Electoral results for the district of Mernda

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

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Members for Mernda

MemberPartyTerm
  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]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labor Edmund Morrissey 8,69450.9−9.8
Liberal Arthur Ireland 8,38949.1+9.8
Total formal votes17,08398.5+3.2
Informal votes2591.5−3.2
Turnout 17,34292.5−0.2
Labor gain from Liberal and Country Swing +9.8
1950 Victorian state election: Mernda
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal and Country Arthur Ireland 8,79260.7+21.5
Labor Russell Smith5,69539.3+39.3
Total formal votes14,48795.3−3.3
Informal votes7174.7+3.3
Turnout 15,20492.7+0.2
Liberal and Country hold Swing N/A

Elections in the 1940s

1947 Victorian state election: Mernda
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Arthur Ireland 5,04239.2+6.4
Independent Labor Jack Gill4,28031.6+31.6
Country Leslie Webster 4,22331.2−2.9
Total formal votes13,54598.6+0.4
Informal votes1861.4−0.4
Turnout 13,73192.5+5.2
Two-candidate-preferred result
Liberal Arthur Ireland 8,85765.4+65.4
Independent Labor Jack Gill4,68834.6+34.6
Liberal gain from Country Swing N/A
1945 Victorian state election: Mernda
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Country Leslie Webster 3,99134.0
Labor Arthur Turtle3,88033.1
Liberal Arthur Ireland 3,84732.8
Total formal votes11,71898.2
Informal votes2201.8
Turnout 11,93887.2
Two-party-preferred result
Country Leslie Webster 6,89858.9
Labor Arthur Turtle4,82041.1
Country hold Swing

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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.