Electoral results for the district of Ripponlea

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

Members for Ripponlea

Member		Party	Term
	Edgar Tanner	Liberal	1955–1967

Election results

1964 Victorian state election: Ripponlea ^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal and Country	Edgar Tanner	8,416	48.7	+1.0
	Labor	Anthony Fisher	6,690	38.7	+3.6
	Democratic Labor	Joseph O'Leary	2,165	12.5	−4.7
Total formal votes			17,271	96.5	−0.2
Informal votes			619	3.5	+0.2
Turnout			17,890	90.7	−0.1
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal and Country	Edgar Tanner	10,298	59.6	−0.8
	Labor	Anthony Fisher	6,973	40.4	+0.8
	Liberal and Country hold		Swing	-0.8

1961 Victorian state election: Ripponlea

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal and Country	Edgar Tanner	8,166	47.7	−2.4
	Labor	Steven Goldberg	6,009	35.1	+0.4
	Democratic Labor	Michael Cunneen	2,946	17.2	+2.0
Total formal votes			17,121	96.7	−0.4
Informal votes			589	3.3	+0.4
Turnout			17,710	90.8	+0.5
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal and Country	Edgar Tanner	10,343	60.4	−2.6
	Labor	Steven Goldberg	6,778	39.6	+2.6
	Liberal and Country hold		Swing	-2.6

Elections in the 1950s

1958 Victorian state election: Ripponlea

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal and Country	Edgar Tanner	9,015	50.1
	Labor	Jack Kagan	6,250	34.7
	Democratic Labor	Dermot O'Neill	2,742	15.2
Total formal votes			18,007	97.1
Informal votes			536	2.9
Turnout			536	2.9
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal and Country	Edgar Tanner	11,346	63.0
	Labor	Jack Kagan	6,661	37.0
	Liberal and Country hold		Swing

• Two party preferred vote was estimated.

1955 Victorian state election: Ripponlea

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal and Country	Edgar Tanner	6,799	44.2
	Labor (A-C)	George Miller	4,121	26.8
	Victorian Liberal	Thomas Hollway	3,723	24.2
	Communist	Ted Laurie	750	4.9
Total formal votes			15,393	94.3
Informal votes			933	5.7
Turnout			16,326	90.6
Two-candidate-preferred result
	Liberal and Country	Edgar Tanner	9,722	63.1
	Labor (A-C)	George Miller	5,671	36.9
	Liberal and Country gain from Victorian Liberal		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.