Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1929–1932

Last updated June 13, 2022

This is a list of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1929 to 1932, as elected at the 1929 state election.

Several realignments took place during the period:

The Country Progressive Party re-merged with the Country Party in 1930. Harold Glowrey remained as an Independent.
The Nationalist Party was renamed the United Australia Party (UAP) on 15 September 1931, to match the situation at federal level.^[1]
During the 1932 election campaign, several Labor members including the Premier, Edmond Hogan, were expelled from the Victorian Labor Party for supporting the Premiers' Plan.

Name	Party	Electorate	Term in office
John Allan	Country	Rodney	1917–1936
Albert Allnutt	Country Progressive/Country	Mildura	1927–1945
Hon Henry Angus	Nationalist	Gunbower	1911–1934
Hon Sir Stanley Argyle	Nationalist	Toorak	1920–1940
Hon Henry Bailey	Labor/Independent	Warrnambool	1914–1932; 1935–1950
Henry Beardmore	Nationalist	Benambra	1917–1932
Matthew Bennett	Country	Gippsland West	1929–1950
Maurice Blackburn	Labor	Clifton Hill	1914–1917; 1927–1934
Ernie Bond	Labor/Independent	Port Fairy and Glenelg	1924–1943
Hon Murray Bourchier	Country	Goulburn Valley	1920–1936
William Brownbill	Labor	Geelong	1920–1932; 1935–1938
Hon John Cain	Labor	Northcote	1917–1957
Edward Cleary	Country Progressive/Country	Benalla	1927–1936
Arthur Cook	Labor	Bendigo	1924–1945
Ted Cotter	Labor	Richmond	1908–1945
Ernest Coyle	Nationalist	Waranga	1927–1943
Bert Cremean	Labor	Dandenong	1929–1932; 1934–1945
Lot Diffey	Country	Wangaratta and Ovens	1929–1945
Herbert Downward	Country	Mornington	1929–1932
Arthur Drakeford	Labor	Essendon	1927–1932
Albert Dunstan	Country Progressive/Country	Korong and Eaglehawk	1920–1950
William Everard	Nationalist	Evelyn	1917–1950
Frederick Forrest ^[2]	Liberal	Caulfield	1927–1930
George Frost	Labor	Maryborough and Daylesford	1920–1942
Harold Glowrey	Country Progressive/Ind.	Ouyen	1927–1932
Burnett Gray	Liberal	St Kilda	1927–1932
John Austin Gray ^[1]	Nationalist	Hawthorn	1930–1939
Tom Hayes	Labor	Melbourne	1924–1955
Ralph Hjorth	Labor	Grant	1924–1932
Hon Edmond Hogan	Labor/Independent	Warrenheip and Grenville	1913–1943
Jack Holland	Labor	Flemington	1925–1955
Col. Wilfrid Kent Hughes	Nationalist	Kew	1927–1949
Hon Herbert Hyland	Country	Gippsland South	1929–1970
Arthur Jackson	Labor/Independent	Prahran	1924–1932
James Jewell	Labor	Brunswick	1910–1949
Frank Keane	Labor	Coburg	1924–1940
Brig. George Knox	Nationalist	Upper Yarra	1927–1960
Hon John Lemmon	Labor	Williamstown	1904–1955
Albert Lind	Country	Gippsland East	1920–1961
Richard Linton	Nationalist	Boroondara	1927–1933
Harold Luxton ^[2]	Nationalist	Caulfield	1930–1935
William McAdam	Labor	Ballarat	1924–1932
James McDonald	Nationalist	Polwarth	1917–1933
Hon Ian Macfarlan	Nationalist	Brighton	1928–1945
William McKenzie	Labor	Wonthaggi	1927–1947
Hon Edwin Mackrell	Country	Upper Goulburn	1920–1945
James McLachlan	Independent	Gippsland North	1908–1938
Hon William McPherson ^[1]	Nationalist	Hawthorn	1913–1930
Thomas Maltby	Nationalist	Barwon	1929–1961
Chester Manifold	Nationalist	Hampden	1929–1935
Robert Menzies	Nationalist	Nunawading	1929–1934
William Moncur	Country	Walhalla	1927–1945
James Murphy	Labor	Port Melbourne	1917–1942
Francis Old	Country	Swan Hill	1919–1945
Hon Sir Alexander Peacock	Nationalist	Allandale	1889–1933
Hon John Pennington	Nationalist	Kara Kara and Borung	1913–1917; 1918–1935
Reg Pollard	Labor	Bulla and Dalhousie	1924–1932
Hon George Prendergast	Labor	Footscray	1894–1897; 1900–1926; 1927–1937
Squire Reid	Labor	Oakleigh	1927–1932; 1937–1947
Jessie Satchell	Labor	Castlemaine and Kyneton	1929–1932
Hon Bill Slater	Labor	Dundas	1917–1947
Robert Solly	Labor	Carlton	1904–1906; 1908–1932
Richard Toutcher	Nationalist	Stawell and Ararat	1897–1935
Hon Tom Tunnecliffe	Labor	Collingwood	1903–1904; 1907–1920; 1921–1947
Arthur Wallace	Labor/Independent	Albert Park	1919–1927; 1929–1932
Gordon Webber	Labor	Heidelberg	1912–1932
Marcus Wettenhall	Country	Lowan	1920–1935

¹ In August 1930, the Nationalist member for Hawthorn, former Premier William Murray McPherson, resigned. Nationalist candidate John Austin Gray won the resulting by-election on 27 September 1930.

² In October 1930, the Liberal member for Caulfield, Frederick Forrest, died. Nationalist candidate and Lord Mayor of Melbourne, Harold Luxton, won the resulting by-election on 22 November 1930.

Sources

Re-member (a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851). Parliament of Victoria.

Related Research Articles

The United Australia Party (UAP) was an Australian political party that was founded in 1931 and dissolved in 1945. The party won four federal elections in that time, usually governing in coalition with the Country Party. It provided two prime ministers: Joseph Lyons (1932–1939) and Robert Menzies (1939–1941).

The Nationalist Party, also known as the National Party was an Australian political party. It was formed on 17 February 1917 from a merger between the Commonwealth Liberal Party and the National Labor Party, the latter formed by Prime Minister Billy Hughes and his supporters after the 1916 Labor Party split over World War I conscription. The Nationalist Party was in government until electoral defeat in 1929. From that time it was the main opposition to the Labor Party until it merged with pro-Joseph Lyons Labor defectors to form the United Australia Party (UAP) in 1931. The party is a direct ancestor of the Liberal Party of Australia, the main centre-right party in Australia.

John Allan (Australian politician) Australian politician

John Allan was an Australian politician who served as the 29th Premier of Victoria. He was born near Lancefield, where his father was a farmer of Scottish origin, and educated at state schools. He took up wheat and dairy farming at Wyuna and was director of a butter factory at Kyabram. In 1892 he married Annie Stewart, with whom he had six children.

Edmond John "Ned" Hogan was an Australian politician who was the 30th Premier of Victoria. He was born in Wallace, Victoria, where his Irish-born parents were small farmers. After attending a Roman Catholic primary school, he became a farm worker and then a timber worker, and spent some time on the goldfields of Western Australia.

Sir William Murray McPherson, KBE was an Australian philanthropist and politician. He was the 31st Premier of Victoria.

The 1931 Australian federal election was held in Australia on 19 December 1931. All 75 seats in the House of Representatives and 18 of the 36 seats in the Senate were up for election.

The 1929 Australian federal election was held in Australia on 12 October 1929. All 75 seats in the House of Representatives were up for election, but there was no Senate election. The election was caused by the defeat of the Stanley Bruce-Earle Page Government in the House of Representatives over the Maritime Industries Bill, Bruce having declared that the vote on the bill would constitute a vote of confidence in his government.

The Victorian Farmers' Union (VFU) was an association of farmers and primary producers formed in 1914 in the Australian state of Victoria. Although initially formed as an "absolutely non-political" entity, the VFU became a political party in 1916, and nominated candidates for the 1917 state election and subsequent elections. In later years it used the names Victorian Country Party, then United Country Party and is now the National Party of Australia – Victoria. At the 1917 election, because the support for the VFU was concentrated in rural seats, it won four of the 11 seats in the Victorian Legislative Assembly it contested, gaining about 6% of the vote state-wide. In 1918 it also won its first seat in the federal parliament, after preferential voting was introduced. At the 1920 state election the VFU vote increased to 8% and the number of seats to 13, giving the VFU the balance of power in the state Legislative Assembly.

The 1928 Tasmanian state election was held on Wednesday, 30 May 1928 in the Australian state of Tasmania to elect 30 members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly. The election used the Hare-Clark proportional representation system — six members were elected from each of five electorates.

This article provides information on candidates who stood for the 1931 Australian federal election. The election was held on 19 December 1931.

This is a list of members of the Australian Senate from 1929 to 1932. Half of its members were elected at the 14 November 1925 election and had terms starting on 1 July 1926 and finishing on 30 June 1932; the other half were elected at the 17 November 1928 election and had terms starting on 1 July 1929 and finishing on 30 June 1935. The process for filling casual vacancies was complex. While senators were elected for a six-year term, people appointed to a casual vacancy only held office until the earlier of the next election for the House of Representatives or the Senate.

Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly who served in the 28th parliament of New South Wales held their seats from 1927 to 1930. They were elected at the 1927 state election, and at by-elections. The Speaker was Sir Daniel Levy.</ref>

The 1932 New South Wales state election was held on 11 June 1932. This election was for all of the 90 seats in the 30th New South Wales Legislative Assembly and it was conducted in single member constituencies with compulsory preferential voting. It was a landslide victory for the UAP/Country Party coalition of Bertram Stevens, which had a majority of 42 in the Assembly.

This is a list of members of the Victorian Legislative Council between 1928 and 1931. As half of the Legislative Council's terms expired at each triennial election, half of these members were elected at the 1925 triennial election with terms expiring in 1931, while the other half were elected at the 1928 triennial election with terms expiring in 1934.

William Thomas Ely was an Australian politician. He was a Labor Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1920 to 1922 and 1925 to 1932, representing the electorates of Parramatta and Granville (1927–1932). He was Minister for Health during the second Lang government from 1931 until 1932.

Thomas Tunnecliffe was an Australian politician. Representing the Australian Labor Party, he was a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for the electorates of West Melbourne (1903–1904), Eaglehawk (1907–1920) and Collingwood (1921–1947).

Henry Stephen Bailey was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1914 to 1932 and from 1935 to 1950, representing the electorates of Port Fairy (1914–27) and Warrnambool. Initially an Australian Labor Party member, he served as Minister for Lands and Water Supply in the Prendergast and Hogan governments of 1924, 1927–28 and 1929–32, but was expelled from the party in 1932 during the 1931-32 Labor split and defeated at that year's election. He joined the Country Party in 1934 and won his old seat back for his new party in 1935, subsequently serving as Minister Without Portfolio (1935–36), Minister of Labour (1936), Chief Secretary (1936-43) and Attorney-General (1938–43) in the Dunstan government.

The 1932 Victorian state election was held in the Australian state of Victoria on Saturday 14 May 1932 to elect 44 of the 65 members of the state's Legislative Assembly. The other 21 seats were uncontested.

Herbert Michael "Bert" Cremean was an Australian politician. He was a Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for the districts of Dandenong (1929–1932) and Clifton Hill (1934–1945). He was Deputy Premier of Victoria for four days in September 1943.

The Australian Labor Party , commonly known as Victorian Labor, is the semi-autonomous Victorian branch of the Australian Labor Party (ALP). The Victorian branch comprises two major wings: the parliamentary wing and the organisational wing. The parliamentary wing comprising all elected party members in the Legislative Assembly and Legislative Council, which when they meet collectively constitute the party caucus. The parliamentary leader is elected from and by the caucus, and party factions have a strong influence in the election of the leader. The leader's position is dependent on the continuing support of the caucus and the leader may be deposed by failing to win a vote of confidence of parliamentary members. By convention, the premier sits in the Legislative Assembly, and is the leader of the party controlling a majority in that house. The party leader also typically is a member of the Assembly, though this is not a strict party constitutional requirement.

References

↑ "State Nationalists: New Name Adopted". The Melbourne Argus. 16 September 1931.

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.

[1] "State Nationalists: New Name Adopted". The Melbourne Argus. 16 September 1931.

[1]

[2]

[1]

v t e Members of the Parliament of Victoria
Legislative Assembly	1856–1859 1859–1861 1861–1864 1864–1865 1866–1867 1868–1871 1871–1874 1874–1877 1877–1880 1880–1883 1883–1886 1886–1889 1889–1892 1892–1894 1894–1897 1897–1900 1900–1902 1902–1904 1904–1907 1907–1908 1908–1911 1911–1914 1914–1917 1917–1920 1920–1921 1921–1924 1924–1927 1927–1929 1929–1932 1932–1935 1935–1937 1937–1940 1940–1943 1943–1945 1945–1947 1947–1950 1950–1952 1952–1955 1955–1958 1958–1961 1961–1964 1964–1967 1967–1970 1970–1973 1973–1976 1976–1979 1979–1982 1982–1985 1985–1988 1988–1992 1992–1996 1996–1999 1999–2002 2002–2006 2006–2010 2010–2014 2014–2018 2018–2022
Legislative Council	1851–1853 1853–1856 1856–1858 1858–1860 1860–1862 1862–1864 1864–1866 1866–1868 1868–1870 1870–1872 1872–1874 1874–1876 1876–1878 1878–1880 1880–1882 1882–1884 1884–1886 1886–1888 1888–1890 1890–1892 1892–1895 1895–1896 1896–1898 1898–1900 1900–1901 1901–1902 1902–1904 1904–1907 1907–1910 1910–1913 1913–1916 1916–1919 1919–1922 1922–1925 1925–1928 1928–1931 1931–1934 1934–1937 1937–1940 1940–1943 1943–1946 1946–1949 1949–1952 1952–1955 1955–1958 1958–1961 1961–1964 1964–1967 1967–1970 1970–1973 1973–1976 1976–1979 1979–1982 1982–1985 1985–1988 1988–1992 1992–1996 1996–1999 1999–2002 2002–2006 2006–2010 2010–2014 2014–2018 2018–2022