Electoral results for the district of Westernport

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

Members for Westernport

Member		Party	Term
	Doug Jennings	Liberal/Independent	1976–1979
	Alan Brown	Liberal	1979–1985

Election results

Elections in the 1980s

1982 Victorian state election: Westernport ^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Alan Brown	15,126	47.9	+14.4
	Labor	Russell Joiner	13,153	41.6	+9.2
	Independent	Lester Wyatt	1,944	6.2	+6.2
	Democrats	Leslie Reubens	1,372	4.3	−0.6
Total formal votes			31,595	98.3	+0.6
Informal votes			546	1.7	−0.6
Turnout			32,141	93.4	−0.3
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	Alan Brown	17,027	53.9	−6.0
	Labor	Russell Joiner	14,568	46.1	+6.0
	Liberal hold		Swing	-6.0

Elections in the 1970s

1979 Victorian state election: Westernport

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Alan Brown	9,589	33.5	−12.7
	Labor	Russell Joiner	9,271	32.4	+0.3
	Independent	Doug Jennings	6,819	23.8	+23.8
	National	Lawrence Wintle	1,574	5.5	−12.7
	Democrats	Ronald Bowman	1,404	4.9	+4.9
Total formal votes			28,657	97.7	−0.4
Informal votes			684	2.3	+0.4
Turnout			29,341	93.7	+0.4
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	Alan Brown	17,172	59.9	−6.4
	Labor	Russell Joiner	11,485	40.1	+6.4
	Liberal hold		Swing	-6.4

1976 Victorian state election: Westernport

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Doug Jennings	11,237	46.2	−1.6
	Labor	John Daley	7,812	32.1	−0.3
	National	Michael Woods	4,429	18.2	+5.0
	Democratic Labor	Kevin Leydon	866	3.6	−3.0
Total formal votes			24,344	98.1
Informal votes			462	1.9
Turnout			24,806	93.3
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	Doug Jennings	16,146	66.3	+1.6
	Labor	John Daley	8,198	33.7	−1.6
	Liberal hold		Swing	+1.6

References

1. Hughes, Colin A., Don Aitken (1987). Voting for the Australian state lower houses, 1975-1984. Canberra: Dept. of Political Science, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University. ISBN   0909779244.