[Ads-l] antedating of 'swing vote', 'swing voter'

Thu Jan 5 06:47:47 UTC 2023

OEDO 1966; ADS-L 1944 (swing vote), 1949 (swing voter): Zimmer et al.
See
https://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2008-September/084890.html

Australian origin; progenitors include 'swing-over vote', 'swinging
vote', and 'swinging voter'.

ELECTION ECHOES.
Type 	Newspaper Article
URL 	http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article70864125
Place 	Brisbane, Queensland
Publication 	Worker
Date 	18 May 1907
Accessed 	1/4/2023, 10:16:31 PM
Library Catalog 	Trove
Date Added 	1/4/2023, 10:16:31 PM
Modified 	1/4/2023, 10:16:53 PM
Notes: Ipswich democrats should give him a swingeing vote on Saturday,
and place him where he deserves to be, at the tip top of the poll.

--- ‘swinging vote’ (“swingeing” [sic])

A TRIUMPH FOR "NO."
Type 	Newspaper Article
URL 	http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article145809728
Place 	Sydney, New South Wales
Publication 	Australian Worker
Date 	27 Dec 1917
Accessed 	1/4/2023, 8:49:05 PM
Library Catalog 	Trove
Notes: This fact is strikingly exampled by his bitter attacks on men
like Dr. Mannix, and the resultant swing-over vote in Victoria.

--- ‘swing-over vote’

No title
Type 	Newspaper Article
URL 	http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article203693403
Place 	Melbourne, Victoria
Publication 	Age
Date 	7 Oct 1919
Accessed 	1/4/2023, 9:17:03 PM
Library Catalog 	Trove
Notes: Apparently they are both ready to gamble on the swinging vote
that decides between them.

--- ‘swinging vote’

LABOUR TO LABOUR
Type 	Newspaper Article
URL 	http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12367806
Place 	Hobart, Tasmania
Publication 	Mercury
Date 	5 Dec 1919
Accessed 	1/4/2023, 9:23:33 PM
Library Catalog 	Trove
Notes: Sir,—Will you kindly spare me space to ask a few questions, and
give one or two facts, which may be of some use in helping the swinging
vote of Tasmania to make up its mind who and what to vote for on the
13th December?

--- ‘swinging vote’

THE NEXT COMMONWEALTH ELECTIONS.
Type 	Newspaper Article
URL 	http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article174656214
Place 	Brisbane, Queensland
Publication 	Telegraph
Date 	18 Jul 1919
Accessed 	1/4/2023, 8:58:39 PM
Library Catalog 	Trove
Notes: The rule in Australia is that there are two big parties and
between them a very large number of electors who do not permanently
belong to either party, swing from side to side like a pendulum, and yet
unconsciously often hold the balance of power. Where the parties are
equally balanced or thereabouts the "swinging vote," as it is called,
will often be the decisive vote — that is, when it sways mostly to one
party.

--- ‘swinging vote’

NEW BOOKS.
Type 	Newspaper Article
URL 	http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4591514
Place 	Melbourne, Victoria
Publication 	Argus
Date 	7 Aug 1920
Accessed 	1/4/2023, 9:28:06 PM
Library Catalog 	Trove
Notes: Such men are not amiable in political life, though, of course,
they have their uses; and in time of crisis they act like what is known
as the “swinging vote” in general elections.

--- ‘swinging vote’

CONTRAST IN ELECTIONS
Type 	Newspaper Article
URL 	http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article224688427
Place 	Sydney, New South Wales
Publication 	Sun
Date 	28 Oct 1928
Accessed 	1/4/2023, 9:37:59 PM
Library Catalog 	Trove
Notes: With less than three weeks to go to a day when a swing-over vote
would radically reverse the most important policies of the Commonwealth,
the voice of the wooing political turtle is but faintly heard in the land.

--- ‘swing-over vote’

THE WEAKNESS OF DEMOCRACY.
Type 	Newspaper Article
URL 	http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article41104612
Place 	Queensland
Publication 	Cairns Post
Date 	8 Nov 1930
Accessed 	1/4/2023, 9:51:53 PM
Library Catalog 	Trove
Notes: There is what politicians call the swinging vote that is not tied
to any party. This vote makes and unmakes Governments. It swings one way
at one election and it swings the opposite way at the next election. The
strong party vote is a constant, the swinging vote is variable.
    These people who are designated as the swinging voters are not
numerically strong enough to elect candidates of their own even when
they select an able and desirable man.

--- ‘swinging vote’ and ‘swinging voters’

LAST WEEK OF ELECTION FIGHT
Type 	Newspaper Article
URL 	http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article242799965
Place 	Melbourne, Victoria
Publication 	Herald
Date 	7 May 1932
Accessed 	1/4/2023, 10:04:24 PM
Library Catalog 	Trove
Notes: Although the electorate is largely industrial, there is a big
swing vote which, it is believed, will largely favor the U.A.P.
candidate next Saturday.

--- ‘swing vote’

SWING VOTERS
Type 	Newspaper Article
URL 	https://www.newspapers.com/clip/115818720/swing-voters/
Place 	Sydney, New South Wales, New South Wales, Australia
Pages 	2/1
Publication 	The Sydney Morning Herald
Date 	1945-01-26
Accessed 	1/4/2023, 8:17:08 PM
Library Catalog 	newspapers.com
Notes: The pledge was accepted by this paper as conclusive, and no doubt
hundreds of thousands of “swing” voters so regarded it.

--- '“swing” voters'

-- 
James Eric Lawson

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