Electoral results for the district of Ascot Vale

This is a list of electoral results for the electoral district of Ascot Vale in Victorian state elections.

Members for Ascot Vale

First incarnation (1955–1958)
Member		Party	Term
	Ernie Shepherd	Labor	1955–1958

Second incarnation (1976–1985)
Member		Party	Term
	Tom Edmunds	Labor	1976–1985

Election results

Elections in the 1980s

1982 Victorian state election: Ascot Vale

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Tom Edmunds	17,797	71.7	+3.4
	Liberal	David Hayward	7,012	28.3	−3.4
Total formal votes			24,809	95.4	+0.2
Informal votes			1,190	4.6	−0.2
Turnout			25,999	93.7	+1.2
	Labor hold		Swing	+3.4

Elections in the 1970s

1979 Victorian state election: Ascot Vale

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Tom Edmunds	16,901	68.3	+5.0
	Liberal	Murray Kellam	7,859	31.7	−5.0
Total formal votes			24,760	95.2	−0.9
Informal votes			1,241	4.8	+0.9
Turnout			26,001	92.5	+0.1
	Labor hold		Swing	+5.0

1976 Victorian state election: Ascot Vale

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Tom Edmunds	16,445	63.3	+3.9
	Liberal	Edmond Murphy	9,535	36.7	+5.9
Total formal votes			25,980	96.1
Informal votes			1,043	3.9
Turnout			27,023	92.4
	Labor hold		Swing	+2.9

Elections in the 1950s

1955 Victorian state election: Ascot Vale ^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Ernie Shepherd	14,351	66.4
	Liberal and Country	George Evans	4,091	18.9
	Labor (A-C)	Paul Gunn	3,168	14.7
Total formal votes			21,610	98.2
Informal votes			399	1.8
Turnout			22,009	94.9
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Ernie Shepherd	14,826	68.6
	Liberal and Country	George Evans	6,784	31.4
	Labor hold		Swing

References

1. Hughes, Colin A. (1975). Voting for the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1890-1964. Dept. of Political Science, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University. ISBN   070811332X.