Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Federal elections were held in Australia on 21 August 1943. All 74 seats in the House of Representatives, and 19 of the 36 seats in the Senate were up for election. The incumbent Australian Labor Party led by Prime Minister of Australia John Curtin easily defeated the opposition Country Party led by Arthur Fadden, with coalition partner the United Australia Party led by Billy Hughes. Fadden had also served as Prime Minister for six weeks in 1941 as leader of the coalition, before independents switched their support to Curtin, giving him a majority in the lower house, thus taking government. This election was significant in the fact that it resulted in the election of the first female member of the House of Representatives, Enid Lyons, and the first female Senator, Dorothy Tangney. The election remains Labor's greatest federal victory in terms of proportion of seats and two party preferred votes in the lower house, and primary vote in the Senate.Independent: Arthur Coles (Henty, Vic). }
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- Australian_federal_election,_1943 abstract "Federal elections were held in Australia on 21 August 1943. All 74 seats in the House of Representatives, and 19 of the 36 seats in the Senate were up for election. The incumbent Australian Labor Party led by Prime Minister of Australia John Curtin easily defeated the opposition Country Party led by Arthur Fadden, with coalition partner the United Australia Party led by Billy Hughes. Fadden had also served as Prime Minister for six weeks in 1941 as leader of the coalition, before independents switched their support to Curtin, giving him a majority in the lower house, thus taking government. This election was significant in the fact that it resulted in the election of the first female member of the House of Representatives, Enid Lyons, and the first female Senator, Dorothy Tangney. The election remains Labor's greatest federal victory in terms of proportion of seats and two party preferred votes in the lower house, and primary vote in the Senate.Independent: Arthur Coles (Henty, Vic)".