Electoral results for the South Eastern Province (Victoria)

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

Members for South Eastern Province

Member 1		Party	Year	Member 2		Party	Member 3		Party
	Frank Dobson		1882		James Buchanan			James Balfour	none
			1884
			1886
			1888
			1890
			1892
			1894
	James Campbell		1895
			1896
			1898		William Knox
			1900
			1901		Duncan McBryde
			1902
			1904
			1907
	William Adamson	Liberal	1910
			1913
			1916
		Nationalist	1917
			1919		Alfred Chandler	Nationalist
	William Tyner	Nationalist	1922
			1925
			1928
			1931
		United Australia	1931			United Australia
			1934
			1935		Gilbert Chandler	United Australia
			1937		Charles Gartside	United Australia
	Cyril Isaac	United Australia	1940
			1943
		Liberal	1945			Liberal
			1946
		Liberal and Country	1949			Liberal and Country
			1949
			1952			Electoral Reform
	George Tilley	Labor	1952
			1955		Charles Bridgford	Liberal and Country
	Bill Mair	Liberal and Country	1958
			1961		Alan Hunt	Liberal and Country
			1964
	Ian Cathie	Labor	1964
			1965			Liberal
			1967
	Roy Ward	Liberal	1970
			1973
			1976
			1979
			1982
			1985
	Ken Smith	Liberal	1988
			1992		Ron Bowden	Liberal
			1996
			1999

Election results

Elections in the 1990s

1999 Victorian state election: South Eastern Province ^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Ron Bowden	70,597	52.6	-4.0
	Labor	Michael Binney	51,147	38.1	+2.7
	Democrats	Richard Armstrong	6,551	4.9	0.0
	Greens	Stuart Kingsford	5,972	4.4	+4.4
Total formal votes			134,267	97.2	-0.6
Informal votes			3,807	2.8	+0.6
Turnout			138,074	94.1
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	Ron Bowden	76,088	56.7	-3.4
	Labor	Michael Binney	58,148	43.3	+3.4
	Liberal hold		Swing	-3.4

1996 Victorian state election: South Eastern Province ^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Ken Smith	71,864	56.6	-0.6
	Labor	Jude Perera	45,005	35.4	+2.0
	Democrats	Glen Maddock	6,192	4.9	+4.9
	Democratic Labor	Pat Crea	1,461	1.1	-2.4
	Natural Law	Alan Shield	1,422	1.1	-4.8
	Independent	Bill McCluskey	1,133	0.9	+0.9
Total formal votes			127,077	97.8	+1.3
Informal votes			2,846	2.2	-1.3
Turnout			129,923	94.9
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	Ken Smith	76,236	60.1	-2.2
	Labor	Jude Perera	50,660	39.9	+2.2
	Liberal hold		Swing	-2.2

1992 Victorian state election: South Eastern Province ^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Ron Bowden	66,314	57.1	+3.4
	Labor	Chrys Abraham	38,811	33.4	-12.7
	Natural Law	Alan Shield	6,830	5.9	+5.9
	Democratic Labor	Patrick Crea	4,178	3.6	+3.6
Total formal votes			116,133	96.5	-0.1
Informal votes			4,187	3.5	+0.1
Turnout			120,320	95.8
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	Ron Bowden	72,223	62.3	+8.5
	Labor	Chrys Abraham	43,738	37.7	-8.5
	Liberal hold		Swing	+8.5

Elections in the 1980s

1988 Victorian state election: South Eastern Province ^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Ken Smith	70,536	54.8	+1.6
	Labor	Denise Hassett	58,245	45.2	+4.7
Total formal votes			128,781	96.7	-1.1
Informal votes			4,375	3.3	+1.1
Turnout			133,156	93.1	-0.6
	Liberal hold		Swing	-1.5

1985 Victorian state election: South Eastern Province ^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Alan Hunt	60,266	53.2
	Labor	Bora Eric	45,784	40.5
	Democrats	Irene Fisher	7,117	6.3
Total formal votes			113,167	97.8
Informal votes			2,567	2.2
Turnout			115,734	93.7
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	Alan Hunt	63,713	56.3	+2.7
	Labor	Bora Eric	49,454	43.7	-2.7
	Liberal hold		Swing	+2.7

1982 Victorian state election: South Eastern Province ^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Roy Ward	43,307	44.1	-2.1
	Labor	Bora Eric	38,254	39.2	+5.9
	National	Leslie Handley	10,033	10.3	-4.7
	Democrats	Harold Fraser	5,913	6.1	+0.6
Total formal votes			97,507	97.7	+0.2
Informal votes			2,283	2.3	-0.2
Turnout			99,790	93.5	+0.7
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	Roy Ward	53,932	55.3	-6.2
	Labor	Bora Eric	43,575	44.7	+6.2
	Liberal hold		Swing	-6.2

Elections in the 1970s

1979 Victorian state election: South Eastern Province ^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Alan Hunt	40,278	46.1	+0.5
	Labor	Norman Spencer	29,065	33.3	+4.3
	National	Donald McRae	13,110	15.0	-4.6
	Democrats	Stefan Taficsuk	4,790	5.5	+5.5
Total formal votes			87,243	97.5	-0.5
Informal votes			2,275	2.5	+0.5
Turnout			89,518	92.8	+0.2
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	Alan Hunt	53,662	61.5	-4.9
	Labor	Norman Spencer	33,581	38.5	+4.9
	Liberal hold		Swing	-4.9

1976 Victorian state election: South Eastern Province ^[8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Roy Ward	35,254	45.6
	Labor	Merton Ryan	22,434	29.0
	National	William Gleeson	15,159	19.6
	Democratic Labor	Noel Gleeson	4,454	5.8
Total formal votes			77,301	98.0
Informal votes			1,598	2.0
Turnout			78,899	92.6
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	Roy Ward	51,347	66.4
	Labor	Merton Ryan	25,954	33.6
	Liberal hold		Swing

1973 Victorian state election: South Eastern Province ^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Alan Hunt	85,285	49.9	+8.6
	Labor	David Bottomley	74,070	43.3	-3.5
	Democratic Labor	John Dougherty	11,625	6.8	-5.1
Total formal votes			170,980	96.7	+0.2
Informal votes			5,813	3.3	-0.2
Turnout			176,793	93.7	-1.2
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	Alan Hunt	93,819	54.9	+4.0
	Labor	David Bottomley	77,161	45.1	-4.0
	Liberal hold		Swing	+4.0

1970 Victorian state election: South Eastern Province ^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Ian Cathie	64,291	46.8	+9.3
	Liberal	Roy Ward	56,841	41.3	-8.6
	Democratic Labor	John Launder	16,362	11.9	-0.7
Total formal votes			137,494	96.5	-0.2
Informal votes			4,970	3.5	+0.2
Turnout			142,464	94.9	0.0
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	Roy Ward	69,995	50.9	-9.3
	Labor	Ian Cathie	67,499	49.1	+9.3
	Liberal hold		Swing	-9.3

Elections in the 1960s

1967 Victorian state election: South-Eastern Province ^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Alan Hunt	58,302	49.9
	Labor	Sydney Pargeter	43,866	37.5
	Democratic Labor	William Scantlebury	14,752	12.6
Total formal votes			116,920	96.7
Informal votes			3,972	3.3
Turnout			120,282	94.9
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	Alan Hunt	70,418	60.2
	Labor	Sydney Pargeter	46,502	39.8
	Liberal hold		Swing

1964 Victorian state election: South Eastern Province ^[12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal and Country	Bill Mair	60,956	48.7	+1.6
	Labor	Bruce Aitken	47,546	38.0	+0.4
	Democratic Labor	Martin Curry	16,741	13.4	-1.9
Total formal votes			125,243	97.5	+0.1
Informal votes			3,169	2.5	-0.1
Turnout			128,412	94.1	-0.6
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal and Country	Bill Mair	74,828	59.7	-0.2
	Labor	Bruce Aitken	50,415	40.3	+0.2
	Liberal and Country hold		Swing	-0.2

1961 Victorian state election: South Eastern Province ^[13]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal and Country	Alan Hunt	53,599	47.1	-3.6
	Labor	Reginald Butler	42,836	37.6	+3.0
	Democratic Labor	Martin Curry	17,442	15.3	+0.5
Total formal votes			113,877	97.4	-1.0
Informal votes			3,064	2.6	+1.0
Turnout			116,941	94.7	+2.1
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal and Country	Alan Hunt	68,216	59.9	-3.4
	Labor	Reginald Butler	45,661	40.1	+3.4
	Liberal and Country hold		Swing	-3.4

Elections in the 1950s

1958 Victorian Legislative Council election: South Eastern Province ^[14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal and Country	Bill Mair	51,103	50.7	+0.9
	Labor	George Tilley	34,896	34.6	+34.6
	Democratic Labor	James Austin	14,898	14.8	-11.8
Total formal votes			100,897	98.4	+0.9
Informal votes			1,608	1.6	-0.9
Turnout			102,505	92.6	+2.0
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal and Country	Bill Mair		63.3	N/A
	Labor	George Tilley		36.7	N/A
	Liberal and Country gain from Labor		Swing	N/A

• Two party preferred vote was estimated.

References

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2. Green, Antony. "1996 Victorian state election" (PDF).
3. Green, Antony. "1992 Victorian state election" (PDF).
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