John McPhee Nationalist John McPhee Nationalist The 1931 Tasmanian state election was held on 9 May 1931 in the Australian state of Tasmania to elect 30 members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly.

[2] The Nationalist Party had defeated Labor by one seat at the 1928 election, and John McPhee had been Premier of Tasmania since then.

The Nationalist Party won the 1931 election in a landslide, with 19 seats in the House of Assembly and a margin over Labor of more than 22%, the largest victory over Labor in Tasmania since Hare-Clark elections began in 1909.

The win was attributed to public endorsement of McPhee's expenditure cuts over Ogilvie's expansionist policies.

Despite the scale of the Nationalist victory, the non-Labor forces in Tasmania did not win another election until 1969.