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Elections were held in the Australian state of
Western Australia Western Australia (WA) is the westernmost state of Australia. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east, and South Australia to the south-east. Western Aust ...
in late 1908 to elect 50 members to the state's Legislative Assembly. The main polling day was 11 September, although five remote electorates went to the polls at later dates. The governing Ministerialists (led by the
premier Premier is a title for the head of government in central governments, state governments and local governments of some countries. A second in command to a premier is designated as a deputy premier. A premier will normally be a head of govern ...
, Newton Moore) lost five seats, but retained a
majority government A majority government is a government by one or more governing parties that hold an absolute majority of seats in a legislature. Such a government can consist of one party that holds a majority on its own, or be a coalition government of multi ...
. The Labour Party, led by Thomas Bath, gained eight seats for a total of 22, equalling their record set at the 1904 election. For the first time, no independents were elected.


Key dates

* Issue of writs: Wednesday 26 August * Close of nominations: Thursday 3 September * Main polling day: Friday 11 September **Return of writs: Saturday 19 September * Polling day for Roebourne: Wednesday 30 September **Return of writs: Saturday 10 October * Polling day for Gascoyne: Thursday 1 October **Return of writs: Thursday 15 October * Polling day for Dundas and
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: Friday 16 October **Return of writs: Friday 23 October * Polling day for
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: Friday 23 October **Return of writs: Saturday 31 October


Electoral system

Members were elected through
instant-runoff voting Instant-runoff voting (IRV; ranked-choice voting (RCV), preferential voting, alternative vote) is a single-winner ranked voting election system where Sequential loser method, one or more eliminations are used to simulate Runoff (election), ...
, which at the time was called alternative voting.


Results


See also

*
Members of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, 1905–1908 Member may refer to: * Military jury, referred to as "Members" in military jargon * Element (mathematics), an object that belongs to a mathematical set * In object-oriented programming, a member of a class ** Field (computer science), entries in ...
* Members of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, 1908–1911


Notes

: The total number of enrolled voters was 135,979, of whom 21,898 were registered in nine uncontested seats. Four of the uncontested seats were won by Ministerialists and five by Labour.


References

{{Western Australian elections Elections in Western Australia 1908 elections in Australia 1900s in Western Australia September 1908 October 1908