Electoral results for the South Western Province (Victoria)

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

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Members for South Western Province

Member 1PartyYearMember 2PartyMember 3PartyMember 4PartyMember 5Party
  James Henty   1856   William Roope    James Cowie    Robert Hope    James Strachan  
1858   George Coppin  
1860   John McCrae  
1862
1863   Caleb Jenner  
1864   John Lowe  
1866   George Rolfe  
1867   Thomas Learmonth  
1867   Robert Hope  
1868
1869   Philip Russell  
1870   John Cumming  
1870
1872
1874   Henry Cuthbert  
1875   George Belcher  
1876
1878
1880   Philip Russell  
  Francis Ormond   1882
1882  
1884
1886   Joseph Connor  
1886   William Robertson  
1886
1888   Sidney Austin  
  Donald Wallace   1889
1890
1892
1894
  Joseph Grey   1895
  Henry Wrixon   1896
1896
1898
1899   Thomas Harwood  
1900
1902
1904  
1907
1910
  Austin Austin   1910
1912   Horace Richardson  
1913
1916
  Nationalist 1917  Nationalist
1919
1922
  Howard Hitchcock Nationalist 1925
1928
  Gordon McArthur Nationalist 1931
  United Australia 1931  United Australia
1934   John Percy Jones United Australia
1937
1940   Allan McDonald Country
1943
  Liberal 1945
1946
1947  Independent
  Liberal and Country 1949   Liberal and Country
1952   Don Ferguson Labor
1955
1958   Geoffrey Thom Liberal and Country
1961
1964
  Stanley Gleeson Liberal 1965   Liberal
1967
1970   Glyn Jenkins Liberal
1973
 

Election results

Elections in the 1970s

1973 Victorian state election: South Western Province [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Stan Gleeson 45,41845.0+6.1
Labor Stanley Nash40,17939.8−0.4
Democratic Labor James Crockett7,9947.9−6.5
Country Gilbert Anderson7,4017.3+0.8
Total formal votes100,99296.5−0.4
Informal votes3,6813.5+0.4
Turnout 104,67394.3−1.3
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal Stan Gleeson 58,67858.1+3.3
Labor Stanley Nash42,31441.9−3.3
Liberal hold Swing +3.3
1970 Victorian state election: South Western Province [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labor Stanley Nash35,61940.2+4.0
Liberal Glyn Jenkins 34,39638.9−2.3
Democratic Labor William Bond12,74614.4−0.2
Country Bartus De Groot5,7836.5−1.5
Total formal votes88,54496.9+0.4
Informal votes2,8643.1−0.4
Turnout 91,40895.6+0.7
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal Glyn Jenkins 48,52454.8−5.2
Labor Stanley Nash40,02045.2+5.2
Liberal hold Swing -5.2

Elections in the 1960s

1967 Victorian state election: South Western Province [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Stan Gleeson 33,88941.2
Labor John Woolfe29,71036.2
Democratic Labor Gerald Gleeson11,97014.6
Country Christian Edwards6,6108.0
Total formal votes82,17996.5
Informal votes2,9523.5
Turnout 85,13194.9
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal Stan Gleeson 49,30460.0
Labor John Woolfe32,87540.0
Liberal hold Swing
1965 South Western Province state by-election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal and Country Stan Gleeson 40,50753.8+5.9
Labor Stanley Nash34,77946.2+12.1
Total formal votes75,28698.5+0.8
Informal votes1,1581.5−0.8
Turnout 76,44489.6−6.0
Liberal and Country hold Swing -2.9
1964 Victorian state election: South Western Province [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal and Country Geoffrey Thom 37,35947.9+2.5
Labor Gordon Scholes 26,64434.1−2.5
Democratic Labor Gerald Gleeson14,04518.00.0
Total formal votes78,04897.7+0.3
Informal votes1,8702.3−0.3
Turnout 79,91895.6+0.8
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal and Country Geoffrey Thom 46,74059.9−1.7
Labor Gordon Scholes 31,30840.1+1.7
Liberal and Country hold Swing -1.7
1961 Victorian state election: South Western Province [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal and Country Gordon McArthur 33,00045.4−1.0
Labor Stanley Nash26,65436.6−4.9
Democratic Labor Newell Barrett13,10218.0+5.9
Total formal votes72,75697.4−1.7
Informal votes1,9362.6+1.7
Turnout 74,69294.8+1.2
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal and Country Gordon McArthur 44,81861.6+4.9
Labor Stanley Nash27,93838.4−4.9
Liberal and Country hold Swing +4.9

Elections in the 1950s

1958 Victorian Legislative Council election: South Western Province [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal and Country Geoffrey Thom 31,87846.4−7.5
Labor Don Ferguson 28,51041.5+11.4
Democratic Labor Norman Smith8,29812.1−4.0
Total formal votes68,68699.1+0.2
Informal votes6450.9−0.2
Turnout 69,33193.6+1.2
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal and Country Geoffrey Thom 38,90956.6−11.6
Labor Don Ferguson 29,77743.4+11.6
Liberal and Country gain from Labor Swing -11.6

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References

  1. Carr, Adam. "Victoria Legislative Council Election 1973". Psephos Election Archive. Retrieved 10 November 2020.
  2. Carr, Adam. "Victoria Legislative Council Election 1970". Psephos Election Archive. Retrieved 10 November 2020.
  3. Carr, Adam. "Victoria Legislative Council Election 1967". Psephos Election Archive. Retrieved 10 November 2020.
  4. Carr, Adam. "Victoria Legislative Council Election 1964". Psephos Election Archive. Retrieved 10 November 2020.
  5. Carr, Adam. "Victoria Legislative Council Election 1961". Psephos Election Archive. Retrieved 10 November 2020.
  6. Carr, Adam. "Victoria Legislative Council Election 1958". Psephos Election Archive. Retrieved 10 November 2020.