Electoral results for the South Western Province (Victoria)

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

Members for South Western Province

Member 1		Party	Year	Member 2		Party	Member 3		Party	Member 4		Party	Member 5		Party
	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]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Stan Gleeson	45,418	45.0	+6.1
	Labor	Stanley Nash	40,179	39.8	−0.4
	Democratic Labor	James Crockett	7,994	7.9	−6.5
	Country	Gilbert Anderson	7,401	7.3	+0.8
Total formal votes			100,992	96.5	−0.4
Informal votes			3,681	3.5	+0.4
Turnout			104,673	94.3	−1.3
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	Stan Gleeson	58,678	58.1	+3.3
	Labor	Stanley Nash	42,314	41.9	−3.3
	Liberal hold		Swing	+3.3

1970 Victorian state election: South Western Province ^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Stanley Nash	35,619	40.2	+4.0
	Liberal	Glyn Jenkins	34,396	38.9	−2.3
	Democratic Labor	William Bond	12,746	14.4	−0.2
	Country	Bartus De Groot	5,783	6.5	−1.5
Total formal votes			88,544	96.9	+0.4
Informal votes			2,864	3.1	−0.4
Turnout			91,408	95.6	+0.7
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	Glyn Jenkins	48,524	54.8	−5.2
	Labor	Stanley Nash	40,020	45.2	+5.2
	Liberal hold		Swing	-5.2

Elections in the 1960s

1967 Victorian state election: South Western Province ^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Stan Gleeson	33,889	41.2
	Labor	John Woolfe	29,710	36.2
	Democratic Labor	Gerald Gleeson	11,970	14.6
	Country	Christian Edwards	6,610	8.0
Total formal votes			82,179	96.5
Informal votes			2,952	3.5
Turnout			85,131	94.9
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	Stan Gleeson	49,304	60.0
	Labor	John Woolfe	32,875	40.0
	Liberal hold		Swing

1965 South Western Province state by-election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal and Country	Stan Gleeson	40,507	53.8	+5.9
	Labor	Stanley Nash	34,779	46.2	+12.1
Total formal votes			75,286	98.5	+0.8
Informal votes			1,158	1.5	−0.8
Turnout			76,444	89.6	−6.0
	Liberal and Country hold		Swing	-2.9

• This by-election was caused by the death of Gordon McArthur.

1964 Victorian state election: South Western Province ^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal and Country	Geoffrey Thom	37,359	47.9	+2.5
	Labor	Gordon Scholes	26,644	34.1	−2.5
	Democratic Labor	Gerald Gleeson	14,045	18.0	0.0
Total formal votes			78,048	97.7	+0.3
Informal votes			1,870	2.3	−0.3
Turnout			79,918	95.6	+0.8
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal and Country	Geoffrey Thom	46,740	59.9	−1.7
	Labor	Gordon Scholes	31,308	40.1	+1.7
	Liberal and Country hold		Swing	-1.7

1961 Victorian state election: South Western Province ^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal and Country	Gordon McArthur	33,000	45.4	−1.0
	Labor	Stanley Nash	26,654	36.6	−4.9
	Democratic Labor	Newell Barrett	13,102	18.0	+5.9
Total formal votes			72,756	97.4	−1.7
Informal votes			1,936	2.6	+1.7
Turnout			74,692	94.8	+1.2
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal and Country	Gordon McArthur	44,818	61.6	+4.9
	Labor	Stanley Nash	27,938	38.4	−4.9
	Liberal and Country hold		Swing	+4.9

Elections in the 1950s

1958 Victorian Legislative Council election: South Western Province ^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal and Country	Geoffrey Thom	31,878	46.4	−7.5
	Labor	Don Ferguson	28,510	41.5	+11.4
	Democratic Labor	Norman Smith	8,298	12.1	−4.0
Total formal votes			68,686	99.1	+0.2
Informal votes			645	0.9	−0.2
Turnout			69,331	93.6	+1.2
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal and Country	Geoffrey Thom	38,909	56.6	−11.6
	Labor	Don Ferguson	29,777	43.4	+11.6
	Liberal and Country gain from Labor		Swing	-11.6

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.