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

1943 Victorian state election: Port Fairy and Glenelg[1]
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
1940 Victorian state election: Port Fairy and Glenelg
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

1937 Victorian state election: Port Fairy and Glenelg
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
1935 Victorian state election: Port Fairy and Glenelg
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Ernie Bond unopposed
Independent hold Swing
1932 Victorian state election: Port Fairy and Glenelg
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

1929 Victorian state election: Port Fairy and Glenelg
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.
1927 Victorian state election: Port Fairy and Glenelg
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

  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.