Electoral results for the district of Port Fairy and Glenelg

This is a list of electoral results for the electoral district of Port Fairy and Glenelg in Victorian state elections.

Members for Port Fairy and Glenelg

Member		Party	Term
	Ernie Bond	Labor Party	1927–1932
		Independent	1932–1938
		Labor Party	1938–1943
	Harry Hedditch	United Country Party	1943–1945

Election results

Elections in the 1940s

1943 Victorian state election: Port Fairy and Glenelg ^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent Country	Harry Hedditch	4,589	44.5	+44.5
	Labor	Martin Bourke	3,985	38.6	−21.1
	Independent	James Hardy	1,002	9.7	+9.7
	Country	Paul Bailey	740	7.2	−11.3
Total formal votes			10,316	98.6	−0.1
Informal votes			144	1.4	+0.1
Turnout			10,460	87.6	−8.2
Two-candidate-preferred result
	Independent Country	Harry Hedditch	5,611	54.4
	Labor	Martin Bourke	4,705	45.6
	Independent Country gain from Labor		Swing	N/A

1940 Victorian state election: Port Fairy and Glenelg

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Ernie Bond	6,899	59.7	+59.7
	United Australia	Sydney Patterson	2,509	21.7	+21.7
	Country	Robert Rankin	2,137	18.5	+18.5
Total formal votes			11,545	98.7	−0.7
Informal votes			156	1.3	+0.7
Turnout			11,701	95.8	+1.0
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Ernie Bond		61.5	+61.5
	United Australia	Sydney Patterson		38.5	+38.5
	Labor gain from Independent		Swing	N/A

• Ernie Bond had been elected as an Independent in 1937 and joined the Labor party before the election.

Elections in the 1930s

1937 Victorian state election: Port Fairy and Glenelg

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent Labor	Ernie Bond	8,814	78.0	−22.0
	Independent	Robert Roberts	2,487	22.0	+22.0
Total formal votes			11,301	99.4
Informal votes			71	0.6
Turnout			11,372	94.8
	Independent Labor hold		Swing	N/A

1935 Victorian state election: Port Fairy and Glenelg

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Ernie Bond	unopposed
	Independent hold		Swing

1932 Victorian state election: Port Fairy and Glenelg

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Premiers' Plan Labor	Ernie Bond	5,572	51.3	+51.3
	Country	James Black	3,153	29.9	+29.9
	Independent	Hugh MacLeod	2,132	19.6	+19.6
Total formal votes			10,857	98.7	−0.3
Informal votes			145	1.3	+0.3
Turnout			11,002	95.7	−0.4
	Premiers' Plan Labor gain from Labor		Swing	N/A

• Preferences were not distributed.

Elections in the 1920s

1929 Victorian state election: Port Fairy and Glenelg

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Ernie Bond	6,439	61.5	+0.9
	Ind. Nationalist	William Stevenson	2,735	26.1	+26.1
	Nationalist	Donald Ferguson	1,291	12.3	−27.1
Total formal votes			10,465	99.0	+0.1
Informal votes			111	1.0	−0.1
Turnout			10,576	96.1	+1.9
	Labor hold		Swing	N/A

• Preferences were not distributed.

1927 Victorian state election: Port Fairy and Glenelg

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Ernie Bond	6,154	60.6
	Nationalist	William Shaw	3,996	39.4
Total formal votes			10,150	98.9
Informal votes			115	1.1
Turnout			10,265	94.2
	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.