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Revision as of 08:05, 29 September 2017
Constitution Alteration (Marketing) 1936 was an Australian referendum held in the 1937 referendums which sought to alter the Australian Constitution to remove the restraints imposed on Parliament by section 92 of the Constitution.
Question
Do you approve of the proposed law for the alteration of the Constitution entitled 'Constitution Alteration (Marketing) 1936'?
Results
| State | On
rolls |
Ballots issued | For | Against | Invalid | Result | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| % | % | |||||||
| New South Wales | 1,550,947 | 1,461,860 | 456,802 | 33.76 | 896,457 | 66.24 | 108,601 | No |
| Victoria | 1,128,492 | 1,074,278 | 468,337 | 46.58 | 537,021 | 53.42 | 68,920 | No |
| Queensland | 562,240 | 519,933 | 187,685 | 38.78 | 296,302 | 61.22 | 35,946 | No |
| South Australia | 358,069 | 341,444 | 65,364 | 20.83 | 248,502 | 79.17 | 27,578 | No |
| Western Australia | 247,536 | 221,832 | 57,023 | 27.77 | 148,308 | 72.23 | 16,501 | No |
| Tasmania | 133,444 | 125,016 | 24,597 | 21.88 | 87,798 | 78.12 | 12,621 | No |
| Total for Commonwealth | 3,980,728 | 3,744,363 | 1,259,808 | 36.26 | 2,214,388 | 63.74 | 270,167 | No |
| Obtained majority in no State and an overall minority of 954,580 votes. | ||||||||
| Not carried | ||||||||
Discussion
This was one of the few instances where a referendum failed to achieve a majority in any state.
See also
References
- ^ Handbook of the 44th Parliament "Part 5 - Referendums and Plebiscites - Referendum results". Parliamentary Library of Australia.
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Further reading
- Standing Committee on Legislative and Constitutional Affairs (1997) Constitutional Change: Select sources on Constitutional change in Australia 1901–1997. Australian Government Printing Service, Canberra.
- Handbook of the 44th Parliament (2014) "Part 5 - Referendums and Plebiscites". Parliamentary Library of Australia.
- Bennett, Scott (2003). Research Paper no. 11 2002–03: The Politics of Constitutional Amendment Australian Department of the Parliamentary Library, Canberra.
- Australian Electoral Commission (2007) Referendum Dates and Results 1906 – Present AEC, Canberra.
