1927 New South Wales state election

The 1927 New South Wales state election to elect the 90 members of the 28th Legislative Assembly was held on 8 October 1927. During the previous parliament the voting system, which had been a form of proportional representation with multi-member seats and a single transferable vote (modified Hare-Clark), was changed to single member constituencies with optional preferential voting (Instant-runoff voting). Severe divisions occurred within the Labor Party caucus in the four months prior to the election (see Lang Labor) and a caretaker government composed of the supporters of the Premier of New South Wales and party leader, Jack Lang was in power at the time of the election.

1927 New South Wales state election
8 October 1927 (1927-10-08)
All 90 seats in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
46 Assembly seats were needed for a majority
  First party Second party
 
Leader Thomas Bavin Jack Lang
Party Nationalist/Country coalition Labor
Leader since 24 September 1925 31 July 1923
Leader's seat Gordon Auburn
Last election 41 seats 46 seats
Seats won 46 seats 40 seats
Seat change 5 6
Percentage 47.3% 43.0%
Swing 1.3 3.0
Legislative Assembly after the election
Premier before election

Jack Lang
Labor

 Elected Premier

Thomas Bavin
Nationalist/Country coalition

As a result of the election the Lang government was defeated and a Nationalist/Country Party coalition government led by Thomas Bavin and Ernest Buttenshaw was formed with a parliamentary majority of 1 and the usual support of the 2 Nationalist independents. The Parliament first met on 3 November 1927, and ran its maximum term of 3 years. Lang remained the leader of the Labor Party throughout the Parliament.

To date Lang is the only elected Labor Premier of New South Wales to be voted out of office.

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