The 1928 Brighton state by-election was held on 24 April 1928 to elect the next member for Brighton in the Victorian Legislative Assembly, following the death of incumbent MP Oswald Snowball.
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Snowball, an Independent Nationalist who was also the Speaker of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, died on 16 March.[1]
The by-election was won by Nationalist candidate and future premier Ian Macfarlan, who narrowly defeated feminist and housewives' advocate Eleanor Glencross.[2]
Results edit
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Labor | William Finlayson | 4,262 | 22.6 | ||
| Independent | Eleanor Glencross | 3,985 | 21.1 | ||
| Nationalist | Ian Macfarlan | 3,920 | 20.8 | ||
| Nationalist | Henry Abbott | 1,554 | 8.2 | ||
| Nationalist | Alfred Kelly | 1,445 | 7.7 | ||
| Nationalist | James Ramsay | 1,280 | 6.8 | ||
| Nationalist | Henry Hall | 1,037 | 5.5 | ||
| Australian Liberal | Daniel Hoban | 823 | 4.4 | ||
| Independent | Martin Hannah | 340 | 1.8 | ||
| Independent | Thomas Ryan | 193 | 1.0 | ||
| Total formal votes | 18,839 | 93.8 | |||
| Informal votes | 1,243 | 6.2 | |||
| Turnout | 20,082 | 88.6 | |||
| Two-candidate-preferred result | |||||
| Nationalist | Ian Macfarlan | 9,685 | 51.4 | ||
| Independent | Eleanor Glencross | 9,154 | 48.6 | ||
| Nationalist gain from Ind. Nationalist | Swing | N/A | |||
References edit
- ^ Snowball, Oswald Robinson, Parliament of Victoria.
- ^ Wright, R. "Macfarlan, Ian (1881–1964)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISSN 1833-7538.
- ^ "THE TWENTY-NINTH PARLIAMENT". Psephos: Adam Carr's Electoral Archive.