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
[edit]| 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
[edit]Elections in the 1940s
[edit]| 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 | |||
| 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
[edit]| 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 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | Ernie Bond | unopposed | |||
| Independent hold | Swing | ||||
| 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
[edit]| 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.
| 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
[edit]- ^ 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.