Victorian state election, 1920

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21 October 1920 (1920-10-21)

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54 (of the 65) seats in the Victorian Legislative Assembly

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Harry Lawson	George Prendergast	John Allan
Party	Nationalist	Labor	VFU
Leader since	May 1918	18 June 1918
Leader's seat	Castlemaine and Maldon	North Melbourne	Rodney
Last election	40 seats	18 seats	4 seats
Seats won	30 seats	20 seats	13 seats
Seat change	10	2	9
Percentage	47.95%	29.28%	14.41%
Swing	9.03	3.00	8.28

Premier before election

Harry Lawson
Nationalist

Elected Premier

Harry Lawson
Nationalist

The 1920 Victorian state election was held in the Australian state of Victoria on Thursday 21 October 1920 to elect 54 of the 65 members of the state's Legislative Assembly.

The Nationalist party had reunited after the 1917 election in which the Nationalist members supporting John Bowser defeated those supporting the former Premier Alexander Peacock over his decision to increase country rail fares, and formed a majority government with 40 members. Bowser resigned as premier in March 1918, having little taste for the office, and was replaced by Peacock supporter Harry Lawson.

Meanwhile, in rural Victoria, the Victorian Farmers' Union had been gathering support and was looking to gain more seats from the Nationalists in these regions. This election would be their debut as a major force in Victorian politics where neither the Nationalists and their successors or Labor could form government without their support (or that of their successors, the Country Party) until 1952.

Victorian state election, 21 October 1920
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