Electoral results for the district of Clifton Hill

This is a list of electoral results for the electoral district of Clifton Hill in Victorian state elections.

Members for Clifton Hill

Member		Party	Term
	Maurice Blackburn	Labor	1927–1934
	Bert Cremean	Labor	1934–1945
	Jack Cremean	Labor	1945–1949
	Joseph O'Carroll	Labor	1949–1955
		Labor (Anti-Communist)	1955

Election results

Elections in the 1950s

1952 Victorian state election: Clifton Hill ^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Joseph O'Carroll	unopposed
	Labor hold		Swing

1950 Victorian state election: Clifton Hill

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Joseph O'Carroll	16,004	67.7	+4.0
	Liberal and Country	Kenneth Withers	7,633	32.3	−4.0
Total formal votes			23,637	98.6	−0.2
Informal votes			331	1.4	+0.2
Turnout			23,968	94.3	+1.1
	Labor hold		Swing	+4.0

Elections in the 1940s

1949 Clifton Hill state by-election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Joseph O'Carroll	13,829	64.8	+0.9
	Liberal and Country	Ivan Soden	6,436	30.2	−6.1
	Communist	Andrew Wallace	1,069	5.0	+5.0
Total formal votes			21,334	98.8	0.0
Informal votes			260	1.2	0.0
Turnout			21,594	80.7	−12.5
	Labor hold		Swing	N/A

• Preferences were not distributed.

1947 Victorian state election: Clifton Hill

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Jack Cremean	15,798	63.7	+5.3
	Liberal	Neil McKay	9,002	36.3	+8.4
Total formal votes			24,800	98.8	+1.5
Informal votes			312	1.2	−1.5
Turnout			25,112	93.2	+4.9
	Labor hold		Swing	N/A

1945 Victorian state election: Clifton Hill

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Jack Cremean	13,115	58.4
	Liberal	Neil McKay	6,271	27.9
	Communist	Kenneth Miller	3,061	13.6
Total formal votes			22,447	97.3
Informal votes			612	2.7
Turnout			23,059	88.3
	Labor hold		Swing

• Preferences were not distributed.

1945 Clifton Hill state by-election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Jack Cremean	12,728	69.6	+16.6
	Communist	Kenneth Miller	5,555	30.4	+11.5
Total formal votes			18,283	95.2	−1.1
Informal votes			924	4.8	+1.1
Turnout			19,207	74.4	−13.1
	Labor hold		Swing	N/A

1943 Victorian state election: Clifton Hill

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Bert Cremean	11,413	53.0	−13.0
	Independent	Allan Matthews	6,039	28.0	+28.0
	Communist	Ken Miller	4,078	18.9	+18.9
Total formal votes			21,530	96.3	−1.9
Informal votes			834	3.7	+1.9
Turnout			22,364	87.5	−5.4
	Labor hold		Swing	N/A

• Preferences were not distributed.

1940 Victorian state election: Clifton Hill

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Bert Cremean	14,533	66.0	−1.8
	United Australia	Reginald Archer	7,489	34.0	+1.8
Total formal votes			22,022	98.2	−0.3
Informal votes			406	1.8	+0.3
Turnout			22,428	92.9	−0.1
	Labor hold		Swing	-1.8

Elections in the 1930s

1937 Victorian state election: Clifton Hill

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Bert Cremean	15,113	67.8	+6.3
	United Australia	Rhys Davies	7,167	32.2	−6.3
Total formal votes			22,280	98.5	+0.2
Informal votes			340	1.5	−0.2
Turnout			22,620	93.0	−1.4
	Labor hold		Swing	+6.3

1935 Victorian state election: Clifton Hill

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Bert Cremean	13,636	61.5	+13.1
	United Australia	Harold Holt	8,531	38.5	+0.7
Total formal votes			22,167	98.3	+0.2
Informal votes			379	1.7	−0.2
Turnout			22,546	94.4	+1.9
	Labor hold		Swing	+7.7

1934 Clifton Hill state by-election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Bert Cremean	unopposed
	Labor hold		Swing

1932 Victorian state election: Clifton Hill

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Maurice Blackburn	10,274	48.4	−51.6
	United Australia	Albert Oldus	8,029	37.8	+37.8
	Premiers' Plan Labor	William Angus	2,932	13.8	+13.8
Total formal votes			21,235	98.1
Informal votes			414	1.9
Turnout			21,649	92.5
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Maurice Blackburn	11,430	53.8	−46.2
	United Australia	Albert Oldus	9,805	46.2	+46.2
	Labor hold		Swing	N/A

Elections in the 1920s

1929 Victorian state election: Clifton Hill

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Maurice Blackburn	unopposed
	Labor hold		Swing

1927 Victorian state election: Clifton Hill

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Maurice Blackburn	13,784	67.7
	Nationalist	Charles Miller	6,577	32.3
Total formal votes			20,361	96.4
Informal votes			763	3.6
Turnout			21,124	86.8
	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.