Electoral results for the South Western Province (Victoria)

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This is a list of electoral results for the South Western Province in Victorian state elections.

Members for South Western Province[]

Member 1 Party Year Member 2 Party Member 3 Party Member 4 Party Member 5 Party
  James Henty         James Cowie     Robert Hope     James Strachan  
  George Coppin  
   
  Caleb Jenner  
   
  George Rolfe  
  Thomas Learmonth  
  Robert Hope  
   
   
  Henry Cuthbert  
   
   
  Francis Ormond  
 
   
  William Robertson  
   
   
   
  Henry Wrixon  
   
 
  Austin Austin  
  Horace Richardson  
  Nationalist 1917   Nationalist
1919
1922
  Howard Hitchcock Nationalist 1925
1928
  Gordon McArthur Nationalist 1931
  United Australia 1931   United Australia
1934   John Percy Jones United Australia
1937
1940   Allan McDonald Country
1943
  Liberal 1945
1946
1947   Independent
  Liberal and Country 1949   Liberal and Country
1952   Don Ferguson Labor
1955
1958   Geoffrey Thom Liberal and Country
1961
1964
  Stanley Gleeson Liberal   Liberal
1967
1970   Glyn Jenkins Liberal
1973
 

Election results[]

Elections in the 1970s[]

1973 Victorian state election: South Western Province[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Stan Gleeson 45,418 45.0 +6.1
Labor Stanley Nash 40,179 39.8 -0.4
Democratic Labor James Crockett 7,994 7.9 -6.5
Country Gilbert Anderson 7,401 7.3 +0.8
Total formal votes 100,992 96.5 -0.4
Informal votes 3,681 3.5 +0.4
Turnout 104,673 94.3 -1.3
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal Stan Gleeson 58,678 58.1 +3.3
Labor Stanley Nash 42,314 41.9 -3.3
Liberal hold Swing +3.3
1970 Victorian state election: South Western Province[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Stanley Nash 35,619 40.2 +4.0
Liberal Glyn Jenkins 34,396 38.9 -2.3
Democratic Labor William Bond 12,746 14.4 -0.2
Country Bartus De Groot 5,783 6.5 -1.5
Total formal votes 88,544 96.9 +0.4
Informal votes 2,864 3.1 -0.4
Turnout 91,408 95.6 +0.7
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal Glyn Jenkins 48,524 54.8 -5.2
Labor Stanley Nash 40,020 45.2 +5.2
Liberal hold Swing -5.2

Elections in the 1960s[]

1967 Victorian state election: South Western Province[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Stan Gleeson 33,889 41.2
Labor John Woolfe 29,710 36.2
Democratic Labor Gerald Gleeson 11,970 14.6
Country Christian Edwards 6,610 8.0
Total formal votes 82,179 96.5
Informal votes 2,952 3.5
Turnout 85,131 94.9
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal Stan Gleeson 49,304 60.0
Labor John Woolfe 32,875 40.0
Liberal hold Swing
1964 Victorian state election: South Western Province[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal and Country Geoffrey Thom 37,359 47.9 +2.5
Labor Gordon Scholes 26,644 34.1 -2.5
Democratic Labor Gerald Gleeson 14,045 18.0 0.0
Total formal votes 78,048 97.7 +0.3
Informal votes 1,870 2.3 -0.3
Turnout 79,918 95.6 +0.8
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal and Country Geoffrey Thom 46,740 59.9 -1.7
Labor Gordon Scholes 31,308 40.1 +1.7
Liberal and Country hold Swing -1.7
1961 Victorian state election: South Western Province[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal and Country Gordon McArthur 33,000 45.4 -1.0
Labor Stanley Nash 26,654 36.6 -4.9
Democratic Labor Newell Barrett 13,102 18.0 +5.9
Total formal votes 72,756 97.4 -1.7
Informal votes 1,936 2.6 +1.7
Turnout 74,692 94.8 +1.2
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal and Country Gordon McArthur 44,818 61.6 +4.9
Labor Stanley Nash 27,938 38.4 -4.9
Liberal and Country hold Swing +4.9

Elections in the 1950s[]

1958 Victorian Legislative Council election: South Western Province[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal and Country Geoffrey Thom 31,878 46.4 -7.5
Labor Don Ferguson 28,510 41.5 +11.4
Democratic Labor Norman Smith 8,298 12.1 -4.0
Total formal votes 68,686 99.1 +0.2
Informal votes 645 0.9 -0.2
Turnout 69,331 93.6 +1.2
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal and Country Geoffrey Thom 38,909 56.6 -11.6
Labor Don Ferguson 29,777 43.4 +11.6
Liberal and Country gain from Labor Swing -11.6

References[]

  1. ^ Carr, Adam. "Victoria Legislative Council Election 1973". Psephos Election Archive. Retrieved 10 November 2020.
  2. ^ Carr, Adam. "Victoria Legislative Council Election 1970". Psephos Election Archive. Retrieved 10 November 2020.
  3. ^ Carr, Adam. "Victoria Legislative Council Election 1967". Psephos Election Archive. Retrieved 10 November 2020.
  4. ^ Carr, Adam. "Victoria Legislative Council Election 1964". Psephos Election Archive. Retrieved 10 November 2020.
  5. ^ Carr, Adam. "Victoria Legislative Council Election 1961". Psephos Election Archive. Retrieved 10 November 2020.
  6. ^ Carr, Adam. "Victoria Legislative Council Election 1958". Psephos Election Archive. Retrieved 10 November 2020.
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