
Seats won	12 seats	12 seats	5 seats
Seat change	4	1	5
Percentage	40.96%	36.74%	13.98%
Swing	14.25	4.70	13.98

Premier before election

Walter Lee
Nationalist

Resulting Premier

Walter Lee
Nationalist

A general election for the House of Assembly was held in the Australian state of Tasmania on 10 June 1922.

The incumbent Premier of Tasmania at the time of the 1922 election was Walter Lee of the Nationalist Party. Before the election, a new party had emerged, the Country Party, a conservative party aiming to represent farmers and rural interests, led by Ernest Blyth. The Labor Party was led by Joseph Lyons.

Tasmanian state election, 10 June 1922
House of Assembly
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The emergence of the Country Party split the anti-Labor vote at the 1922 election, and the Nationalist Party lost four seats to them, handing them the balance of power. Despite surviving a no-confidence vote, Lee resigned and recommended that the Governor of Tasmania send for Blyth. Blyth organised a meeting between the Nationalist and Country parties, and they agreed to form Tasmania's first coalition government with John Hayes as Premier.

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