Australian Labor Party leadership spill, 1954

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Australian Labor Party
Leadership spill, 1954

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Candidate H. V. Evatt Spill motion
Caucus vote 52 28

Leader before election

H. V. Evatt

Elected Leader

H. V. Evatt

A leadership spill of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), then the opposition party in the Parliament of Australia, was held on 21 October 1954.

Labor's caucus rejected by 52 to 28 votes a motion for a spill moved by Senators George Cole and James Fraser. Deputy leader Arthur Calwell and Allan Fraser would have stood for election as Leader and deputy leader respectively in the event of a spill occurring.[1]

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