Electoral results for the district of Dandenong

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This is a list of electoral results for the Electoral district of Dandenong in Victorian state elections.

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Members for Dandenong

MemberPartyTerm
  William Keast Conservative1904–1917
  Comm Liberal
  Nationalist
  Frank Groves Nationalist 1917–1929
  Herbert Cremean Labor 1929–1932
  Frank Groves United Australia 1932–1937
  Frank Field Labor 1937–1947
  William Dawnay-Mould Liberal 1947–1952
  Electoral Reform League
  Les Coates Labor 1952–1955
  Ray Wiltshire Liberal 1955–1958
  Len Reid Liberal 1958–1969
  Alan Lind Labor 1969–1979
  Rob Jolly Labor 1979–1985
  Terry Norris Labor 1985–1992
  John Pandazopoulos Labor 1992–2014
  Gabrielle Williams Labor 2014–present

Election results

Elections in the 2010s

2018 Victorian state election: Dandenong [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labor Gabrielle Williams 21,31366.1+13.3
Liberal Virosh Perera7,41623.0−6.0
Greens Rhonda Garad2,3997.4−0.3
Transport Matters Afroz Ahmed1,1283.5+3.5
Total formal votes32,25691.0−0.7
Informal votes3,1819.0+0.7
Turnout 35,43783.7−5.9
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Gabrielle Williams 23,89174.0+11.1
Liberal Virosh Perera8,40926.0−11.1
Labor hold Swing +11.1
2014 Victorian state election: Dandenong [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labor Gabrielle Williams 17,89152.8+1.6
Liberal Joanna Palatsides9,80929.0−0.1
Greens John Gulzari2,6117.7−0.8
Family First Noelle Walker2,0976.2+1.7
Rise Up Australia Carlton King9502.8+2.8
Independent Dale Key5001.5+1.5
Total formal votes33,85891.7−0.8
Informal votes3,0648.3+0.8
Turnout 36,92289.6−0.6
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Gabrielle Williams 21,38962.9−1.2
Liberal Joanna Palatsides12,62837.1+1.2
Labor hold Swing −1.2
2010 Victorian state election: Dandenong
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labor John Pandazopoulos 14,93450.53-8.00
Liberal Dale Key8,65829.29+4.38
Greens Matthew Kirwan2,5918.77+0.50
Democratic Labor Christopher Blackburn2,0376.89+6.89
Family First Damien Latcham1,3374.52-3.77
Total formal votes29,55792.57-0.50
Informal votes2,3737.43+0.50
Turnout 31,93089.86-1.29
Two-party-preferred result
Labor John Pandazopoulos 18,88763.87-4.80
Liberal Dale Key10,68636.13+4.80
Labor hold Swing -4.80

Elections in the 2000s

2006 Victorian state election: Dandenong
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labor John Pandazopoulos 17,12658.53-6.85
Liberal Cameron Nicholls7,28724.91-1.38
Family First Peter Dorian2,4268.29+8.29
Greens Peter Blair2,4208.27+1.97
Total formal votes29,25993.07-1.19
Informal votes2,1786.93+1.19
Turnout 31,43791.15-0.43
Two-party-preferred result
Labor John Pandazopoulos 20,07768.67-1.64
Liberal Cameron Nicholls9,16231.33+1.64
Labor hold Swing -1.64
2002 Victorian state election: Dandenong
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labor John Pandazopoulos 20,04465.4+6.1
Liberal John Kelly8,06226.3-10.7
Greens Maree Kelly1,9336.3+6.3
Independent Janet Cox4121.3+1.3
Independent Earle Keegel2090.7+0.7
Total formal votes30,66094.3-1.2
Informal votes1,8675.7+1.2
Turnout 32,52791.6
Two-party-preferred result
Labor John Pandazopoulos 21,55470.3+8.7
Liberal John Kelly9,10029.7-8.7
Labor hold Swing +8.7

Elections in the 1990s

1999 Victorian state election: Dandenong
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labor John Pandazopoulos 23,12955.8+2.5
Liberal Astrid Miller18,29744.2-2.5
Total formal votes41,42696.0-0.4
Informal votes1,7334.0+0.4
Turnout 43,15993.7
Labor hold Swing +2.5
1996 Victorian state election: Dandenong
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labor John Pandazopoulos 17,90849.6+4.0
Liberal Colin Madden15,91244.1+2.8
Independent Liz Mantell1,1153.1+3.1
Call to Australia Ken Cook7862.2+2.2
Natural Law Mary Anne Kruzycki3891.1+1.1
Total formal votes36,11096.4+3.0
Informal votes1,3383.6-3.0
Turnout 37,44894.3
Two-party-preferred result
Labor John Pandazopoulos 19,22653.3+0.2
Liberal Colin Madden16,83746.7-0.2
Labor hold Swing +0.2
1992 Victorian state election: Dandenong
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labor John Pandazopoulos 13,38645.6-15.2
Liberal Rodney Lavin12,11041.3+2.6
Independent Christine Ware1,8246.2+6.2
Independent Rob Wilson1,5845.4+5.4
Independent Ron Coomber4351.5+1.5
Total formal votes29,33993.4-0.7
Informal votes2,0606.6+0.7
Turnout 31,39994.9
Two-party-preferred result
Labor John Pandazopoulos 15,43653.1-8.1
Liberal Rodney Lavin13,66146.9+8.1
Labor hold Swing -8.1

Elections in the 1980s

1988 Victorian state election: Dandenong
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labor Terry Norris 14,99662.57+1.50
Liberal Poh Loh8,97137.43-1.50
Total formal votes23,96793.12-3.03
Informal votes1,7726.88+3.03
Turnout 25,73989.46-2.52
Labor hold Swing +1.50
1985 Victorian state election: Dandenong
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labor Terry Norris 15,97061.1+3.9
Liberal Ian Fotheringham10,18238.9-0.7
Total formal votes26,15296.1
Informal votes1,0463.9
Turnout 27,19892.0
Labor hold Swing +2.2
1982 Victorian state election: Dandenong
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labor Rob Jolly 23,36065.3+14.2
Liberal Mario Dodic12,40634.7-3.5
Total formal votes35,76695.9-0.4
Informal votes1,5304.1+0.4
Turnout 37,29694.20.0
Labor hold Swing +8.8

Elections in the 1970s

1979 Victorian state election: Dandenong
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labor Rob Jolly 16,69251.1-4.1
Liberal Francis Holohan12,46938.2-6.6
Democrats Janice Bateman3,2449.9+9.9
Socialist Workers Ruth Egg2500.8+0.8
Total formal votes32,65596.3-0.5
Informal votes1,2363.7+0.5
Turnout 33,89194.2+1.3
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Rob Jolly 18,44456.5+1.3
Liberal Francis Holohan14,21143.5-1.3
Labor hold Swing +1.3
1976 Victorian state election: Dandenong
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labor Alan Lind 15,56855.2+3.6
Liberal James Grayling12,63744.8+4.1
Total formal votes28,20596.8
Informal votes9203.2
Turnout 29,12592.9
Labor hold Swing +2.8
1973 Victorian state election: Dandenong
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labor Alan Lind 20,24151.0-0.4
Liberal Ivan Warner16,33141.1+5.9
Democratic Labor Kevin Leydon3,1417.9-5.6
Total formal votes39,71396.6-0.3
Informal votes1,3863.4+0.3
Turnout 41,09995.0-0.8
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Alan Lind 20,71252.2-1.2
Liberal Ivan Warner19,00147.8+1.2
Labor hold Swing -1.2
1970 Victorian state election: Dandenong
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labor Alan Lind 15,62751.4+8.4
Liberal Wallace Werrett10,70635.2-6.4
Democratic Labor Kevin Leydon4,10213.5-1.8
Total formal votes30,43596.90.0
Informal votes9833.10.0
Turnout 31,41895.8+0.3
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Alan Lind 16,24253.4+6.6
Liberal Wallace Werrett14,19346.6-6.6
Labor gain from Liberal Swing +6.6

Elections in the 1960s

1967 Victorian state election: Dandenong
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labor Alan Lind 10,63243.0+1.7
Liberal Len Reid 10,29441.60.0
Democratic Labor Kevin Leydon3,79215.3-0.7
Total formal votes24,71896.9
Informal votes7813.1
Turnout 25,49995.5
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal Len Reid 13,15853.2-0.9
Labor Alan Lind 11,56046.8+0.9
Liberal hold Swing -0.9
1964 Victorian state election: Dandenong
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal and Country Len Reid 17,95343.2+2.1
Labor Alan Lind 16,55839.9-3.1
Democratic Labor Kevin Leydon6,51815.7-0.2
Communist Francis McGarry4981.2+1.2
Total formal votes41,52797.4-0.5
Informal votes1,0992.6+0.5
Turnout 42,62694.60.0
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal and Country Len Reid 23,09055.6+0.3
Labor Alan Lind 18,43744.4-0.3
Liberal and Country hold Swing +0.3
1961 Victorian state election: Dandenong
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labor Alan Lind 14,94943.0+1.3
Liberal and Country Len Reid 14,29041.1-2.7
Democratic Labor John Simmons5,53815.9+1.5
Total formal votes34,77797.9-0.3
Informal votes7622.1+0.3
Turnout 35,53994.6+0.8
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal and Country Len Reid 19,23255.3+1.8
Labor Alan Lind 15,54544.7-1.8
Liberal and Country hold Swing +1.8

Elections in the 1950s

1958 Victorian state election: Dandenong
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal and Country Len Reid 11,74143.8
Labor Alan Lind 11,17741.7
Democratic Labor Reginald Kearney3,86914.4
Total formal votes27,27898.2
Informal votes4911.8
Turnout 27,27893.8
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal and Country Len Reid 14,32653.5
Labor Alan Lind 12,46146.5
Liberal and Country hold Swing
1955 Victorian state election: Dandenong
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal and Country Ray Wiltshire 16,13047.7
Labor John Tripovich 12,67837.5
Labor (A-C) Reginald Kearney4,99714.8
Total formal votes33,80598.2
Informal votes6041.8
Turnout 34,40994.3
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal and Country Ray Wiltshire 19,65158.1
Labor John Tripovich 14,15441.9
Liberal and Country gain from Labor Swing
1952 Victorian state election: Dandenong
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labor Les Coates 23,35055.4+5.6
Electoral Reform William Dawnay-Mould 14,60934.7+34.7
Independent Walter Peterson3,4398.2+8.2
Communist Arthur O'Donoghue7421.8+1.8
Total formal votes42,12097.9-1.2
Informal votes8882.1+1.2
Turnout 43,02894.1-0.5
Two-candidate-preferred result
Labor Les Coates 24,36257.8+8.0
Electoral Reform William Dawnay-Mould 17,77842.2+42.2
Labor gain from Liberal and Country Swing N/A
1950 Victorian state election: Dandenong
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal and Country William Dawnay-Mould 16,52150.2+2.8
Labor Les Coates 16,39149.8+5.9
Total formal votes32,91299.1+0.5
Informal votes3020.9-0.5
Turnout 33,21494.6+0.5
Liberal and Country hold Swing -5.0

Elections in the 1940s

1947 Victorian state election: Dandenong
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal William Dawnay-Mould 12,14947.4+13.6
Labor Frank Field 11,26543.9-8.1
Country Alexander Caldwell2,2318.7+8.7
Total formal votes25,64598.6+1.7
Informal votes3751.4-1.7
Turnout 26,02094.1+5.1
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal William Dawnay-Mould 14,14255.1
Labor Frank Field 11,50344.9
Liberal gain from Labor Swing N/A
1945 Victorian state election: Dandenong
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labor Frank Field 10,76452.0
Liberal Alexander Caldwell7,00733.8
Independent Gladys Roberts2,26010.9
Independent Liberal Clyde Hoffman6703.2
Total formal votes20,70196.9
Informal votes6563.1
Turnout 21,35789.0
Labor hold Swing
1943 Victorian state election: Dandenong
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labor Frank Field 20,41960.6-0.2
Independent Gladys Roberts13,29439.4+39.4
Total formal votes33,71398.1-0.8
Informal votes6701.9+0.8
Turnout 34,38386.6-7.1
Labor hold Swing N/A
1940 Victorian state election: Dandenong
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labor Frank Field 18,69960.8+10.2
United Australia Leslie Sheppard12,03039.2-10.2
Total formal votes30,72998.9+0.2
Informal votes3491.1-0.2
Turnout 31,07893.7-0.7
Labor hold Swing +10.2

Elections in the 1930s

1937 Victorian state election: Dandenong
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labor Frank Field 14,37450.6+8.8
United Australia Frank Groves 14,06449.4-8.8
Total formal votes28,43898.7+0.3
Informal votes3631.3-0.3
Turnout 28,80194.40.0
Labor gain from United Australia Swing +8.8
1935 Victorian state election: Dandenong
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
United Australia Frank Groves 15,10458.2-1.0
Labor Edward Stewart10,86241.8+1.0
Total formal votes25,96698.4-0.6
Informal votes4301.6+0.6
Turnout 26,39694.4+0.3
United Australia hold Swing -1.0
1932 Victorian state election: Dandenong
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
United Australia Frank Groves 14,47959.2+12.3
Labor Bert Cremean 9,97340.8-12.3
Total formal votes24,45299.0-0.2
Informal votes2491.0+0.2
Turnout 24,70194.1+1.1
United Australia gain from Labor Swing +12.3

Elections in the 1920s

1929 Victorian state election: Dandenong
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labor Bert Cremean 12,08553.1+8.3
Nationalist Frank Groves 10,66346.9+5.2
Total formal votes22,74899.2+2.0
Informal votes1940.8-2.0
Turnout 22,94293.0+1.9
Labor gain from Nationalist Swing +4.1
1927 Victorian state election: Dandenong
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labor James O'Keefe8,16044.8
Nationalist Frank Groves 7,61241.7
Australian Liberal Archibald Wilson2,45813.5
Total formal votes18,23097.2
Informal votes5182.8
Turnout 18,74891.1
Two-party-preferred result
Nationalist Frank Groves 9,29251.0
Labor James O'Keefe8,93849.0
Nationalist hold Swing
1924 Victorian state election: Dandenong
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Nationalist Frank Groves 5,22752.8-15.9
Labor Roy Beardsworth3,12831.6+0.3
Independent Henry Harris1,54515.6+15.6
Total formal votes9,90098.1-1.3
Informal votes1931.9+1.3
Turnout 10,09351.7+6.0
Two-party-preferred result
Nationalist Frank Groves 60.6-8.1
Labor Roy Beardsworth39.4+8.1
Nationalist hold Swing -8.1
1921 Victorian state election: Dandenong
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Nationalist Frank Groves 5,53868.7+13.3
Labor Roy Beardsworth2,51931.3+6.4
Total formal votes8,05799.4+8.2
Informal votes480.6-8.2
Turnout 8,10545.7-10.4
Nationalist hold Swing -4.5
1920 Victorian state election: Dandenong
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Nationalist Frank Groves 4,98255.4-3.2
Labor Roy Beardsworth2,23624.9+24.9
Victorian Farmers Peter Gleeson1,77819.8+19.8
Total formal votes8,99691.2-6.1
Informal votes8648.8+6.1
Turnout 9,86056.1+12.6
Two-party-preferred result
Nationalist Frank Groves 73.2
Labor Roy Beardsworth26.8
Nationalist hold Swing N/A

Elections in the 1910s

1917 Victorian state election: Dandenong
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Nationalist Frank Groves 3,91458.6
Nationalist William Keast 2,76441.4
Total formal votes6,67897.3
Informal votes1862.7
Turnout 6,86443.5
Nationalist hold Swing N/A
1914 Victorian state election: Dandenong
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal William Keast unopposed
Liberal hold Swing
1911 Victorian state election: Dandenong
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal William Keast unopposed
Liberal hold Swing

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