sentences:  Labor ended 13 years in opposition, having lost government two years after winning its last election victory in 1914.Labor won what was then its largest-ever majority in the House, but held only a minority of Senate seats as a result of the House-only election.The Nationalists had been in power since 1917, and in Coalition with the Country Party since 1923.his was the first and only time the Nationalists would lose; as it turned out, it would be the last election that the Nationalists would contest.