Electoral results for the Geelong Province

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This is a list of electoral results for the Geelong Province in Victorian state elections.

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Members for Geelong Province

Member 1PartyYear
  Glyn Jenkins Liberal 1976 Member 2Party
1979   Rod Mackenzie Labor
  David Henshaw Labor 1982
1985
1987  Independent
1988
1992   Bill Hartigan Liberal
  Ian Cover Liberal 1996
1999   Elaine Carbines Labor
  John Eren Labor 2002

Election results

Elections in the 2000s

2002 Victorian state election: Geelong Province [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labor John Eren 72,68351.2+5.7
Liberal Ian Cover 51,05936.0−9.2
Greens Bruce Murray11,9048.4+4.3
Democrats Erica Menheere-Thompson3,2552.3−2.9
Christian Democrats Alan Barron1,8261.3+1.3
Independent Val Nicholls1,1440.8+0.8
Total formal votes141,87197.0−0.5
Informal votes4,3953.0+0.5
Turnout 146,26694.3
Two-party-preferred result
Labor John Eren 86,25360.8+8.8
Liberal Ian Cover 55,56439.2−8.8
Labor gain from Liberal Swing +8.8

Elections in the 1990s

1999 Victorian state election: Geelong Province [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Bill Hartigan 58,39045.7−5.5
Labor Elaine Carbines 57,38944.9+1.6
Democrats Robyn Hodge6,5405.1+0.6
Greens Adrian Whitehead5,5684.4+4.4
Total formal votes127,88797.4−0.3
Informal votes3,3502.6+0.3
Turnout 131,23794.6
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Elaine Carbines 65,79051.4+4.7
Liberal Bill Hartigan 62,09748.6−4.7
Labor gain from Liberal Swing +4.7
1996 Victorian state election: Geelong Province [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Ian Cover 63,93051.2+6.7
Labor Carole Marple 54,00843.3+3.3
Democrats Gerald Desmarais5,5994.5+4.5
Democratic Labor Bill Verhoef1,3321.1−0.4
Total formal votes124,86997.8+1.3
Informal votes2,8522.2−1.3
Turnout 127,72195.6
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal Ian Cover 66,36653.3+0.1
Labor Carole Marple 58,14346.7−0.1
Liberal gain from Labor Swing +0.1
1992 Victorian state election: Geelong Province [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Bill Hartigan 52,69844.5+2.0
Labor Jan Alen47,26339.9−8.6
Geelong Community Rod Mackenzie 14,58612.3+12.3
Call to Australia Ian Winter2,1681.8−3.0
Democratic Labor Paul Cahill1,7131.4+1.4
Total formal votes118,42896.50.0
Informal votes4,3183.50.0
Turnout 122,74695.5
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal Bill Hartigan 62,86353.2+4.3
Labor Jan Alen55,34646.8−4.3
Liberal gain from Labor Swing +4.3

Elections in the 1980s

1988 Victorian state election: Geelong Province [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labor David Henshaw 54,29148.4−4.7
Liberal John Lucas47,83842.7+0.9
Call to Australia Dirk Terpstra5,3634.8+4.8
Independent James Jordan4,6234.1+4.1
Total formal votes112,11596.5−1.0
Informal votes4,1083.5+1.0
Turnout 116,22393.1−1.1
Two-party-preferred result
Labor David Henshaw 57,21851.1−4.6
Liberal John Lucas54,85748.9+4.6
Labor hold Swing -4.6
1985 Victorian state election: Geelong Province [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labor Rod Mackenzie 58,00953.1
Liberal Joss Manders45,66141.8
Democrats Laurence Levy5,6045.1
Total formal votes109,27497.5
Informal votes2,7962.5
Turnout 112,07094.2
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Rod Mackenzie 60,86755.7−1.1
Liberal Joss Manders48,40744.3+1.1
Labor hold Swing -1.1
1982 Victorian state election: Geelong Province [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labor David Henshaw 48,45755.7+6.7
Liberal Glyn Jenkins 35,87241.2−5.9
Democratic Labor Michael O'Keefe2,7113.1−0.8
Total formal votes87,04097.2+0.2
Informal votes2,4582.8−0.2
Turnout 89,49894.5+0.3
Two-party-preferred result
Labor David Henshaw 56.5+5.6
Liberal Glyn Jenkins 43.5−5.6
Labor gain from Liberal Swing +5.6

Elections in the 1970s

1979 Victorian state election: Geelong Province [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labor Rod Mackenzie 40,56449.0+1.5
Liberal Gordon Hall39,04747.2−5.3
Democratic Labor James Jordan3,2123.9+3.9
Total formal votes82,82397.0+0.1
Informal votes2,5863.0−0.1
Turnout 85,40994.2−1.5
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Rod Mackenzie 42,13350.9+3.4
Liberal Gordon Hall40,69049.1−3.4
Labor gain from Liberal Swing +3.4
1976 Victorian state election: Geelong Province [9]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Glyn Jenkins 41,40152.5
Labor Rod Mackenzie 37,41347.5
Total formal votes78,81496.9
Informal votes2,5443.1
Turnout 81,35895.7
Liberal hold Swing

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