Electoral results for the district of Mernda

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

Members for Mernda

Member		Party	Term
	Leslie Webster	Country	1945–1947
	Arthur Ireland	Liberal	1947–1952
	Edmund Morrissey	Labor	1952–1955
		Labor (Anti-Communist)	1955

Election results

Elections in the 1950s

1952 Victorian state election: Mernda ^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Edmund Morrissey	8,694	50.9	−9.8
	Liberal	Arthur Ireland	8,389	49.1	+9.8
Total formal votes			17,083	98.5	+3.2
Informal votes			259	1.5	−3.2
Turnout			17,342	92.5	−0.2
	Labor gain from Liberal and Country		Swing	+9.8

1950 Victorian state election: Mernda

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal and Country	Arthur Ireland	8,792	60.7	+21.5
	Labor	Russell Smith	5,695	39.3	+39.3
Total formal votes			14,487	95.3	−3.3
Informal votes			717	4.7	+3.3
Turnout			15,204	92.7	+0.2
	Liberal and Country hold		Swing	N/A

Elections in the 1940s

1947 Victorian state election: Mernda

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Arthur Ireland	5,042	39.2	+6.4
	Independent Labor	Jack Gill	4,280	31.6	+31.6
	Country	Leslie Webster	4,223	31.2	−2.9
Total formal votes			13,545	98.6	+0.4
Informal votes			186	1.4	−0.4
Turnout			13,731	92.5	+5.2
Two-candidate-preferred result
	Liberal	Arthur Ireland	8,857	65.4	+65.4
	Independent Labor	Jack Gill	4,688	34.6	+34.6
	Liberal gain from Country		Swing	N/A

1945 Victorian state election: Mernda

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Country	Leslie Webster	3,991	34.0
	Labor	Arthur Turtle	3,880	33.1
	Liberal	Arthur Ireland	3,847	32.8
Total formal votes			11,718	98.2
Informal votes			220	1.8
Turnout			11,938	87.2
Two-party-preferred result
	Country	Leslie Webster	6,898	58.9
	Labor	Arthur Turtle	4,820	41.1
	Country 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.