Elections were held in the Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n state

States and territories of Australia

The Commonwealth of Australia is a union of six states and various territories. The Australian mainland is made up of five states and three territories, with the sixth state of Tasmania being made up of islands. In addition there are six island territories, known as external territories, and a...

 of Queensland

Queensland

Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...

 on 8 May 1926 to elect the 72 members of the state's Legislative Assembly

Queensland Legislative Assembly

The Queensland Legislative Assembly is the unicameral chamber of the Parliament of Queensland. Elections are held approximately once every three years. Voting is by the Optional Preferential Voting form of the Alternative Vote system...

. The Labor

Australian Labor Party

The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

 government was seeking its fifth continuous term in office since the 1915 election

Queensland state election, 1915

Elections were held in the Australian state of Queensland on 22 May 1915 to elect the 72 members of the state's Legislative Assembly.The election was the second for the Ministerialist government of Digby Denham, who had been premier since 7 February 1911. The opposition Labor Party, led by T. J...

. William McCormack

William McCormack

William McCormack , was Premier of Queensland, Australia, from 1925 to 1929.He was born in Purnam, Queensland and died in Brisbane on 21 November 1947....

 was contesting his first election as Premier.

During the previous term, the Country and United parties had merged into the Country and Progressive National Party

Country and Progressive National Party

The Country and Progressive National Party was a short-lived conservative political party in the Australian state of Queensland.-History:It was created in 1925 as the result of a merger between the state's two conservative parties, the United Party and the Country Party, in an attempt to end...

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Key dates

Date	Event
8 April 1926	The Parliament was dissolved.
9 April 1926	Writs were issued by the Governor to proceed with an election.
16 April 1926	Close of nominations.
8 May 1926	Polling day, between the hours of 8am and 6pm.
12 June 1926	The writ was returned and the results formally declared.
27 July 1926	Parliament resumed for business.

Results

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484,212 electors were enrolled to vote at the election, but 5 Labor seats and one CPNP seat were filled without opposition.

See also

• Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 1923–1926
  Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 1923–1926
  This is a list of members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1923 to 1926, as elected at the 1923 state election. During the term, the United Party and the Country Party merged to form the Country and Progressive National Party, which became the main conservative party until the late...
  
  
• Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 1926–1929
  Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 1926–1929
  This is a list of members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1926 to 1929, as elected at the 1926 state election.-References:* Waterson, Duncan Bruce: Biographical Register of the Queensland Parliament 1860-1929 , Sydney 2001....
  
  
• Candidates of the Queensland state election, 1926
  Candidates of the Queensland state election, 1926
  This is a list of candidates who stood for the 1926 Queensland state election. The election was held on 8 May 1926.The main parties in the election were the Labor Party, led by Premier William McCormack, and the Country and Progressive National Party, led by Arthur Edward Moore.-By-elections:* On...
  
  
• Theodore Ministry
  Theodore Ministry
  The Theodore Ministry was the 28th ministry of the Government of Queensland and was led by Premier Ted Theodore of the Australian Labor Party. It succeeded the Ryan Ministry on 22 October 1919 following T. J...