Electoral results for the Southern Province

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

Members for Southern Province

Member 1		Party	Year	Member 2		Party	Member 3		Party	Member 4		Party	Member 5		Party
	John Bennett		1856		William J. T. Clarke			Thomas Power			Thomas McCombie			Donald Kennedy
			1858
			1859								Gideon Rutherford
			1860								William Degraves
			1861		Joseph Sutherland
			1862		William J. T. Clarke
	John Bear		1863
			1864											William Taylor
			1864					William Pettett
			1866											John Sherwin
			1868											William à Beckett
			1868
			1870		Frank Dobson
			1870
			1871					Thomas Hamilton
			1872
			1874								James Balfour
			1874
			1876											James Buchanan
	William Clarke		1878
			1880
			1882		Donald Melville
			1884					Thomas Henty
			1886
			1887					Charles James
			1888
			1890					Thomas Brunton
			1892
			1894
			1896
	Rupert Clarke		1897
			1898
			1900
			1902
	William Embling		1904		Nicholas Fitzgerald
			1907
			1908		George Dickie
			1910
			1910		Russell Clarke
	William Angliss		1912
			1913
			1916
		Nationalist	1917			Nationalist
			1919
			1922
			1925
			1928
			1931
		United Australia	1931			United Australia
			1934
			1937		Gilbert Chandler
			1940
			1943
		Liberal	1945			Liberal
			1946
		Liberal and Country	1949			Liberal and Country
			1949
	Roy Rawson	Labor	1952
			1955
	Raymond Garrett	Liberal and Country	1958
			1961
			1964

Election results

Elections in the 1960s

1964 Victorian state election: Southern Province ^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal and Country	Raymond Garrett	106,429	43.8	−1.8
	Labor	Geraldus Den Dulk	100,331	41.3	+2.4
	Democratic Labor	Raymond Studham	36,258	14.9	−0.6
Total formal votes			243,018	97.0	+0.1
Informal votes			7,416	3.0	−0.1
Turnout			250,434	94.9	+0.3
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal and Country	Raymond Garrett	139,352	57.3	−2.0
	Labor	Geraldus Den Dulk	103,666	42.7	+2.0
	Liberal and Country hold		Swing	-2.0

1961 Victorian state election: Southern Province ^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal and Country	Gilbert Chandler	89,181	45.6	−1.3
	Labor	Stanley Willis	76,060	38.9	−2.9
	Democratic Labor	Raymond Studham	30,194	15.5	+4.2
Total formal votes			195,435	96.9	−1.6
Informal votes			6,182	3.1	+1.6
Turnout			201,617	94.6	+2.2
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal and Country	Gilbert Chandler	115,846	59.3	+2.5
	Labor	Stanley Willis	79,589	40.7	−2.5
	Liberal and Country hold		Swing	+2.5

Elections in the 1950s

1958 Victorian Legislative Council election: Southern Province ^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal and Country	Raymond Garrett	68,095	46.9	−5.6
	Labor	Roy Rawson	60,691	41.8	+4.8
	Democratic Labor	Leo Mahony	16,372	11.3	+0.8
Total formal votes			145,158	98.5	+0.1
Informal votes			2,233	1.5	−0.1
Turnout			147,391	92.4	+0.8
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal and Country	Raymond Garrett	82,395	56.8	−5.2
	Labor	Roy Rawson	62,763	43.2	+5.2
	Liberal and Country gain from Labor		Swing	-5.2

References

1. Carr, Adam. "Victoria Legislative Council Election 1964". Psephos Election Archive. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
2. Carr, Adam. "Victoria Legislative Council Election 1961". Psephos Election Archive. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
3. Carr, Adam. "Victoria Legislative Council Election 1958". Psephos Election Archive. Retrieved 3 November 2020.