Electoral results for the district of Glenelg (Victoria)

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

Members for Glenelg edit

Member Party Term
  Ewen Cameron Unaligned 1904–1906
  Hugh Campbell Liberal 1906–1917
  Nationalist 1917–1920
  William Thomas Labor 1920–1924
  Ernie Bond Labor 1924–1927

Election results edit

Elections in the 1920s edit

1924 Glenelg state by-election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Ernie Bond 4,066 55.8 +4.9
Nationalist Hugh MacLeod 3,222 44.2 +6.7
Total formal votes 7,288 99.5 +1.0
Informal votes 35 0.5 -1.0
Turnout 7,323 75.0 -1.6
Labor hold Swing +3.7
1924 Victorian state election: Glenelg[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor William Thomas 3,465 50.9 -2.2
Nationalist Hugh MacLeod 2,555 37.5 -9.4
Country Charles Waters 787 11.6 +11.6
Total formal votes 6,807 98.5 -1.0
Informal votes 106 1.5 +1.0
Turnout 6,913 76.6 +1.3
Two-party-preferred result
Labor William Thomas 52.1 -1.0
Nationalist Hugh MacLeod 47.9 +1.0
Labor hold Swing -1.0
  • Two party preferred vote was estimated.
1921 Victorian state election: Glenelg
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor William Thomas 3,526 53.1 +9.0
Nationalist Hugh Campbell 3,111 46.9 +14.5
Total formal votes 6,637 99.5 +3.6
Informal votes 34 0.5 -3.6
Turnout 6,671 75.3 -0.3
Labor hold Swing +2.7
1920 Victorian state election: Glenelg
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor William Thomas 2,892 44.1 +2.9
Nationalist Hugh Campbell 2,121 32.4 -9.6
Victorian Farmers William Williamson 1,538 23.5 +3.8
Total formal votes 6,551 95.9 -1.7
Informal votes 277 4.1 +1.7
Turnout 6,828 75.6 +9.5
Two-party-preferred result
Labor William Thomas 3,301 50.4 +1.1
Nationalist Hugh Campbell 3,250 49.6 -1.1
Labor gain from Nationalist Swing +1.1

Elections in the 1910s edit

1917 Victorian state election: Glenelg
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Nationalist Hugh Campbell 2,478 42.0 -16.1
Labor William Thomas 2,433 41.2 -0.7
Victorian Farmers Walter Watson 989 16.8 +16.8
Total formal votes 5,900 97.6 +0.9
Informal votes 147 2.4 -0.9
Turnout 6,047 66.1 +0.1
Two-party-preferred result
Nationalist Hugh Campbell 2,992 50.7 -7.4
Labor William Thomas 2,908 49.3 +7.4
Nationalist hold Swing -7.4
1914 Victorian state election: Glenelg
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Hugh Campbell 3,449 58.1 -0.3
Labor Charles Paramor 2,491 41.9 +0.3
Total formal votes 5,940 96.7 -1.5
Informal votes 200 3.3 +1.5
Turnout 6,140 66.0 -8.8
Liberal hold Swing -0.3
1911 Victorian state election: Glenelg
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Hugh Campbell 3,626 58.4 N/A
Labor Charles French 2,585 41.6 +41.6
Total formal votes 6,211 98.2
Informal votes 114 1.8
Turnout 6,325 74.8
Liberal hold Swing N/A

References edit

  1. ^ 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.